Actually, thinking about it, the grands ought not be 50% -- their mamma contributed DNA and ancestry too and none of hers is India ...
I *did* discover the hard way that in order for this report to "identify" a country, you have to have the right number of , before the present-day country-name. The correct number appears to be 3. ;) Cheryl singhals wrote: > Paula -- > > Yes, using "only oldest" Northern Ireland didn't show up. > > Yep, I'm sure I had my son highlighted as the target. When > I hi-lighted any of the grands, India showed as 50% -- as I > expected it to do with my son. > > I don't know whether that's deliberate or a bug, but either > way, it's odd. > > Cheryl > > Paula Ryburn wrote: >> Cheryl, >> So, Northern Ireland did not show up? Which is correct, right? >> But you were expecting India to show up? Are you sure you >> selected your son as the target person& not yourself? >> Can you select your husband as target person& see if India >> shows up for him? >> I wonder if Legacy just doesn't recognize India?? (that >> makes no sense) >> --Paula >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* singhals<[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Friday, December 5, 2014 9:31 AM >> *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Origins Report revisited >> >> Mornin', Paula. Oddly, yours is the only response. >> >> Please wait ... Testing ... There's still something wrong. >> >> With "only oldest" and 7 generations selected, I get his >> origins as VA, WV, PA, and MD. All true ON MY SIDE. No >> mention of the other half of his origins (India). >> >> At 9 generations and still only oldest, I get USA, England, >> and Germany. Again India is missing. >> >> At 12 gens, all origins are England. At 13 gens it finds no >> recognizable places >> >> Odd. >> >> Cheryl >> >> >> >> Paula Ryburn wrote: >> > Cheryl, I don't know if you received responses on this post, >> > but you could try to track down the Northern Ireland >> > ancestor but runnin successive Origins Reports, with your >> > son selected. Set "Origin Scope" to the third choice, >> > "only... oldest generation". Then look back (say) 2 >> > generations. Preview. Northern Ireland flag showing? No... 3 >> > generations, then 4 generations... keep looking back >> > generation by generation until Northern Ireland shows up. >> > Then take a look at those folks for clues. (use pedigree >> > chart from your son back to that generation...? or pedigree >> > view) >> > >> > The report shows just what I suspected for my daughter's >> > ancestry, both in the "only... oldest" setting and in the >> > "all ancestors" setting (accumulation of generations). >> --Paula >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------ >> > *From:* singhals<[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> > *To:* [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> > *Sent:* Monday, November 17, 2014 1:41 PM >> > *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Origins Report revisited >> > >> > I didn't want to start a discussion sure to provide heat >> > just before I scooted out of town for a month, so I'm >> > backtracking here to what Brian quoted in the discussion on >> > Ethnicity back in early October. >> > >> > >> split apart for centuries. Legacy can gather all the >> > >> ancestral birth >> > >> places in your family file and let you know what >> > >> percentage of each >> > >> nationality makes up your heritage." >> > >> > >> > >> > I'm puzzled by just exactly what that report is gathering. >> > >> > I ran an Origins report on my son. I was quite surprised to >> > learn he has/had an ancestor from Northern Ireland. >> > >> > So I did a search on Individual> birthplace> contains >> > "Ireland" and got two hits. Both the hits for an Irish >> > birthplace are in fact part of the family -- but are NOT one >> > of his ancestors. One person is the 5ggf of my uncle's >> > ex-son-in-law. The other is the brother of an ancestor of >> > my GM's brother's wife. More, neither of them specify >> > "Northern" Ireland, all I have is "Ireland". Even if both >> > of them were born before Northern Ireland officially split >> > off Ireland ... neither of them is in any way, shape, or >> > form an ancestor of my son's. >> > >> > Just sayin' ... >> > >> > Cheryl >> > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
