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The genetic groups were a huge success, but as of now probably the greatest thing that My Heritage can do for people is update their "Ethnicity Estimate" database. That's the one they're avoiding.
Some families have lots of children. The youngest could be 25 years different in age than the eldest, this is virtually a generation difference. Can this tool take that into account when matching relationships ?
Knowing the cause of death of the siblings of our ancestors is very important. If I had known my grandfather's brother died of a heart condition at age 5, it would have given us a heads-up to check for infant or childhood heart disease.
I still prefer the old way. Then I would like to know why my Heritage at one stage deleted some of my personal entries on my home Heritage tree, it took me many moons to gather this information and my Heritage just wiped it out. I am a pensioner and cannot afford your plan, for this reason, I need to keep my Home Heritage tree private
I had uploaded another kit this week and was actually considering a subscription to MH until they made these changes. A 'removed' relationship between matches is legitimate term of reference in this field so that's what I expect to see.... my relationship to a match 3C1R, not 'my parent's 3rd cousin's daughter'. Yes, 'generations removed' is hard to explain but it is what it is and some things can't be simplified any further. Sadly IMO this change seems to be a step backwards.
I looked up multiple distant cousins in the Cm Solver and the MRCA was totally wrong. The tool needs more work. Don't take my word just test known distant connections.
The cm Explainer gives you the percetage or likelihood for how you and your matches could be related. The MRCA is based on percentages as well. It doesn't give you the exact MRCA, but the likelihood of which ancestor that MRCA is.
In every case the real MRCA was the tiny percent not the predicted 30-40-ish percentile. So far it's failed on the 5 distant connections I tested. I even have correct ages.
Maybe it's simply not reliable for more distant connections like 4th and 5th cousins because too many variables. I already know everyone closer than those. I think i need to do a page on my Rootsweb account and simply show the results. My pages often show in top search results.
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Re "Cause of Death": There's no requirement to use the pre-selected items; you can just type anything you want.
The genetic groups were a huge success, but as of now probably the greatest thing that My Heritage can do for people is update their "Ethnicity Estimate" database. That's the one they're avoiding.
Some families have lots of children. The youngest could be 25 years different in age than the eldest, this is virtually a generation difference. Can this tool take that into account when matching relationships ?
Knowing the cause of death of the siblings of our ancestors is very important. If I had known my grandfather's brother died of a heart condition at age 5, it would have given us a heads-up to check for infant or childhood heart disease.
I still prefer the old way. Then I would like to know why my Heritage at one stage deleted some of my personal entries on my home Heritage tree, it took me many moons to gather this information and my Heritage just wiped it out. I am a pensioner and cannot afford your plan, for this reason, I need to keep my Home Heritage tree private
I had uploaded another kit this week and was actually considering a subscription to MH until they made these changes. A 'removed' relationship between matches is legitimate term of reference in this field so that's what I expect to see.... my relationship to a match 3C1R, not 'my parent's 3rd cousin's daughter'. Yes, 'generations removed' is hard to explain but it is what it is and some things can't be simplified any further. Sadly IMO this change seems to be a step backwards.
I looked up multiple distant cousins in the Cm Solver and the MRCA was totally wrong. The tool needs more work. Don't take my word just test known distant connections.
The cm Explainer gives you the percetage or likelihood for how you and your matches could be related. The MRCA is based on percentages as well. It doesn't give you the exact MRCA, but the likelihood of which ancestor that MRCA is.
In every case the real MRCA was the tiny percent not the predicted 30-40-ish percentile. So far it's failed on the 5 distant connections I tested. I even have correct ages.
There is a tool called What are the odds that can help with that!
@@lisaholmblad2831 Yes i use that a lot.
Maybe it's simply not reliable for more distant connections like 4th and 5th cousins because too many variables. I already know everyone closer than those. I think i need to do a page on my Rootsweb account and simply show the results. My pages often show in top search results.
Really? The cause of death feature is nearly useless as there are too few choices "Medical Problem", seriously!