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I have my raw DNA profile as text file. There are thousands of lines relating to Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms i.e nucleotide pairs at each location on each chromosome. I have pasted in the format below:

rsid               chromosome    position     allele 1    allele2

rs190214723     1                 693625 T   T
rs3131972         1                 752721 G   G

I understand most of this except the rsid (Reference SNP cluster ID) number. Certain genes are specific to Royal Stewart ancestry S781 being an example.

How does that number relate to the rsid? Somehow I feel it is unlikely that simply searching the text file for the S781 sequence in the rsid is the way forward. Incidentally, I did that and got 780 hits.

Is the rsid simply a resource locator to allow access to further information.

Link to Shortwave Mag, Sept 1937. His callsign is mentioned on Page 32 as a contact with 2AAN in Tankerton, Kent.

https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Short-Wave-UK/30s/SWM-1937-09.pdf

There is now, and I think there has always been, a register of amateur radio operators in the UK. I know because I am an amateur radio operator.That register would give you his name, location and callsign. It is likely his callsign at that time might have commenced G2+2 letters or G3+2 letters or G5+ 2 letters

The Radio Society of Great Britain may be able to help at

https://rsgb.org

I have a licence to transmit and a listing in the callsign handbook that I have mentioned would have been conditional on him having a similar licence. If not, he may have registered as a shortwave listener. I think at that time operators would have been regulated by the Post Office so there might be something in Post Office records about him.

The only requirement for him to operate as a Y station would have been competence in reading morse which doesn't mean he was necessarily a registered radio ham as such. He could have been a commercial telegraphist...a Marconi man or similar.

 Looking back through the thread it seems likely that he was a commercial telegraphist with Cable & Wireless or even a marine radio operator.

I know the feeling. When names and dates start swimming round in your head the only thing to do is go away and give it a rest for a while. I often think that genealogy is some sort of intellectual masochism.

Why settle for coffee? 😉🤪!!!

No, you're not missing anything. In the beginning assumptions, based on timing, geography, coincidence of surnames and other peoples' work which claimed a marriage in 1815 (no evidence though), looked acceptably sound. That is now not the case and perhaps the thread should be retitled to reflect that.
Can't take this forward until parents are confirmed but I'm now at the stage of wondering where to look next.