My results are pretty mixed, even some of the physical features. To compare the same ones North East Quine has listed:
Likely to have cleft chin (incorrect)
Blue eyes (Pretty much correct. My eyes are blue green, but I think the test only gives blue or brown)
Likely to have lots of freckles (incorrect, my skin tans and I barely freckle at all)
Genes for patchier facial hair (I guess would be for male relatives and is correct from maternal side)
Light to medium skin tone (correct)
No unibrow (correct)
Likely to develop all four wisdom teeth (correct)
Thin straight hair (Incorrect. My hair is thick and fairly wavy. Says genes are from maternal side and mum's hair is dead straight and thin, but dad's hair is as curly as somebody of European descent can get and thick so mine is in between)
Index finger longer than ring finger (correct)
Alcohol causes facial flushing (unknown as I rarely drink/have drunk alcohol to see)
A lot of other so called traits seem very cultural. Apparently I shouldn't enjoy watching sports, and neither should my parents, but I quite like watching sport with other people and so do my parents, especially my dad. Given we live in sports mad Australia it is likely we would at least be average to above average for viewing sports.
I haven’t looked at traits, but some of my ancestors were craftsmen and my mother was a skilled needle woman - she made a lot of her own - and my - clothes. She also knitted and crocheted.
I learned to crochet in my teens, and later learned crossstitch and embroidery, card making, bobbin lace, patchwork and needle felting. I have never been able to knit!
Unfortunately, I can no longer have fine motor movement in my hands, so can’t do craft anymore.
Darllenwr’s father as an engineer and some of his ancestors were engineers. He did a biochemistry degree but is working as an engineer.
He loves the Lake District and the North, and we found that his ancestors came from the North country. I love the West Country, and we found that my mother’s family came from the area around Frome.
I can’t see Traits on my page. Is it part of the DNA info? I haven’t done that and don’t intend to.
Yes, they use your DNA to describe your "traits" such as physical appearance, food sensitivities, personality etc. I have 66 traits listed.
I did my Ancestry DNA test years ago, and could not at that point envisage that they would provide this as a free "add-on."
Most of the traits are divided into four - very likely / fairly likely / fairly unlikely / very unlikely. I have a sense of whether they are right or wrong if they claim I am in the "very likely / unlikely" category, but for most I am in the "fairly" category and I have no sense of whether it's right or not.
I'm not very comfortable with my DNA being used for this, either.
I am taking advantage of FMP's all records free offer over the Remembrance weekend to download the 1921 census returns for the three villages in Essex I am particularly interested in to do some local, rather than family, history. Now I've done that, it's time to round up the strays on the family side! Rather annoyingly, the house I grew up in is covered by the larger parish rather than its village, which means it wil take some finding unless I can find a reference to who was living there somewhere else.
Ha! I remembered the name of the old lady who lived down the road, who grew up up the road (three houses and half a mile away), looked up her marriage, and found her maiden name! Then it was just roll back and forth like ultra-edge until I got the right frame.
I have found that a friend is a cousin through a chance conversation! He turned out to be my grandmother’s grandson- my father was illegitimate and was informally adopted.
I have long been a subscriber to Ancestry. com. This past week I cam to the conclusion it may be too expensive for me to continue. $53+ per month for its worldwide database. Are there other options out there that might be less expensive?
Some libraries have access to Ancestry.com which is useful for research though not for actually storing your tree (this is what I do and use Gramps on my machine for my tree).
I will not do the Ancestry DNA thing, but my account is coming up for renewal. Last year just after renewing, I came across a discount code. Is anyone aware of any current discounts?
I have 11 different regions now across the UK and Ireland and lost the 10 percent Germanic. I don't have any recent ancestry from there. My brother got 7 percent Netherlands, however, I guess due to historic migration further back. The new data predicts 51 percent for Central Scotland and Northern Ireland, where a lot of my ancestry is from (my brother got 66 percent) and then small percentages from pretty much every Irish region and North Wales. The rest is 34 percent from various regions of England and the West Midlands finally turned up, which I would have expected earlier given one Great Grandmother was from Birmingham.
As for sales, there is a sale on in Australia until the 28th, but that might be for dna kits not membership.
My Ancestry update has just come through, and my DNA Origins have changed a lot! Has anyone else had an update?
I have. It now shows a sliver of Acadian (French Canadian) on my father’s side. That makes sense, as my father’s people were United Empire Loyalists who left Long Island for New Brunswick after the American Revolution. (My great-great-grandfather left New Brunswick and settled in rural eastern North Carolina. I can only assume his travels stopped because he met my great-great-grandmother.)
Not surprising, I suppose, that a tad of French Canadian DNA slipped in as a result.
It also now shows a small bit of Scottish/Northern Irish on my father’s side, which didn’t use to be there. I’m happy for him—my mother, who had a McMaidenName and lots of McForebears used to shake her head and say “Your father wants to be Scottish so badly.”
That google image shows that the inspirational Helena Torry also shared that citizenship test. Helena's good friend Renee died earlier this year - a huge loss to Aberdeen. I had a wee moment seeing Helena's name there.
This Scottish citizenship test? - A Scot is anyone lucky enough to have been born here, or intelligent enough to have moved here?
Do they grant exemptions to the victims of international warfare? If Adolf Hitler hadn't been the cause of my father's enforced move to England to do Secret Stuff, then I'd have been born in Scotland. It grieves me no end that our children are legitimately Scottish by being born there.
Must be the Volga Germans. Catherine the Great invited Germans to settle in Volga region. When the Bolsheviks seized power, the Volga Germans joined the White Russians. After they were defeated, many were exiled to Siberia. During WWII the adults were pressed into military service or the war machine, leaving Vulga children to be raised by Jehovah Witness couples also in Serbia. After the collapse of the Soviet Empire, a group of Volga Germans who had resettled not too far from where I live airlifted grain and other food items into Siberia for the Germans who were starving there. Here is a website that can give you more information, if interested: https://www.volgagermans.org/who-are-volga-germans/history
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Likely to have cleft chin (incorrect)
Blue eyes (Pretty much correct. My eyes are blue green, but I think the test only gives blue or brown)
Likely to have lots of freckles (incorrect, my skin tans and I barely freckle at all)
Genes for patchier facial hair (I guess would be for male relatives and is correct from maternal side)
Light to medium skin tone (correct)
No unibrow (correct)
Likely to develop all four wisdom teeth (correct)
Thin straight hair (Incorrect. My hair is thick and fairly wavy. Says genes are from maternal side and mum's hair is dead straight and thin, but dad's hair is as curly as somebody of European descent can get and thick so mine is in between)
Index finger longer than ring finger (correct)
Alcohol causes facial flushing (unknown as I rarely drink/have drunk alcohol to see)
A lot of other so called traits seem very cultural. Apparently I shouldn't enjoy watching sports, and neither should my parents, but I quite like watching sport with other people and so do my parents, especially my dad. Given we live in sports mad Australia it is likely we would at least be average to above average for viewing sports.
I learned to crochet in my teens, and later learned crossstitch and embroidery, card making, bobbin lace, patchwork and needle felting. I have never been able to knit!
Unfortunately, I can no longer have fine motor movement in my hands, so can’t do craft anymore.
Darllenwr’s father as an engineer and some of his ancestors were engineers. He did a biochemistry degree but is working as an engineer.
He loves the Lake District and the North, and we found that his ancestors came from the North country. I love the West Country, and we found that my mother’s family came from the area around Frome.
Yes, they use your DNA to describe your "traits" such as physical appearance, food sensitivities, personality etc. I have 66 traits listed.
I did my Ancestry DNA test years ago, and could not at that point envisage that they would provide this as a free "add-on."
Most of the traits are divided into four - very likely / fairly likely / fairly unlikely / very unlikely. I have a sense of whether they are right or wrong if they claim I am in the "very likely / unlikely" category, but for most I am in the "fairly" category and I have no sense of whether it's right or not.
I'm not very comfortable with my DNA being used for this, either.
He and I share 11 cM across 2 segments (i.e. hardly any!) However he shares 10cM over 1 segment with my mother.
Is the Ancestry test accurate at these tiny amounts? Or does this mean that he and I are also very distantly related through my father?
I've gone from 74% Scottish / 12% Irish / 11% Northern European / 3% Norwegian to 94% Scottish / 2% Munster / 3% Isle of Man / 1% Norwegian.
The 3% Isle of Man seems weirdly specific and also unlikely.
My half-brother has jumped to being 99% Scottish. My mother is now 100% Scottish - 96% North East Scotland, 4% Western Highlands.
Previous updates seemed to be fine tuning - I went from "Scandinavian" to "Norwegian" for example, but this update is very different.
As for sales, there is a sale on in Australia until the 28th, but that might be for dna kits not membership.
Not surprising, I suppose, that a tad of French Canadian DNA slipped in as a result.
It also now shows a small bit of Scottish/Northern Irish on my father’s side, which didn’t use to be there. I’m happy for him—my mother, who had a McMaidenName and lots of McForebears used to shake her head and say “Your father wants to be Scottish so badly.”
“Your father wants to be Scottish so badly.”
An understandable desire!
Is this the point where we share the Scottish citizenship test?
Close enough. This was the one I had in mind:
https://share.google/snzqKfJembq7wmdvv
Do they grant exemptions to the victims of international warfare? If Adolf Hitler hadn't been the cause of my father's enforced move to England to do Secret Stuff, then I'd have been born in Scotland. It grieves me no end that our children are legitimately Scottish by being born there.
Must be the Volga Germans. Catherine the Great invited Germans to settle in Volga region. When the Bolsheviks seized power, the Volga Germans joined the White Russians. After they were defeated, many were exiled to Siberia. During WWII the adults were pressed into military service or the war machine, leaving Vulga children to be raised by Jehovah Witness couples also in Serbia. After the collapse of the Soviet Empire, a group of Volga Germans who had resettled not too far from where I live airlifted grain and other food items into Siberia for the Germans who were starving there. Here is a website that can give you more information, if interested: https://www.volgagermans.org/who-are-volga-germans/history