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Quote from: Zaphod99 on Saturday 13 April 24 15:03 BST (UK)

Further to what I said earlier, and what Coombs has just said, DNA testing has shown that two of my 16 great great grandparents had illicit children. I don't think that's untypical.

Zaph

Yes, human behaviour has always been rollercoaster.

I know some stuff about DNA testing but I get confused with all this centimorgan data, and also know that it may not answer all your prayers as it is not as cut and dried as seems. I have been doing my family tree for almost 30 years but with DNA testing I am a novice, and have not even tested yet.

Coombs

There are plenty here to help, if and when you are ready to take a DNA test, pm me and I can send some files that I sent to help my Cousins understand what I have been doing.

Yes there can be pitfalls, but there are benefits, I am in contact with DNA Cousins (2C’s) who I never knew existed and they in turn have supplied plenty of family information.

The book by Blaine Bettinger is a good place to start.  He is the guy behind the DNA Painter website that you will have seen commented on and suggested here many times.

In straightforward terms:-

If you have not taken a DNA test and used it to validate each Parental and Grandparental lines then your tree is a Genealogical Family Tree, that is it is “paper” based.

Your Family Tree is not a Biological Family Tree.

All it takes is for a single Birth Certificate to be fabricated and the whole line is not necessarily ones bloodline.

Siblings need to take a DNA test as does at least one Cousin from each side of your family.

Hopefully Second Cousins will show as matches but if not then those that are found on paper should also be approached to take a DNA test.

This can be a difficult task, it took three years of persuasion before my Cousins agreed to take a DNA test.

Multiple tests all help in narrowing down actual Biological relationships.

Quote from: Biggles50 on Friday 12 April 24 12:15 BST (UK)

.... that the Style of your signatures are all very scimitar ...

Without wishing to divert this thread, what kind of predictive text came up with this ? 
Or was it voice recognition ?

Damn.

My Dyslexia strikes again

Today we have hundred of print format styles to choose from.

Certainly in the time that we learned “joined up writing” as a youngster the Teach at that time told us of the Writing Style that it was called.  There was not one Style being taught in Schools but many different ones that were in use by the Education Authorities at that time.

My Father’s writing Style was taught in a Lancastrian school, my Maternal Grandparents were from Yorkshire and Cheshire and all three were very different.

What I am leading up to is that the Style of your signatures are all very scimitar and to me would indicate that the hands that created the signatures were taught their writing style within a geographical region.

You could also look into upgrading your 1 Tb hard drive to an SSD that would also improve speeds.

£68 for a 2.5 SSD from Scan Computers which should be a direct replacement for the hard drive, but it may need a fixing bracket as well