Re: FamilySearch, I’ve found some incredible probate records on my Hamilton County Ohio ancestors that has shed light on several relatives I’ve not known ! Love it as much as I enjoy your channel. Thanks, Amy !!
We had the same Channel Island and northern Scotland islands weirdness show up both my wife's and my regions in the first update a couple weeks ago -- they've disappeared from both with later revisions.
I.T. professional here. A DDoS attack is not always conducted by "a bunch of people who have more time on their hands ...". Very often it is a small group of cyber-criminals who infect the computers of innocent people with malware. The malware lets the criminals covertly use innocent computers to conduct their attack. That's why it's important to keep your computer up-to-date with security patches, use robust antivirus software, etc.
The new dna update feels less accurate than all updates before. It removed a big chunk of my Turkish heritage and replaced it with Italian. It completely got rid of all my English and German ancestry. My great grandma Violet was from England so I know this is incorrect
Full text searching is fantastic. I've found Kentucky court records and Norfolk UK probate and wills. It's helping with FAN research too. I suspect they haven't announced everything added, or record groups in progress are available.
Mine totally flipped the Irish and Scottish sides of my famly & makes no sense! & conflicts w/ Throughlines. The update puts the Irish on Dads side and Scottish on Moms side and polarized them, so instead before they were slightly mixed with the Irish and Scottish predominant on one side or the other. The change is diametrically opposed to the names in the Throughlines tab.
I am confused about the ancestral journey/community category. I have assumed that these communities would be based on your direct ancestors' movements..however... I have a community in Missouri. I have no direct ancestors who went to Missouri... however...the brother of my great great great grandfather did settle near Joplin sometime in the 1850-60s... so are these communities dealing with direct ancestors or does it go broader? If broader..I am surprised I do not have more communities.
Think of it more broadly. Chances are it wasn't just your third-great-grandfather's brother who went to Missouri. There were likely extended family members as well -- cousins, etc. It could also be migrations of relatives whom you haven't identified yet on a different line. The DNA that got passed to you happens to be enough to recognize you as having genetic ties to that area in Missouri.
A few comments I'd like to make. Finally I the term Ethnicity Estimate because I think it made it clearer that it wasn't precise (even though a lot of people seem to think it's very accurate). I also they'd make the ranges more visible. I also question your thousand of years accuracy for these estimates because we far as I'm aware they are using the DNA from people in reference groups who have all confirmed (as best they can) that all their grandparents came from a fairly small area within one of their defined regions. So the earliest these can go back to the early 1800s at best. I'm sure we do all have DNA from unknown regions, long before we can get back to with record based genealogy. I do suspect that some of our distant matches do from common ancestors a long way back. Secondly, I wish Ancestry make more use of parents and grandparents ethnicity results when running their algorithms. I have also gained Cornwall, which I thought was from my dad's male line, some of which came from Dorset, a county not too far away. I find Cornwall a bit of a dumb region because even though I know it historically was separate from the rest of England, they have their own customs, their own language, I don't know how you can distinguish Cornish genes from say Devon, Dorset, or even Somerset ones. Anyway my dad doesn't have any Cornwall show up on his results so I don't think this is correct. Lastly, in addition to what I said about them using the ethnicity results of relatives who have also taken tests, why don't they remove incorrect matches when a parent tests? This would be extremely helpful. I guess this only if you've had both parents tested, but I expect that once both parents have tested they shouldn't have to guess so much as to which chromosome pair came from which parent and so where they've assumed after analysis it comes from one parent and now know that's not correct it would remove any matches using that incorrect assumption, and maybe find others. I would also expect the match list to change and you either add or lose certain matches (likely distant ones) as they change and enhance their matching algorithm? That would be really useful as I still think the Ancestral Regions are just a gimmick. Oh, and when you look at these on the app they don't seem to show the ranges anywhere, which is where I suspect a lot of the more casual test takers will be viewing their results.
Oh, and for all the tests I can view and manage at first we all got 3 new Scottish subregions, Scottish Highlands, Isle of Man, and Northern isles (basically Orkney and Shetland) but after an update, I only think there was a glitch all but the Scottish Highlands remained. I got the Channel Islands as well (I have no known ancestry from there), no one else in my family did (which could be possible I guess) but that has now gone, which i guess might also have been shown by mistake.
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Re: FamilySearch, I’ve found some incredible probate records on my Hamilton County Ohio ancestors that has shed light on several relatives I’ve not known ! Love it as much as I enjoy your channel. Thanks, Amy !!
No not listed, FamilySearch full text search has been adding Canadian probate end and land records since mid-August.
We had the same Channel Island and northern Scotland islands weirdness show up both my wife's and my regions in the first update a couple weeks ago -- they've disappeared from both with later revisions.
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I.T. professional here. A DDoS attack is not always conducted by "a bunch of people who have more time on their hands ...". Very often it is a small group of cyber-criminals who infect the computers of innocent people with malware. The malware lets the criminals covertly use innocent computers to conduct their attack. That's why it's important to keep your computer up-to-date with security patches, use robust antivirus software, etc.
Yes, I was a little flippant with that remark. DDoS attacks can also be from state-sponsored actors.
The new dna update feels less accurate than all updates before. It removed a big chunk of my Turkish heritage and replaced it with Italian. It completely got rid of all my English and German ancestry. My great grandma Violet was from England so I know this is incorrect
Full text searching is fantastic. I've found Kentucky court records and Norfolk UK probate and wills. It's helping with FAN research too.
I suspect they haven't announced everything added, or record groups in progress are available.
To me genealogy has always been a journey and an adventure into the past
Would be great if Ancestry could accept autosomal file transfers.
Mine totally flipped the Irish and Scottish sides of my famly & makes no sense! & conflicts w/ Throughlines. The update puts the Irish on Dads side and Scottish on Moms side and polarized them, so instead before they were slightly mixed with the Irish and Scottish predominant on one side or the other. The change is diametrically opposed to the names in the Throughlines tab.
Colorado
I am confused about the ancestral journey/community category. I have assumed that these communities would be based on your direct ancestors' movements..however... I have a community in Missouri. I have no direct ancestors who went to Missouri... however...the brother of my great great great grandfather did settle near Joplin sometime in the 1850-60s... so are these communities dealing with direct ancestors or does it go broader? If broader..I am surprised I do not have more communities.
Think of it more broadly. Chances are it wasn't just your third-great-grandfather's brother who went to Missouri. There were likely extended family members as well -- cousins, etc. It could also be migrations of relatives whom you haven't identified yet on a different line. The DNA that got passed to you happens to be enough to recognize you as having genetic ties to that area in Missouri.
Van Buren, AR.
A few comments I'd like to make. Finally I the term Ethnicity Estimate because I think it made it clearer that it wasn't precise (even though a lot of people seem to think it's very accurate). I also they'd make the ranges more visible. I also question your thousand of years accuracy for these estimates because we far as I'm aware they are using the DNA from people in reference groups who have all confirmed (as best they can) that all their grandparents came from a fairly small area within one of their defined regions. So the earliest these can go back to the early 1800s at best. I'm sure we do all have DNA from unknown regions, long before we can get back to with record based genealogy. I do suspect that some of our distant matches do from common ancestors a long way back.
Secondly, I wish Ancestry make more use of parents and grandparents ethnicity results when running their algorithms. I have also gained Cornwall, which I thought was from my dad's male line, some of which came from Dorset, a county not too far away. I find Cornwall a bit of a dumb region because even though I know it historically was separate from the rest of England, they have their own customs, their own language, I don't know how you can distinguish Cornish genes from say Devon, Dorset, or even Somerset ones. Anyway my dad doesn't have any Cornwall show up on his results so I don't think this is correct.
Lastly, in addition to what I said about them using the ethnicity results of relatives who have also taken tests, why don't they remove incorrect matches when a parent tests? This would be extremely helpful. I guess this only if you've had both parents tested, but I expect that once both parents have tested they shouldn't have to guess so much as to which chromosome pair came from which parent and so where they've assumed after analysis it comes from one parent and now know that's not correct it would remove any matches using that incorrect assumption, and maybe find others. I would also expect the match list to change and you either add or lose certain matches (likely distant ones) as they change and enhance their matching algorithm? That would be really useful as I still think the Ancestral Regions are just a gimmick. Oh, and when you look at these on the app they don't seem to show the ranges anywhere, which is where I suspect a lot of the more casual test takers will be viewing their results.
Oh, and for all the tests I can view and manage at first we all got 3 new Scottish subregions, Scottish Highlands, Isle of Man, and Northern isles (basically Orkney and Shetland) but after an update, I only think there was a glitch all but the Scottish Highlands remained. I got the Channel Islands as well (I have no known ancestry from there), no one else in my family did (which could be possible I guess) but that has now gone, which i guess might also have been shown by mistake.