Hi Sharon
Yes I have and so have a lot of my tree...
https://www.bradyfamilytree.org/genealogy/browse_dna_tests.php
So far it has helped me solve some very major brick walls but it takes time
to get a bit of cross checking going.
I test with Ancestry then do the RAW file download to your computer and
upload to GEDmatch.com for the best results.
Some good links
https://dna-explained.com/2013/03/21/downloading-ancestrys-autosomal-dna-raw
-data-file/
Genetic Genealogy using GEDmatch
http://smithplanet.com/stuff/gedmatch.htm
GEDmatch Tips
http://www.genie1.com.au/blog/78-tips-for-using-gedmatch
Regards
Darryl Brady
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-----Original Message-----
From: dps-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dps-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Sharon. McBride
Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2016 3:15 PM
To: dps-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [dps-chat] Anybody tried spitting in the test tube yet?
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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