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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Saturday 16 March 24 14:27 GMT (UK)  »
That "we are all related to each other after about 6 generations back", for instance if someone from Essex met someone in Scotland, you "Will find you are distantly related no further than 6 generations away". That is another myth that has been debunked.


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The Lighter Side / Re: Family stories rooted in some truth.
« on: Friday 15 March 24 12:58 GMT (UK)  »
My 5xgreat gran was born in 1765 in London to a father who was one of the last Huguenot immigrants, and a London born mother of full Huguenot heritage. Yet I never heard of any family stories of French blood in the tree. My maternal gran died before I was born, she died suddenly aged 50 so may have known about her French blood, I am not sure.

I was always told that her mother met her Durham born father in London and that story proved to be true.




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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Problems...
« on: Friday 15 March 24 12:10 GMT (UK)  »
Yes I have been having a few glitches on Ancestry such as the bad gateway message and "page no long available" etc.
One quite specific problem that has arrived in the past month or so, is on the search page - if you change the date, and try and set a range i.e. +/-5 years, it will consistently ignore you, and simply search for that date, the first time, second time it works, very annoying. It will also refuse to remove places you have put in other boxes, say you had a place in the Any box, then changed to the Born in box, it won't remove the other one first time ???.

Oh yes, and I get swamped with irrelevant American and Australian results when I keep saying to focus on "UK and Ireland".

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Can I ask what your documented great grandfather did for a living, and where he was in late 1900/early 1901? Could he have been working away at the time of your grandfather's conception?

My documented GGF was a Hotel Broker, but at other times a Clerk in a hotel, Hotel Waiter in older age closer to his death in 1903 I think.
 A farm/Ag. labourer in his youth.

It is unknown where he was on 31st March 1901 when NSW had a Census. His wife is named at their address 22 Waterview St, Balmain and the number of males & females suggests he and his daughter from the previous marriage were not present.

In 1891 he was on that Census as JS Gregory at 6 Batty St, Balmain and number of males & females suggests all present at that time 2M[ales] he & baby son born 1890 and 2F[emales] his wife and daughter from previous marriage.

I believe John Samuel Gregory may have taken his daughter to find the culprit responsible for her condition and he perhaps believed himself responsible for his wife's condition, not sure. He was the informant on my Grandfather's birth registration though, and I believe either way only the husband's name could go on the birth record no matter who the biological father was claimed to be.

I would love to know his whereabouts at conception but I think he would have been in Sydney although there were celebrations happening in other capital cities including Brisbane. B

Him being a Hotel Broker for a fair period in his career makes me feel he may have had an association with the family from Nth Queensland and the MRCA [most recent common ancestor] the father of the DNA matches Ancestors [all siblings] on that side owned a hotel and drank himself to death apparently - his wife took on the Hotel Licence after that. They were Neils Christian DAHL 1840-1900  and Ellen Marie (Marion) Nielsen 1842-1924.

It is likely he may have worked away from home at times, even as a hotel waiter or was visiting people in Queensland for certain amounts of time, and may have been doing so around the time of conception of your grandfather, and at the 1901 Australian census.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Problems...
« on: Thursday 14 March 24 12:33 GMT (UK)  »
Yes I have been having a few glitches on Ancestry such as the bad gateway message and "page no long available" etc.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Marrying your dead wife’s sister
« on: Wednesday 13 March 24 16:35 GMT (UK)  »
I just found out my 3xgreat grandfather's half brother William Warden Walder (same father from his 2nd marriage) married in 1877 and his first wife died and he married his first wife's sister in 1887. She died in 1929 and he in 1933.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA in the current EastEnders story.
« on: Wednesday 13 March 24 16:33 GMT (UK)  »
I do agree, the EastEnders DNA storyline is sloppily researched. There was a time in the 1980s when EastEnders did have some reality to it but in the past 25 year or so real life Londoners said EE is a total P take of the East End.


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The Lighter Side / Re: Family stories rooted in some truth.
« on: Tuesday 12 March 24 21:33 GMT (UK)  »
My paternal grandfather did mention an ancestor on his father's side who went abroad. I then found his 3xgreat grandfather was sent to Australia in 1791 for stealing a hog, so he must have heard the family story passed down the generations.

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Can I ask what your documented great grandfather did for a living, and where he was in late 1900/early 1901? Could he have been working away at the time of your grandfather's conception?


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