Hi Johan, I think the List members would be interested to know which company you used and which type of test. On 15 Nov 2015 08:44, J LOCHRIDGE via wrote: > I have just embarked on an Ancestry DNA test. Exciting results. > RegardsJohan > > ------------------------------- > > Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Don,Here is my DNA stroy to date.Having come to a virtual standstill with research and having heard from my Genealogy cousin in Australia that he had done a test with good results, I asked his advice.  It was "Would you like to die wondering?"  At that I signed up for the Ancestry offer at the time £89.Everything went well, in fact the result came through sooner than estimated.  I don't understand the terminology, but the test was autosomal - not restricted to the maternal line.My surprise was that I am 70% British, 19% Irish and the others 11% from various other countries.  Since my father's line was from Ireland and one of my mother's grandfathers was also from an Irish line, I thought I was going to be more than 50% Irish.  This leads me to believe that my father's family had originated mainland Uk and at some time migrated to Ireland. The results give a long list in priority order and identifiable matches are shown where they are held in Ancestry trees.  There is a Search facility and you can message any of the matches, a number of which related to Islay names, although the links are not apparent yet.  (Maybe there is a common Islay gene) When I got the results I then registered withGED Natch which is a free site.  I had to download my Ancestry results and upload them to GED Match.  It went without a hitch although I had searched the Internet for a guide before I started.I am confident about the results as my Genealogy cousin I mentioned earlier came out top of my list.  We share 3X ggrandpareut my reason for going with it was nts.  This list shows the matching chromosomes.I have emailed the second person on the list but have not had a reply yet. Some advice which I ignored was that Ancestry was most popular with US users, but I thought I would choose a different provider than my cousin had used.  His was connected to Find My Past I think. I would encourage others to take the test even although it is quite expensive....maybe a good Christmas present!  And you never know maybe it will result in me getting more matches!Cheers EveryoneJohan From: "donmcarthur@bmoughts.com" <donmcarthur@bmts.com> To: J LOCHRIDGE <j.lochridge@btinternet.com>; sct-islay@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, 15 November 2015, 18:55 Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLAY] DNA results Hi Johan, I think the List members would be interested to know which company you used and which type of test.On 15 Nov 2015 08:44, J LOCHRIDGE via wrote: I have just embarked on an Ancestry DNA test.  Exciting results. RegardsJohan -------------------------------