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How to upload a "stripped" GEDCOM to DNA sites
I want to find a simple little app/software that would strip my GEDCOM of any non-blood relatives (plus spouses) and eliminate any non-vital data (only include birthdates, birthplaces, deathdates, deathplaces etc). (It would also strip events from…
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Verifying facts and relationships given in 16th century visitations?
Owing to the fortuitous survival of various parish registers and wills I have managed to trace, with good certainty, one of my lines of ancestry back to one Margaret Bowyer who was born in approximately 1530. She was married to William Ford of the…
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Determining relationship between James Stanford Scott and John Stanford Girdler?
My 3x great grandfather James Stanford Scott was born in 1816 in Middlesex, England. He was named in the will of John Stanford Girdler who left everything in trust to him. He was only 5 at the time John Stanford Girdler died. On his christening it…
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Where can I find a centiMorgans calculator?
When doing triangulation, I can end up with a segment shared among 3 in a GEDmatch compare where I have the cM for each pair of the three, but not the cM for the overlapping portion of the segment. I was unable to find a calculator where I could…
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How many British men and women were serving in the Boer War at the time of the 1901 census?
I have several young men and women who I cannot trace on the British 1901 census, despite numerous and extensive efforts. While there are a number of reasons why I might not be able to find them, one that I have not yet ruled out is that they were…
Harry V.
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Finding more information about Rhode Island grave stone bearing date range 1897-1923?
Some ancestors of mine immigrated to the US. Jose Correia in 1915 and afterwards his wife, child and mother-in-law.
It seems his wife died while in labor and afterwards the family came back to Portugal. But his wife was definitely buried in the…
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Analyzing Wurttemberg church records discovered via FamilySearch?
I am researching an ancestor, Johann Gottlieb Berner, and I am finding two people by this name in FamilySearch:
JGB, born in Unterturkheim, Wurttemberg on 12 Jan 1847 to Gottlieb Berner and Regina Dothea (sic!) Wirth. (see…
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Why is GEDmatch report omitting some matches?
I ran a GEDmatch multi-kit analysis and got this report for Matches with Joseph's kit, for chromosome 12:
And putting a different kit in first position, I get this report for matches with Charlotte:
The strange thing I notice is on Chromosome…
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Finding parents for ancestor born in 1820 at New York who has no birh record?
I am attempting to locate the parents of my 3x Great Grandfather.
There is no birth certificate as he was born in 1820 in New York, New York. That birth date and location comes from this 1850 Census Record:
"United States Census, 1850," database…
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Who was William Chittel (Chettle) of Studley?
A friend owns an English lantern clock with the inscription "Wm Chittel of Studly". The clock dates to about 1635, and probably before 1642 as it is decorated with a ring of flowers that was used before the English Civil War. It was almost…
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Y-DNA haplogroup R1a1ab2 Z93 Z94 in England?
I have just had my DNA results returned and my Y-DNA has come back as this.
I am from East Anglia and my family has been documented in this region for the last thousand years, I am rather confused as to how I have got this result. Are there many…
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Family name which sounds like сипа?
I wonder if this family name, "сипа" or "sipa", does exist in any slavic language (or maybe jewish). The ortography might be different and not exactly the same as I wrote it.
The only thing I know for certain is that the person who carried that…
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Take a punch at this (or...identifying a boxer?)
I have found the photo below amid a collection of family photographs. I don't think it's a relative, as we don't – to my knowledge – have any boxers in the family. But I am hoping to identify who this is. The only clue I have is that the word…
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Was this Susannah's first or second marriage?
I found a marriage "record" published in a compilation (New England Marriages Prior to 1700):
BROWN, William & Susannah [HARDING], w John; 27 Oct 1699; Eastham
I am not sure what w stands for in this case -- does it mean "widow [of] John"?
If so,…
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Is there any place like "Wertinberge" in Germany?
The 1850 census taker did their best for Mary Fox's birthplace, but I can't really decipher it:
I strongly suspect this is somewhere in Germany, because family lore says Mary Fox and her family came from Germany. However, "Worthinberge" (Ancestry's…
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