I've always* used my full name as my handle when doing stuff online. Yesterday, for the second time, I was contacted by a stranger with the same surname. Now we're trying to see if there will be a match in our family heritage tree.

on the occasion of the identification of the #Schinderhannes skeleton, I've rounded up his #familyTree. No obvious connection, although several familiar places. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-robbers-family.html #familyHistory #genome #science #forensics

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#Prompt: #Progenitor
#BattleOfSedgemoor #MonmouthRebellion #FamilyTree #History #Histodon

Researching my family tree,
I found out a very strange thing.
An old progenitor to me,
Once tried to overthrow the king.

[I found out that a direct ancestor of mine was involved in the Monmouth Rebellion and fought at the Battle of Sedgemoor in an attempt to overthrow James II]

Gah! #FamilyHistory is great but frustrating!

Struggling with too many Henry Gurr people in my tree, born around the same time (1750 ish), marrying different people. And to make things worse, Henry Gurr is on both sides of my family - in the same UK county! Argh!

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On 3 September 1820, my 4 x great grandfather Matthew Cottrell was baptised at St Botolph’s without Bishopsgate, London. His parents, my 5 x great grandparents, Samuel Cottrell and Ann Baker were listed as a married couple. However, they were not married at the time.

I haven’t been to the #MyHeritage website for ages. I was surprised that they’d changed my #DNA #ancestry & added new info.

My #Cornish ancestry, which is well documented via #FamilyTree & my family’s history, has vanished & they have added that I have Breton, French, Dutch & Germanic ancestry!

Hmmm. #Wiki tells me Breton includes #Cornwall & #Devon, so - I’m a #Celt.

#Scottish & #Welsh
27.9%

#English
25.4%

#Irish
21.8%

#Breton
6.8%

#Dutch
6.4%

#French
6.1%

#Danish
3.7%

#Germanic
1.9%

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I posted this last year, but I shall do so again but this time with tags like #familyhistory #genealogy #familytree

Where were your 8 great-grandparents from?

Here's mine:

Poland
Lithuania
Latvia
Ukraine
Germany (Baden-Württemberg)
Germany (Bavaria)
USA (Ohio)
USA (Ohio)

I'm envious of those from a long local heritage. I've never lived in any of these places.

I'm tracing my #familytree using the Ancestry service.

My latest discovery, with the assistance of my good friend, is that I am descended from a Romany bloodline on my pre-adoption adoption grandmother's side.

She was called Queenie.

Her mother was Martha Amelia Lee, and it's her line that I have traced back to 1575 so far.

The family married into some other Romany lines such as the Boswells and the Coopers.

My most colourful ancestor was Elisha, who was hanged in 1766 for horse theft.

When you're on Ancestry, do you ever:
* Swear that someone else *must* have changed your tree (even though you know that's not possible)?

* Think that people are missing from your tree or that they "somehow" got disconnected from other people in your tree?

* Accept Hints from other people's trees, or maybe you used to do so, early on?

There's a good chance you have duplicates in your tree, and you might not even realize it.

A lot of Genealogists have been having problems with a glitch in Ancestry, where it creates duplicates of people already in their trees. Here's how to fix the problem now, in the easiest way possible, and how to avoid it in the future.

Do NOT delete the duplicates! This can mess up relationships in your tree, and cause you to lose sources & hint matches. Instead, try this…

#AncestryCom #FamilyTree #Research #Duplicates #Genealogist #Ancestry #Genealogy @geneadons #Geneadon #Geneadons #FamilyTrees

https://diggingintoyourfamilytree.wordpress.com/?p=294

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#Scotland resident with #Scot husband @djm_black.