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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Surprising Variation in Levels of DNA Match
« on: Saturday 09 March 24 05:21 GMT (UK)  »
I was fortunate to be able to test DNA of several of my grandparents, and was surprised how much more of my DNA came from each of my grandmothers compared to my grandfathers. It was nowhere near a 25% from each as you might expect:

paternal grandfather - 20%
paternal grandmother - 30%
maternal grandfather - 21%
maternal grandmother - 29%

If this effect is amplified over generations it might not take many generations before one may inherit no DNA from a particular ancestor.

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Technical Help / Re: Find My Past...how do I copy text from Census Pop Up window
« on: Monday 08 January 24 00:07 GMT (UK)  »
If you hover over the person of interest. Then Ctrl+A [selects all]. Then Ctrl+C [copy].

Then paste wherever you desire (I would suggest first pasting into a simple text editor, such as Notepad, to remove formatting). As a result of the select all you will copy a tiny bit of additional text, but is is not difficult to remove this.

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1923 births are now available as digital images. I believe they released these on January 1st 2024 (i.e. after 100 years). I doubt any births more recent will be allowed as digital images, due to privacy concerns.

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The Common Room / Re: Alfred Hudson puzzle
« on: Tuesday 02 January 24 15:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Shaun, I had seen that one, occupation fits but thought the York one might be more likely, with the birth place as Shipley. I hadn't been able to definitively find the Bradford one in any other census.

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The Common Room / Alfred Hudson puzzle
« on: Tuesday 02 January 24 15:09 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking to find more about Alfred Hudson, born around 1836 in (apparently) Shipley, Yorkshire.

I only know about his later life and can find very little prior to 1891.

He 'married' Elizabeth Ann Frecknall (also known as Quail or Wilson). She had married to William Alexander Quaill in 1882 but he seems to have disappeared soon after their marriage. Elizabeth is first recorded with the surname Hudson in 1886 prison records, so this is probably around when she got with Alfred. Wilson was her mother's maiden name and I suspect a pseudonym.

I have not been able to find any official marriage between Elizabeth and Alfred, and most likely one doesn't exist.

What I do know about Alfred:

1891 census – Lodging House, Rookery, Addingham, Yorkshire, England  (RG 12/3504, f 31, p 12)
Alfred Hudson, Lodger, M, 45, Mason, Yorkshire Shipley, blind of 1 eye
Elizabeth Hudson, Lodger, M, 32, Nottinghamshire Norwell

1901 census – Lodging House, Park Top, Stanningley, Yorkshire, England (RG 13/4188, f 142, p 25)
Alfred Hudson, Head, M, 64, Mason, Shiplow Yks
Elizabeth Hudson, Wife M, 47, Pedlar Hawk., Norwell Notts
+lodgers

Death registration:
9 Feb 1907, Union Workhouse, Clayton U.D.: Alfred Hudson, 71 yrs, hawker of Pudsey U.D. Cause of death Chronic bronchitis, certified by W. Cunliffe, L.R.C.S. Registered 22 Feb 1907 by J. Summerfield (master), Union Workhouse, Clayton.

His wife Elizabeth also died at Clayton Workhouse, in December 1907.

The only possible prior record is this 1871 census record:

1871 census – 114 Walmgate, York St Margaret, Yorkshire (RG 10/4752, f 16, p 25)
Alfred Hudson, Head, Mar, 30, Moulder, Yorkshire Shipley
Catherine Hudson, Wife, Mar, 30, Moulders Wife, Ireland Galway

Not sure who Catherine might be, no marriage I could identify. I have not found any other trace of her, nor been able to find Alfred on any other census.

Can anyone find anything on Alfred prior to 1891?

Thank you!

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Y-DNA the results.
« on: Tuesday 12 December 23 05:40 GMT (UK)  »
What you get out of it does depend on what level of test you take.

I would recommend using FamilyTreeDNA as they have the largest Y-DNA database, but you may find smaller companies as well that can tell you your haplogroup.

The lower level Y-DNA tests are STR (single tandem repeat) tests. The technicalities don't really matter, but these are areas on the Y-chromosome which are found to be useful markers to distinguish individuals/groups. With STR testing you will get a basic haplogroup (e.g. R-M269 or I-M253), but this haplogroup may be thousands of years old.

If you want a more refined haplogroup, you will need to do SNP testing (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms). At FTDNA, although you could order SNP packs you are much better served by ordering the Big Y-700. This test includes 700 STRs and thousands of SNPs. With this test you can potentially get a very recent haplogroup from the last couple hundred years.

With either test you will get match lists. Most of the matches will not match your surname, as they may have branched off before surnames were adopted. At low levels (37 markers) you may have tens to thousands of matches. At higher levels (111 markers) you will probably only have a handful, or sometimes no matches. The more markers you match with someone, the more closely you are probably related, and the more markers you test the more confident you can be the match is real.

In my case and my mum's paternal line (I tested a male cousin on my mum's side), I started out with the Y-37 test, and have since upgraded to Big Y-700. It is costly, but has been well worth it in both cases, helping to narrow down an illegitimacy a few generations back on my mum's side, and confirming a theorized link to a similar surname (that just could not be proved with paper trail alone due to sparsity of parish registers in the period of interest).

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Surname in will (1700)
« on: Saturday 11 November 23 19:41 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you everyone, I also thought Stenton. Unfortunately the PRs for this parish don't survive before 1709, so finding much about this family prior to that has been challenging.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Surname in will (1700)
« on: Saturday 11 November 23 15:55 GMT (UK)  »
Struggling to read the surname of the son-in-law John named in this will...thought of a couple possibilities but interested to know what you think it might be.

The will is from Nottinghamshire, written in 1700.

Thank you!

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The Common Room / Re: Looking for will (in PCC per Death Duty Register)
« on: Saturday 16 September 23 15:47 BST (UK)  »
Alexander refers in his searches to page numbers, where I would expect him to say folio numbers.  Are there page numbers in addition to the folio numbers?  Is there any possibility he has looked at page 180 instead of folio 180?

I had mean to say folio, I had checked folio 180, I don't think there were also page numbers. In any case I also checked a few other entries on the same page of the death duty index as Mary and they could all be found on the appropriate folio, so I'm fairly sure I was looking in the right place. Wish I had got a copy of the page but I didn't at the time, will have to go back and have another look.

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