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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Impossibility to find right link
« on: Today at 11:14 »
Thank you for your responses everybody.

The closest match with a German name has a 54 cM. I do not believe this person to be related to my mother as it is so very low.  All others are lower.

My thought Is that quite possibly, my mother's biological father didn't have any other children or if so, have not joined a DNA test site.

But the question I am asking myself is why so many German Named individuals share My DNA...


My tree and DNA results are on Ancestry.

Thanks once again! ☺️



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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Impossibility to find right link
« on: Today at 08:34 »
My mother was born in 1928 in Halle an Der Saale, Germany.

And my grandmother was born in Bedzin, Poland which was then under Prussian hands.

As you say, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack!!

Thanks for your input!

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Impossibility to find right link
« on: Yesterday at 23:48 »
My German mother was born out of wedlock and my grandmother married three years later.

I took a DNA test three years ago and among my hundreds of matches are a myriad of German names.

It is obvious to me that one of those matches is most probably a descendant of her biological father and I have no way of finding out which one it is, other than contacting every single one to ask where their forefathers were in the 1920s.  An impossible task, even if I was Hercule Poirot!




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Technical Help / Re: Low sound on my Prime video
« on: Thursday 19 February 26 09:42 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you! I should have mentioned that I use headphones.

I wonder how it they are the culprit!? I have had them for five years?! Not sure if their shelf life?

However as I mentioned above, the headphones work well when using YouTube...

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Technical Help / Re: Low sound on my Prime video
« on: Wednesday 18 February 26 21:30 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Biggles.

I have already set it to the maximum but without success.

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Technical Help / Low sound on my Prime video
« on: Wednesday 18 February 26 20:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hello.and thank you for any help you may be able to.supply.

I watch films on Prime on my Kindle Max 11 and I have had to increase the sound to maximum.on my tablet.

I have also increased the sound on my Settings Media without any results.

By the way, the YouTube sound is perfect as is Facebook reels.

What am I doing wrong please?

 


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Armed Forces / Re: War Records for my father
« on: Thursday 05 February 26 10:54 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Andy!! 🤗

But I have now more questions than answers!!

He served in So many different places, only one of which I have managed to decipher; i.e. B.A.O.R.

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Armed Forces / War Records for my father
« on: Thursday 05 February 26 10:51 GMT (UK)  »
This is an update on my previous post which I cannot find in order to edit it.

Two days ago, I received two emails, one from the MOD, the other from the National Archives.

They were both profusely apologetic about the two year wait and told me they are sending me my father's war records.

I am still sifting through the 14 pages of information and learning a lot about my father.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with German Birth translation & interpretation
« on: Monday 26 January 26 06:35 GMT (UK)  »
I wonder if it is written in Sütterlin? Can you email it, I can TRY.

You could also try using Image.pi7 to reduce the size of the document.

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