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There is an issue with ProTools if one does not have their tree built on Ancestry. I use FamilyTreeMaker which I sync to Ancestry. FTM already has error checking, fan charts, etc. Therefore the ProTools in ineffective because I can use an autsonomal DNA chart to do the same thing as Pro-Tools - and which I have been doing for years. Also, it's not very effective when working beyond a 3rd generational match - which is where i am in my research - pre-1810.

My grandmother always brought a mince pie to Christmas accompanied by “hard sauce” - a heavily whiskied sugar sauce which made the mince pie one of my favorites. Her family came from Enniscorthy area. Is that from Ireland or Chicago where she landed?😂

This was very we explanatory, especially the matches with the new color dot system. Thank you

If you want to talk English with me, you don't have to make me hear any "s".

Thank you. This was very informative!

Was worth watching just to learn "G'day, mate" is not actually used in Australia. But also because listening to & learning from Brenda is a treat!

This was great thank you

Hi, to rename the coloured dot groups, I go to Edit Group and key a 'space' before "Maternal unknown", and that leaves the coloured Square just the colour. Or put an emoji at the start 🧬🧬

Amazing thank you🎉

My grand mother sister Gertrude married junior hunt in Amite County Mississippi where my grand mother bought 2 acres from Gertrude and junior hunt in 1940 where they built there first home . After marriage. At rout 1 box 2 bluff spring rd. I was born at this address. Land own by the hunts.

Hello CLaire - enjoy your videos. One comment, I actually find the Match Pages useful (versus scrolling) in one regard. In the past, my Chrome browser would suddenly crash after I scrolled through enough pages. I don't know enough about the technology but I assumed it was a memory issue. You are correct that it was easier than changing to 50 people per page and then going through the individual pages, but at least I never lost my work. Thanks again!

There's a limit to the number of people in our tree in My Heritage. You have to pay in order to be able to put the full tree. That did not happen in FamilyTreeDNA. Sad.

You're right, we folks in US/CA have lots of matches. For "close matches," I have 3,184!

You mentioned splitting out a person from the Family Tree to create their own separate tree to investigate. Is there a simple way to split out an entire branch of a tree? For example, if I want to separate my partner's branch of the tree into its own tree?

I feel wary of sending big tree I have with ftdna to my heritage where I have limited tree as understood ftdna was strong with privacy. Not so sure of My Heritage’s, especially people still alive.

I wonder why Scottish is so off pronounciation even for Scots :o It doesn't seem like Scots actually chose to complicate their language, but I don't know? Hébridas (in Spanish) sounds rather close to HEB-rid-eez, minus the h.

MyHeritage and FTDNA should just merge. Their combined DNA database would be awesome.

Wondering if the pro tool reflects more than one segment shared, that would be helpful to know even if they are not giving us a browser. I have one match that is on both my mom and dad’s side, it would be helpful for Ancestry to show us the matches based on segments as well

I’ve learned not to discount my lower cm matches. Testing close family revealed to me that I might share a small cm but everyone else may have the predicted amount shared. For example my mom’s 2nd cousins once removed share as predicted with my aunts and siblings. All total there are about 10 people tested, they all share more or less as they should, I share with one person only 6cm. My best advice is test as many people as you can, that is my greatest tool.

I enjoyed it!

Thanks for your videos. They are very helpful. I have been working with Ancestry Pro Tools for a couple of months now. I am building out simple trees and still looking for connections. I have a lot of distant cousins and they are more difficult as I have to build out bigger trees. I dabbled with Banyan Pro and I think I am going to try another project with my shared matches where I find 6 from the same family that I am trying to identify.

Great info. I’m liking the shared match pro tool.

I found your video very interesting indeed. I'm English and I'm trying to learn and remember the location and names of all the Scottish counties. I know how they are written but not how they are really spoken so I am in the process of searching You Tube for videos to hear them being spoken correctly. Whenever I hear Scots being interviewed in the media I'm always wishing that they'd be asked what county they live in, but the interviewers never do 😞. Great video, Thank You!

15:48 just wow.

Wow, your presentation was awesome and gave me the confidence and understanding I needed to try Pro Tools for a month. Within the first hour of the first day I was able to make huge cracks in a previous brick wall. I am amazed. Thank you!

Thank you for posting this. I couldn't make the graduation to watch which I love to do because I'm so happy for everybody that graduates. ❤

I do not yet have Pro Tools. I have been using both Family Tree Maker (FTM) and Ancestry (without Pro Tools) and have been adding my DNA Match Notes to FTM. Most of my matches are back in the 70 Cm or lower range, most of which I have identified MRCA. Given that I have both FTM and Ancestry without Protools and have identified most of my matches between 70 and 25 Cm, any idea what benefit it would be at this time to obtain Pro Tools. Many thanks, Lindley in Western Canada

Regarding your comment about having shared matches labelled as through both parents not being triangulated matches, and even though I possibly agree with you your about both you and your match being linked a way to the shared match in different ways, I think it could possibly be that the Side View isn't correct or that you are actually matched in multiple ways. How do I know this? Well before Pro Tools I'd been trying to research my 2x great grandfather and one of the closest matches through him was around 25cM, I'd contacted her, she'd given me access to matches and by matching my matches to her matches (by an id in the URL) I have around 180 matches in common. Now having to Pro Tools only a third, so about 60, appear to be actual matches, assuming the Pro Tools matches are correct, even though we have a lot of matches that we do both have (and just on a side note here whilst most are labelled as being maternal as I'd expect, some are paternal, and she also matches around 20 matches with my grandfather on my other side, both Irish heritage but quite a long way from each other, but this is an aside). One thing that is puzzling me though is that if you have a match that has shared matches from both sides of your family tree why isn't it labelled as Both? If as you suspect it's because you share a match but match in completely different ways them this wouldn't be needed, but if there is something complicated on here and what you suggested wasn't the case all 180 matches me and this match I've contacted and got access to their match list should appear in the new matches of matches ProTools shared matches and they don't. I've done this for 2 kits I manage and for 4 people's match lists it's not a one off. One thing I would say though, and you mentioned it in the video, is it it's a distant match then it could be a false match, but like you I do think above about 15cM most matches are valid matches. The final thing I would say is that no system of analysing DNA is perfect, there will be misreads, random recombination that matches another person that isn't actually related to them, and algorithms aren't perfect in every case, so we just have to live with some of these things because in the end we've been given is very useful and without it we'd be stuck in many cases. Hope all this makes sense and thanks for the video. Oh, one other thing is that the more distant an ancestor the more chance there is that your family could merge into that of a match's in some way, especially when 20, 50, 100 years ago people were having a lot more children, and emigration and migration of peoples were happening on a massive scale for many different reasons -empire, famine, war, persecution.

Im looking for mulatto family in Virginia

Brenda, thanks for the very informative video! One question : On you example of charts where you showed the child baptised after the mother’s death, this could still be correct right? The records generally show baptism dates rather than date of birth, so she could have died in childbirth, and then the child was baptised later?

Next do them as gaeilge!

How do you solve for female Irish ancestor's their maiden surname's because in Irish marriage records they only list the full name (first and last) of the husband's father and only the "first" name of the mother (no surname) for these marriage record's around 1850 ? I have not been able to determine the surname for my GGG Grandmother so is there a way to determine her "biological" family line via DNA painter ?

Very interesting to study this event...definitely recommend a visit to Halifax. Was there 4 years ago...memorable museum.

Nice explanation. The problem I have is understanding the layout of the shared matches and how people are related to each other. I am really struggling to get my head round it and it is always just briefly mentioned in the videos I have watched, including this one. I guess I will just have to bite the bullet, pay the money, and hope I can figure it out.😢

I have found it when notes/groups aren't saving on the shared matches page to do it from the main DNA profile page and it will save.

I have been using BanyanDNA to build a tree for how the Shared Matches match each other. Enter each match and the amount they match each other then run the Validation Calculation to confirm they are placed properly. Once I confirm they are all in the correct place, I can add those that do not have trees, create a hypothesis for them then run the Hypothesis calculation.

Love this. Thank-you

Great story! However, most of us don't have exciting drama like that in our families. What do you do then?

My great grandfather and grandfather were mulattoes too in Richmond, Virginia on my mother side too.

I just learn my grandfather was listed as a mulatto living in Virginia. The 1907 or 1904 . In the censuses. It was later change to black.

Thank you Cheryl! Well done! Informative!

I would love to listen to Brenda on a cruise ship. She is so engaging.❤ Certainly something to think about for myself. I wonder if Brenda can make some personal recommendations on Agents and cruiselines from her experience?

This is really interesting!

This was a very good presentation. You really did a great job explaining how it can be used for genealogy.

Very helpful. thank you

History everyone should watch & learn

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