Genealogy
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There’s more than a few on this forum that have the exact same genes. Amazing coincidence!
On a serious note, I’m not but my mum was. She passed away last year and has a whole drawer full of notes and stuff about relatives of ours that we have all over the world. It’s one of the things my sister and I have not disposed of but it’s going to be saved in case our children or grandchildren ever want to take it up.
On a serious note, I’m not but my mum was. She passed away last year and has a whole drawer full of notes and stuff about relatives of ours that we have all over the world. It’s one of the things my sister and I have not disposed of but it’s going to be saved in case our children or grandchildren ever want to take it up.
The best starting point is family knowledge. Plus there is always (usually) someone in the extended family who has done a lot of research. I got back to Oliver Cromwell that way but bear in mind there are dozens of potential lines when you are that far back.
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My late wife was. Qualified in everything going, ran conferences on DNA in genealogy, etc.
She had thousands of books I'll now be pitching into a skip.
Hundreds of detailed old maps, too.
She paid to have her tree drawn out on vellum by a calligrapher.
Then a few years later worked out that one of the ancestors wasn't married. Ooops.
He family feigns interest untill I tell them to come and get the big vellum tree.
I can't see the point - I mean they're all dead... Now she is too and nobody cares a jot about her ancestors.
She had thousands of books I'll now be pitching into a skip.
Hundreds of detailed old maps, too.
She paid to have her tree drawn out on vellum by a calligrapher.
Then a few years later worked out that one of the ancestors wasn't married. Ooops.
He family feigns interest untill I tell them to come and get the big vellum tree.
I can't see the point - I mean they're all dead... Now she is too and nobody cares a jot about her ancestors.
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OK - bit of background.
I'm not looking to get into genealogy [ASIDE] why isn't it geneology? [/ASIDE], or research my family tree or anything.
My brother-in-law has just become a great-uncle, and my sister a great-aunt, because one of his brothers has become a grandfather.
I'm curious to know what relation this new person is to my son. Clearly no blood tie, but there's kinship of some sort, and I wondered what it was - some sort of x'th cousin y'th removed, I guess.
I was just looking to find someone who understands how these things work, or could point me at a website where I could define a chunk of family tree and have it tell me what the relationship is.
I'm not looking to get into genealogy [ASIDE] why isn't it geneology? [/ASIDE], or research my family tree or anything.
My brother-in-law has just become a great-uncle, and my sister a great-aunt, because one of his brothers has become a grandfather.
I'm curious to know what relation this new person is to my son. Clearly no blood tie, but there's kinship of some sort, and I wondered what it was - some sort of x'th cousin y'th removed, I guess.
I was just looking to find someone who understands how these things work, or could point me at a website where I could define a chunk of family tree and have it tell me what the relationship is.
Is that right? 
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just google it
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