Hi Sharon. I have my ancestry kit sitting on my desk. I am from the Edmund
Keane and Byrne mob and Richard and Mary Jones are my people. When I get it
done i will let you know!
Leisa
On 25 October 2016 3:15:18 pm AWST, "Sharon. McBride" <mcbridez@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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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