Gordon, after a lot of humming and hawing I finally did the Ancestry DNA test. Mostly I knew the people who were thrown up as matches but I have picked up a link to a line further back which confirms I have the correct family for my 2 x great grandfather which is great. The results in terms of origins is fascinating although it took a while to get my head round being Irish (33%) This is actually Celtic but Ireland has the best correlation being an island and less migrated to than Great Britain. Lot of Scandinavian (39%). Ancestry also match to your genetic community....funny that mine is Northern English!
One irritation though is the matches where people don't have a family tree, doesn't get you very far.
Thanks for the heads up on Gedmatch, I'll take a look.
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