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World War Two / Australian WW2 Patches and Ribbons
« on: Sunday 14 April 24 01:03 BST (UK)  »
This just appeared on my Facebook feed and I feel is too good not to share.

Are you familiar with the patches and ribbons used during World War II?

In ‘Australian Army Colour Patches & Ribbons of the Second World War’ you can learn about the meaning and significance of these items.

View the full book in Trove: https://brnw.ch/21wINcC

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The Common Room / Re: Battles and Commanders names used as forenames
« on: Sunday 07 April 24 09:21 BST (UK)  »
I have one in my tree born 1900.

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The Common Room / Re: Battles and Commanders names used as forenames
« on: Sunday 07 April 24 07:08 BST (UK)  »
I have a distant cousin with the middle name Messines.   
Also have a line who remembers a brother killed in WW1 who repeatedly use his name to this day.  Those children are told about him as they grow older.  Personally I think that is more appropriate than naming after commanders.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Identifying someone with a really large DNA match
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 09:06 GMT (UK)  »
Take a breath Lizzie.  Have you worked out broadly which side he belongs to, paternal or maternal.
My 4 half first cousins match me at 572, 514, 496 and 483, all on ancestry.  Same grandmother, different grandfathers.  From experience I know that numbers on My Heritage are bigger than on Ancestry so half first cousin would be reasonable to me.
It is a pain that you can’t email my heritage matches.  I suggest to look carefully and see if you can build or extend a tree.  Mind you finding the male responsible is a hard job, especially as in my case there were 5 possible brothers living in the area at time of conception.   

Added: don’t discount any on looks.  I look nothing like any of my half first cousins.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Identifying someone with a really large DNA match
« on: Monday 04 March 24 11:37 GMT (UK)  »
I was very excited to find a match of over 300cM on ancestry linked to my unknown biological grandfather.  Many attempts to work out the link were met with silence.  Eventually I dug around and started a tree for her having found out her parents.  Dug a bit more she had the same great grandparents as I, on one side, on the other they were her grandparents.  Toss that one out I can’t work out that.
Another good match I found on a different line had the same 4 X great grandparents as me.  Too large a match.  We compared out trees and found that three of our direct ancestors had siblings who had married into each others lines.  Small area and population.
Nothing is easy with this hobby!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 11:53 GMT (UK)  »
My mother thought both sides of her family were from Wales.  Not really.  Some that stayed in England on one side moved to Wales after my great grandparents came out to Australia. 
When you look at Ancestry’s interpretation of my DNA they include Keynsham, Somerset as part of Wales, hence I have a larger DNA sample attributed to Wales than is true. 
Her other grandparents did come from Wales

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Australia / Re: "The Somerset Years"
« on: Saturday 24 February 24 09:28 GMT (UK)  »
Spot on, thank you Bryan.  I didn’t know when the Joshua left England but have traced their movements after they landed through the births, and unfortunately many deaths of their 11 children.  I am descended from number 11, James Arthur James.  They were in Creswick in 1854 so now I need to work out if Alfred was one of the miners who marched from there to Eureka.  I’m patient, I will eventually get answers.
Alfred later became involved in setting up a school in Scarsdale.

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Australia / Re: "The Somerset Years"
« on: Friday 23 February 24 12:27 GMT (UK)  »
Ooh, now you have me intrigued.  My great grandparents Alfred James and Elizabeth Heale married in Bath in September 1851 and came to Australia on the Joshua, landing in February 1852.  I wonder if they or the voyage of the Joshua is mentioned. 

Oops, should have added they were from Keynsham, Somerset.

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Travelling People / Re: Anyone have these names in their ancestry?
« on: Sunday 21 January 24 12:19 GMT (UK)  »
I have Heale/Hale from Somerset in my tree. 

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