I did my first Ancestry DNA test in 2015, and since then I have done the Family Tree DNA Y-DNA, Big-Y700 and Mitochondrial DNA tests, uploaded my DNA to MyHeritage and GEDCOM and also done a separate test with 23&Me …. Pretty much covered all the available options. My main motivation is to use DNA …
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?
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 down my own ancestors from both paternal and maternal lines back to the 1600’s, and helped clients get started with their own family trees, found …
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 of criminals who passed through the justice system in England and Wales between 1770 and 1935. You can find out where they stood trial, …
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 may have been created by or referred to your ancestors.But where do you start? Genealogy is an incredibly rewarding, addictive and time-consuming hobby, but you …
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 deep paternal ancestry going back tens to hundreds of thousands of years back. As females do not have a Y-chromosome, and exact copy of the …
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