Spent a few days with my sister Kay recently. She's downsizing - selling her 4-bedroom house and moving into this wonderful retirement village in Canberra.
Apart from that little interlude, I've been spending hours and hours every day on ancestors. Am making the most exciting discoveries. I got my DNA results back and now I want the man I think is descended from my father's father (well, his sister, as the man himself had no children other than my father, so far as I can work out) to have the test, too. That way my 99% suspicion will be proved either right or wrong.
No surprises with the DNA: 35% Great Britain, 27% Ireland, Europe West 26%, European Jewish 4% (my father's father), Iberian Peninsula 3%, Italy/Greece 2%, the rest not worth a mention.
I've got back as far as 1400 on the Mounsey line, the wealthy family from Patterdale Hall. Winifred, it's on the shores of Ullswater.
It seems another line of the family, the Dodds, were wealthy landowners, too, here in NSW. One of them married a Mounsey daugher. There were several properties established by them which nowadays have become the names of suburbs or country areas.
I plan to take a little trip soon to take photos of headstones and track down the original properties.
Apart from that little interlude, I've been spending hours and hours every day on ancestors. Am making the most exciting discoveries. I got my DNA results back and now I want the man I think is descended from my father's father (well, his sister, as the man himself had no children other than my father, so far as I can work out) to have the test, too. That way my 99% suspicion will be proved either right or wrong.
No surprises with the DNA: 35% Great Britain, 27% Ireland, Europe West 26%, European Jewish 4% (my father's father), Iberian Peninsula 3%, Italy/Greece 2%, the rest not worth a mention.
I've got back as far as 1400 on the Mounsey line, the wealthy family from Patterdale Hall. Winifred, it's on the shores of Ullswater.
It seems another line of the family, the Dodds, were wealthy landowners, too, here in NSW. One of them married a Mounsey daugher. There were several properties established by them which nowadays have become the names of suburbs or country areas.
I plan to take a little trip soon to take photos of headstones and track down the original properties.
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