Hi Sharon
Many years ago I did my DNA both for Y-Chromosome DNA (Father's line)
and also Mitochondrial DNA (Mother's Line). My Anglo-Saxon side (Father)
came back as Poland and my Greek side ancestry (Mother) came back as
Syria. As these tests were looking at the Fathers-Fathers-Father etc and
Mothers-Mothers-Mother etc it didn't prove all that much. It did prove
that my Dad was really my Dad, as he also did the test.
I did the new AncestryDNA autosomal test a few months ago and it gave me
some interesting results which confirmed that my Tasmanian Ancestry
included a small (2%) Australian Aboriginal DNA. This computes well with
my belief that I am 1/64 aboriginal. It also gave me a total of 84 4th
cousins or closer and 4,674 5th to 8th cousins. I also entered the raw
DNA data into My Heritage and further matches have been made.
At the moment I am just sitting back waiting for contacts as I do not
have the time to look into all these matches. Today the first one came
in via Ancestry.com from England. The lady is in the 5th to 8th cousin
range but as she has done extensive research she made a match through to
my great great grandmother. But the exciting part is that her tree now
takes me back to a 10x great grandmother and numerous other 8x and 9x
great grandparents. Back to the 1500's on a couple of lines. I was
thrilled. She provided extensive info that allowed me to go back further
on a previous brick wall! I have replied to her and am waiting her response.
Perhaps there are other exciting results to come?
I am also finding that I am matching with every person who has done the
test if their ancestry includes the Greek Island of Castellorizo. As the
island population was never over 8,000 (today it is 400) I automatically
make a match. I call it one degree of separation!
Regards
Allan
On 25/10/2016 3:15 PM, Sharon. McBride 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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