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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Monday 22 April 24 12:54 BST (UK)  »
Another myth debunked is when people say "the census will give which cottage our ancestors lived in then". Maybe more likely in later census records but not so much in earlier records, and even for later records you still have to do a bit of digging to find where in the village or hamlet the cottage/house/farm was. In cities it was easier as houses were numbered more often and streets named.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Sunday 21 April 24 15:01 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Biggles50 on Sunday 21 April 24 14:46 BST (UK)
My Mrs family lore tells of her 2xGGF and his two daughters travelling over from Ireland.

Totally in error, family came from the same City as long as we can trace records.

Plus there is Zero Irish Ethnicity in her line.

My gran always said there was Irish in the blood on her mother's father's side. No known Irish blood in the paper trail. However her grandfather in Oxford was buried in 1927 in a shared grave with an unrelated woman who was born in Wexford Ireland and died in 1912 in Oxford. So a kind of Irish connection, as they will be buried together for hopefully eternity, even though unrelated.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Mass Observation Day 2024
« on: Saturday 20 April 24 12:49 BST (UK)  »
I have a friends birthday to go to on 10th May so 12th May I will probably be writing down

"Day 1 million of trying to find the origins of my 3 ancestors who said "not born in county" in 1841 census but died before 30th March 1851".  ;D

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA to solve brickwalls?
« on: Wednesday 17 April 24 17:02 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Biggles50 on Tuesday 16 April 24 15:49 BST (UK)
Yes Coombs that is right.

Just because a Certificate list the parents it does not necessarily mean that that they are.

Probably they are correct, but there for me will always be a but, in that I have to have DNA matches linking via the person names on the certificate.

BTW

I am seeing Ancestry DNA tests listed on our account at £59 + postage.

£59, that is quite a bargain.



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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA to solve brickwalls?
« on: Tuesday 16 April 24 14:38 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Biggles50 on Monday 15 April 24 14:47 BST (UK)
Quote from: coombs on Monday 15 April 24 14:05 BST (UK)
Quote from: Biggles50 on Saturday 13 April 24 22:02 BST (UK)
Quote from: coombs on Saturday 13 April 24 18:19 BST (UK)
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.

Thanks I will take you up on the offer. I take it you have to pay to submit your DNA to Ancestry? Such as pay for a DNA testing kit?

Yes, but if and when you want to buy do keep a look out for lower cost offers i.e. £60 ish.

No need for having traits things like that can be added retrospectively for a smallish fee.

Ancestry is the one to take as you can download the DNA Data and upload it to My Heritage, ftDNA, Gedmatch etc and hence maximise the hunt for DNA matches.  A My Heritage DNA test is cheaper BUT, the database of testees is substantially less than Ancestry and you cannot upload to Ancestry which makes Ancestry far better vfm.

You do have limited information available to view without an Ancestry subscription but a subscription is really necessary, at least for a short time, to maximise making use of the probable 20,000+ DNA matches that one is likely to be presented with.

As an example my Nephew took a DNA test and I have his log in details, such that I could only see his Ethnicity results.  I had to transfer Management of his DNA kit to myself to be able to log in under my user info and I could then view his results so now I have access to all the DNA matches he has of which those via his Mum, my Sister-in-Law is the research area of interest in expanding this side of our family tree.

Thanks. As we all know DNA can rubber stamp paper trails but also can disprove them. We can get strong circumstantial evidence of a father of an illegitimate child through poor law records or he says he was the father on the baptism or birth cert but only DNA testing will prove or disprove it.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA to solve brickwalls?
« on: Monday 15 April 24 14:05 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Biggles50 on Saturday 13 April 24 22:02 BST (UK)
Quote from: coombs on Saturday 13 April 24 18:19 BST (UK)
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.

Thanks I will take you up on the offer. I take it you have to pay to submit your DNA to Ancestry? Such as pay for a DNA testing kit?


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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA to solve brickwalls?
« on: Saturday 13 April 24 18:19 BST (UK)  »
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.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA to solve brickwalls?
« on: Saturday 13 April 24 14:13 BST (UK)  »
Like if you find an illegitimate ancestor, and found a suspected father, the only way to be 99.999% sure is to take a DNA test.

I have a 2xgreat grandmother born Dec 1863 whose parents wed in mid 1864 when she was a baby and the baby was then baptised as the daughter of the new husband. Turned out he was still married when his future 2nd wife was pregnant, and his first wife died in November 1863 of a long illness just weeks before the 2nd wife gave birth. Autosomal DNA testing would be definitive, it is the father of my maternal line 2xgreat grandmother.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Unknown father of Joseph Callender b.1866 Glasgow, Scotland.
« on: Saturday 13 April 24 14:08 BST (UK)  »
Yes, DNA is the best solution to try and identify the biological father. Or you could try any poor law records for 1865/1866 for any bastardy/maintenance orders etc.

Have you obtained Joseph's birth certificate?

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