Wednesday 17 November 2010

Ancestry Finder tables

Here are the results of Ancestry Finder. It uses self reported ancestry from users of their Grandparents nationalities. So the table showing 4GP means all 4 Grandparents are the same nationality. The list can go down to 1+GP meaning it could display matches who have Grandparents from four different countries. A word of caution is that just because Grandparents were born in a certain country, it doesn't meant they are native to it. An example might be French people born in Britain. So it's best to check for more than one match. Size of cM's in important too-the closer to 5cM, the more likely it's either very old or just coincedence.

At 4GP's:Known ancestry is British and some Irish, so the first two boxes match known ancestry. Iran has featured with other people and it's only 5.1cM so either the person has some West European ancestry or it is ancient.

At 3 GPs (so 3 from same country, 1 from different) the top 5 is the same however my 7th cousin who is 1/4 Finn 3/4 Swedish now appears.

At 2GPs same top 5 but now have a match to someone who is half Swedish half Norwegian.

At 1GP same top 5 but now have a match to someone who is Danish/American/Swedish/Swedish-would love to know about them as the amount they share would make them 4th-5th cousins!!!

There are some Polish matches which seem to overlap-in one place there are two matches and they describe their Grandparents as Polish/Polish/Israel/Romania and Poland/Poland/Ukraine/Ukraine the other matches in a different place are Poland/Poland/Unknown/Unknown (half Jewish) who overlaps with an American who is English/Italian/Polish. I wonder if we all share Polish ancestors from way back as that seems to be the common country?

There is also a 7th cousin who is half southern Slavic half unknown but was born in Croatia...not sure about the migrations of the southern Slavs...I wonder if they settled in places like Hungary and mixed with central Europeans?

Friday 12 November 2010

Relative Finder/Ancestry Finder update

There is always hope when people who don't come from melting pot country's accept your invitation! All matches (unless made public) are anonymous, usually just giving haplogroups so you don't know where these cousins come from until they accept.
Well a 5th cousin from Denmark has accepted and a 7th cousin who is Swedish/Finn! So there now seems to be some Scandinavian in the mix! Sweden is 3rd highest match on Ancestry Finder for all 4 Grandparents and there is a 50% Norwegian 50% Swedish match at 2+ Grandparents.

The Danish surname is remarkably like the family surname of my unknown ancestor too...
I wonder if there is a Baltic conection....I noticed that a 4th cousin who is 1/4 Baltic German matches in the same region with other people of German or Jewish ancestry on HIR search. The people on HIR search were the equivalent of 5th-10th cousins. The Swedes lived in Latvia, the Danes in Estonia, the Germans in Latvia together with the Jews. And this is quite weird, because the analysis at Eurogenes suggested Polish and/or Baltic ancestry!!
Incedentally, the 5th cousin who is Hungarian/Romanian matches with Poles and Lithuanians.