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With the DNA test, it's spit in a tube and send it off. Ancestry is the biggest database and you can download your DNA file from there and upload to other sites such as MyHeritage and GEDmatch but you can't upload a DNA file from another company to Ancestry. When it comes back, you have your ethnici...

Would the daughter be willing to do an AncestryDNA test? By looking at her DNA matches, you may very well identify it

Corinne Brazier is her name. She is active in the Birmingham Family History and Genealogy group on facebook

WMpeelers website will provide contact details for the West Mids police archivist - she should be able to help you find out all sorts about his career, if they have the records

I can never remember the lady's name but she is very helpful and is on facebook too.

Thank you both Elsie Rankle 1906-1996 was my great grand mother. She is on the BCC site. I have found a chunk of DNA matches through Bertha Parsons, her mother but have diddly squat at the moment through the Rankles. I’m keen to find out if it is just that no Rankle descendants have tested, or if th...

Any Rankle descendants out there? Particularly those who have done a DNA test!

I am struggling to identify my matches through my Rankle line so I wondered if there was anyone else I could compare to

By way of final update, we have now found some DNA matches with people who have other members of the Jones family in their tree. So Ann Servis / Jarvis was almost certainly Ann Jones from Haselor.

Thank you again!

Thank you again - I think we have cracked this and you were right re these census’ Looks like Ann’s surname was Jones. Born 1825 in Haselor. Had a sister called Catharine born 1823 so that fits the 1851 census. Ann ultimately ends up in Great Alne from 1871 census onwards which is where William Jame...

I've found a direct descendant of Ellen on Ancestry so fingers crossed they can fill in some gaps too

thank you again

(We think Jarvis may be Lewis now - blast that elaborate handwriting!)

Oh brilliant - thank you so much !

Yes we have his marriage - from 1868 when he is in Lye, we are sorted. It was just that gap we couldn't find our way through

He was my 3x great grandfather (and Mary Jane Toon my 3x great grand mother )

Hi Does anyone have any ideas or could offer any help with a brick wall I have please? My 3x great grandfather was William James Morgan. He was born 08/07/1846 in Sandford St Martin’s, Oxfordshire. His parents were William and Ann Morgan (nee Servis / Jarvis). The GRO says Servis but I read the birt...

Have you worked out your first match yet?

I don’t have many Shared Ancestor Hints but have now worked out 26 of my matches

You can upload your dna to gedmatch, ftdna and MyHeritage to mop up more but I waited until I had got my head around Ancestry first

Re your ethnicity on your blog, they're really not that useful for the ethnicity side of things. When you upload your DNA to other sites (which you will as you will become addicted lol) you'll see that the ethnicity changes greatly. That's because it's based partly on where your matches live vs wher...

Resolving my DNA matches is my current obsession LOL

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