I have been a user/subscriber of Find My Past since 2009 and continue to really like this site. I subscribe because it is just easier to always have it at my fingertips whenever I am doing a standard search for anything (in my case all my ancestry is from England thus far on paper). Now that all the big search companies have taken on DNA projects I wonder if Find My Past will make that leap as well. It would be interesting to see Living DNA work with Find My Past I must admit and just wanted to throw that thought into the wind.
I have two sets of results at Living DNA - one for myself and one for one of my brothers (he kindly volunteered to do that as he has with all the other testing that I have done - AncestryDNA, FT DNA, My Heritage, 23 and Me, Britains DNA (no longer operating and they bought Ethnoancestry which I had also tested my brother at years ago; I also did a complete workup at BritainsDNA for him), National Genographic Project and Sorenson. He and I have done a lot of testing through the years since we first got into DNA testing in 2005. I await one set of results I have waited for for a long time - Big Y. I always meant to just buy it but then something else would come up for testing and I just didn't do it but now I await those results. We already know from all of these testing companies that our yDNA is quite ancient to the British Isles. This will simply give me more detail in that regard than I have from National Genographic Project and Britains DNA.
The results at Ancestry from autosomal DNA testing have been really useful (especially in my husband's case but gradually as more and more English people test I am getting close matches). I have subscribed to Ancestry since 2004 and find it to be a very valuable service as well although generally more so in my husband's research but they do have some databases not on Find My Past.
My Heritage is also a very interesting service and the addition of DNA testing there may prove to be very handy as well. I think the option of just having it along with matching is a great service. I have been a subscriber to My Heritage since 2013 when we went to Who Do You Think You Are 2013 Live in London, UK. My husband has found a number of useful searches there with his European ancestry - namely Germany, France, The Netherlands and Denmark.
I used to buy fiche from the various Record Offices in England and then read them in a microfiche reader but I must admit it is a lot nicer to have these services create their large databases of all this material with a link to the original page. At 72 it saves me a lot of time and saves my eyes for other close detail work.
Showing posts with label Ethnoancestry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethnoancestry. Show all posts
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Blake Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4, October 2013
Blake Newsletter
yDNA Blake Study
HeritageDNA (a UK company that purchased Ethnoancestry) offered a special price to Ethnoancestry customers so I purchased their Chromo2 and autosomal testing for my brother’s sample. I was hoping that it would be available to talk about in this newsletter but will have to wait for another one. It should be interesting to see what comes from that testing.
There is an I2b study at FT DNA that members of that haplogroup could join if they are interested and the join link is here:
https://my.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?act=groupjoin&group=I2b1&vGroup=m223-y-clan
I haven’t particularly pushed joining other sites primarily because I am busy with wills at the moment and not really thinking a lot about yDNA other than how to encourage more Blake descendants to test. Bill Bleak (administrator of the Blake yDNA study) and I have been talking about offering ten free 12 marker tests to people who submit a five generation ancestry chart. However, we do not want to get all the same line so it is difficult to decide how to do that. But as always, the best chance of learning about your Blake line is by testing your yDNA. If you match one of the groups in the test then you have a good idea on your line’s “resting spot” in some cases but not all yet.
The intention of the I2b study at FT DNA is to pinpoint locations for particular groups of alleles. Thus far it has not been successful but as the study grows the possibility increases. I have belonged to the I2a study for several years and probably knowing my origin is helpful to the people who are closeby although I noticed in looking at the I1b that most of the groups had members from Northern Europe, British Isles and Scandinavia.
Wills
I continue transcribing Wills and perhaps the next newsletter will be devoted to some of the interesting relationships that I have found. The set of wills that I am doing at the moment are for the Galway Blake family living in Somerset. A surprise as I did not realize that they were there in the early part of the 1800s. I am also trying to sort out the Blake family in Minehead and this has proven to be a formidable task. As I transcribe all the wills for this group there may be a few answers.
Legacy
Recently I gave a talk on the Blake one name study at a Conference and in preparing for the talk I realized that I could see my legacy to the Blake study quite clearly. Ultimately, I plan to transcribe all the Blake wills that I can locate and thus far I have nearly 2000 Blake wills. Once completed I intend to put them into an *.pdf file and upload them to Archive.org. Only the transcription and discussion will be uploaded as there is and will be crown copyright on the will images for ever.
A second part of my legacy will be the marriages from 1837 to 1911 – 30,000 – of them in England itself and I hope to have a goodly number of them with spousal and other information. The mediaeval database on the Blake one name study website will be enhanced as time passes. Unfortunately the website is down at the moment due to transfer to a new internet provider. I hope to have it up by the end of October.
Next Issue
I am always looking for new information to put into the newsletter and welcome submissions from Blakes around the world. Submit to my email address:
kippeeb@rogers.com
yDNA Blake Study
HeritageDNA (a UK company that purchased Ethnoancestry) offered a special price to Ethnoancestry customers so I purchased their Chromo2 and autosomal testing for my brother’s sample. I was hoping that it would be available to talk about in this newsletter but will have to wait for another one. It should be interesting to see what comes from that testing.
There is an I2b study at FT DNA that members of that haplogroup could join if they are interested and the join link is here:
https://my.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?act=groupjoin&group=I2b1&vGroup=m223-y-clan
I haven’t particularly pushed joining other sites primarily because I am busy with wills at the moment and not really thinking a lot about yDNA other than how to encourage more Blake descendants to test. Bill Bleak (administrator of the Blake yDNA study) and I have been talking about offering ten free 12 marker tests to people who submit a five generation ancestry chart. However, we do not want to get all the same line so it is difficult to decide how to do that. But as always, the best chance of learning about your Blake line is by testing your yDNA. If you match one of the groups in the test then you have a good idea on your line’s “resting spot” in some cases but not all yet.
The intention of the I2b study at FT DNA is to pinpoint locations for particular groups of alleles. Thus far it has not been successful but as the study grows the possibility increases. I have belonged to the I2a study for several years and probably knowing my origin is helpful to the people who are closeby although I noticed in looking at the I1b that most of the groups had members from Northern Europe, British Isles and Scandinavia.
Wills
I continue transcribing Wills and perhaps the next newsletter will be devoted to some of the interesting relationships that I have found. The set of wills that I am doing at the moment are for the Galway Blake family living in Somerset. A surprise as I did not realize that they were there in the early part of the 1800s. I am also trying to sort out the Blake family in Minehead and this has proven to be a formidable task. As I transcribe all the wills for this group there may be a few answers.
Legacy
Recently I gave a talk on the Blake one name study at a Conference and in preparing for the talk I realized that I could see my legacy to the Blake study quite clearly. Ultimately, I plan to transcribe all the Blake wills that I can locate and thus far I have nearly 2000 Blake wills. Once completed I intend to put them into an *.pdf file and upload them to Archive.org. Only the transcription and discussion will be uploaded as there is and will be crown copyright on the will images for ever.
A second part of my legacy will be the marriages from 1837 to 1911 – 30,000 – of them in England itself and I hope to have a goodly number of them with spousal and other information. The mediaeval database on the Blake one name study website will be enhanced as time passes. Unfortunately the website is down at the moment due to transfer to a new internet provider. I hope to have it up by the end of October.
Next Issue
I am always looking for new information to put into the newsletter and welcome submissions from Blakes around the world. Submit to my email address:
kippeeb@rogers.com
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