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Europe / Re: Where would I find out where a surname is from?
« on: Sunday 01 December 19 06:59 GMT (UK) »Does your DNA indicate any particular areas ?
See the attached pictures for my "ethnicity estimate". This is literally all I know.
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See the attached pictures for my "ethnicity estimate". This is literally all I know.
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Europe / Re: Where would I find out where a surname is from?
« on: Tuesday 12 November 19 18:06 GMT (UK) »I'm not sure whether it is the right person (because he would have been rather young when he immigrated), but there is a possible candidate on the NAA site that mentions that he's Yugoslavian. The file ("Alien registration documents") hasn't been digitised yet, so you'd have to pay to have that done or visit the Melbourne archives.
I may have to contact a friend in Melbourne to go to the archives for me! Thank you
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Europe / Re: Where would I find out where a surname is from?
« on: Tuesday 12 November 19 18:05 GMT (UK) »The surname is just an indication of where his family could have originated of course, as people moved around a lot.
You could enter it in to one of theses surname profilers:
https://isogg.org/wiki/Surname_mapping
but they obviously just gives the distribution of the surname not your biological father’s place of birth.
Something which may be useful for you would be a DNA test. If you also test your mother, if she is still living, or one of your mother’s siblings, then in theory any matches that you and your mother do not have in common, should come from your father’s side of the family. You may find a close enough match which will enable you to work out who your father was or find some of his relatives, but at the least you might get an idea of his origins.*
Do you know his first name? Do you have his death certificate or marriage certificate which may give further details about him?
Good luck.
* Added: I see from other threads that Cindy has already taken a DNA test.
I don't have any actual documents pertaining to his birth/death as he left Victoria for the Northern Territory quite a few years ago as far as I've been told, and nobody in my bio mother's side stayed in touch. I only found out he was dead when doing a newspaper search on Australian sites!
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Europe / Re: Where would I find out where a surname is from?
« on: Tuesday 12 November 19 17:56 GMT (UK) »I'm not sure whether it is the right person (because he would have been rather young when he immigrated), but there is a possible candidate on the NAA site that mentions that he's Yugoslavian. The file ("Alien registration documents") hasn't been digitised yet, so you'd have to pay to have that done or visit the Melbourne archives.
WOW!!! Thanks for this, was out all day and unable to reply. I had never seen this before. I no longer live in Melbourne (where I was born), I'm now in England so this info is amazing.
In the same line you see the name Slobodan which is probably the Yugoslavia connection
His middle name was Slobodan, so this is him. I was actually removed from my biological parents (Bob and, his wife then, Jenny) and by the age of 3 I was adopted. I have been in touch with family members on my biological mothers side (who I connected to through the DNA test I did), but due to a lack of info I had been unable to find anything about my biological father. I really do appreciate all the info/comments and possible routes of enquiry I can now look into.
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Europe / Where would I find out where a surname is from?
« on: Monday 11 November 19 21:39 GMT (UK) »
This may sound odd, but my biological father had an unusual surname and I have no idea where he was born. Does anyone know where I might be able to search for a possible origin?
His surname was SEREDIN. I've been told in the past that he was from Yugoslavia, but other than that I have no other information. I know he was born Apr 1947 and he died June 2019. IF anyone can point me in a direction for searching I'd be grateful
His surname was SEREDIN. I've been told in the past that he was from Yugoslavia, but other than that I have no other information. I know he was born Apr 1947 and he died June 2019. IF anyone can point me in a direction for searching I'd be grateful
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Essex / Re: William Hollingsworth marriage
« on: Wednesday 01 August 18 15:58 BST (UK) »Have you discounted this death
Deaths Dec 1913
Charles Hollingsworth age 65
Bromley 2a 622
with this probate to Henry Elam, Frederick Albert & Thomas Edwin Hollingsworth
https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=hollingsworth&yearOfDeath=1913&page=2#calendar
Hadn't even seen that one before! Wow, thanks rosie99
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Essex / Re: William Hollingsworth marriage
« on: Wednesday 01 August 18 15:45 BST (UK) »
That's what I was just thinking. The fun now is to find Charles' death and his parents marriage just to round it all out. Thanks again for the help. I'd been going round in circles for days 
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Essex / Re: William Hollingsworth marriage
« on: Wednesday 01 August 18 15:37 BST (UK) »
Cheers avm228, I'll keep on that track now, don't know why there had to be so many of them in the 1800's!!!
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Essex / Re: William Hollingsworth marriage
« on: Wednesday 01 August 18 15:26 BST (UK) »Have you looked at the next-door neighbour in the 1891 census: George Hollingsworth, 39, carman, born Thaxted? Perhaps this is Charles' brother?
RG12/633/83/31.
No, hadn't looked at that, but it's very likely to be a relative of some sort, there seem to be loads of Hollingsworth's in that area at the time