Ancestry/Genealogy

WePurrsevere

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2. Odd... Unfortunately you can't upload your raw data 'to' Ancestry...

Sun Nov 15, 2020, 09:13 AM

Nov 2020

you can only download it 'from' them. 23andMe is proprietary the same way.

Is there any chance you took the Ancestry test too and forgot about it or does a friend of family member have access to your Ancestry account? I'm trying to think of any other way they could have your data an coming up zip ATM.

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so, very strange. i got back into my ancestry account. [View all] mopinko Nov 2020 OP

Did any of your close family members upload the DNA? Chainfire Nov 2020 #1

nope. nobody has mine but me. mopinko Nov 2020 #3

oh- my sister took their test. mopinko Nov 2020 #7

Odd... Unfortunately you can't upload your raw data 'to' Ancestry... WePurrsevere Nov 2020 #2

nope. mopinko Nov 2020 #4

Are the names of close matches ones you know? WePurrsevere Nov 2020 #5

yup. mopinko Nov 2020 #6

To my knowledge Ancestry doesn't get DNA raw data WePurrsevere Nov 2020 #9

see above- my sister mopinko Nov 2020 #10

So your sister linked her DNA to your tree? Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2020 #11

no, they automatically mopinko Nov 2020 #12

Then I have the same question as you do - how? Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2020 #13

i didnt, tho. mopinko Nov 2020 #15

They don't Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2020 #14

Correct, as does MyHeritage but the data WePurrsevere Nov 2020 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Nov 2020 #8