Updated DNA Maps
If you’ve read this blog before you must know how much I love these things. They aren’t that much help when it comes to the nitty gritty of hunting dead people but I do love…
Quarantined
So I am in quarantine. My lovely NZ Cruise was ended early by the COVID-19 global pandemic and today we received notice that there were cases aboard the ship. So now instead of a preemptive…
Chasing Birds
While I have been chatting to my maternal grandfather’s cousins about that side of the tree, my dad has been chasing birds. Not the feathered variety, but those of his maternal ancestry. See our line…
Updated DNA mapping
So I was terrible at the 52 weeks challenge. Are we surprised? Nope. But anyway, with the increase in it’s database Ancestry’s DNA estimates are being refined so I thought I’d have a look and…
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 2 – Challenge
It was a challenge to narrow down this week’s subject because many of my ancestors have proved elusive in one way or another and are thus a challenge, or have themselves faced what can be…
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 1 – Firsts
There are many firsts that I could pull out of my research to discuss in this topic, our ‘first convict’ the ‘first person I researched’, instead we will go with a different and notable first:…
The Nancy Bird Question.
Nana’s 100th birthday was on the 7th of October and at a party of 130 odd people, the question most often directed at me was “Are we related to Nancy Bird?” My answer – “Well…
New Year, Same resolution.
Every New Year I make the same resolution – I resolve to be more organised. To actually start writing things down, to stop relying on my often scattered memory (thanks thyroid) and to be a…
DNA Mapping again
This time of my paternal ancestry. I threw the kit at Dad and told him to spit. So from Ancestry: No surprises there; well actually I was expecting it to be a little more homogeneous…
Biscuits & Beer
I have mentioned before that the Sinclair branch of my family tree has links to a certain iconic Australian biscuit maker, but it seems that same branch also has links to another iconic Australian. Samuel…