Matthew Hemsley (circa 1710s - )
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 19Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View Article52 Ancestor Challenge and DNA
Up to the 19th of 52 Ancestor Challenge and the last couple permitted me to go in and look at my research (and that of cousins since I can not take credit for all of it) and make new decisions on work...
View ArticleJoanna King (1736 - 1792)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 20Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, unknown, Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleJohn Farmer (1717-1771)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 21Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleEthnicity Estimate - Tests at FT DNA, Ancestry and 23 and Me compared
I now have three Ethnicity Estimates looking at my autosomal DNA.FT DNAEuropean 96%British Isles 51%Scandinavia 33%Western and Central Europe 12%Asia Minor 3%North Africa 1%AncestryEurope 99% Great...
View Article52 Ancestor Challenge - Benefits
Doing the 52 Ancestor Challenge and for me looking at 52 of my 64 4x great grandparents has been a very beneficial procedure. I have corrected some material. I have found information that had passed me...
View ArticleWill of John Lanham and the will of his wife Grace Lanham, Trowbridge,...
I was trying to locate my Lanham/Lannum family in Wiltshire and came across this set of wills that was rather interesting and since I transcribed them I will insert them into this blog. I am fairly...
View ArticleElizabeth Pearce (1737 - 1823)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 22Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, Durnford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleWhats in a surname? Lanham/Lannum
Still marvelling over my latest find with Canham being Lanham/Lannum and the resultant stretching back in time with that surname. Three Josephs in a row, father of my Elizabeth Lanham, grandfather and...
View ArticleContacts at 23 and Me
My results are just a couple of days old at 23 and Me and already I have had two contacts (one I initiated and one to me). For the one it is my Blake line in Hampshire and the relationship is very...
View ArticleBlake Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 2
Blake NewsletterTable of Contents1.   Family of Theophilus Blake (Susan Osborne)2.   Blake family in Cornwall3.   England’s Immigrant Database 1330-15504.   Blake Family of Galway5.   Blake yDNA1....
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Jane O'Ford or Durnford (1771 - 1848)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 23Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View ArticleEarly 52 ancestor Blog and the Genetic Genealogy Day in Toronto at Toronto...
I posted my 52 Ancestors Blog today instead of tomorrow as I am very curious if I might get any comments on my research on Jean/Jane Durnford whom I now suggested could be Jane O'Ford baptized at...
View ArticlePhasing DNA from siblings
I have now put into practise the methodology that David Pike used in the lecture that I attended. I am looking at 700,000 lines of data and I have placed the three sets of results side by side in an...
View Article1000 emails
I was approaching that dreaded 1000 emails in my Inbox so decided that today had to be a day of filing and elimination. The dream is to completely catch up on my emails and having now reduced that...
View ArticleWilliam Arnold (1770 - 1855)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 24Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterel, Bartlett,...
View Article200 Emails
Down to 200 emails but most of these are going to be a lot of looking and replying. Fortunately some of them have two or three from the same person where I have responded and then promised to get back...
View ArticleEmail work proceeding
I am now down to 125 emails as I work my way through them all. Since they date back to the summer just after I hurt my back some of them need to be filed and this has proven to thankfully be correct as...
View ArticleHandling emails in a one name study
I have finally reached 25 emails to respond to and the glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel becomes brighter with each passing day. My plan is to have my email box empty every evening when I close...
View ArticleWaterloo
Today, the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. George Lywood, my 3x great grandfather, was at the Battle of Waterloo. That information was totally lost in my family but I have managed to find...
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