The ten most popular posts on my blog which commenced in November 2008. John Reid gave me the thought to do that as a blog post when I checked out Anglo-Celtic Roots this morning. The first post below is actually a list of the ten most popular posts at that time of writing almost a year and a half ago. The list at that time showed that most people were looking at my Blake blogs but these blogs listed below are principally material items. Lists of items that I have extracted from various documents that I hold plus one rather long story on the Rashleigh family of Devon and Cornwall. The H11 item gets viewed a lot because I have a search tool built into my H11 haplogroup study that will capture that particular article everytime someone looks at my H11 information and follows the search. The two wills at the bottom are interesting. Johanne Pencombe's will was always a very used item which means that people researching Pincombe/Pinkham are looking at my blog. The other Blake will amongst hundreds of others that I have transcribed (and I will be getting back to that!) is a mystery as to why it gets looked at so often. But I suspect it is because there is a family tree on World Connect and it was a large family where some members went to Australia. The greatest percentage of Blake individuals per million in any country live in Australia.
My next blog on the Pincombe family will be very very interesting. I have come to some rather interesting thoughts with regard to my mother's family which stretches back to 1485 at North Molton, Devon but they came there from somewhere else with Lord de la Zouch and I think I may have found that somewhere else with rather a twist to it. More to come on that particular story and it involves a yDNA match between my 5th cousin in Australia and an individual who lives in Scandinavia and can trace his line there back into the 1700s thus far but doesn't think his line is early Scandinavian.
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http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2014/02/100000-page-views-26th-february-2014.html
Feb 26, 2014 Viewed: 1303 times
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http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2011/05/welch-at-rugeley-staffordshire-and.html
May 24, 2011 Viewed: 977 times
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http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2010/01/siderfin-family.html
Jan 20, 2010 Viewed 465 times
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http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2011/08/visitation-of-devon-1564-1620-and-1620.html
Aug 31, 2011 Viewed 407 times
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http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2013/11/h11-haplogroup.html
Nov 5, 2013 Vied 403 times
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http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2011/08/rashleigh-family-of-devon-and-cornwall.html
Aug 14, 2011 Viewed 394 times
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http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2011/10/transcription-of-old-middle-and-modern.html
Oct 30, 2011 Viewed 348 times
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http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2011/09/continuing-to-work-away-on-north-molton.html
Sep 19, 2011 Viewed 338 times
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http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2012/05/will-of-john-blake-gentleman-of-portsea.html
May 9, 2012 Viewed 315 times
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http://kippeeb.blogspot.ca/2011/07/will-of-johanne-pencombe-widow-of-east.html
Jul 31, 2011 Viewed 234 times
Showing posts with label John Reid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Reid. Show all posts
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Reply to John Reid's Affinity Poll and one decade of researching
John Reid of Anglo Celtic Roots' post on Affinity set me to thinking and initially I was just going to comment after doing his poll but decided instead to blog on it myself.
http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2014/03/affinity-poll.html
When John Reid first published the comment by Igor Stravinsky I was thinking that I would be in agreement. But as I thought more about it, I realized that having grown up with my grandfather living with us (and my other grandmother nearby) I do feel much closer to my family that I grew up with then I feel to those people that I never knew personally but that my parents and grandparents talked about often enough actually.
They made me very aware of those ancestors (and they knew their history back three or four generations on most lines (my mother actually knew her Pincombe line back five generations rather well and bits of knowledge further back)) but I didn't actually feel close to them as a child (was just aware of them) nor do I now having studied them now for ten years.
My grandfather, I now realize although did not realize it as a child of eight when he died, was passing on the knowledge of his Blake family because he realized that we, here in Canada, represented his Blake line coming down from his father Edward Blake. My father was the only male grandson bearing the surname Blake. Edward and his wife Maria Jane Knight had twelve children but the war was to claim the only other Blake male (and he did not leave any sons) and so my brothers have become the last of the Blake line coming down from Edward. I do not have any Blake nephews so the rather unique signature of this line ends with them. However, there are other Blake families descendant of the father of Edward Blake, John Blake (and his wife Anne Farmer), and hopefully they have sons to carry on this ancient line of yDNA.
Deer Hunters is the name given to my earliest ancestors in the British Isles by BritainsDNA and in my imagination I can visualize our line going back in the Andover Hampshire area to the times when the ice sheets were rapidly retreating and they were pursuing their hunter gather activities. My big curiosity is why did they chose Blake as their surname. Blake as a surname can be traced back in the British Isles to the early 1200s thus far. Was there a marriage of my line with a line that carried the Blake surname so that that male with perhaps no surname took on the surname of his wife. It is an intriguing thought and is perhaps, as I now realize, what impels me forward with this Blake one name study.
Your post reminded me that I have now been studying my ancestors for an entire decade! I feel akin to people who came to genealogy with the computer age and DNA - for me they are absolutely necessary tools to do genealogy.
http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2014/03/affinity-poll.html
When John Reid first published the comment by Igor Stravinsky I was thinking that I would be in agreement. But as I thought more about it, I realized that having grown up with my grandfather living with us (and my other grandmother nearby) I do feel much closer to my family that I grew up with then I feel to those people that I never knew personally but that my parents and grandparents talked about often enough actually.
They made me very aware of those ancestors (and they knew their history back three or four generations on most lines (my mother actually knew her Pincombe line back five generations rather well and bits of knowledge further back)) but I didn't actually feel close to them as a child (was just aware of them) nor do I now having studied them now for ten years.
My grandfather, I now realize although did not realize it as a child of eight when he died, was passing on the knowledge of his Blake family because he realized that we, here in Canada, represented his Blake line coming down from his father Edward Blake. My father was the only male grandson bearing the surname Blake. Edward and his wife Maria Jane Knight had twelve children but the war was to claim the only other Blake male (and he did not leave any sons) and so my brothers have become the last of the Blake line coming down from Edward. I do not have any Blake nephews so the rather unique signature of this line ends with them. However, there are other Blake families descendant of the father of Edward Blake, John Blake (and his wife Anne Farmer), and hopefully they have sons to carry on this ancient line of yDNA.
Deer Hunters is the name given to my earliest ancestors in the British Isles by BritainsDNA and in my imagination I can visualize our line going back in the Andover Hampshire area to the times when the ice sheets were rapidly retreating and they were pursuing their hunter gather activities. My big curiosity is why did they chose Blake as their surname. Blake as a surname can be traced back in the British Isles to the early 1200s thus far. Was there a marriage of my line with a line that carried the Blake surname so that that male with perhaps no surname took on the surname of his wife. It is an intriguing thought and is perhaps, as I now realize, what impels me forward with this Blake one name study.
Your post reminded me that I have now been studying my ancestors for an entire decade! I feel akin to people who came to genealogy with the computer age and DNA - for me they are absolutely necessary tools to do genealogy.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Comment - Anglo Celtic Roots
John Reid in his blog Anglo-Celtic Roots (http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2013/12/britainsdna.html) mentioned my testing at BritainsDNA. The following is my comment back to him in that regard:
The All my Ancestry results have now come in at BritainsDNA for my brother and I may blog on them tomorrow. They are most interesting. Again the Family Finder results at FT DNA and the All my Ancestry results are complimentary. However the ancestral depth is much greater with the BritainsDNA results. My brother at FT DNA showed only European ancestry (including the British Isles) as 100% whereas I showed 93% Orcadian (British Isles only) and 7% Middle East (which includes up into the Steppes (Ukraine/Georgia/Ossettia). The All My Ancestry did pick up the Middle East ancestry for my brother albeit in very very small amounts. The colour charts in All My Ancestry are fabulous actually. Since I tested my brother at Ethnoancestry they offered the opportunity to do all the testing at a reduced price last July.
I am tempted to do my DNA at BritainsDNA as well just to see the differences between the two of us (we are full siblings). I shall save my nickles (can not say pennies anymore!).
I need to have a little more understanding of one section where the 22 chromosome pairs are separated into two lines each one representing one of our parents. The one set shows only European/British whilst the other set contains mostly European/British with a few spots of Middle East/Steppes information. This is called chromosome painting and is unique to BritainsDNA I believe.
All in all, I am very pleased with the results from BritainsDNA. They found 287 SNPs of which a number are new so will need to be added to the yDNA chart for I2a1b2 at ISOGG once there are sufficient results to give us the new picture for this haplogroup.
Ken Nordvedt, well known genetic genealogist, first placed our line into ancient British DNA called Isles B4 back in 2009 and BritainsDNA has verified this placement. That has made me rethink my Blake line at Andover, Hampshire. I suspect now that my line there greatly precedes surnames and at some point my ancestor selected the surname Blake possibly a male in my line married into a Blake family and simply took his wife's surname as his own. Since I can trace back to the late 1400s and the surname Blake was being used it was prior to that time.
The All my Ancestry results have now come in at BritainsDNA for my brother and I may blog on them tomorrow. They are most interesting. Again the Family Finder results at FT DNA and the All my Ancestry results are complimentary. However the ancestral depth is much greater with the BritainsDNA results. My brother at FT DNA showed only European ancestry (including the British Isles) as 100% whereas I showed 93% Orcadian (British Isles only) and 7% Middle East (which includes up into the Steppes (Ukraine/Georgia/Ossettia). The All My Ancestry did pick up the Middle East ancestry for my brother albeit in very very small amounts. The colour charts in All My Ancestry are fabulous actually. Since I tested my brother at Ethnoancestry they offered the opportunity to do all the testing at a reduced price last July.
I am tempted to do my DNA at BritainsDNA as well just to see the differences between the two of us (we are full siblings). I shall save my nickles (can not say pennies anymore!).
I need to have a little more understanding of one section where the 22 chromosome pairs are separated into two lines each one representing one of our parents. The one set shows only European/British whilst the other set contains mostly European/British with a few spots of Middle East/Steppes information. This is called chromosome painting and is unique to BritainsDNA I believe.
All in all, I am very pleased with the results from BritainsDNA. They found 287 SNPs of which a number are new so will need to be added to the yDNA chart for I2a1b2 at ISOGG once there are sufficient results to give us the new picture for this haplogroup.
Ken Nordvedt, well known genetic genealogist, first placed our line into ancient British DNA called Isles B4 back in 2009 and BritainsDNA has verified this placement. That has made me rethink my Blake line at Andover, Hampshire. I suspect now that my line there greatly precedes surnames and at some point my ancestor selected the surname Blake possibly a male in my line married into a Blake family and simply took his wife's surname as his own. Since I can trace back to the late 1400s and the surname Blake was being used it was prior to that time.
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