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Genetic Genealogist, regular Genealogist, and writer. Our DNA makes us unique, and binds us together 🧬 www.dnajoy.co.uk email: [email protected]
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I set myself a task on Sunday to see if I could work out how the various people called Onion who lived In Kent in the 18th and 19thC were related to each other. I'm still going!

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I told my FiL about this, he suggested their fathers might have been an onion seller and a cheese maker and encouraged the marriage to get them to start a pie business 🤣

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Kind of how genetics works. But it's a lovely image to explain the basics of DNA :)

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I'm relaunching my website in a couple of days, and at the same time a newsletter. My assistant (husband) has one thing to tweak then we're ready. The newsletter will be full of genealogy stories and DNA news :)

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In the 1740s Paul Onions married Sarah Cheese and I just had to stop work and have a fit of the giggles. That's beautiful. Bag of crisps anyone?

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I've been reading transcripts of 16thC and 17thC wills today and writing down all the people. I've joined 4 of the trees together to make this one. The wills are on mingay.one-name.net if anyone else finds a one name study fascinating. I'm just putting a tree together to see if my family connect :)

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Well that's my Saturday sorted then. Along with reading very old wills on the Mingay one name study website after getting an email about at midnight last night 😆

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#occupationoftheday is such a useful resource both for genealogists and writers of historical fiction. I've tried to buy books of occupations before and they don't scratch the surface

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In DNA Genealogy you might start with what we call quick and dirty trees. Lots of them. But now I've found my paternal tree I'm working back through and firming up those roots, making sure my evidence is watertight.

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Really useful info here

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Definitely, in fact today it got so complicated I need one of those massive glass boards they write on in detective stories. I can't even navigate around it on Ancestry anymore, just have to do a search for the next person I need to look at!

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I got some A3 layout paper recently and it came in handy today. See my latest blog post at www.dnajoy.co.uk for more about this but essentially it's a complicated tree with at least 1 double relationship going on.

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I started making a serious effort to gather information from my inlaws, after casually doing my husband's tree and finding a set of siblings for a Gustav who might have been 'the' Gustav, and showing my FiL. He saw the youngest sibling name and exclaimed "oh yes, I remember great aunt Pally"

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I need to have another look later because I can't read the names well on my phone. I would expect my Twort family to turn up in this archive somewhere so it could be very interesting

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