Hi All,
Times sure have changed over the years since I first started researching the
family history and up at the Battye Library and a Wags volunteer showed me the
DIctionary of WA with an entry for great great granddad and I asked her "What's
a Parkhurst Boy". From then on I was hooked, searching films and microfiche,
indexes in the back of books of district histories and ordering films from LDS
and waiting eagerly for weeks for them to arrive. And now the new trend of DNA
testing. Never dreamed back then I would be doing that. Just got my results
last week from an Ancestry test I did and it is certainly both fascinating and
frustrating. So much to learn but interesting all the same . I probably
wouldn't have done it except that distant cousins in USA wanted me to test as
several of them had done it and wanted more of us to test. Seems to be far more
popular in America as the American relatives were getting between 500 to 800
matches of fourth cousin or closer, I got 55 and one English relative got 80. I
did get a match with four of the five I expected to match with so that's
something, they don't have to disown me. I have no idea though as yet how I
connect with some people who have come in as second or third cousins.
Out of curiosity, are there any of my relies on the list who have done a test
and who did you test with? Do you have your results up on Ancestry or Gedmatch?
Any of my Richard an Mary Jones descendants (arrived on the Nancy 1830)
Edmund Keane Byrne descendants
John an Sarah Woods descendants (arrived on City of Bristol)
If so would love to hear if we have a match.
Sharon
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