DNA tests for Dogs
July 13, 2022
Many of us have taken DNA tests to explore our own family history, but what about our fur-family? In Australia, there are 2 companies that offer DNA testing for dogs,
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- If you’ve always wanted to explore your family history, but don’t know where to start
- If you have a box of random documents and want to organise this into a professional family tree
- If you’ve hit a brick wall with your family tree and need some help
- If you’ve just done, or are planning to do a DNA test and need advice or want to figure out what to do with all your DNA matches
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Early London Maps – Samuel Crowder 1794-1867
February 14, 2022
In the Charles Booth Archive, there is a map of London drawn in 1898 which highlights the extent of poverty in London. Charles Booth accompanied police officers on a tour of each district, street by street where they described the inhabitants, levels of poverty & crime and colour coded a map of streets from upper class & wealthy, down to lowest class to vicious, semi criminal. As my Crowder relations lived in London around this time, this seems to be a good topic to explore in the “MAPS” theme from #52ancestors this week. Could the reason they decided to relocate to the colonies be linked to changes in the social character of their neighbourhood?
Getting Started with your Family Tree
December 6, 2021
Are you thinking of creating your own family tree, or considering a unique gift for someone interested in their own family history? Over the last 25 years, I have tracked
Not Quite Royalty
August 16, 2021
What if you were expecting to find royalty, but instead found your ancestors were in trouble with the law? You can still follow them through over 5 million records
Who Do You Think You Are ?
June 11, 2021
Just as in the TV series, ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, you can discover your own ancestry, and discover the history of your family through tracing historical records, that
The Big Y-700 DNA test – Tracing your paternal ancestry thousands of years
January 21, 2021
The major difference between the Y-DNA test and the autosomal DNA test (like the Ancestry test, that most people start with) is that the Y-DNA test gives information about your
Thanks - yep, trees can be tricky. Most of the time I just do them manually in powerpoint (if I'm…
What a great post. Those gravestones are absolutely magnificent. You must have been super happy to find them. I am…
That’s a great story! How wonderful to find ancestors in newspapers!