Hello again
Both methods of ancestry research are both good tools of the overhaul picture and give more accuracy in the end result
DNA is OK but basics are the best way to start with your family tree as it builds a sound picture of your ancestors lives as you go back each generation.
If possible your grandparents start and follow either paternal or maternal grandparents but keep to one side of your parents ancestry either paternal or maternal but not both at the same time to save confusion or mix up,
Once you have decided on which route back check your great grandparents BDM's (if Known) which should take you back to hopefully the 1939 register and 1911c and 1921c
Then you will be in the 1837 BMD's forward of and 1841c up 1921census looking at trades or anything that connects and gravestones, burial records, parish registers.
In those days the parish of birth was their authority responsible for people even if they moved to another parish or town like overseers in the parish of birth collected relief money tax on parishioners of means to pay a small income to the poor with record of both as one example.
My Granddad Herbert - I found out was born
1866 a year before my Gt grandmother married my thought Gt Granddad in 1867 It turn out my granddad was baptized in 1868 in the surname of my
Gt Grandmothers husband. I got my granddads date of birth from the 1939 register and by going to the Chesterfield register office asked if a Herbert had been registered as a birth to a Mary Cutts (My Gt
Grandmother) on November 7 1866 and at last I had found my Gradfather Herbert's birth Certificate as Herbert Cutts born Illegitimate but took his mother Mary Cutts Husbands married 1867 surname of Tidmarsh also baptised Tidmarsh not Cutts illegitimate birth surname.
Was Mary Cutts Husband Thomas Tidmarsh Herbert's real father or another chap had been with Mary Cutts and thats where DNA comes in as a useful tool
Just to show how all methods need to be used. There is an old church in the Huddersfield University grounds with the flat headstone MI's- on one stone a lady who had lived in Huddersfield with her husband most of her life till he died, he was buried in this church graveyard with his flatstone MI. after he died, she went to London to live with her sister and after she died there was no record of her burial except for an inscription of her burial place, & date in London on her late husbands grave flatstone MI in Huddersfield.
A quick joke!
Posh woman on the village church flower arranging committee use to brag about her fathers ancestry went back to William the conqueror, so decided to do a DNA to prove it, she got a match a taxi driver in NewYork -
his father had been a GI in Engalnd in the run up to D Day landings and the woman who thought was her father -
he was fighting abroad in 1944.
The lady in question left the flower arranging committee very quietly without a good reason
