Matches at Family Finder
I spent the last couple of days extracting all my matches (for all my siblings and myself) from Family Finder. I really haven't done very much with these matches and decided I would put them into an...
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2016 52 Ancestor Challenge and Blake continuing
I have decided that I have greatly benefitted from this year's ancestor challenge so I will do it again next year but will look at our grand children's 4x great grandparents. All are known and...
View ArticleH11 haplogroup
A couple of months later than I thought I would be reporting on H11 haplogroup.There are now 119 members of this study with 71 giving their ancestral location.Croatia 2E...
View ArticleWindows 10
Converted to Windows 10 today and system is working very well. Do not see a lot of changes except the app screen is now on the start menu. Legacy 8.5 working very well.On to gardening for a bit and...
View ArticleJohn Happerfield (1775 - 1844)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Week 32Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleInteresting query on the Blake family at South Newton
I received a query on the Blake family at South Newton. I find this Blake line to be particularly interesting for my own line. South Newton, Wiltshire lies 19 miles ENE of Andover, Hampshire and 13...
View ArticleLast parishes in Cornwall to be extracted from the online database
I am now down to the last set of parishes to be extracted from the online database of the Cornwall OPC.St Just in RoselandRameChacewaterStratton KilhamptonPoughillBridgeruleBudockSt...
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Early Blake records in Cornwall from the OPC Cornwall website
Working on the St Just in Roseland parish records and the earliest baptism there is in 1546, twenty years earlier than Bodmin. The baptismal parish registers begin in 1558 at Bodmin and in 1538 at St...
View ArticleDiana Collins (1774 - 1834)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 33Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleThe demographics for the 2016 Ancestor Challenge
Of the 64 people listed for next year's 52 Ancestor Challenge, 32 were born in the Province of Quebec, 17 were born in various counties in England (Hampshire (2), Dorset (2), Wiltshire (4), Devon (1),...
View ArticleFinally an 11/12 match for our paternal yDNA line
A match has been a long time coming and still not quite here but in July FT DNA now has published an 11/12 match for our Blake yDNA line. The surname isn't Blake it is Messner and at 37 markers it is...
View ArticleGrace Routledge (c 1736 - 1767)7
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 34Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View Article23 and Me
I have now completed testing for 23 and Me for both my brother and myself. As it turns out we are as far apart as two siblings can be and still be full siblings. The usual range for siblings is 2640 to...
View ArticlePincombe autosomal results
Finally my Pincombe DNA project is starting to come together. I have two autosomal Pincombe matches and a third to come very shortly. Since some of my siblings have tested these results are duplicated...
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Margaret Tweddle (1728 - likely by 1818)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 35Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
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Charley family
An interesting set of emails have gone back and forth between another member of the Charley family and myself. This Charley family is mentioned in the published book on the Charley family by Irene H...
View ArticleTriangulation of autosomal DNA results
To really determine if the matches that you see are real you need to triangulate the results and I finally have a set of results where I can do that.My Pincombe family which has been slow to work on in...
View ArticleWilliam Dove (1755 - 1829)
52 Ancestor Challenge - Challenge 36Blake, King, Coleman, Pearce, Farmer, Mary (unknown), Lambden, Sarah (unknown), Knight, Ellis, Knight, Vincent, Butt, O'Ford, Arnold, Molton, Cotterell, Bartlett,...
View ArticleOne year hence
It is interesting to look at the past year of my life and my research for they are forever entwined. I entered this past year with back trouble resulting from two falls about two weeks apart. I learned...
View ArticleDiscussion on Grace Routledge
I had a very interesting email from a descendant of Mary Routledge, widow of Crossgreens or Strandheads in regard to my blog post on Grace Routledge, my 4x great grandmother, one of my 52 Ancestor...
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