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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: I'm crestfallen!!
« on: Friday 01 November 19 14:31 GMT (UK)  »
Interesting to see how this latest Ancestry update has affected so many with Swedish ethnicity - I too have lost my 3% Scandinavian and become 50% English.
Strange that on MyHeritage I remain 21% Scandinavian and 79% Irish, Scottish and Welsh and no English !
Thankfully I do appreciate that its only an estimate otherwise I would not know who to support in the Rugby this weekend.
Maybe time will make these estimates more accurate - meanwhile treat it as a bit of fun.

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Canada / Mulligans from Castlederg
« on: Friday 01 November 19 09:53 GMT (UK)  »
Anyone have a connection to Mulligan family from Castlederg, County Tyrone in the 1920,s
My Mothers many siblings disappear from records after a family split at that time.
DNA shows my many ancestral matches from Canada, Iowa & Illinois but no recent connections.

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Tyrone / Re: Mystery of my Mother as a Reynolds in Castlederg
« on: Wednesday 30 October 19 23:57 GMT (UK)  »
Yes - got them all.
Once I had her name matching her birthday I found nearly all the records at the parish church.
Hasn't quite matched my Mothers story as I remembered it - Eleven siblings - two youngest (that I thought were twins) adopted by a family in Scotland.
Tragic stories including Tuberculosis death of the oldest boy at age 23 after seven months of illness.
Still uncovering details of my GM's death which seemed to be the start of the family split.
House burnt down whilst GF was dying in workhouse hospital.
Looks like other siblings moved away to relatives or were adopted as there are no marriage or confirmed death records in the area.
DNA shows I have fairly close ancestors in Scotland, Canada, Iowa, Illinois, Aus & NZ and I think time will reveal  where those Aunts and Uncles of mine went.
Still a mystery as to why my Mother used the name Reynolds, so that's what I'm working on now.



 

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Tyrone / Re: Mystery of my Mother as a Reynolds in Castlederg
« on: Wednesday 30 October 19 03:00 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: eileenwilson on Saturday 28 October 17 00:37 BST (UK)
Is it possible that Reynolds was not her birth name?  There is one Sarah with a possible match born  6 September 1912 in Castlederg, surname Mulligan, father's name William, and mother's name Margaret Ann Sproule from Altamullin.
Many thanks to you, didn't realise at the time how valuable your reply was.
Two years after I originally posted this 'mystery' as user cogs291 I have found through DNA that you hit the nail on the head with your theory of Reynolds not being my Mothers birth name, and that she was the Sarah Mulligan you suggested.
I've since been able to research her Milligan/Mulligan family from Altamullan and connect with some cousins around the world - though many of her siblings descendants remain elusive after the family split, as does the reason she used the Reynolds name for her wedding.
So the full mystery for me remains to be solved, but I've learned not to dismiss suggestions like yours so quickly and not to trust paper records.

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