Who When Where

Do you have a burial for her? If so, does it give an age? It occurs to me that she may well have been born abroad if she married in a naval town like Plymouth.

Perhaps you or some are all looking at the wrong WAY familes. Without seeing how each researcher traced back to the same WAY family it is hard to say, but it isn't unlikely that much tree copying has occurred. The fact that sister Jane can't be traced suggests it may be that baptisms didn't take pla...

Hello Norfolk Nan, There are limitations as to what DNA can prove but by far the biggest problems are those which you have highlighted, namely not enough people test (particularly in UK), not enough people respond to enquiries, testers who may not be that interested in genealogy or have tested at th...

Hello Norfolk Nan, Generally autosomal testing, such as an Ancestry test, will only provide links back 6 generations from the subject who tested because the DNA usually becomes too diluted for earlier generations to show clearly. I'm assuming it is only an Ancestry DNA test that you have taken so I ...

Mick, Disagree we might, but it is an interesting point of debate, nevertheless. I think many people who don't have trees are probably not the genealogist in the family, or don't know how to research, or have sensitivity about their trees. They may well have taken a test for someone else or are unde...

Mick, I don't think not having a tree is the biggest bugbear at all. If a link needs investigation all you need to to do is contact the person via messaging to share or learn more, in theory. The biggest bugbear is that a great many do not reply to messages. Sad to say, but the modern "genealog...

Ah! The frustrations of DNA genealogy. Matches only appearing on Ancestry is one of my big bugbears with DNA genealogy. Good luck in trying to get them to test or upload elsewhere. I've never been very lucky (or persuasive) in getting folk to do that. Let us know how you get on.

Well, Mick, you'd have less of a guessing game if Ancestry provided a chromosome browser. It's essential for proper DNA study. That's why I advise anyone who really wants to get the most out of DNA to test* with at least one other company as well as most, if not all, have a browser which will tells ...

I'm fully in agreement with you Mick. In fact, I think it is a great shame that Ancestry is the most successful company with regard to autosomal DNA testing because so many people who test with them seem to have no idea about how to utilise DNA testing to get the most out of it. Ancestry don't offer...

Maybe someone misread or transcribed a 6 for a 0 at some point? We don't know how the information was collected. Also, years ago people often were a year out on their birth date as they weren't using it to the same extent we do today, as a means of ID, and were probably calculating backwards from th...