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Thank - sounds very plausible

My old folk are long gone, I'm afraid, although my brother and sister are still with us. Would there be any point in getting one of them to do a DNA test too?

Good idea on trying another couple of services.

Hi MY DNA results suggest that my lot mostly originate form East Anglia - see "DNA ALL" attachment. If I click on "Maternal", I get an identical map; if I click on "Paternal", however, I get nothing -see 2nd attachment. This makes no sense to me. BTW my father's grandfa...

Here it is: :

Hi My father, who dies over a decade ago, always told us that he volunteered for the Navy as soon as he could after war was declared in 1939. He was categoric about this, telling us that he and 3 of his friends from the Adventure Scouts volunteered on the same day. Dad's Naval Service record, howeve...

Yesterday we visited the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge - fabulous place, with a brilliant exhibition "Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest" on until 8th Jan - see it f you can.
More at
https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/visit- ... ct-protest

Hi I've made very good progress on my family tree, but I'm struggling to find out much about my 2nd great-grandfather John Canfield (b c1825, St Pancras; d after 1891). He didn't marry my 2nd great grandmother Sarah Douglass, but his name appears on their daughter Alice's birth certificate. John was...

Thanks gardener, that makes sense - in later life, John Canfield was an engineer, then an engine fitter

Hi there

Could anyone decipher the highlighted parts of the attached extract from the 1841 census?

Thanks!

GPB

Thanks for the help!

Hi Could anyone help with the highlighted parts of the attached marriage certificate extract? - Residence - possibly Shakespeare something? - Name - is the prefix "Rd" for "Reverend" ? (No evidence elsewhere of the bride's father him being a man of the cloth. He may have been bor...

Thank you!

Hi

Please see attached

Names are Richard & Elizabeth Meadows, but what are the other two entries?

"Friendly Place"?
"????? Servant?"

Thanks!

Another two: Maidstone Museum (once it's open again - Kent's all in Tier 3) m A really excellent museum in a lovely building, with very helpful staff. Well worth a special visit, allow 2 hours. Wheal Martyn clay works, Cornwall m Good exhibits, great to wander around outside on a nice day. Fine café...

rockyfowler wrote:If you need more help it would be best to give more details ? Census date and name of people - it would give researchers more to go at Kind Regards RF

Good idea.

1851, William & Mary Buck

Garry