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.
Paternal lines
Lines verified by DNA in green (number of matches as of 13 March 2024 in brackets).
| Joseph Eades (13) | Mary (13) | John Patchett (0) | Mary Pitman (0) | William Hipwell (0) | Unknown (0) | William Farn (7) | Mary Stacy (7) | Francis Barnett Shuttleworth (5) | Phoebe Gilbert (5) | Charles Todd Simson (3) | Mary Ann Brittain (3) | Edward Tandy (0) | Hannah Such (0) | Thomas Bryan (31) | Mary Evans (31) |
| Joseph Eades (5) | Harriet Patchett (5) | Benjamin Hipwell (27) | Ann Farn (27) | Thomas Paul Shuttleworth (14) | Emily Simson (14) | John Tandy (3) | Mary Ann Bryan (3) | ||||||||
| William Henry Eades (7) | Selina Hipwell (7) | Francis Edward Shuttleworth (0) | Amelia Tandy (0) | ||||||||||||
Maternal lines
Lines verified by DNA in green (number of matches as of 13 March 2024 in brackets).
| John Dagnell (0) | Catherine Johnston (0) | James Aldridge (13) | Sophia Bones (1) | Thomas Beech (6) | Emma Mason (6) | Henry Milner (1) | Elizabeth Jenkins (5) | Hugh South (2) | Sarah Adams (2) | Daniel Holtom (2) | Emma Wakefield (2) | Joseph Statham (1) | Mary Hall (1) | Thomas Owen (2) | Emma Turner (2) |
| James Dagnell (11) | Priscilla Bones (11) | George Beech (3) | Ellen Miller (4) | Robert Charles South (14) | Kate Holtom (14) | Samuel Statham (0) | Emma Owen (0) | ||||||||
| George Dagnell (5) | Alice Miller (5) | Ernest Charles South (0) | Fanny Statham (0) | ||||||||||||
Outcomes
DNA testing has helped me in the following ways:
- breaking down brick walls e.g. Finding my great-great-grandfather
- verifying connections e.g. David Eades of Galveston, and George Eades of Kansas
But it has also created more issues:
- 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.
- 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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