Category: Researching
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Tracing the wider Howes diaspora via DNA
Back to 1600s, forwards by train
Back to 1600s, forwards by train Cutlock’s two DNA articles so far have only mentioned Y-DNA testing in the Notes section. Now it’s time to justify the cost of a 37 marker Y-DNA test with FamilyTreeDNA, shortly followed by an upgrade to 111 markers {1}. The initial test {2}, actioned a little later than the more popular autosomal test from Ancestry, was done in the expectation that “the Howes one-name study group … should have quite a few tests from others with Besthorpe relations already there”. » »
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Exploring DNA results and tools
Clusters and chromosomes
Clusters and chromosomes Almost two months on from first looking at DNA results, it can look like delving deeper has not come up with much. But there are some intriguing results, and it is interesting to see what the new tools and processes can come up with. Widening the net Several of the DNA testing companies allow you to upload an Ancestry DNA autosomal data file, which will provide matches against their own database of testers for free. However, the full features on their website’s » »
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DNA matches to place and people
Time to do some tests
Time to do some tests Results from your author’s Ancestry DNA test arrived late on New Years Day. Only a month after posting it off, and no great shocks to kick off 2024! {1} Community connections Ancestry’s large database of DNA tests allows it to produce various analyses. The ‘ethnicity’ breakdown wasn’t an important reason for taking the test, but there was always the chance of it revealing some hidden migration source. In the event, the overall breakdown by Ancestry groupings, as shown in the screen » »
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Sideways and backwards for the Neals
A different root to the Norwich line
A different root to the Norwich line Other family history researchers with an interest in the same Neal line as Cutlock & Co have identified Henry Neal and Elizabeth Gedge as ancestors, via the couple’s son Robert – they would be our four times great grandparents. Robert is referenced in the marriage record of two times great grandfather Robert Neal (born about 1816, Norwich) as his father, with a trade of ‘printer’. Trying to firm up this connection, however, hits a barrier in that little else » »
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Specialist websites
The main Research Links page covers sites with a specific geographical focus, main subscription sites and lots more. Also see Cutlock & Co Occupations page. Peoples, faiths Romany and Traveller Family History Society, Gypsy Genealogy, Borrow’s Gypsies Blog Rootschat has a dedicated discussion board for Travelling People. Fairground Ancestors site, National Fairground and Circus Archive. Jewish: Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. The database for the Jewish population in 1851 has moved to JCR-UK (Jewish Communities and Records). Hidden Treasure » »
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FTM 2014
Using Family Tree Maker 2014 – Ancestry/MacKiev
Using Family Tree Maker 2014 – Ancestry/MacKiev Family Tree Maker 2017 has now been released, with new technology for the connection to Ancestry for sync and other functions. So Cutlock & Co has split out pages for FTM 2014 (below), as well as FTM 2012, versions. These versions are effectively obsolete unless you don’t use any features which connect with Ancestry – search, record merge, hints, sync. Other internet access has also gone as of July 2017 – error messages misleadingly imply that there is » »