AncestryDNA has gone nuts with NADs. The sad part is they just can't be trusted for anything useful in some cases aka false NAD matches.
So Larry you ask how do you know this outrageous fact. Hint here dear reader, I've tested both my parents and if they do not have those NADs that I have they can't be real right? Remember that Ancestry made a big deal about the fact that those of us who also tested our parents have had our results phased with their test to produce more accurate results and get rid of false positives - right!
So let me illustrate dear reader. Here are the current crop of NADs (they put a whole bunch on the street earlier this week).
Larry Van Horn 17 NADs (the son)
Elisabeth Defeld (1819-1901)* Maternal
Virginie Devillier (1821-1878)
Jane Dunlap (1811-1873)* Paternal
Elinor Henson (1787-1873)* Paternal
Faustin Hollier (1812-1876)
Berryman Isom Jones (1820-1896)* Paternal
John Doyle Lee (1812-1877)
John Lynch (1778-1863)* Paternal
Warren Lafayette Lynch (1839-1916)
Jeremiah Meek (1806-1856)* Paternal
Jeremiah V Meek (1818-1893)
Johann Peter Meuth (1809-1857)
Margaretha Meuth (1843-1910)* Maternal
Frank Seidel (1827-1893)* Maternal
Elizabeth Vest (1820-1897)
Lueticia Ward (1845-1883)
Licenia Watkins (1824-1909)* Paternal
My Father 35 NADs
Henry C Begley (1792-1854)
Levi Brookshire (1830-1916)
John Laddie Bullock (1844-1926)
Peter Richard Clement (1840-1914)
Henry Heslip Davis (1849-1931)
Emma D. Dixon (1839-1909)
Jane Dunlap (1811-1873)
Alfred Dye (1842-1918)
Francis Kincannon Elliott (1813-1884)
James Millard Gilliland (1856-1939)
Laura Emma Hall (1860-1932)
Elinor Henson (1787-1873)
Adah Belle Higby (1853-1925)
Berryman Isom Jones (1820-1896)
Nicie Elizabeth Kinnaird (1859-1925)
Anne Friedericke Kock (1827-1894)
Reuben Layton (1836-1892)
Louisa Jane Long (1840-1933)
Eliza Clementine Lynch (Born 1873)
John Lynch (1778-1863)
Jonathan Brooks May (1857-1923)
Jessie Alexander Mayhall (1835-1912)
Lucy Jane McAleer (1856-1933)
Jeremiah Meek (1806-1856)
Mary Cordelia Meek (1847-1928)
Eliza Ann Plaster (1839-1915)
Elizabeth Roberts (1792-1837)
Mary Elizabeth Selvage (1859-1947)
Morgan Joseph Smith (1834-1911)
Johann Heinrich Staack (1817-1894)
Licenia Watkins (1824-1909)
Elisabeth "Lizzie" Yeilding (1852-1884)
My Mother 14 NADs
Elisabeth Defeld (1819-1901)
Ruben Theodore "Fred" Farthing (1854-1932)
Faithia Futrell (1808-1887)
Green Berry McCormick (1848-1930)
Johann Peter Meuth (1809-1857)
Margaretha Meuth (1843-1910)
Levi William Pitts (1838-1880)
Martha Jane Prater (1837-1930)
Frank Seidel (1827-1893)
Rebecca Singleton (1850-1912)
James Storm (1786-1863)
Telitha Surginer (1842-1912)
James Vaughn (1804-1857)
James Vinson (1804-1884)
And the results? Eight of the NADs I have nearly 50% are not shared with either of my parents.
Not good for someone's test that has been supposedly phased with his parents AncestryDNA tests.
BTW I am also working up a list of false matches that I still have even after AncestryDNA's new phasing algorithm. That isn't looking so good either.
AncestryDNA is not having a good week in my eyes for sure.
