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We're trying to verify a story that one of my Irish grandfather's sisters ran away to Spain. She was born in 1906, and married in Co.Cork in early 1931, but we know nothing else about her. Our initial assumption is that if the story's true it would probably have been some time in the mid to late 1920s.

The Wikipedia 'Irish Passport' article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_passport says that
the Irish government issued its first passports to the general public on 3 April 1924 but that, until January 1930, many Irish Free State citizens also had to obtain British passports.

Was it compulsory to have a passport in the late 1920s ?

Is there any way to check Irish and/or British passport applications made during the late 1920s ?

I have an account at ancestry.co.uk

I was recently invited to view a contact's tree on Ancestry.

However, this new tree is on the Australian site ( ancestry.com.au ) and I apparently have to create a new account over there in order to view it.

This may be because I only have a free account, so I'd be interested to know if anybody else has come across this.

RESOLUTION (Thanks to everybody who responded):  You can log into any Ancestry regional site using the same login as your normal one. That even works with a free account.

My first reading of this Irish death certificate of a 79 year old widow was "Myocarditis Senile Decay Certified", which to me would be heart failure brought on by old age.

But the first letter of the first word doesn't look like an M to me.

So I just want to be sure that I haven't misread the first word.

For a person to be identified twice in the Probate Register* with different but cross-referenced names, I assume the registrar would have needed more evidence than just heresay that "she was known by two different names"

Can anybody enlighten me further as to what sort of evidence of alternative names would be required ?

(See also reply #30 on this Twins: Could one twin be 90 day premature,the other full-term (in 1900 Ireland)? topic https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=778539.msg6952247#msg6952247)

*this extract is apparently from the England And Wales National Probate Calendar (Index Of Wills and Administrations

I've never been interested in DNA testing - for me it's the challenge of trying to track things down myself from S.E.Asia using just* free online resources that's appealing.

My brother had an Ancestry.co DNA test last year (although he has no published tree anywhere) and was contacted by two people, siblings, who had 1st-3rd cousin matches with him. Since I'm the one who's done the family tree (and has a public tree there) he asked what I thought. I replied:

"I've just done a quick bit of reading up on DNA testing and it seems most likely to be just random chance. I very much doubt that there's any connection.
For example:
- This https://www.ibdna.com/tests/cousin-dna-test/ says that "... With just 12.5% of common DNA between first cousins, a test result showing common DNA between the two is likely just due to chance..."
- This https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212170668-Average-percent-DNA-shared-between-relatives indicates that 2nd cousins only share just over 3% DNA. So even more likely to be just chance"


Last week I was directly contacted via Ancestry.co by a sibling of the two who contacted my brother. Once again I did some reading up, but this time came to the opposite conclusion,based mainly on this - https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_statistics

From further emails with my new contact it turns out that, out of my brothers single '1st-2nd cousin' and three '2nd-3rd cousin' matches, all four are my new contact's siblings.

My brother's results also indicate a 2nd-3rd cousin link to somebody who we haven't managed to contact but who, from the snippet of their tree shown on my brother's DNA results, is almost certainly a 2nd cousin.

Apparently this person also appears as a 2nd-3rd cousin match on one of my new contact's siblings results.

The question is, does this all point to an almost certain genuine connection ?



*Plus, in the early days, visits to the National Archives at Kew on my occasional trips to the UK, and the purchase of a few marriage / birth certificates.