General Chat

I know what you mean GF.
I could actually group some of my MH matches because of a particular place. but when you have matches with almost no tree and no place names, no match to anyone recognisable it is much more difficult.
But those totally written in some other script - even the names - well.................

In the end, you can only match with folk who have tested and put their results on the same site as you, in the same way as you get matches with a family tree on here or wherever. But don't dismiss the matches from further away, I've found a few identifiable ones who are quite remote, but because I have an extensive family tree I can often place the matches.

I might struggle with which side of the family they match with as my parents were first cousins once removed, so I may have some of the same DNA from both sides.

Ah, My History. On there I have 2 known relatives as 1 and 2. From the third name onwards they are all unidentifiable.

Some very distant ones I get are written, I think, in Hebrew.

I know some people get good results from them but I had great results from Ancestry. Lots of relatives, some I knew or knew of through research and some I had to work out to find their place in my tree.
OH is only on Ancestry. Very few on one side of his paternal side have tested but we were able to work out his unknown maternal grandfather and ,it’s of them have tested.

Best of all, Ancestry will now work out which side of the family your match comes from. Doesn’t happen immediately but is a great help. As well as giving you your ancestry groups ‘ which will be a bit different to MH, they also show you how much of that group you do or do not get from each parent.
We all found this useful. I knew my father had two bits of Irish in him through research but all of us cousins on my mothers side knew we had Irish in us through family stories, but couldn’t find it in research - Ancestry tells us we have none, proving the research.

nameslessone I have done a DNA test but not got any matches :-|

Florence61, can any one advise a good site to site to use, I've done myheritage my ancestry so far.

PS sorry meant to say well not on my mums side.

ZZzzzz you took a DNA but have no connections at all??? That's impossible?? :-S :-S

Miraculous :-D

Oh - you mean you haven’t got matches or you haven’t done a dna test ;-)

I am happy to say that I have discovered a lot of family through documents and not DNA, in fact I have no DNA connections.

DNA has opened a lot of cans of worms, not always what folk want to hear.

Brian, Similar happened with me, My half Uncle wasn't told that the girl was in a photograph was his half sister, I told him when he was age 68.

We only recently found out through DNA testing by a total stranger that my MiL had a brother that no-one in my OH family knew existed.

<3 <3 LG

I am a baptised Catholic and very ashamed of all the hurt and anguish the church has caused. <3

Not the first time the Catholic Church has apologised for the hurt and harm they inflicted on their own people
:-| :-|

Fingers crossed for you.

Have you got the dna results on several sites. If you did an Ancestry test you can upload the results onto other sites.

I havnt posted for a long time as family history was the last thing on my mind since I lost my husban 6 months ago and we are in the middle of an enquiry into medical negligence but last night’s program was one very close to my heart as I’m searching for a brother that my mother had before she married and I was born, I know that this was about what happened in Ireland but I’ve been told that the Catholic Church in the uk changed the mothers name to hide the birth, I have done my dna and also his fathers daughter has done hers but we have no matches, his name was John with a surname Williams it’s definitely needle and haystack, we have bought about 20 certificates up to now, oh if I could win the lottery I would buy every John Williams certificate to try and find him

ZZzz. I think Florence was talking about the falsification of birth certificates, illegal from 1874.

What a fascinating programme, I knew about the horrors of the Magdalen Laundries and the orphanages but this was new. How lucky those two were to be able to use the dna testing.

I think there is a new series coming to TV about the Magdalen Laundries

In my naivety or stupidity, I fail to understand how the couples knew it was wrong/illegal to have sex before marriage and why the female didn't say who the Father is.

Wow! Very interesting watching but how awful for those involved. An absolute disgrace that what went on continued even though it was illegal.

Florence in the hebrides

Just a nudge for tonight :-)

You are welcome…just got to remember to tune in meself now :-D ;-)