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    Thread: A possible breakthrough
Post: A possible breakthrough

After about 2 decades of trying in vain to find a baptism/birth for my 4gt William, it's possible, thanks to a kind person who checked Find my past  for me, that he's been found. There is a Firs...
firemonkey
firemonkey
Genealogy 1 324 04-08-2024, 01:07 PM
  Thumbs Down Thread: Societies of perpetual movement
Post: Societies of perpetual movement

Quote: -- We moved in a line, led by four men who searched the rainforest as they walked, barefoot. At the head of the snake, one of our guides cut narrow tunnels through the foliage with a machete...
firemonkey
firemonkey
General Sociology/Ethnology 0 61 03-05-2024, 08:06 PM
    Thread: Gatty Gatley Goatley
Post: RE: Gatty Gatley Goatley

Largest segment from smallest to largest = Gattey - Gatty - Gatley - Goatley . A 37 - 2 Gatty yDNA match who has never upgraded, even though I've offered to pay for it. The Goatley was listed as Ga...
firemonkey
firemonkey
General Discussion 1 154 02-05-2024, 06:17 AM
    Thread: Gatty Gatley Goatley
Post: Gatty Gatley Goatley

As most of you already know  although my surname is Gatty, I have larger autosomal matches to Gatley. Recently via Geneanet I came across a Mary Gatley born 1600 Ashford ,Kent,England. She died 1688 i...
firemonkey
firemonkey
General Discussion 1 154 02-02-2024, 06:19 PM
    Thread: Matches in pile up zones
Post: RE: Matches in pile up zones

I should explain why I asked. I have quite a few YDNA matches with the surname 'Dutton' who trace their earliest known ancestor back to a Zachariah Dutton born c1750 Maryland. Rather unusually,IMO, I ...
firemonkey
firemonkey
AncestryDNA 3 164 01-27-2024, 07:06 AM
    Thread: Matches in pile up zones
Post: Matches in pile up zones

How good is Ancestry at differentiating between good matches that are within a pile up zone, and false matches that occur within a pile up zone?
firemonkey
firemonkey
AncestryDNA 3 164 01-26-2024, 11:24 AM
    Thread: What are the criteria for judging the closeness of a y DNA match?
Post: RE: What are the criteria for judging the closenes...

I have several Dutton yDNA matches with an earliest known paternal ancestor Zachariah Dutton. 1 at 67 markers and 7 at 25 markers. Of those 8, 6 have tested to 67 markers and 2 to 700 markers. I als...
firemonkey
firemonkey
Other 15 422 01-10-2024, 06:38 AM
    Thread: What are the criteria for judging the closeness of a y DNA match?
Post: RE: What are the criteria for judging the closenes...

Found BIG-Y result of Hungarian match under Block tree-detailed view = 14/654.
firemonkey
firemonkey
Other 15 422 01-09-2024, 11:00 AM
    Thread: What are the criteria for judging the closeness of a y DNA match?
Post: RE: What are the criteria for judging the closenes...

Waiting for response from FTDNA support.
firemonkey
firemonkey
Other 15 422 01-08-2024, 08:31 PM
  Shocked Thread: What are the criteria for judging the closeness of a y DNA match?
Post: RE: What are the criteria for judging the closenes...

The Hungarian match is listed where  I previously said it was. However there is nobody with that surname listed at 12-111 yDNA markers! I'm not sure about  close knit rural communities . But when ...
firemonkey
firemonkey
Other 15 422 01-08-2024, 04:22 PM
    Thread: What are the criteria for judging the closeness of a y DNA match?
Post: RE: What are the criteria for judging the closenes...

Riverman Wrote: (01-08-2024, 12:46 PM) -- firemonkey Wrote: (01-08-2024, 11:12 AM) -- I currently have one same haplogroup match = E-BY5244.  37- 4 (done to y-DNA111) Big Y STR Differences 13 of 66...
firemonkey
firemonkey
Other 15 422 01-08-2024, 01:54 PM
    Thread: What are the criteria for judging the closeness of a y DNA match?
Post: RE: What are the criteria for judging the closenes...

ph2ter Wrote: (01-08-2024, 12:15 PM) -- STR differences are mostly irrelevant. They are useful only for determining the general haplogroup and close siblings (Y-DNA links not older than a few hundre...
firemonkey
firemonkey
Other 15 422 01-08-2024, 12:46 PM
    Thread: What are the criteria for judging the closeness of a y DNA match?
Post: What are the criteria for judging the closeness of...

I currently have one same haplogroup match = E-BY5244.  37- 4 (done to y-DNA111) Big Y STR Differences 13 of 663. He's not listed under 'Big Y - Results'
firemonkey
firemonkey
Other 15 422 01-08-2024, 11:12 AM
    Thread: yDNA matches gone!
Post: yDNA matches gone!

No longer have any at any level !!
firemonkey
firemonkey
FTDNA 4 271 01-06-2024, 02:21 PM
    Thread: Gatty/Gattey vs Gatley cMs
Post: Gatty/Gattey vs Gatley cMs

These are my Gattey,Gatty,Gatley matches .  What,if anything, do they indicate? Gatty JL: FTDNA 12-1 ANC 10 -1 Gattey MG: ANC 8 - 1 GRU: ANC 7-1 Gatley JAF: FTDNA 18 - 11 HB...
firemonkey
firemonkey
Ancient (aDNA) 0 98 10-26-2023, 08:17 PM
    Thread: Discover report & change of haplogroup
Post: RE: Discover report & change of haplogroup

I've just seen and used the 'compare' tool. Based on that ,a lot of the suggested projects are totally ridiculous.
firemonkey
firemonkey
FTDNA 7 295 10-17-2023, 12:23 PM
    Thread: Discover report & change of haplogroup
Post: RE: Discover report & change of haplogroup

The Arabic and Jewish ones make no sense to me.
firemonkey
firemonkey
FTDNA 7 295 10-14-2023, 12:12 AM
    Thread: Discover report & change of haplogroup
Post: RE: Discover report & change of haplogroup

Have now got  Discover report. Most recent  shared ancestor around 900 CE.  I'm not at all sure what to make of the recommended projects to join! Those being- E-M35 Project - already joined E1b1...
firemonkey
firemonkey
FTDNA 7 295 10-13-2023, 12:55 PM
    Thread: Jackson
Post: Jackson

I wasn't sure where to put this. Move if necessary.1. A cousin match to Willie Jackson that Ancestry DNA regards as a close match ie 20cMs or more.Willie is wholly or mainly black. My known ancestry i...
firemonkey
firemonkey
General Discussion 1 146 10-11-2023, 12:45 PM
    Thread: Discover report & change of haplogroup
Post: RE: Discover report & change of haplogroup

Mine changed  about 3.5 weeks ago.
firemonkey
firemonkey
FTDNA 7 295 10-09-2023, 05:44 PM