DNA survey - please respond

A very interesting project - just read about it in the newsletter. Here is my contribution, for what it's worth. My expected main county of Lancashire came out top (in the revised spreadsheet, in the original one it was halfway down) and also I reached the 40 page cut-off for that county so it would be even more dominant. Strangely Cheshire and Oxfordshire came 2nd and 3rd despite me not having any known ancestors from there, and Hertfordshire and Leicestershire are much lower than expected (23rd and 27th), but Yorkshire and Derbyshire are high up (at 4th and 7th) as might be expected from my 3x great grandparents' origins as below:
Lancashire: 12
Leicestershire: 3
Derbyshire: 2
Hertfordshire: 2
Yorkshire: 2
Bedfordshire: 1
Cambridgeshire: 1
Essex: 1
Huntingdonshire: 1
Middlesex: 1
Norfolk: 1
Rutland: 1
Unknown: 2 (probably Yorkshire)
Ireland: 2

 

I've completed the spreadsheet but I can't work out how to attach it to my post?

 

Same here!

 

I have sent by email.

I have no paper trail to Lancashire nor Yorkshire but receive a high no of hits for these counties (18 pgs/40k and 21 pgs/44k). Nearly half of all my ancestors (30 out of 64) come from Surrey and I get 16 pgs/18k of hits.

 

Eureka! I now have the "Upload a File" button.

 

OK, that's fine. I have sent my file by email.

 

Yes, I think you are right about county boundaries, especially Lancs/Cheshire. I also have ancestors close to the Rutland/Leics/Northants borders which may have skewed the figures there, and my Herts ancestors are from Tring, not far from Oxfordshire and Bucks borders.

 

My first post to the forum, fingers crossed that this works.

My results attached, including 3xGs.

No surprises with Berkshire at the top (God's Own County), but I was surprised that Bucks was so far down, especially as I have no ancestry in some of the counties above it, eg Yorks.

Lord knows where Kent comes into this!

 

Sorry folks - couldn't attach my results.

I don't get the upload file button, despite Peter working away for me in the background, and 8 posts to the sandbox.

Anyway Peter has had my spreadsheet by email.

 

Thanks for this. My spreadsheet is attached.

 

My revised results attached. Glos (Bristol) and Devon could be influenced by family movements from and to Somerset respectively.

In order with 3xG numbers.
1 Somerset 7
2 Wiltshire 9
4 Gloucestershire 1
5 Devon 2
20 Oxfordshire 2
25 Leicestershire 3
38 Nottinghamshire 1

Unknown English county 3
Wales (Carms + Glam) 2
Names unknown (Wales, high probability Glam) 2

Phil

 

Thanks for fixing my Upload a file problem.

Here are my results (figures in brackets are number of 'Best Guesses' in the total):

Warwickshire 11(1)
Staffordshire 4(1)
Devon 4(0)
Worcestershire 2(0)
Shropshire 2(0)
Herefordshire 2(0)
Middlesex 2(2)
Lancashire 1(0)
Yorkshire 1(0)

Ireland 2(2)
Wales 1(0)

 

I hadn't considered that, but it is quite possible and may well explain why Kent is so inexplicably high in the chart, They were in Holborn in 1800 but born 25 years earlier. Thanks.