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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Anything else I can do?
« on: Tuesday 31 December 19 22:39 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for those helpful replies avm228, Ruskie and Craclyn

I'm mulling over the Y chromosome test but it's only dedicated to that one site isn't it which seems a bit limiting? I've done tha autoclustering at Myheritage but tbh I don't really understand how to interpret it! I did upload ny DNA data from Ancestry to FTDNA as it seemed to be free to do so but nothing seems to have happened to it so I'm wary about giving them money if there's a problem with their services.

I'll consider 23andme and I  did upload to Gedmatch a couple of years ago and emailed a few people but got no reply, and no-one ever proactively got in touch with me.

No-one I could reasonably ask for a DNA test but my mother's lineage is pretty clear and firmly ensconced in the far north of  England for several generations. No-one nearer than 3-5th cousin via DNA matches


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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Anything else I can do?
« on: Tuesday 31 December 19 00:36 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, thanks for your advice Liza, suggestions always welcome!

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Anything else I can do?
« on: Monday 30 December 19 23:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Liza

Thanks for that. Yes I've been in touch with  20/30 ppl who are estimated to be 3-5th cousins and of Polish/Germanic descent/ethnicity. Not all have replied and I can't find a connection between those who have so far. They are mainly ppl whose parents/grandparents emigrated to the USA or UK before or just after WWII and now they've had children of their own want to tace their ancestry. Unless some closer relative (or the whole of Poland!) gets their DNA tested at Ancestry etc  I don't think there's much chance of finding him.

Thanks for link, I've never heard of that site.

Regards,

Stewart

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Anything else I can do?
« on: Monday 30 December 19 20:50 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to discover the identity of my father. Around 50% of my DNA seems to be from 'Eastern' Europe and my birth mother's family have a long history in UK/Ireland  only.

I was born illegitimate in 1948 near York, England. My father was not named on my birth certificate and (if she was telling the truth) in my adoption papers the only clues my unmarried teenage mother left as to his identity was that he was 5'11", fair, 21 and a farmer / farm worker. Her pregnancy was hidden from the rest of the family and I was adopted a few weeks after my birth.

Ancestry where I originally submitted my DNA suggested my Eastern Europe roots were most likely to be from Pomerania, an area including parts of modern day Poland, Lithuania, and Northern Germany. MyHeritage.com where I also uploaded my DNA suggests my East Europe roots are broadly in both Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

Former Prisoners of War and workers from Eastern Europe who had fled from there (from fascism or later from communism) or fought in the Second World War for the Allies were employed on farms in North Yorkshire near where my mother lived  for some years after the war ended. This has made me wonder if my father could have been one of these workers especially as my DNA is shared with a number of 3/4/5th cousins of Polish/German ancestry on Ancestry/Myheritage

So I'm guessing (and it is all guessing) my father was from 'Eastern Europe' or was a descendant of someone from Eastern Europe and was in the North of England at least in late 1947/early 1948. People pooh-pooh deductions based on ethnicity and the assumptions made from it but I have so little to go on, am I wasting my time? Any suggestions?

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Mary Turnbull Lawson
« on: Friday 13 April 18 16:44 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Heidi2016 on Friday 13 April 18 10:33 BST (UK)
Hi, this is Mary’s niece. You have been in touch before, not with me personally but with my mother. I am happy to discuss my holidays at her home in Richmond, working at the cafes, just her general every day life. If that would interest you? Let me know what is the best way to contact you. I don’t want to discuss her personal life on here.

Thanks for replying, I have sent you a pm

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Mary Turnbull Lawson
« on: Friday 22 December 17 15:50 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Rhododendron on Friday 22 December 17 10:30 GMT (UK)
Have you tried or thought about writing a letter to the newspaper that covers Northallerton, e.g. the Darlington & Stockton Times?  Might be worth a try.

Yes, done that!

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Mary Turnbull Lawson
« on: Friday 22 December 17 10:28 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: louisa maud on Friday 22 December 17 09:05 GMT (UK)
If you can access Ancestry there are family trees  with Mary Turnbull Lawson shown, it looks as if she died in 1990

Louisa Maud

Yes she did but I'm trying to get information about her early life.

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Mary Turnbull Lawson
« on: Friday 22 December 17 01:15 GMT (UK)  »
Trying to find anyone who may have known my mother Mary Turnbull Lawson, especially in her later teenage years. She was b 1930 in Northumberland but brought up in the Northallerton area on the family farm, went to Wensley House school in Northallerton and in 1948 worked at her sister's cafe and/or boarding house at 31 Eastborough, Scarborough.

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