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I'm probably being somewhat stupid about this but I can't work out what the section after "twenty one years" is meant to say. I've been guessing but can't come up with anything plausible.

If anyone can help, I'd be really grateful.

I have been reluctant to post on this board because I have been struggling to understand the DNA test results ever since I had them from FamilyTreeDNA 4 or more years ago and am still very ignorant.

However, I have chased the people who are listed as 2nd-4th cousins and have found a few confirmed matches so am reasonably happy.

BUT - one of my 2nd-4th matches is marked on the FamilyFinder results as also matching me on an X-chromosome. Since I know(I think) that I get my X-chromosomes from each parent, does this finding have any significance at all? I understand, in a very simplistic way, that the longer the bit of shared centimorgans the better the match but the chromosome information defeats me.

If someone could give me a hint, it would be much appreciated! I assume that FTDNA wouldn't include the information if it wasn't significant but perhaps I'm naive here?

Many thanks for your patience with this....

Angela

I have a pretty full history of this side of my family. My gg grandfather, George Virgin was born in 1824 in Membury Devon and was part of a family of tenant farmers(dairymen) who saw themselves as a cut above, not just your common ag lab, so kept relationships within the group. He married Ann Beer, daughter of another dairy farmer, and produced a rather predictable family.

However, having followed George's life up until his wife's death in 1880 and his entry in the 1881 census with his remaining unmarried children plus his recently widowed son Henry plus his kids, he disappears. No sign of him in 1891 and the only thing I know about him is from his death certificate in 1896.

BUT, I recently came across a newspaper from 1884 cutting naming him and am intrigued.... it said

A QUESTION OF IDENTITY – Benjamin Lamb Powne v Stuckey’s Banking Company. – Plaintiff, a surgeon living at Chard, sued the defendant for £6 2s, on a garnishee summons. – Mr James Taylor appeared on behalf of the company, and said that there were no funds in the bank to the account of Geo. Virgin, the defendant in the case in which Dr Powne had to appear. – Plaintiff said that Virgin formerly lived at Chard, and had now moved to Membury. – Mr Taylor said that the Company were not certain that the George Virgin, of Membury, was the same person who had money in the bank. – His Honour said that the name of George Virgin was very uncommon and peculiar, and the answer of Mr Taylor was so evasive that he should assume that the money in the bank belonged to Virgin, of Membury. He therefore gave judgement for Plaintiff

The way I read this is that Dr Powne was trying to recover costs arising from a case (?) in which George was defendant. He couldn't get the money from George so went after the bank.

My query is - what was the case George was involved in? Whatever happened to him that Dr Powne couldn't recover the costs directly? And where was he in 1891?

If anyone can shed any light on this at all, I should be very grateful 

It may not be appropriate to post this here, if at all  so please do deal with it as appropriate, Moderators 

I've not been onto Ancestry for a while because of work etc but whenever I do, I check what is new on the site by clicking on something like 'See all updates...'

However, the new chatty friendly interface inviting me to do Facebook and Twitter and stuff seems to have removed this possibility.

I'm probably being dense, but if they haven't got rid of it entirely, could some kind person help me find it before I tear more of my hair out?

Thank you very much 

I'm wondering if anyone here has experience in setting up a USB Broadband dongle with Ubuntu Linux (in particular Hardy Heron or Lucid Lynx)?

We're wanting to lend someone a Linux box for a particular task and they don't have broadband, so we were thinking of giving them a dongle. However, Googling only seems to come up with recommendations for the Huwei G160, which seems now to be obsolete.

Any ideas or suggestions will be very much appreciated 

Thanks

Angela