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The Common Room / Re: What is your Most Common Names in your Family Tree?
« on: Sunday 21 May 23 18:11 BST (UK)  »
On the male side, John, James, Thomas, William and Robert dominate with George and Alexander also quite common. Amongst my Highland ancestors and their descendants Niel, Lachlan and Duncan are also fairly common. (Note the spelling of Niel).

On the female side Mary, Margaret, Agnes, Elizabeth, Jane and Janet are the most common, with a fair smattering of Christina/Christian and quite a few Catherines and Helens as well.

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World War Two / Re: "Does anyone else have Ancestors who where in WW2 DUNKIRK?".
« on: Wednesday 17 May 23 16:49 BST (UK)  »
I have a 4th cousin, L Cpl Hamish Archibald Addis Black whose name is on the Dunkirk Memorial. He was lost on the S.S. Lancastria.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Longest segments in dna
« on: Thursday 11 May 23 18:40 BST (UK)  »
I just had a large count pop up as a new match

The name is my mums maiden name so I can assign this person to her line

My only issue is exactly who it might be . 2 people share the name and I am not close with them

It comes up with 961cm over 37 segments with 14% shared dna

Person 1 - my most likely - is the son of my mothers cousin. Now some context

My grandparents and his grandparents are brother and sisters ie 2 brothers married 2 sisters

Would this explain the high count or do I need to look at my mothers brothers child ie a true 1st cousin ( who I have never met and could walk past on the street)

Sorry to hijack but it seemed timely and convenient
If I understand correctly, your grandfather's brother married your grandmother's sister, and the person you think might be the match is their grandson. If so, you and the match have common ancestors with both your grandfather's parents and your grandmother's parents.

If that is so, then I think it is indeed the case that the "double" pair of common ancestors would indeed give a high count of shared DNA for the relevant relationship.

Put another way, your mother's first cousin is your second cousin, with whom you would normally share 2 great-grandparents, but in this case because your grandfather and great uncle married sisters, you share 4 great-grandparents. It would therefore seem entirely plausible that you would also have inherited more shared DNA.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Surname of a child called George
« on: Saturday 06 May 23 02:26 BST (UK)  »
The baptism above is ? Douglas and Agnes Douglass in Spittal had ? ? ? 19th Baptd August 25th 1765 named Elizabeth.

Under that is ? Co? (could be Cooper or Collier) ? ? ? had a child born ? ? ? ? of  Cole houses (or something like that) called George

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: How Welsh am I?
« on: Tuesday 02 May 23 21:48 BST (UK)  »
Melba_schmelba originally I had what I considered low Welsh ethnicity.  Now I have too much!  Then I found that ancestry included part of Somerset in their calculations (2 great grandparents from Keynsham) so I relaxed a bit.  Now if they could only explain to me why my Scottish count is so high.  Surely it’s not because I married a Scot and like the bagpipes. 🤪🤪🤪
It's true the Scotland DNA grouping seems a bit less accurate than the Welsh one on Ancestry and yo-yos up and down for a lot of people :D. I think it could be because the Scottish are a lot more Anglo-Saxon that they'd like to admit - most of the lowlands used to be Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and the Scots language is actually a variant of English :o!
https://dsl.ac.uk/about-scots/what-is-scots/

I'm no Scot Nat (British and proud of it) and without wishing to get into an argument, you could as easily say English is a variant of Scots.

As the link provided states modern English and Scots do indeed both derive from the same root (Anglo Saxon) but they have been separate languages since at least the 14th Century. Burns did not write in a dialect or variant of English - he wrote in Scots. Just as Shakespeare wrote in English, not a Scots dialect. (And if we're honest, as modern readers we need those footnotes to explain all the strange words to understand either of them fully.)

What is true is that Scots is closer to English than it is to Gaelic.
Apologies Albufera, I didn't mean to upset anyone by what I said. I suppose, when researching my own Scottish ancestry, I was surprised to discover that Scots was mainly a Germanic language with the same root as English. One of the first words to come to my attention in an 18th century will was Umquhile = 'the late'  :) This was used in England but had gone out of use much earlier.

https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/umquhile

No apologies necessary, it's just a pet peeve of mine.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: How Welsh am I?
« on: Tuesday 02 May 23 14:21 BST (UK)  »
Melba_schmelba originally I had what I considered low Welsh ethnicity.  Now I have too much!  Then I found that ancestry included part of Somerset in their calculations (2 great grandparents from Keynsham) so I relaxed a bit.  Now if they could only explain to me why my Scottish count is so high.  Surely it’s not because I married a Scot and like the bagpipes. 🤪🤪🤪
It's true the Scotland DNA grouping seems a bit less accurate than the Welsh one on Ancestry and yo-yos up and down for a lot of people :D. I think it could be because the Scottish are a lot more Anglo-Saxon that they'd like to admit - most of the lowlands used to be Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and the Scots language is actually a variant of English :o!
https://dsl.ac.uk/about-scots/what-is-scots/

I'm no Scot Nat (British and proud of it) and without wishing to get into an argument, you could as easily say English is a variant of Scots.

As the link provided states modern English and Scots do indeed both derive from the same root (Anglo Saxon) but they have been separate languages since at least the 14th Century. Burns did not write in a dialect or variant of English - he wrote in Scots. Just as Shakespeare wrote in English, not a Scots dialect. (And if we're honest, as modern readers we need those footnotes to explain all the strange words to understand either of them fully.)

What is true is that Scots is closer to English than it is to Gaelic.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Longest segments in dna
« on: Sunday 30 April 23 12:18 BST (UK)  »
In terms of genealogy research it shouldn't really matter if 600cM of dna is distributed in long chains across a few segments or short chains across several segments, it's still 600cM of dna.

According to Ancestry themselves, longer segments are characteristic of a closer relative.

For example a DNA match with say two long segments totalling 150 cm, is likely to be a relatively close cousin, whereas a 150 cm match but made up of 8 segments might well be a 4th or 5th cousin but with several links to your tree as a result of cousins marrying, or just the pure coincidence of someone related to both paternal and maternal lines.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Which exact church in parish
« on: Saturday 29 April 23 20:00 BST (UK)  »
There is an Edinglassie to the north of Lonach Hill and Torrandubh Wood. Just a little to the East of Edinglassie is a Finnylost (which seems to match the "Finilost" also shown in the register. It looks to me as though Edinglassie would actually be in Tarland and Migvie, but it may have been easier to register in Strathdon and Corgarff.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.7&lat=57.19477&lon=-3.10826&layers=5&b=1

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I am not sure if this is what your Dad meant by the reference to the buttons, but the one of the distinctions of the Guard Regiments is the way the buttons are arranged. The Grenadiers have 9 single buttons, the Coldstreams 10 grouped in pairs, the Scots Guards 3 groups of three, the Irish 4, 4 2 and the Welsh two groups of 5.

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