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My husband's Dad was in WW2 and wrote love letters back to his future wife. She saved them in the envelopes. Hubs has them now.
Don't know how you could remove the stamps, but wonder if DNA could still be taken from that? Maybe you can search around for something like that?
There is a company called ToTheLetterDNA that will DNA test from stamps, but it's very expensive and located in Australia. Do not remove the stamp, they will cut a square from it without removing it - it's the very fact that the DNA has been trapped and preserved in the adhesive between two pieces of paper that it's even possible to do this.
MyHeritage and LivingDNA both had this in the works at one point but it appears they abandoned it.
One odd thing I noticed with several of my close matches was that their totals did not equal 100%. Very strange. We are all heavily ethically mixed and have a bunch - maybe 8 or more regions listed.
The grayed out areas that show what regions you don't share with your match are incomplete. Hopefully it's a short term glitch.
One odd thing I noticed with several of my close matches was that their totals did not equal 100%. Very strange. We are all heavily ethically mixed and have a bunch - maybe 8 or more regions listed.
The grayed out areas that show what regions you don't share with your match are incomplete. Hopefully it's a short term glitch.
Ancestry DNA has several options that allow you to limit what DNA matches see in your profile. It's possible that you are only able to see the ethnicities that you have in common with some of your matches.
One odd thing I noticed with several of my close matches was that their totals did not equal 100%. Very strange. We are all heavily ethically mixed and have a bunch - maybe 8 or more regions listed.
The grayed out areas that show what regions you don't share with your match are incomplete. Hopefully it's a short term glitch.
It's not a glitch, everyone has the option to set their ethnicity results to either:
"Your DNA matches can see your full ethnic regions and Genetic Communitiesâ„¢."
OR
"Your DNA matches can only see the portion of your ethnic regions and Genetic Communitiesâ„¢ they have in common with you."
So any DNA match that has selected the latter option, you are only seeing the results you share with them. Any regions they have results in, which you don't, you don't get to see.
My husband's Dad was in WW2 and wrote love letters back to his future wife. She saved them in the envelopes. Hubs has them now.
Don't know how you could remove the stamps, but wonder if DNA could still be taken from that? Maybe you can search around for something like that?
Your hub is very lucky to have the letters. As PA2UK says, it's expensive right now. It will eventually get cheaper. My DNA match is keeping her eyes open for if My Heritage does do this. Hopefully in the next 3 years it will get cheaper. Prices always come down. I remember when 23 and me 1st started, it was like $250 to do your DNA.
I think I have my dads old glasses, I may even have his dentures which would be a DNA gold mine because they weren't put in cleaner. They would have been taken out of his mouth and put directly into their container. I went into the basement to do a quick look, the box I thought had stuff like his dentures doesn't. I have a clear container that I see has his glucose meter box and a few other product boxes. Will have to look later because it will drive me nuts lol I have clothes of his but unfortunately I'm pretty sure they were all washed.
Taken directly from their site, I guess they spell artifact different in Australia...
Artefacts include envelopes, postcard with stamp/s or aerogrammes, as well as hair, razors, spectacles and other items.
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There is a company called ToTheLetterDNA that will DNA test from stamps, but it's very expensive and located in Australia. Do not remove the stamp, they will cut a square from it without removing it - it's the very fact that the DNA has been trapped and preserved in the adhesive between two pieces of paper that it's even possible to do this.
MyHeritage and LivingDNA both had this in the works at one point but it appears they abandoned it.
I also see that ToTheLetterDNA has DNA banking for funeral directors. They take the DNA directly from the deceased. I'm thankful I did my kids grandmothers before they passed because my daughters grandmother passed away the other day, a few months shy of 91. I was going to buy her a 23 and me test if the health went for $99 again on Black Friday. At one time her daughter had ordered a 23 and me test for her, I'll have to ask her if she ever took did it. She was interested to see if MIL was a Cystic Fibrosis carrier, I ended up doing Promethease, told her to cancer her order. MIL did carry the CF gene.
Ancestry DNA has several options that allow you to limit what DNA matches see in your profile. It's possible that you are only able to see the ethnicities that you have in common with some of your matches.
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Originally Posted by PA2UK
It's not a glitch, everyone has the option to set their ethnicity results to either:
"Your DNA matches can see your full ethnic regions and Genetic Communitiesâ„¢."
OR
"Your DNA matches can only see the portion of your ethnic regions and Genetic Communitiesâ„¢ they have in common with you."
So any DNA match that has selected the latter option, you are only seeing the results you share with them. Any regions they have results in, which you don't, you don't get to see.
Thanks guys makes sense. But prior to the changes I was able to see everything with the areas of difference being grayed out. I can still see the grayed out areas but their totals do not equal 100%, I'm thinking of two matches specifically who I know personally, they're my first cousins. They have not been on to update any settings. So that's the odd part.
Thanks guys makes sense. But prior to the changes I was able to see everything with the areas of difference being grayed out. I can still see the grayed out areas but their totals do not equal 100%, I'm thinking of two matches specifically who I know personally, they're my first cousins. They have not been on to update any settings. So that's the odd part.
If their ethnicity report hasn't been updated yet, that could be why.
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My wife got her Black DNA "back". It showed on the initial results, then was removed on the first update. On update #3 is now has 1% Black and 1% Jewish. Main odd thing on my update is the 0% Welsh. I get 17% Scottish and 6% Irish but no Welsh? My paternal line and quite a few other lines are Welsh. Meanwhile DNA has always shown a small amount of Finnish.
My wife got her Black DNA "back". It showed on the initial results, then was removed on the first update. On update #3 is now has 1% Black and 1% Jewish. Main odd thing on my update is the 0% Welsh. I get 17% Scottish and 6% Irish but no Welsh? My paternal line and quite a few other lines are Welsh. Meanwhile DNA has always shown a small amount of Finnish.
When you say "black" do you mean a specific region in Africa?
Regarding the English/Irish/Scottish thing, it appears that that's been a big change. Lots of people's backgrounds in that area have changed.
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When you say "black" do you mean a specific region in Africa?
Regarding the English/Irish/Scottish thing, it appears that that's been a big change. Lots of people's backgrounds in that area have changed.
Wife has consistently had South Central / Congo show up in the 1% range. 1st update removed it, first and latest showed it.
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