[Albion] DNA My heritage and Ancestry

[lasvegan]

Triple post. 2am is the NSC witching hour.

 

[lasvegan]

I’m no biologist but that sounds like more than one affair to me.

I have a half brother 11 days younger than me! Super nice guy, I wish I knew him growing up…

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I’ve been on Ancestry for three years now. A maternal cousin has been delving into our side of the family for years. I knew there were young deaths on her side of the family, like a brother who died aged four. My mother has also lost a new born, and my half brother 21.

What I didn’t know was a similar thing happened on my Dad’s side. A baby boy aged 4 months died, and a girl aged 15 months. The latter died of diphtheria.
It was common for most families to lose children then.

My DNA is 67% South East England, 27% Germanic/Dutch, and 6% Scandinavian

 

[albionalba]

I'm a long-standing user of Ancestry, Find My Past and 23 and Me. I've found some amazing things along the way but one of the most useful dimensions to add colour is to use your research alongside newspaper archives. The one accessed via FMP is quite good but there are other routes in to the same thing. I found a half-brother my mother never knew about and a whole lot of info on my grandfather that led to him having a Wkipedia entry. I found a great grandfather whose cutter from Rye sank off the Norfolk coast. I found great grandmother pub landladies in Hastings and London, whole families from Udimore and around subject to forced emigration to Oz as parish poor (and I've now met some of their descendants) and many more stories - (it's very easy to bore others with your family history btw so I'll stop the anecdotes right now!) Don't think your relatives aren't 'famous' enough to end up in a news story - court reports, travel, politics, unions, shops, sports etc all have extensive coverage in the UK, US and Australia - I think of the newspaper archive as a Google of the 19th and early 20th c! It may sound OTT but learning about my ancestry has totally changed my self-perception and given me a real insight into who I am. Half drunken son-of-the-soil from Kent and Sussex peasantry and half trouble-at-mill MIdlands / northern industrial / methodism....a true yin and yang of 19c life.

Always happy to help / suggest on this subject via DM.

 

[AlbionBro]

I know the names of both of my half siblings. Due to privacy laws it would be unwise for me to identify them. I will strike up the bottle sooner or later.

It would be ironic if he/she is an annoying poster and I have stood/sat next them at the goldstone/withdean/Amex.

Well I can help you a bit.... it's not me!

Perhaps a poll ? "who was born in 1962 on here"
I would be glad to have another brother, in more ways than one!

Good luck.

 

[Hamilton]

My father did loads of work on our family tree. Got round to reading some of it recently. He got back to late 17th century on my Mother's side.

On my father's side I discovered that my great grandfather spoke fluent Yiddish and Romany and nobody really knows why. North London, so perhaps he had lots of business dealings with those communities.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I was at Moulsecoomb Senior School in the 70's and Susan Coomber was in my class, any relative of yours ?

More than likely but I wouldn't know.
Perhaps I will try to find out at some point.
I worked with someone at George the Chemist in Portslade in the 70s who claimed she knew loads of my Coomberesque relatives in Hove.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

My father did loads of work on our family tree. Got round to reading some of it recently. He got back to late 17th century on my Mother's side.

On my father's side I discovered that my great grandfather spoke fluent Yiddish and Romany and nobody really knows why. North London, so perhaps he had lots of business dealings with those communities.

Let's hope he wasn't a bit Spursy, though, eh?

 

[Nitram]

Did the DNA with Ancestry. I already knew a lot of my background around adoption.
Tracked two half sisters in the USA, and have had very successful reunion with both. Found out my birth mother’s background is Irish.
My wife is heavily invested in researching her side through Ancestry too.

 

[SweatyMexican]

I have been researching my ancestry and took a DNA test. My DNA matched with two half siblings both on myheritage and ancestry.

One born in Worthing in 1962 and the other born in London 1962, my dad had an affair.

I know that one of my siblings is an Albion fan. I don't have the bottle to contact the person directly at the moment but would like to.

Has any fellow northstanders unearthed some skeletons whilst researching ancestry and what actions have they taken.

Oh yes. I took a 23andMe test “for fun” and completely upended what I thought I knew… and what my whole family did!

 

[BrightonCottager]

I found out that my dad had a great aunt who married her widower uncle and had a child soon after - possibly the marriage was to save her reputation if she'd got pregnant as a spinster - or there is another less savoury explanation. My dad's father's family were originally (after the 18th century, anyway) from the Pimlico slums then moved to Fulham in the mid 19th century. One of my dad's aunts lived her whole life in the same house in Fulham, and only died in the early 2000s. I don't know who got the proceeds of that sale (certainly not my parents) and the house has sold for millions since. My dad's mum was originally from Fife (I'm 32% Scotch) but the family moved to Putney in the 19th century where she met my grandad around WW1 time.

I've had less success on Ancestry.com tracing my mum's family as they had very common names and came from the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire, and it's very easy to confuse parents with the same or similar names.

 

[Hamilton]

Let's hope he wasn't a bit Spursy, though, eh?

My Wow is self realization

My father had no interest in football whatsoever, but always said that elements of his London family were spurs.

My grandfather on my mother’s side was a docker in London. South of the river, he supported Millwall. So it doesn’t get better.

 

[Motogull]

My Wow is self realization

My father had no interest in football whatsoever, but always said that elements of his London family were spurs.

My grandfather on my mother’s side was a docker in London. South of the river, he supported Millwall. So it doesn’t get better.

I would say that it does.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

My Wow is self realization

My father had no interest in football whatsoever, but always said that elements of his London family were spurs.

My grandfather on my mother’s side was a docker in London. South of the river, he supported Millwall. So it doesn’t get better.

On my father's side. Identical.
But he then fought in the Boer war and ended up a pub landlord and chairman of their union.
No one likes us. We don't care

 

[albionalba]

. My dad's mum was originally from Fife

Just for anyone with Scottish roots you won’t easily find them on Ancestry etc as 99% of records are retained in a Scot gov website called Scotland’s People which has a really mean pay and search model that can be a real pain. If you do have gaps in English ancestry though it can be worth checking if a similar situation to @BrightonCottager exists but hard to do without decent info and a bit chicken and egg. There is one free Scottish census that could be a starting point.

 

[topbanana36]

Well I can help you a bit.... it's not me!

Perhaps a poll ? "who was born in 1962 on here"
I would be glad to have another brother, in more ways than one!

Good luck.

You can start it. I always wanted a brother it appears I have one. The question would be who was born in april-june 1962 in west sussex on here.

 

[BrightonCottager]

One advantage of doing the Ancestry.com dna test is that you may get contacted with someone (normally a third cousin or something in 'the colonies') who has done a shedful of research and traced your family tree back many generations.

Another Cottager friend of mine in Brighton is really into this and has gone back centuries finding all kinds of people and meeting up with second cousins all over the UK. It seems to be her main hobby.

 

[AlbionBro]

You can start it. I always wanted a brother it appears I have one. The question would be who was born in april-june 1962 in west sussex on here.

Done.

 

[albionalba]

One advantage of doing the Ancestry.com dna test is that you may get contacted with someone (normally a third cousin or something in 'the colonies') who has done a shedful of research and traced your family tree back many generations.

Another Cottager friend of mine in Brighton is really into this and has gone back centuries finding all kinds of people and meeting up with second cousins all over the UK. It seems to be her main hobby.

Yes this really is a thing and often folk with immigrant ancestors in Oz and North America have a higher level of interest in finding out about roots. I have met maternal and paternal descendants who've been visiting locations in the UK relevant to their ancestry. It's interesting to see how families that were shipped out of Kent and Sussex as parish poor in the 19th c. endured horrendous passages at sea of many months, losing family members along the way and facing hardship and disease on arrival yet mange to transform over a few generations to be living good lives. All salutary reminders of those suffering similar displacement and loss of roots indignities in present times......

 

[Light_Bulb]

I found out when I was 16 that my real father was a sperm donor. I never thought much of it as by then my parents had split up and I was raised by my step-dad.
I was always a bit curious as to why I'm a bit darker skinned than the rest of my family and given my mum was adopted was also interested in my genetic family tree (which is more like a twig).

My partner bought me Ancestry last year and I did it. Turns out I have a brother and three half-sisters, all via the same sperm donor but each of us raised with different families as he'd donated several times (yes sounds like a Netflix documentary)!

We're all in touch and have met once. I certainly don't I feel like we are family. There is certainly no 'feelings' there. But it's nice to know we share DNA and very interesting exercise in seeing what nature vs nature does given we were all raised differently. We're still in touch and I guess we'll see what happens in the future.

Sadly none of us have been able to trace the donor and I can't figure out a Venn diagram of the low-percentage matches to see if there is a common denominator!

More interestingly (to me) is that I always assumed I was part Mediterranean due to my skin colour. Turns out I'm 0% med and 50% Ashkenazi Jew!