What do you consider low? Also ive got 3rd cousins (our great grandfathers were brothers) that range from 9-90cM so i dont like to discount low cMs especially if they have shared matches. If its a low cM with no shared matches then i wont bother

Thank you. I didn't realize they had a key in them!

Good tips. Here is a tip for you. Stop using eyeliner on the bottom. It isn't doing you any favors.

Thank you, Jen!

I never would have thought of this!

Thanks for the tip!

Yep, also names of the towns change and borders shift :/

🐔💭🎩 Thomas Jefferson 🌲

It’s rubbish. It claims that British-born Royalists were born in America in 1500’s. I believe British colonies began in around 1607, not 1530’s. They get so much stuff wrong and claim our British ancestors as American-born, and they seem to do this ALOT, before America was reached by the English. It’s very frustrating.

Hi. I have been working on my family history in ancestry and after I watched this I went and looked at my Family search and I think there are some mistakes in my Family Search. What do I do?

Thank you for posting this. Grasping at straws here!

How do I request a social security records? I need to know information about the application for my social security card and one more question. Can I also request if an application to obtain a social security card has been submitted online years ago?

I think even when you're open to the facts, it can just take some time to process the new info. My mom was adopted. When I got my DNA results, it looks like the man her mother put on the birth certif isn't related to us. So now we're trying to figure out if she just got it wrong or if he could have been adopted! The thing is, he and mom look a lot alike! And the ethnicity is complicated too. People need to give themselves time to process their feelings around their parentage and family. ❤

Haven’t got results back yet, but when they come, I’ll send you a screenshot

Nooo! I'm 2% Norwegian!!!

Without a Chromosome Browser Ancestry DNA is already much less useful than the other options. Way to go Ancestry.

Just give me a darn chromosome browser and stop with the useless pixie dust.

Uk researcher here… completely feel this!

So much good info, so little time!

No wonder you're bummed! 😢

I’ve changed quite a lot on ancestry - it takes a while but does work. My biggest problem is Elijah - he is so often misspelled, often as a husband named Eliza or Elizabeth. Also Steppensen when it was Stevenson - but that was a govt birth and death of a lady and her baby on the Australian goldfields in 1860 and the informant was ‘a mate of the husband’. Can’t be changed without being able to document being ‘next of kin’. And after 40 years of looking I still don’t have his correct death.

Does this work with occupational surnames?

What do you do when there are no marriage certificates or death certificates. My husband cannot even find his grandparents names. His father died when my husband was 11 months old. We cannot find anything.

23andMe Shared Matches are back

Wow! Excellent tip!!!

No Is not, we aren’t no longer pure one race or ethnicity

Thanks!

Or it could be from one of your 4x great grandparents...

Ahhhh!!!! You got me!!!

Almost had me there😂

Lol

I came out as 100% Northern European. Very disappointing.

good god i could be yiddish

😅 Thanks for the reminder. If the Hollywood version stars Diane Kruger, I will go watch it.

You shouldnt lie to people. My husband has that 1%. However, he has documentation that a grandparent was 100% native american. Stop spreading false information.

NOT TRUE, at all. My mother, her full siblings that I’ve tested, and I have had 1% Native American, for the entire time we’ve been DNA tested (9 or 10 years)… Not only do I know that it is on a segment of chromosome 19… but we match that segment with my mother’s father’s maternal relatives, from Mobile Alabama. And we further match it with a living 100% Native American person, who identifies as Ojibwe, from Canada/Great Lakes, on that same shared segment. Now, ask yourself what’s the connection between Mobile Alabama and the Ojibwe in Canada? The French founded Mobile Alabama and were fur traders with the Ojibwe in Canada. The Ojibwe (called “Chippewa” in the U.S. ) also would accompany the French, on the Mississippi River, as Guides. We know that the Native American comes from one of two Ancestors, on that side ( A married couple). So it is entirely possible to find a match that corresponds with a 1% ancestry estimate.

I've found many transcription errors on census records. My favorite is finding my Mississippi Ancestors transcribed as being born in Michigan (Miss vs MI). Always look at the actual record.

So then all of it could be wrong

It is very sad that history didn’t value women’s accounts as much as mens. Thank you for your advice!!

So smart!

My mom's great aunt Pearl really wanted to find a relative that came over on the Mayflower. She diligently traced family trees, and finally found a name that matched. Unfortunately, our relative was married and had 3 children in that year, and the person with the matching name on the Mayflower was 13 years old!

Thanks for the info. Ancestry is going to price people out and make their memberships go down. It’s getting to be like Disney in the way that people loved it and they kept raising prices and now a lot of people are turned off.

Thank you

Oh, wow, such a blatant error. Good thing that they provide an image.

Agreed. I'm fairly confident of the records I have for my family AFTER their arrival in America (early 1700s). I do have a few branches that take me back to the Old World--but I'm not very comfortable with them.

Where did they do this? All over the thirteen colonies? Frontier outposts?

That’s actually such and interesting fact thank you

Without a chromosome browser Ancestry is mostly pixie dust based on inaccurate family trees. IMHO

or, you know, people made a mistake.

Wait, we can't download our raw data anymore?