Sharon,
I haven't done it but I've watched some excellent Legacy webinars on
making sense of the results - especially the Watch Geoff Live DNA and
Watch Geoff Live - Gedmatch where he goes through his results with an
expert.
Worth the cost of a month's subscription (full price $9.95 US) since
you've paid for the test.
Legacy Webinars are mostly free for a week but thereafter on
subscription. Collect the latest discount code from the most recent
webinar and you get a 10% discount.
http://familytreewebinars.com/dna
There are currently 18 webinars on DNA
Cathy
Leisa wrote:
Hi Sharon. I have my ancestry kit sitting on my desk. I am from the
Edmund Keane and Byrne mob and Richard and Mary Jones are my people.
When I get it done i will let you know!
Leisa
On 25 October 2016 3:15:18 pm AWST, "Sharon. McBride"
<mcbridez@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,
Times sure have changed over the years since I first started researching the family history and up at the Battye Library and a Wags volunteer showed me the DIctionary of WA with an entry for great great granddad and I asked her "What's a Parkhurst Boy". From then on I was hooked, searching films and microfiche, indexes in the back of books of district histories and ordering films from LDS and waiting eagerly for weeks for them to arrive. And now the new trend of DNA testing. Never dreamed back then I would be doing that. Just got my results last week from an Ancestry test I did and it is certainly both fascinating and frustrating. So much to learn but interesting all the same . I probably wouldn't have done it except that distant cousins in USA wanted me to test as several of them had done it and wanted more of us to test. Seems to be far more popular in America as the American relatives were getting between 500 to 800 matches of fourth cousin
or
closer, I got 55 and one English relative got 80. I did get a match with four of the five I expected to match with so that's something, they don't have to disown me. I have no idea though as yet how I connect with some people who have come in as second or third cousins.
Out of curiosity, are there any of my relies on the list who have done a test and who did you test with? Do you have your results up on Ancestry or Gedmatch?
Any of my Richard an Mary Jones descendants (arrived on the Nancy 1830)
Edmund Keane Byrne descendants
John an Sarah Woods descendants (arrived on City of Bristol)
If so would love to hear if we have a match.
Sharon
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