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Family Finder Test is a good starting point

Roberta Estes also has a number of concepts articles on her blog in addition that will help you come up to speed on testing, try searching with keywords like concepts and autosomal.

www.dna-explained.com

Family...

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It may be that their privacy settings aren't set correctly

I've seen several trees where the tester lists their name, and all their relatives are Private also.

Sometimes it is hard to get your privacy settings correct, you think everyone sees your tree, but if you don't...

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Learning more about ethnicity results

I think the origins usually take a day or so more than the matches. So it may be a general message, but it also aligns with what people have said in the forums.

In the meantime here are some articles on ethnicity and genetic testing....

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You've got the right family, I just looked up the marriage record and Samuel Haggan's address there looks like Dawson St.

The witnesses may be relatives, Maggy Hagen and William Stewart. Maggie could be sister or mother or aunt.

It was a Church of Ireland marriage, it looks...

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I would not wait to test your aunt and great aunts/uncles. Autosomal DNA, tested in Family Finder, has a different inheritance than YDNA. The YDNA reaches back much further because doesn't change much between generations, an occasional mutation, but often handed down unchanged. If you don't test the...

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Don't forget aunts and uncles or grand aunts and uncles--the first commandment of genetic genealogy is to test your oldest generation first.

The nice thing about FTDNA is they will store the sample for 25 years, so if you later want to test their mtDNA or YDNA you will have the sample...

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You are very welcome.

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Here are the URLs

Hi EskimoSpy,

www.DNAAdoption.com was the first one. The second one was GEDmatch.com

Roberta Estes has a blog I like, www.dna-explained.com where she posts about her relatives, I hope I one day know half that much about relatives!
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DNAAdoption.com may help you

Hi EskimoSpy,

I posted the info below on another thread, hopefully some of the folks who have been successful looking for their biological parents will post additional info.

It can be a waiting game, until a relative tests, they can't...

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DNAAdoption.com may help you

They have tools and methods that work for everyone, but are targeted to help those who were adopted and don't have much or any information on their parents.

They also have low cost classes to help you learn how; I think they have a series starting...

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GD=0 is worth pursuing, that is what you want

Hi Renegade,

An exact match, genetic distance of zero, with a full mitochondrial sequence (FMS) means that you and those GD=0 matches are on the same maternal line. Somewhere above you on your maternal line (your mother to grandmother...

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Irish RC records in Church of Ireland registers?

I have read that you should also look for RC records in Church of Ireland registers. Has anyone had success with that?

I had tried irishgenealogy.ie for the RC parish records but my parishes didn't seem to be covered.

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Sponsors in Parish records are often siblings or relatives

My understanding is that the sponsors in RC Parish records are often siblings of the parents, but can be other relatives, and I am sure there are some unrelated sponsors too.

My guess is that it would be unusual...

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Thank you Mattn!

I can definitely see the advantages in what you layout; it will facilitate a holistic approach to determining our ancestors and approaching matches. I don't plan on duplicating the YDNA surname projects, my admin knows what he is doing and is both very knowledgeable and...

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Are you looking only at your surname line?

Hi Ron,

Congratulations on finding your birth parents,that is great news. Did they share any information about their relatives?

What are your goals with testing? If you are looking for your surname ancestors, the...