Hi Norfolk Nan
Our match was only 8.5cM, which normally makes me run a mile! We did, however, have lots of shared matches, all of them larger than our actual match eg 45cM, 174cM. Illegitimacy and adoption was involved, but eventually her match to me was via through a sister and brother my 3rd, her 4th Gt Grandparent in the early 1800s.
Some of the shared matches were agreeable to sharing some data which also helped in the search. It was finding the correct birth Father that clinched it.
We welcome any query on Who When Where. If you have previously posted it on another forum (including the old WDYTYA forum), please state this in your opening post - this will save people redoing the research which has been done before: they can look at it and possibly go further with it.
How to stop head-banging?
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Re: How to stop head-banging?
Mind-boggling! I'll never solve my knotty problem via DNA - it's part of OH's family tree and he won't do DNA. I'll have to stick with the old-fashioned way. Well done, by the way
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Norfolk Nan,
Don’t forget your children. If OH is their father, their DNA will help bypass OH and get to his ancestors that way.
(I’m assuming Nan in your username means you have grandchildren and children)
Don’t forget your children. If OH is their father, their DNA will help bypass OH and get to his ancestors that way.
(I’m assuming Nan in your username means you have grandchildren and children)
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Re: How to stop head-banging?
Mick, yes I am a nan but no, OH isn't dad Second marriage for us both and he has no offspring. I'm creating the tree for his nephews and neices, or their children, if they are interested. And because I love the hunt.
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Have you thought about the nieces and nephews? They share some DNA with OH, better than nothing
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Worth keeping in mind ... On the otherhand, I could 'work' on OH...
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Nan,
In your first post you mention some records that you've looked at. You don't mention church warden accounts, which sometimes name individual parishioners.
I was lucky enough to find a layout of pews in the Lyme Regis church warden accounts, which gave me the final piece in proving who was the father of my 3x great grandmother.
In your first post you mention some records that you've looked at. You don't mention church warden accounts, which sometimes name individual parishioners.
I was lucky enough to find a layout of pews in the Lyme Regis church warden accounts, which gave me the final piece in proving who was the father of my 3x great grandmother.
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I haven't looked at churchwarden records but I think I will now, pinefamily. Thank you for that, every idea is very useful.