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I know this is controversial but I'm having a go at using ethnicity to pinpoint mutual ancestors

As many of you know Im a fan of using regional differences

CASE 1
I've been trying to find the link between a Scottish gold miner who went to Canada and a lumberjack s family on the border of USA.

At first sight it's not very hopeful
As there is a big variation between 4 siblings

They are 26-43cm matches with me
I believe they are.  half 2c2r ancestry predicts

They all have french & Germanic from mother's side

My paternal  aunt has mostly Scottish but some Irish

These are the 4 siblings DNA percentages

Scottish 38%   37% . 25%. +2%
Eng         28%.   6%.    0%.   26%
French  31%.   31%.  55%.   55%
Germanic 4%   14%.  17%.  17%

I'm not sure that looking for their cousins with Scottish percentage is going to help with this one

CASE 2
Someone looking for bio father whose DNA should  be Irish with about 6%germanic
I've built a tree from mutual matches+believe I've found one paternal great grandmother
+ Am colour coding any matches with Germanic

Point de Vue
2nd may 1948

My nephew was going to throw this in recycling

What shall I do with it ?

Event this Saturday

Today I've been looking into one family in a small village in Northamptonshire.

Instead of just getting the baptism   details for m1787 I decided to look at some pages before & after to find other children of the same couple and burials in the same time frame

Eventually I looked at pages from 1750- 1810

I learnt so much
Seeing how many baseborn births are registered per page
I wonder if this is typical
1 woman seems to have had 3 baseborn children over 7 years

1 page per year becomes 2 pages per year in later years

Many more births are registered than deaths
I wonder if there was less compulsion to register deaths

Some  couples produce nearly 1 child per year for about a decade .

Some future spouses had baptisms on the same page


I'm now going to look at the rest of the pages from 1706

I'm trying to verify information about # who I thought were my 5th great grandparents
 John MAULSBURY and Hannah HIGGINSON who married 24 Sep 1780

I have lots of information about their daughters Charlotte MALSBURY 1797 m James GARDNER+ Phyllis  1798 m Benjamin TALBOT

Hannah died in  1834 Moreton pinkney Northamptonshire age 83

I have a possible baptism for John in 1759 parents John + Susannah MAULSBURY
+ Same year for Hannah in Norton by Daventry parents Joseph + Susannah
HIGGINSON

I'm trying to find out if they had a daughter Ann 1781 m WAKELIN
+ Sons Thomas 1790 + John 1800
# not the one on many people's trees transported to Australia
# the correct John was born Moreton pinkney 1793 
 
Not much information is given on baptisms which I find and there are lots of spelling variations