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    Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update

I'd like to also remark here that Norman in England and Ireland DNA would be spread far and wide, not just directly because of the Conquest but also due to marriages between the nobility involving par...
Iceni
Iceni
AncestryDNA 216 22,898 10-16-2024, 01:11 PM
    Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update

Following from what I wrote above, for example, if my paper genealogy, which is legally accurate but not factually accurate (i.e. my father's father is not of the name given on his birth cert) it woul...
Iceni
Iceni
AncestryDNA 216 22,898 10-13-2024, 03:35 PM
    Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update

Giving this some thought, I am not sure entirely what Ancestry are basing their analyses on. We are told that autosomal DNA matching is generally only accurate to within six generations and that small...
Iceni
Iceni
AncestryDNA 216 22,898 10-13-2024, 02:32 PM
    Thread: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update
Post: RE: Ancestry 2024 ethnicity update

I cannot fathom the Ancestry update at all. Gone is the Wales 14% I previously had (so as my Scotland), which always looked like baloney anyway. However my large percentage of East Anglian has disappe...
Iceni
Iceni
AncestryDNA 216 22,898 10-12-2024, 07:13 PM
    Thread: Scottish category - more accurate or more smoothed?
Post: RE: Scottish category - more accurate or more smoo...

I wouldn't take any notice. The "Scotland" category includes a big swathe of Northern English and though I cannot say it is wrong, I have no known Scottish ancestry but a large chunk from the West Rid...
Iceni
Iceni
AncestryDNA 13 733 10-11-2024, 09:46 AM
    Thread: Delete Your DNA from 23&Me ???
Post: RE: Delete Your DNA from 23&Me ???

As someone UK based I think Ancestry is inaccurate and getting worse. Living DNA are the most accurate for me.
Iceni
Iceni
23andMe 32 2,209 10-10-2024, 05:03 PM
    Thread: Delete Your DNA from 23&Me ???
Post: RE: Delete Your DNA from 23&Me ???

Rufus191 Wrote: (10-01-2024, 02:28 PM) -- Iceni Wrote: (10-01-2024, 01:23 PM) -- Seems to me this will hit GEDmatch pretty hard as most of the uploads are from 23 & Me going by my matches. -- This...
Iceni
Iceni
23andMe 32 2,209 10-01-2024, 09:44 PM
    Thread: Delete Your DNA from 23&Me ???
Post: RE: Delete Your DNA from 23&Me ???

Seems to me this will hit GEDmatch pretty hard as most of the uploads are from 23 & Me going by my matches.
Iceni
Iceni
23andMe 32 2,209 10-01-2024, 01:23 PM
    Thread: Welcome Refugees
Post: RE: Welcome Refugees

Good to have you back, Norfolk. Missed your input on Anthrogenica.
Iceni
Iceni
General Discussion 73 10,770 02-27-2024, 08:20 AM
    Thread: Genarchivist logo contest winner - Congratulations ChrisR!
Post: RE: Genarchivist logo contest winner - Congratulat...

Or Jean (Gene) also in a nod to Jean Manco, who was so active on Anthrogenica until her premature death and a great source of erudition.
Iceni
Iceni
General Discussion 25 1,257 01-24-2024, 07:57 AM
    Thread: My results and shares
Post: RE: My results and shares

AimSmall Wrote: (11-22-2023, 04:14 PM) -- Don't post anything you don't want out there forever. We aren't going to go back and scrub all your posts because you later change your mind. Those reques...
Iceni
Iceni
Autosomal (auDNA) 143 14,340 11-25-2023, 10:54 PM