DNA Testing

Both my parents have taken Autosomal DNA tests with Family Tree DNA (called Family Finder). I have also uploaded their results to MyHeritage and GEDmatch. The batch numbers on GEDmatch are T859221 for my father and T851709 for my mother. My father, my maternal aunt and I have also taken Ancestry DNA tests.

On my family tree website, people with a symbol have a verified DNA connection to me.

DNA testing has helped me in the following ways:

  1. breaking down brick walls e.g. Finding my great-great-grandfather

But it has also created more issues:

  1. Is James Dagnell really my 2xg grandfather? I have no DNA matches to descendants of any of his siblings, nor Dagnell/Duignan matches further back. But I do have lots of matches to people with the surname Knight in their tree, from the Boyounagh/Glenamaddy area in Galway.
  2. Is John Tandy really my 2xg grandfather? I have DNA matches to Amelia Tandy's siblings, and to her mother Mary Ann Bryan's family, but none to her putative father John Tandy. I am leaning towards Amelia's father being one of the sons of Job Hough of Hampton Lucy.
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