DNA TESTING

So if you know someone who has an Ancestry account that gets the offer of $79.00 DNA test you can have them purchase it for you at that price, well plus shipping.

So you can start getting your cousin connections.  Which can lead you to earthly relationships, break down a brick wall, or more info. to help you find that next piece of the family puzzle.

So I did the test myself, since my dad had a bunch of us tested for the Autosomal DNA.  So we can figure out moms ethnicity.  Was she really  what the paper genealogy shows?

Genealogy the ever changing Social History Science

So we have gone from documentation and reasonable exhaustive search's.  Now to Genetic.

Are we rethinking Who We Are????

We must be careful before it all falls in our face.

What books to use in French Quebec Research

On my very first trip to the Manchester French Canadian Genealogy Society (not really sure of the name).  I found this french Families of Quebec Dictionary   
Which list all the French families that arrived in Quebec from 16?? early up to 1730.  About 100 years.  The longer your family was there more generations are listed in the Dictionnaire Genealogique des familles du Quebec.  
However this book is written in French. However not to had to use.  There are guides in the beginning pages that let you know the symbols for the Birth Marriage & death dates.  As well when they arrived in New France.

Then for all in English research. 

 Finding the book with your Ancestor is your first task.  Then you can read a delightful story about them in this series.

Relation any Where in the World ?

So we may believe that we can account for all of our living relatives.  Can we really???

  

Remember that Great xxx Grandfather who left the old country by himself.  Well now he as not an island.  Nope he had parents, maybe brothers & sisters.  Uncles Aunts cousins. You get my direction now?

Have you made an attempt at finding them yet? 

Let me know who you discover!!!

Where do these diffrent names ever come from?

I find Ancient names so fascinating

Every week I am treated to rare names in the “Weekly Genealogist newsletter” sent by NEHGS.  This week it’s the name Boudica.  I wiki ‘d  her this week in search of deep histoy of England and the Roman occupation.  I am surprised Boudica was such a strong woman yet her name has not carried through history like one would think.  I am thrilled to read this entry this week:

Name Origins 

by Julie Helen Otto,Staff Genealogist
BOADICEA (f): A Latinized form of BOUDICA, the widowed chieftainess of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni (who held lands in what is now Norfolk). In an arrangement common with client kingdoms in recently conquered Roman territory, her husband Prasutagus had willed his domain to his daughters and to Rome — which disregarded the daughters’ claims. Boudica was subsequently severely flogged, her daughters raped; outraged by their treatment, she led the Iceni, Trinovantes, and other tribes in a bloody rebellion in A.D. 60/61 which led to the destruction of Camulodunum (Colchester, Essex), Londinium, and Verulamium (St. Albans), before the Romans crushed the uprising at the Battle of Watling Street. Boudica’s revolt was seen in later years as a heroic resistance to Roman tyranny in what is now England, and is commemorated in Thomas Thornycroft’s statue, “Boadicea and Her Daughters” (1901–2), by the Thames River near Westminster Pier, London.
Boadicea Townsend m. Stafford, Conn. 20 Aug. 1771 Thomas Warner (Stafford, Conn. Congregational Church Records, Corbin Coll. [SG COR 5] 176, p. 14). In about 1787 Thomas and Mehitable (Griggs) Wakefield of Enfield, Conn., had a daughter Boadice Wakefield, who died there 8 Sept. 1807 in her 20th year (“O: don’t forget that you must die, / and turn to dust as well as I”) (Francis Olcott Allen, The History of Enfield, Connecticut, Volume III, 3 vols. [Lancaster, Penn., 1900], 3:2479). At least one bearer of this rare given name used the nickname “Dicy” (which suggests di- could be the accented syllable). Boadicea “Dicy” Scott (not, so far as I know, related to either Mrs. Townsend or her daughter) m. Kent, Conn. (by Rev. Daniel Porter), 29 May 1802 William Brown of Kent (Kent VRs, Barbour Collection of Conn. VRs, citing orig. town rec. vol. 2:64).

I really believe that there is so much more to the Legacy of Bodica.  Would love to know what became of her children etc…

Changes at NEHGS over the past decade.

Since I joined NEHGS a few years ago I have been enjoying the magazine American Ancestors.  Unknown to me however is that the magazine had a predecessors for it the" New England Ancestors".

I was flipping through a pile given to me recently of New England Ancestors.  I chuckled to my self of how times have changed so quickly.  There is a full page ad for the NEHGS Circulating Library.  It has the offer for you to borrow and research in your own home.

Now here in 2012 we can turn on the computer use the internet to research our ancestors.

Lucky Us.  Do you wonder what could be next in genealogy research ?

updates: Flags of Your Ancestors

How many different Flags would you have to fly to include all of your know Ancestors?  Display yours Too!!!