One fore the Mods maybe, now that DNA testing is becoming more and more prolific, is there scope for a DNA section maybe`?
Just a thought...............
A good thought - I promised it back in November and have been slowly collecting stuff for it. Slowly mainly because the response was rather underwhelming!! :D
I'm one of the non-believers in DNA testing, dating back to my education in genetics!
I think it is not as valuable as suggested, far too costly, and causes lots of problems because of inaccuracy.
Just one vote against such a section ................ though of course I have no need to read it, and will not!
My grandmother, on the beach, South Bay, Scarborough, undated photo (poss. 1929 or 1930)
Researching Cadd, Schofield, Cottrell in Lancashire, Buckinghamshire; Taylor, Park in Westmorland; Hayhurst in Yorkshire, Westmorland, Lancashire; Hughes, Roberts in Wales.
Well, I accept the science behind genetic genealogy - and its limitation. And much of what I learned was from a masters-prepared geneticist turned genetic genealogist.
I've been fortunate to be able to prove suspected family lines with it - my g'g'grandfather's records just did not conclusively prove his parents, despite a lot of research dollars spent to do record searches in distant places. I suspect I spent less on testing than on record research. And testing confirmed not just that line, but others as well.
And I've assisted a handful of people identify their genetic parent(s) using genetic-gen.
And testing costs have dropped so much - AncestryDNA in the US is advertising a sale for US$59 plus shipping. Other testing sites have similar pricing.
But it is easy for us lay people to put the wrong constructs on results.
I was very hesitant about DNA to start with, but a 2nd cousin was searching for her unknown paternal grandfather & so she tested. One of her matches ended up being a distant cousin on our Norfolk lines. They both descended from 2 sisters born in 1759 & 1762, with the paper trail to prove it. This made me sit up, so I tested with FamilyTreeDNA.
My paternal grandmother's grandfather was a mystery before his arrival in Australia pre 1860. He used the name John Watson on everything, his marriage in 1860 & on several of his children's birth & death certificates, and stated he was born in Devon, England. But on his own death certificate registered by his daughter, he was listed as John Thomas Gardiner Creber WATSON. A 2nd cousin had located a Gardener/Creber marriage in Devon many years ago, but at that time it was too hard to follow up.
My sister tested with AncestryDNA, giving me access, so when I searched her match list for CREBER, up popped several matches. The best match happened to be descended from the GARDENER/CREBER marriage & I have now managed to determine that our John WATSON was actually Thomas Partridge Gardener CREBER. You can see full details at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Creber-25
I am now using DNA to confirm my 35 years of research & it has also managed to help me contact fairly close (previously unknown) relations here in Australia.
I would definitely be interested in a DNA section here.
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