Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Genealogy

Anyone done an Ancestry DNA Profile?

6 replies

DuchessOfDisaster · 26/08/2021 10:46

Who has experience of this???

I submitted one of these, simply because my father (parents both dead and everyone clammed up) was born to a single mother and I never found out who his father was. His mother, my grandmother, married someone else and had more children and my father was brought up by an aunt and uncle (now also deceased). So there is a whole quarter of my family tree missing.

I've not received my results yet but this morning I got a message "Hi Cuz!" from a guy named Dave in Indiana, so my results must be available and he will have been alerted.

I have had a quick look at his tree and the only British people I see are from the 1600s who then emigrate to the USA from Yorkshire (think Pilgrim Fathers time). The family history I have researched from my maternal grandparents and paternal grandmother going backwards to the 15th and 16th centuries all relate to Lincolnshire, Middlesex and Ireland, so am I right in assuming that these English people could be ancestors or relatives of my unknown real grandfather?

Of course much more work will have to be done, but initial thoughts very welcome!

OP posts:
BroccoliFloret · 27/08/2021 08:01

It's possible. DNA doesn't lie, and if you have a DNA match with this guy then you are related somehow.

A good tool is the DNA painter shared CM tool dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4, type in the numbers which Ancestry has given you (you are looking for the centimorgan number) and the site will suggest the relationship.

Few points though - check his research thoroughly. Lots of people on Ancestry are "click and collect" family tree builders who just add anyone suggested by the site and don't really verify it. Especially if he's talking about early 17th century.

The "thru-lines" tool on Ancestry can also suggest how you may be related but again, take with a pinch of salt.

So long story short - you're definitely related. You may be related through the people he has listed on his tree, or different people altogether.

Volterra · 06/09/2021 22:23

I was reading something earlier - any chance his father could have been a US soldier- would that fit the timescale?

newrubylane · 08/09/2021 19:52

I don't think him being in America necessarily suggests he is on your dad's side, as people have moved around quite a lot. If he's fairly closely related and you don't see any obvious connection, then there's every chance that's where the connection comes in, but you probably need to look at all the results before drawing any conclusions.

DuchessOfDisaster · 11/09/2021 18:23

@Volterra

I was reading something earlier - any chance his father could have been a US soldier- would that fit the timescale?
I'm not sure, in 1920/21 seems a little too early?
OP posts:
Volterra · 12/09/2021 06:40

Yes it does sound a bit early for that theory. Have you seen your results now- how closely related is he?

Mine are due end of the month and I’m very excited, hoping we can find the biological father of one of my distant matches on 23andme. I’ve got lots of distant matches in the US, a fair few on both my parents sides seem to have gone there going back a long way.

shrugshrug · 09/10/2021 09:19

That's odd you've not got your results yet someone has matched with you.
Your original post was late August so I hope you got your information by now, @DuchessOfDisaster

New posts on this thread. Refresh page