Will be spending the next couple of weeks getting ready for my lecture at the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society. The subject will be one name and one place studies and how they are of value to one's genealogical studies.
24th of January in the afternoon at the City of Ottawa Archives and it will be streamed I discovered lately. It will be my last lecture as I find it just too time consuming to do lectures and there are so many people out there who do lecture that I think I can just drift into the background readily.
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Saturday, January 10, 2015
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Cold Virus
Another day with the cold virus and I am beginning to think I am finally on the upswing for this virus - it certainly was a nasty one. I will be a couple more days before I am talking again :)
However, I did manage to get a little work done. I completed ED 4 for Bishops Nympton and started ED 5 with the first three pages completed (six pages to go). Then the Census for 1891 will be complete and I will then do 1901 plus look up the names as I transcribe on the 1911 census database and extract the ones that are in Bishops Nympton. I have already collected 100 names from just the first four pages of the 1901 census so suspect I will do quite well although the changes in the village are becoming are larger percentage in each census with people moving about.
I joined Twitter today and added it to my Blog. I shall see what I think of that.
I also spent some time when the headache was bad extracting Siderfin entries from the GRO index and have now completed all births from 1911 to 2005. I also extracted the marriages and the burials up to 2005 so I am starting to have a very complete record of all the Siderfin family members in England. Since very few have emigrated that should work quite well. Eventually I want to compose a letter to write to the direct male descendants to see if I can find two individuals to test their yDNA for my One Name Study Siderfin DNA Project. By the time I get to that I should have saved up enough money to pay for two. I couldn't even chance a guess as to their likely haplogroup but family lore has them being early religious emigrees who fled to England very early on as they can be found in the early 1500s in Somerset and early family lore has then in south Devon in the late 1400s. The possibility of them being Frisian has crossed my mind. Certainly DNA testing would reveal that about this family. The name itself is very distinctive.
Tomorrow I shall continue with the Census of Bishops Nympton. My goal is to complete the census by the end of this next week. My cold has caused me to lose quite a bit of working time as I am resting. It is hard to believe that it is almost the end of March.
However, I did manage to get a little work done. I completed ED 4 for Bishops Nympton and started ED 5 with the first three pages completed (six pages to go). Then the Census for 1891 will be complete and I will then do 1901 plus look up the names as I transcribe on the 1911 census database and extract the ones that are in Bishops Nympton. I have already collected 100 names from just the first four pages of the 1901 census so suspect I will do quite well although the changes in the village are becoming are larger percentage in each census with people moving about.
I joined Twitter today and added it to my Blog. I shall see what I think of that.
I also spent some time when the headache was bad extracting Siderfin entries from the GRO index and have now completed all births from 1911 to 2005. I also extracted the marriages and the burials up to 2005 so I am starting to have a very complete record of all the Siderfin family members in England. Since very few have emigrated that should work quite well. Eventually I want to compose a letter to write to the direct male descendants to see if I can find two individuals to test their yDNA for my One Name Study Siderfin DNA Project. By the time I get to that I should have saved up enough money to pay for two. I couldn't even chance a guess as to their likely haplogroup but family lore has them being early religious emigrees who fled to England very early on as they can be found in the early 1500s in Somerset and early family lore has then in south Devon in the late 1400s. The possibility of them being Frisian has crossed my mind. Certainly DNA testing would reveal that about this family. The name itself is very distinctive.
Tomorrow I shall continue with the Census of Bishops Nympton. My goal is to complete the census by the end of this next week. My cold has caused me to lose quite a bit of working time as I am resting. It is hard to believe that it is almost the end of March.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Results of Research at Salt Lake City - 10 Dec 2008
Working on day two of my images from Salt Lake City and transcribing the particular parish register pages that I photographed for Chittlehampton. These are actually the Bishop's Transcripts and I had photographed them for the Pincombe entries but decided to transcribe the 35 images just to give me an overview in different time periods of the population of Chittlehampton as I have the baptisms, marriages and burials. I do not have any direct ancestors at Chittlehampton so this is for my one name study on the Pincombe family. The Chittlehampton Pincombe family moved there from South Molton in the 1600s but the notes that I have for the family do not agree with the parish records - more investigation needed here. The family line disappears from Chittlehampton in the 1700s. The notes from the earlier researchers were obtained from family descendants for the most part matched up (where they did) with records from the IGI. I have made some corrections to the Bishops Nympton records using the original parish records, subsidy records, protestation returns, oaths, and wills. My own line was completely incorrect with my John (2x great grandfather) being listed as a son of William instead of Robert Pincombe. But that was my uncle refusing to speak with Gavin Pinkham apparently. My family doesn't have a history of sharing genealogical information - I appear to be the first!
Continued reading Adam's Curse by Bryan Sykes. It is certainly an interesting read and I always find reading books by English authors to be so. They tend to write in if they are 100% British and that it slants their opinion; I enjoy that comment as I feel it probably applies to me as well. Although Canadian born, all of my ancestors were born in England as far back as I can research thus far except for my mother, her father and his mother - my only Canadian born ancestors. His comments on "Tara" one of the English clan mothers are also quite fascinating as my husband's mtDNA is T2b. We only have daughters; his brother only had daughters. Definitely as I work my way back through his mtDNA family line there are mostly always more girls than boys born to the carrier of T2b. I will do a book review of his book and probably all three since I have never done them before. A trilogy of Bryan Sykes books and all are an interesting read (sitting there on the fiction/non-fiction fence but with some good science in them).
Continued reading Adam's Curse by Bryan Sykes. It is certainly an interesting read and I always find reading books by English authors to be so. They tend to write in if they are 100% British and that it slants their opinion; I enjoy that comment as I feel it probably applies to me as well. Although Canadian born, all of my ancestors were born in England as far back as I can research thus far except for my mother, her father and his mother - my only Canadian born ancestors. His comments on "Tara" one of the English clan mothers are also quite fascinating as my husband's mtDNA is T2b. We only have daughters; his brother only had daughters. Definitely as I work my way back through his mtDNA family line there are mostly always more girls than boys born to the carrier of T2b. I will do a book review of his book and probably all three since I have never done them before. A trilogy of Bryan Sykes books and all are an interesting read (sitting there on the fiction/non-fiction fence but with some good science in them).
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