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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Am I on the right thinking here.
« on: Tuesday 16 September 25 10:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi... It's been a few days since I had any news..... 
So first I have been able to break up this parent two match list into several parts.  They all relate to the male side which includes the gr. mother's family and her second marriage family. 

It still does not point to whom we are looking for. 

There is one group I am concentrating on which after running the cluster tool on ancestry ....yes it finally worked. This group form one cluster 7x7 individuals.

currently mapping those to see how and who matches to whom within the group and how often. Then who has the least matches and who the most and to whom. 

I have also found a contact in the area from whence these people came and the outcome is that we both are  looking at this same group . This is where our quarry comes from. and one line possibly in particular.  Slow progress but it is getting some sort of indication of where we need to keep digging. 

hunting well ...... Cheers     Essnell

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Ancestry Cluster Tool
« on: Thursday 11 September 25 10:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi Everyone,  Is anyone having problems using the cluster tool on Ancestry. 

I have had real difficulty reloading a cluster page to review. computer awfully slow and eventually the load just cuts out.  Static useless image. 

Have tried my laptop and access was Okay but getting the info was a hand copy issue and the thing just stalled pointing to just the particular square I was making notes on then it would not move to anywhere on the page.   

just hoping it's ancestry and not my gear. 

I have used the My heritage one on earlier searches and that was never a problem. 

that said this Tool is  so far giving good results. 

cheers  Essnell.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Am I on the right thinking here.
« on: Wednesday 10 September 25 02:27 BST (UK)  »


About 4 weeks ago I started to try to group S-I-L’s  match list  which was not making much sense.  As I said, Ancestry has divided the list into parent 1 and parent 2. 

I have been puzzelling over this division as Parent 1 appeared to be all on his mother’s line while Parent 2  looked to be connected to S-I-L’s grandmother’s connections.  That didn’t make a lot of sense. 

I tried listing out all of those on A3 sheets  - bigger page more info- 

I had that page lying on the desk and I happened to see that some of those names were in the big tree I had for the relatives of this person seeming to be   the grandmother. 

After colouring those out, I could see others  . 
1.  grandmother’s second marriage children   
These would all be half relatives  or should be - so they do not affect who S-I-L’s grandfather was.
2. grandmother’s  brother’s and sister’s family members 
3. a group with Kelly and O’Connell, O’Donnell 
4. a group with Moore  with 5 members

Looking at match lists for just two there is a group of 10, the same for both .

I think that the person of interest would be connected to group 3 and 4.

I have quite a bit of research on the Moore side so a doc similar to the Smith side may help.

Thanks for reading again 

Essnell

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Australia / Electoral rolls - where to find these
« on: Thursday 04 September 25 07:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi Roots-Chatters. 

I am hoping to be able to access some electoral rolls from around 1995 for the Buchan / Buchanan South, Victoria Australia area  circa 1995.
 The address above and relates to the erection of a grave headstone some 40 years after the event.  So I am trying to find who it was who supplied the memorial wording for that.     

This is part of a search to find missing Grandparents form back in 1922. 

thanks for any help ,
Essnell


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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Am I on the right thinking here.
« on: Friday 29 August 25 09:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi Biggles50, 
Thank you for the link.  It was really interesting. Unfortunately the presenter was a bit too quick for me. I am deaf on both sides, implant on one and aid on the other, but he was still too fast.  So I will have to watch several times to follow his reasoning.
He seems to think that Ancestry is mostly accurate - unless I missed something important.   

One thing though I still do not have a male line to follow. 

I have two ideas :- one that the father was the the man she eventually married 15 yrs later or the other-  someone from within the connected female side. 

Even though this is a small town ship there were people moving between the various outer areas into and out of the township.  A lot of them had drifted from the not too distant gold fields of Ballarat and Bendigo into the wheat farming area to the west.
I am in the process of obtaining some official Certificates as well as using indexes. Certs do have more information. 
In the interim I have been expanding information on anyone connected to anyone so the basic family has grown considerably. 

Thanks again.  Essnell.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Am I on the right thinking here.
« on: Monday 25 August 25 08:10 BST (UK)  »
Hi Everyone, 
Over the last few days I have been endeavouring to work out the connections between some of the matches that I am accessing via the Niece's list.  It is quite interesting.  There are two sides which are making me question why they are so.   

Ancestry is dividing the matches into parent 1 and parent 2.  in relation to A.    what  I am seeing is this. 

     parent 1    this is all A's mother's line .... they all go back at some point to the family from South Australia. 

    Parent 2    this is all A's father's mother's line.  All go back to Swan Hilll, Victoria
                There is a division in that to  her family by her documented husband. 
I know that A's father is connected to this family as they are all appearing on the DNA match lists.

       Within this part there is no connection to any outside family section.  From other points I have picked up connections to that group at a different generational level.

What I am trying to understand is how Ancestry is able to divide the matches up in this way -- with no male side. 

Does it mean that A's grandfather was a member of part of this family,  close or distant?  Not an unrelated individual.

If anyone has any thoughts on this I would appreciate hearing them  . 

Regards and thanks ,
Essnell.


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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Am I on the right thinking here.
« on: Saturday 16 August 25 03:10 BST (UK)  »
thanks David  ,  yes quite a lot about 650 if I check each one.    I pondered over night how to document all of that and decided it is best held in a family tree program which I have so a tree for each or a branch tree and   merge as I go.  I also considered including what I ready know re A's father and see what transpires. 
I will keep you posted to progress.
Essnell.



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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Looking for a funeral director in Bradford.
« on: Saturday 16 August 25 02:49 BST (UK)  »
Thanks ShaunJ ,  very much appreciated.  I will try contacting them shortly.

Cheers Essnell

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Looking for a funeral director in Bradford.
« on: Friday 15 August 25 09:27 BST (UK)  »
H everyone,

Recently I came across a list of Funneral  Companies in the Bradford Keighley area.

I am particularly interested in one :   Crabtree and Son Funeral Directors Ltd.  41 Station Road, Drighlington , Bradford.     

Does anyone know anything about this company, when was it formed and is it still in existence. 

Secondly were records kept of funerals such companies carried out.

I am looking for specifically in December 1886  10th -15th .  Bingley.

Any ideas or information will be greately appreciated. 

Essnell.



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