Rain, bad buffet, thrift finds, & a new kind of family. Also my dog mourned her new friends like a Victorian widow 🐾❤️
Life is weird. We’re rolling with it.
🔗 linktr.ee/skylanarissa
#FoundFamily #AncestryDNA #CryptidDispatch #ServiceDog #SDIT #LunatheServiceDingo #DisabledCreator #ChronicIllness

https://dreamingofdragonscom.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/%f0%9f%97%9e%ef%b8%8f-tuesday-cryptid-dispatch-2/

🗞️ TUESDAY CRYPTID DISPATCH

A rainy appointment turns into a questionable buffet, a thrift store treasure hunt, and something much bigger: the quiet beginning of a new family. Somewhere between sticky floors, found relics, an…

The Crippled Cryptid.

Woke up this morning find #Ancestry are now only giving the initials of DNA matches on the match list.

Clowns.

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#AncestryDNA
#Geneadons

Found my dad at 31. Not dramatic. Just… quiet. 🧬🐾
Some stories don’t arrive. They’ve been there all along.
Read: linktr.ee/skylanarissa
#ChronicIllness #ServiceDog #AncestryDNA #Disability

https://dreamingofdragonscom.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/%f0%9f%97%9e%ef%b8%8f-tuesday-cryptid-dispatch/

🗞️ TUESDAY: Cryptid Dispatch

I didn’t take a DNA test to find my father. I took it looking for answers about my health, my history, the pieces of myself that never quite made sense. Instead, I found a name that had been there …

The Crippled Cryptid.

Found my dad through DNA… and I already knew him.
Same humor. Same chaos. Same everything.
It feels good. It hurts. It matters. 🖤🧬

linktr.ee/skylanarissa

#AncestryDNA #ChronicIllness #FoundFamily #LifeUpdate

https://dreamingofdragonscom.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/%f0%9f%aa%a6-cryptid-dispatch-2-door-3-was-a-person/

🪦 Cryptid Dispatch #2: Door #3 Was a Person

Door #3 wasn’t supposed to exist. But DNA doesn’t care about what’s convenient. I went looking for medical answers and found a man who didn’t run, didn’t deny it, and somehow already knew pieces of…

The Crippled Cryptid.

Found a third door in my family story thanks to a DNA test. Turns out the past sometimes knocks back. 🧬✨
Full story here: linktr.ee/skylanarissa
#AncestryDNA #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

https://dreamingofdragonscom.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/opening-the-envelope-dna-family-ghosts-and-an-unexpected-door/

Opening the Envelope: DNA, Family Ghosts, and an Unexpected Door

A DNA test was supposed to answer one question: who my father was. Instead, it opened a third door I didn’t know existed. This is the story of family history, unexpected connections, and what happe…

The Crippled Cryptid.

https://youtu.be/zny8I6flkR8?si=wzTHZXNwXEYNLoqj

#AncestryDNA

The popular mathematician Hannah Fry did a DNA test ... And explains what's what, so so clearly.

Yes it is an advert.

And yes it's really good!

#FamilyHistory

An Irish Revelation: Tracing My Family’s Roots | The Infinite Explorer with Hannah Fry | Ancestry

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#AncestryDNA rollt gerade das neue Ethnizitäts-Update aus. Habt ihr eures schon bekommen? Was hat sich bei euch geändert? Überraschungen, Verschiebungen, neue Regionen?

#EthnizitätsUpdate #DNA #Ahnenforschung #Genealogie

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#AncestryDNA

I've just noticed something really odd in Ancestry DNA. I can see two DNA tests ... My own and a friend's.

If you do a DNA surname search for "Lord" in DNA matches trees it pulls up ALL our matches, including matches with no trees at all. This happens with my matches and my friend's.

How weird is that!

I am actually looking for matches with that surname :((

@PostcardsFromParadise

Yes, the longest segment I share with my matches has been on Ancestry since before I did my DNA test.

I use the ProTools add on which showed the total amount matches shared with each other from the outset, about this time last year???, but it left blank the largest segment my matches shared with each other. It's only very recently that the largest segment information between other people started to appear.

Perhaps only a matter of days ago.

#AncestryDNA
#FamilyHistory

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#FamilyHistory

I have just spotted (in past few minutes) that Ancestry #ProTools listings of DNA shared between cousin matches also now show the longest segment DNA cM amount when you click on the (blue) suggested relationship line.

The first version of ProTools showed only the total amount of DNA our matches shared with each other & left the "longest segment" space empty. Now the amount appears.

Strongly suspect this is the "unweighted" amount, whatever "Unweighted" means here.