It’s an amazing game, but 12 innings is a lot

Sigh! I suppose this leaves me no way to skip cleaning today.

My journeys are good: South West Munster, West Cork, South Central Cork, Northern Spain.

I'm still shaking my head at the ethnicity results, specifically Leinster and SE and NE England. My English all seems to come from NW England. And I have no known Leinster. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The English is the right % although the region isn't; the ancestors I have traced to England were from NW England.

My Germanic is mostly Southern: Baden and Switzerland, but I also have North-Rhine.

I have France, but it's Alsace. It should be around 17.1875%

YMMV.

I didn't expect a cluster for my paternal grandfather. He was an immigrant from Spain, and there are very few Spaniards who take AncestryDNA tests. I have matched one man who seems to be from his side of the family, but one match does not a cluster make.

Second, I'm catching up on data entry for some completed research, and I tried to update FindMyPast.

And it was down.

Clearly not my day, genealogy-wise.

But I've been adding and updating info since then.

So I asked if they had a report that would tell me what changes I'd made since then. Answer: NOPE.

Luckily I use other software that has such a report, and I used that and Evernote to recreate those updates.

The North Italian, South Italian, and Sardinian? I have no idea. My Spanish is from the northwest of Spain - not near Italy. And nothing else is further south than Basel, Switzerland.

The Donegal is maybe the Scottish, but that seems unlikely because (1) it's way too much - should be 12.5%, and my Donegal people were Catholic so less likely to be of Scottish ancestry.

The French, Germanic, and Dutch add up to MUCH less than my French, German, and Swiss.

The English is also quite a lot less than I expected, so maybe some of the Scottish and Welsh is really English?

The Spanish is identified as Asturias which in correct. But the percentage is much too little - the immigrant is very recent - my grandfather.

If I include the Portuguese, it's pretty close to correct. And the western part of Asturias is pretty close to Portugal - at least as the crow flies.

The updated estimate:
* Irish 28.4%
* Scottish and Welsh 22.9%
* Portuguese 12.9%
* Spanish, Catalan and Basque 11.7%
* English 4.6%
* French 4.6%
* Breton 3.8%
* North Italian 3.6%
* Germanic 2.4%
* Dutch 2.3%
* Sardinian 1.4%
* South Italian 1.4%

Based on the groups, the Irish is all Cork.

There is another George W. Chilson in Stueben County during this timeframe which is even further from Ticonderoga. I'm going to have to separate these two men out. Some trees appear to have their facts and children mixed up. Go figure!

his purported father moved that far in the late 1700s or early 1800s. But one much check. The source of the supposed father appears to be an SAR application which has zero supporting documentation. Color me skeptical.