Hello Karla, Thanks for the suggestion. Looking deeper into it my new match is for Samuel Farrant (c.1756-1818) and Mary Bond (c.1758-1814) of Axminster in Devon. My tree shows Samuel as being the son of Robert Farrant and Elizabeth Hayman, whereas my match shows Samuel as being the son of Robert Farrant and Elizabeth Sprague so maybe that is an example of “the wrong ancestor”? Regards Peter From: Karla Huebner [mailto:calypsospots@gmail.com] Sent: 30 October 2015 13:05 To: Peter J Richardson <pjrich.ntl@googlemail.com>; genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DNA] Matches on Ancestry Peter, I too have found the associated trees at Ancestry easier to work with than FTDNA's trees (can often at least assign a match to a grandparent's line), and have not yet used the second-party tools for Ancestry, but regarding DNA Circles, I would suggest you read Roberta Estes's blog posts about them at http://dna-explained.com/. Quite a few things can affect whether a DNA Circle is created, including minor spelling differences, besides which that DNA Circles sometimes involve the wrong "ancestor". Karla On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Peter J Richardson via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com <mailto:genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> > wrote: The problem I'm finding though is that the submitted trees on FTDNA are not easy to follow and I suspect that GEDMatch is for the dedicated DNA researcher, so I am struggling to get enough data to identify the many unidentified matches that I have. I thought that the recent testing initiative on Ancestry would make DNA testing more mainstream and with the more extensive trees on there I would find more data to work with, so I did a test on there. I have indeed found more matches including one which the ancestors in common can be found and would like to be able to use this match to make more sense of my FTDNA & Gedmatch matches. I am not actually familiar with the tools Mike mentions (and wonder whether they might give me the information I am after?). I also notice that Ancestry seems to have "DNA circles" for Charles Aldous, and also for his parents but does not seem to have any "DNA circles" for the ancestors I have in common with the new match I have found and I wonder why not. Regards Peter

Hi Peter, Glad to be of help. I'm not familiar with any of the research on your family, but the fact that you and your match show different mothers for Samuel Farrant is certainly going to affect whether Ancestry creates DNA Circles. Karla On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Peter J Richardson via < genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hello Karla, > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > > > Looking deeper into it my new match is for Samuel Farrant (c.1756-1818) > and Mary Bond (c.1758-1814) of Axminster in Devon. My tree shows Samuel as > being the son of Robert Farrant and Elizabeth Hayman, whereas my match > shows Samuel as being the son of Robert Farrant and Elizabeth Sprague so > maybe that is an example of “the wrong ancestor”? > > > > Regards > > Peter > > > > > > > > From: Karla Huebner [mailto:calypsospots@gmail.com] > Sent: 30 October 2015 13:05 > To: Peter J Richardson <pjrich.ntl@googlemail.com>; > genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [DNA] Matches on Ancestry > > > > Peter, > > > > I too have found the associated trees at Ancestry easier to work with than > FTDNA's trees (can often at least assign a match to a grandparent's line), > and have not yet used the second-party tools for Ancestry, but regarding > DNA Circles, I would suggest you read Roberta Estes's blog posts about them > at http://dna-explained.com/. Quite a few things can affect whether a DNA > Circle is created, including minor spelling differences, besides which that > DNA Circles sometimes involve the wrong "ancestor". > > > > Karla > > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:38 AM, Peter J Richardson via < > genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com <mailto:genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> > wrote: > > > The problem I'm finding though is that the submitted trees on FTDNA are not > easy to follow and I suspect that GEDMatch is for the dedicated DNA > researcher, so I am struggling to get enough data to identify the many > unidentified matches that I have. I thought that the recent testing > initiative on Ancestry would make DNA testing more mainstream and with the > more extensive trees on there I would find more data to work with, so I did > a test on there. I have indeed found more matches including one which the > ancestors in common can be found and would like to be able to use this > match > to make more sense of my FTDNA & Gedmatch matches. > > I am not actually familiar with the tools Mike mentions (and wonder whether > they might give me the information I am after?). I also notice that > Ancestry > seems to have "DNA circles" for Charles Aldous, and also for his parents > but > does not seem to have any "DNA circles" for the ancestors I have in common > with the new match I have found and I wonder why not. > > Regards > Peter > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Karla Huebner calypsospots AT gmail.com