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Messages - Kinsy

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA hope
« on: Saturday 22 November 25 18:50 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, we were also disappointed in the results - the closest matches were a few very distant cousins - and the list of matches is so long, that I gave up reading it halfway through.
Until a huge proportion of the world's population test their DNA, there are probably going to be quite a lot of disappointed people like Louisa Maud and me  :-\

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA hope
« on: Saturday 22 November 25 11:28 GMT (UK)  »
That's useful - thanks, Glen and Biggles50.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA hope
« on: Saturday 22 November 25 02:30 GMT (UK)  »
There are presumably new DNA tests being taken on a regular basis - so, does Ancestry DNA update my DNA results with matches from the results of new tests ?

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South Africa / Re: Winburg orphanage in OFS
« on: Saturday 22 November 25 01:56 GMT (UK)  »
The official register of graves at the Winburg Camp is on FamilySearch
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKK-K97Z-6?cat=543580&i=7&lang=en

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South Africa / Re: Winburg orphanage in OFS
« on: Friday 21 November 25 21:53 GMT (UK)  »
You can read about the Winburg Concentration Camp on the UCT Libraries website here https://www2.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/bccd/Histories/Winburg/ - and you can search the Library's database for prisoners' names, ages, farms etc.
It was a concentration camp from 1900 to 1902, so maybe it became an orphanage afterwards.

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South Africa / Re: First Fifty Years Project
« on: Friday 07 November 25 13:14 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, pampoen.

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South Africa / First Fifty Years Project
« on: Thursday 06 November 25 14:42 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know what's happened to Delia Robertson's wonderful FFYP website ? I can't access it anymore and none of the links on other genealogy websites work.

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Westmorland / Re: Monumental Inscriptions
« on: Friday 24 January 25 00:22 GMT (UK)  »
Belatedly :) You can also read all the inscriptions in "Westmorland church notes" by Edward Bellasis pub.1888 vol.I on the Haithi website https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hn2v6p&seq=1
Volume II can be downloaded from the Internet Archive.

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Cumberland Lookup Requests / Re: Graham of Wetheral
« on: Sunday 05 January 25 18:03 GMT (UK)  »
Richard Slack was a widower when he married Margaret G, both of Wetheral parish and the witnesses were Jane Young and Thomas Dixon.

The gap in Wm/Mary's children is curious, but maybe some of their children were baptised in Carlisle.
And I'm glad that it wasn't that Wm/Mary who died in the workhouse :)

I've no idea whether any of the Grahams in the censuses were distant relations, because our G male ancestor moved from Wetheral in 1797. But the Wetheral connection continued for another century, because he inherited a lot of tenanted land and houses (copyhold/customary) in Wetheral, which were passed down to the eldest son in each succeeding generation.
There was also a family connection to Eden Brows/Froddle Crook, which belonged to one of our Graham ancestors (a g/g/g/g/uncle) and was inherited by his son, who was there in the 1841 and 1851 censuses, but died before 1861.

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