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[Carpathian]

In most cases there are usually records or traces that remain. Finding them can be challenging and frustrating. Keep searching. Never give up your quest. ...

[Carpathian]

"I am the last of my Paternal line and have no-one else to DNA test"

So am I, in being the last male in my paternal line and having no siblings to test with. But I had parents who cared to some degree, and some distant cousins who knew our ancestry while my parents were still...

[Carpathian]

At what Cm. length?

So many relatives, so many chromosomes...

I'm wondering why you seem to be concentrated/fixated upon chr 14. What is it that are you trying to prove? Maternal vs. paternal line?...

[Carpathian]

This comes down to ethnicity vs. nationality. Understanding that difference requires knowledge of the historical civilization of Western Europe - and beyond that, depending on the time frame, that of what came before it, of the earlier civilization of the world at large.

Genealogy embraces...

[Carpathian]

Last night the "in common with" tool wasn't working at that time. But it is working now. Technical glitches abound. Sometimes they come and go, like gremlins.

Apparently we who participate on GG websites are expected to accept service disruptions without voicing complaint. In...

[Carpathian]

I didn't think there were any "secrets" involved in this, but you may be right. If we wait long enough, the person contacted or their progeny might have no interest in responding, or they themselves might eventually die. So might you or I or anyone die while waiting for a response. Then that...

[Carpathian]

I have no comment on this, other than to say that posting links to blog sites of any opinion, can become provocative.

I will continue to question the intent or motives of anything that is posted, and of anyone who posts it, anywhere on any site, and at any time.

Questioning...

[Carpathian]

Words, indeed. Including this one:
"perhaps"...

[Carpathian]

I followed all the steps you described and I got the same result. Since I have virtually no use for this supposedly 'new and improved' feature nor complaint about it, I can only say that the new format imposed is an insignificant issue (at least for me).

"Since I currently see the...

[Carpathian]

I'm very confused by what you are asking - or perhaps it is by the terms you are using that are not specific enough for me to understand the problem.


There are no profiles, Here they are called "matches". If you choose Chromosome Browser it essentially brings up your most...

[Carpathian]

I couldn't agree more. I've commented on this many times here.

Less than half my matches provide any surnames or locations. Considering that FTDNA as originally founded was committed toward attracting more serious devotees to genealogy than Ancestry now does, the lack of information provided...

[Carpathian]

Window dressing (chromosome painting) might be nice. Information (or merchandise) provided might be considered more important than window dressing.

This ia always the case with whatever drives retail marketing, both in the product and the window dressing. It's whatever sells the most. ...

[Carpathian]

I'm published as a traditional genealogist, and I don't consider myself an expert in genetic genealogy. But I have seen marriages resulting in double first cousins in relatively recent generations of my own family. They occur in endogamous societies and families - a lot. Undertaking an understanding...

[Carpathian]

Years ago there was Rootsweb. In places such as the UK there were (and probably still are) volunteers who will look up records in local parishes. That's much easier than having to go to England.

As for Italy, I had to make a trip there to find and access church and land records before 1800....

[Carpathian]

Traditional genealogy will forever be a puzzle for us to solve. And detective work still pertains. ;-)...