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…
an oft neglected genealogy & history blog
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…
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…
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…
After I got my AncestryDNA results my mother was so excited that she ordered her kit straight away. Well her results are in and SURPRISE I wasn’t switched at birth (no chance of that really…
My AncestryDNA results are in and one of the things I have been looking forward to is comparing what my DNA map looks like compared to my genea-map. My genea map, plotted using google maps…
I’ve just been a little busy what with my new job and all. Yes that’s right, I started a new job at the end of March working for a transcription company who does court reporting…
The recent announcement that Ancestry‘s DNA genealogy testing service is expanding to Australia is one I am kind of excited about. I have been contemplating genetic genealogy for a while and I will admit to…
Having worked in the same department as specialists on military history and being, in general, interested in history that makes the news; I was peripherally aware of the Fromelles Project and the attempts to identify the…