Light at the end of the tunnel
As the end of May approaches I am seeing light at the end of the tunnel and hope to get back to a more regular blogging routine. I also hope to get back to my will transcription project amongst...
View Article422,000 page views in nine and a half years
I was surprised to discover that there have been nearly 422,000 page views in the past nine and a half years since I started my blog. There have been a few times when it would appear that individuals...
View ArticleChristopher Buller
Christopher Buller has been a brick wall for simply ages, I found him as the father of my Henry Christopher Buller back in the early years of my research (2006). But he was a mystery; a cousin in...
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DNA Painter
I embarked on a new project whilst in the midst of this busy time mostly because it was doable wherever I was. All I needed was my matches and access to the website which is a real treat.I decided to...
View ArticleWhy I do genealogy?
I was never particularly interested in actually doing genealogy. I always liked to hear stories about my ancestors from my grandparents and parents. It was interesting to learn where my three...
View ArticlePincombe-Pinkham newsletter will be published on time
I have managed to put together the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter Volume 3 Issue 3 on time and will be publishing it on the 1st of June.The yDNA study for Pincombe is proving to be rather interesting and...
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Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter Volume 3 Issue 3, 2018
Pincombe-Pinkham NewsletterVolume 3, Issue 3, 2018 Table of Contents1. Pincombe Charts, original One-Name Study at the Guild of One-Name Studies2. Will of Richard Pincombe3. Autosomal DNA Study4....
View ArticleTrade - political post
Just home from grocery shopping after our trip to the OGS Conference in Guelph. Usually we just shop not paying much attention to where products come from for about eight months of the year. But this...
View ArticleOntario genealogy conference 2018 at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
We left home on Tuesday heading for Brantford and a meeting with my husband's niece before heading on to Woodstock. Wednesday we went to the Princeton Cemetery to tend the flowers on Ed's parents...
View ArticlePageviews at 411057 with 78 followers
Little did I imagine when I started this blog in November 2008 that I would have 78 followers and pageviews numbering in the hundreds of thousands currently at 411,057. Although some of these must be...
View ArticleLawley family of Birmingham
An X chromosome match on 23 and Me with an email from the match looks at the Lawley family of Birmingham. My maternal grandmother's mother is known to me as Ellen Taylor. She appears in the 1891 census...
View ArticleTrade with Canada - yikes another political post
Our Farm Management System really needs to be understood. Our farmers are permitted a certain quota of milk production and then milk products are produced. The prices we pay here support these...
View ArticleX chromosome matching
Another set of two matches (they appear to be siblings) and a third match which may be a fourth to fifth cousin to them has come up on Gedmatch. Since there is an X chromosome match and only 2 of 5 of...
View ArticlePost NAFTA - another political post
Are we about to enter a Post-NAFTA era? Mind you I did not have a problem with NAFTA when it was signed. I could see bonuses for everyone both sides of the borders. Those bonuses did happen and...
View ArticleFamily Story
Working on Martha Blake (daughter of John Blake and Ann Farmer). She married Robert Annetts 15th of May 1852 and they had eleven children. Working on the number of grandchildren and I have reached 32...
View ArticleFrancis William Moth - Service Number 2056
Working on my 2x great grandparents John Blake and Ann (Farmer) Blake, I was trying to find more information on the eldest son of Harry Joseph Moth and Jane (Annetts) Moth. Jane was the daughter of...
View ArticleCanada and Trade
Is there an advantage to all of this tariff threat against Canada by the United States? Perhaps there is one substantial one - improvement of trade between the provinces. One can start to feel the "Buy...
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Blake Newsletter - Volume 7, Issue 3, 2018
Blake NewsletterTable of Contents1. Blake Pedigree Chart – Blake Museum at Bridgwater, Somerset2. Blake Surname Study - Progress3. Blake autosomal DNA Study at FT DNA4. Andover, Hampshire,...
View ArticleGenealogy Meet-Up
We had a fun time at the Genealogy Meet-Up. A few people that I have not seen for quite a while and some faces that I see more often. Great chats on genealogy. Interesting chats on daily events.I...
View ArticleNewsletters on the FT DNA Website
The Blake Newsletter, Pincombe Newsletter and H11 Newsletter are now only available on the FT DNA website to members of the group. Because of the need to comply with privacy laws the copy of the...
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