Today is my day for a flurry of posts about #ColourBlind #ColorBlind issues.

It ties in nicely with #FamilyHistory research.

According to mom my grandfather irritated gran when he complimented her red hat.

My male cousins and me each had reduced career choice ... I couldn't do chemistry, Dave couldn't join the police, Richard couldn't be an electrician.

None of us saw the brown ball on the snooker table. Nor the pink. Nor the green.

And the #AncestryDNA colour dots aren't much use at all.

@OurAncestors

"Common Ancestor" ... but it's a misnomer. Am using it in the #AncestryDNA sense of being a DNA match where within Ancestry there's a route back from me/thee to a most recent common ancestor of the dna match.

Misleading and an abuse of language by Ancestry.

#FamilyHistory

For my Monday light entertainment am looking at an #AncestryDNA match with a very small tree ... only his mother and her parents ... not many cM between us and we have only two matches.

But the matches are my closest paternal CA match and a 2C1R CA match on mom's mother's side.

My saviour seems to be Birmingham being the city of 1000 trades - grandfather a tyre maker per mom's bap post 1901 census. Led to older sibling bap pre 1901 census. Led to parents on 1901 census 😊

@ehud

#FamilyHistory with an #AncestryDNA test.

Gripping!

#genchat

Another fun thing this week ... one of my #AncestryDNA matches who anonymised himself got outed by Thrulines this week. His mom did the test as did his daughter both of whom were recognisable so when their Thrulines popped up he was placed firmly in the middle 😄

#FamilyHistory

That moment when working up a floating tree for an #AncestryDNA match when Ancestry flashes "You have already attached this record to X in your family tree".

Then a look. And a smile.

Then a few minutes checking, editing relationships, deleting or merging people.

Then the wait for Thrulines to catch up.

Had this last thing last night ... Happy me 😊

So my husbands grandmother took her #ancestrydna test..and I’m pretty positive that her father is not the father she thought she had, but actually an Italian bartender who owned the tavern where the grandmother and grandfather lived in an apartment above. This is blowing my mind. But what do I do with this info? Do I reach out to the family? Do I tell? Or just let it go? He never had any children by the way (her biological father) #Genealogist #Genealogy #Geneadons

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Today I have again successfully used "floating trees" within #Ancestry to crack relationships with several #AncestryDNA matches, including matches who haven't connected their DNA result to their Ancestry tree. Am well on the way to ID a match with no tree at all.

I really didn't realise how powerful the technique was going to be!

#FamilyHistory

Aha! AHA!
#FamilyHistory

The overnight shuffle by #AncestryDNA of DNA matches as between paternal, maternal and both sides threw a DNA match into focus whose surname appears broadly in the same branch as Eileen G.
A little bit of digging and jumping downhill shows her to be 3C2R ... Another "Bingo!"

:ablobcatenjoy: :ablobcateyesflip: :ablobcatheadbang: :ablobhaai: :ablobwobroll:

My #AncestryDNA Sideview updated overnight ... It's slowly but surely rolling out. Must be a massive task!

#FamilyHistory

The payback for building one's family tree "Downhill" from distant ancestors comes as pure joy.

A distant #AncestryDNA cousin has an Eileen G in her tree whose mom is noted as being the "unknown maternal grandmother".

After very little effort tonight turns out Eileen G is my 2c2r

:ablobcatheadbang: :ablobcatenjoy: :ablobwobroll:

😊

Checking this morning's batch of new #AncestryDNA matches ... Someone joined #Ancestry last month and added an outline tree ... am smiling at the journey they just started from New Hampshire that will take them to a beer house in Sheffield then to their family of spade makers in the #BlackCountry and maybe even to the their tailoring ancestors in St Luke in London.

At which point I'm stuck, too :)

Yippee!! :ablobcool: :ablobcatenjoy:

Awoke this morning (Monday) to find #AncestryDNA #Thrulines has corrected itself via Henry 1852 so has the correct solid boxes all the way from the #MRCA most recent common ancestor down to the #DNA match.
Am beside myself as this has thrown up another CA DNA match :ablobcatheadbang: :ablobgrin: :ablobwobroll:

#AncestryDNA
In the outer reaches of my family tree I have, via different lines of descent, Henry Thomas Hatton b 1853 and Henry Hatton b 1852, both registered at Stourbridge.
To reach my DNA match correctly we go downhill to Henry 1852.
However #Thrulines leads downhill to the parents of Henry Thomas b 1853. Then has a dotted box with Henry 1852. Thence correctly to the match.

:ablobbowtie_neon: :ablobcateyesflip: :ablobcatenjoy:

#AncestryDNA #Thrulines has thrown a little wobbler overnight. Several prior ones have returned, which is nice, except one has returned with all the RHS with dotted boxes when all are in my tree and, previously, were all solid boxes.

Obvs either something got tweaked in the algorithm or somewhere something else got tweaked. It's certainly a line where I was battling confusing headwinds ... Williams.

Oh well, such is its nature.

Am attending a funeral today of a second cousin.

My father's cousin had brothers much older than him ... so much so that we never mixed with them or their children, one of whom has the funeral today.

His daughter took the #AncestryDNA test & we corresponded.

Am going in part for the friendship between dad and his cousin.

@genealogy

I have two. Both have the formulaic solutions through #AncestryDNA and #Thrulines but I don't really understand the stories.

Why was the seemingly illegitimate child left behind when parents and siblings sailed off to New Zealand (likely the rules for free passage paid for by their church precluded any whiff of impropriety). Maybe he was already contracted as an apprentice?

The other ... it's a long story :(

@ProfSimonFisher

I uploaded the results of my #AncestryDNA test to #Gedmatch and saw the centiMorgan DNA amount I "share" with Rathlin Man and other European bog bodies. Not enough to get me an EU passport, let alone the problem of Rathlin Island being in Northern Ireland.

Pity :(

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Oh!
A sign for the family historian that they are entering late late middle age:
Ancestry DNA Thrulines provides a new match ... 2nd cousin THREE times removed 😭

#AncestryDNA
#Geneadons