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Good afternoon

My male cousin would like to take aDNA test.  As said our mothers were identical twins.  I know who our maternal Grandmother is after many years of research, ie paper trail, and luckily finding our Grandmother had a child 5 years before the twins (different father) , and I found 2 cousins from that child's marriage who confirmed the story of twins.

We have photo's now of our Grandmother, and I have a good paper trail for her, so I am able to trace that line back to our Grt grandparents and slightly further so have a good idea of where they came from, London, Middlesex, Buckinghamshire and Ireland.   My cousins and I will show differences in DNA, as my father was from Scotland, and his was from Suffolk.

We know nothing about our Mother's Father, as on the twins BC it is blank for father.  I haven't been able to find any evidence, although with the 1921 census the twins are in a different workhouse  to the one they were born in , in London.  I researched the workhouse where they were born at LMA but they had little records for that period 1920, but this new workhouse has more records for that period, so looks like a trip to LMA again.

My cousins Grandson recently had a DNA test which showed German/Jewish.

My cousin has asked me to help with the DNA.   I know very little about testing, even though I have tried researching about it, but I think I will be guiding him towards one or 2 of the well known sites.  I presume it will be an autosomal test, but if we wanted to go further later which test would be more specific for our own mothers father.  I do know about the y-dna & M-dna, but still a little confused.

Thank you for reading, and if anyone could help explaining that would be appreciated.

Thank you very much John

Jeanette

Thank you Max, very helpful.

Jeanette

Hi today my cousin asked if I had found out anymore about her paternal grandfather as she had been asked 'what did he in do WW1', and the family know nothing except he served in France.

The chap in question is Frederick James Friend born 1879 in (Wickham) Suffolk.  I believe I have found him with the Suffolk regiment with the regimental number 9380.  I believe this number to be from when he joined up (unknown date) but is with Suffolk Regiment on the 1901 census and is at the Regiment depot in Ipswich.  He marries in 1903 and is not in the army in 1911.

From WW1  Medal index  cards, Suffolk Regiment is noted and reg number 9380, also listed is that he is a pioneer with the Royal Engineers with reg number 34894.  From the medal and award rolls where he is listed as Fredk J Friend with the same reg numbers his rank is A/Cpl .  Frederick received the British War Medal and the  Vctory medal

This is all I have military wise and I have access to both well known genealogy sites  and have gone through them with a fine toothcomb .  There are no other military records I can see for him.

I know which Suffolk Battalions were in France, but I don't know which one he was with and if he even was with The Suffolks.  Would he have gone out with the Suffolks and then transferred to RE or just served with RE.  Is the regimental number any use to me in research as I have been looking this evening to find out which regiment it was issued to, but can't find anything.

It would be nice for my cousins family if I could find out which battalion he served with as I could give them information from the War Diaries.


Many thanks if anyone can help would be greatly appreciated.

Jeanette