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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM
« on: Sunday 23 August 20 16:56 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Kimbrey on Sunday 09 August 20 15:37 BST (UK)
This is the latest from Roberta Estees Blog (found it in my Spam!!)

Does it help or confuse the whole issue more ;D


https://dna-explained.com/2020/08/09/august-hot-news-ancestry-match-tagging-script-dna-sales-

Kim

Ohhh! This seems to be what I've been searching for! Thanks for sharing that link as the code seems to scooping up a lot of the matches that would have just disappeared as my mum has loads of small DNA matches, some that I've been able to prove are connected.   

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Fife / Re: "Laings" in Fife and beyond
« on: Wednesday 19 August 20 22:57 BST (UK)  »
Hi!

I'm a bit late to the show but oh well. Nothing new there.

David Laing (b. abt 1820 Kilrenny, Fife) and Christian Skinner (b. 24 SEP 1820 • Newburn, Fife, Scotland) are my 5th Great Grandparents through my maternal grandmother.

Now here is where it gets tricky:

David and Christian's son Thomas married Ann Mitchell and they had Archibald Mitchell Laing.
David and Christian's son John married Margaret Hamilton and they had Margaret Hamilton Laing.
Margaret Hamilton Laing had a son to Alexander Thomson. Then she married her cousin Archibald Mitchell Laing.

Their daughter Margaret Morris Hamilton Laing had a daughter and son to Fred Anderson. She later married John Waddell and had family to him. The daughter that she had with Fred Anderson, Margaret Laing, is my great gran who I knew well until she died in 2007 when I was still just a child.

Our family has a lot of stories, especially from grandparents. I'm hoping to someday soon record a lot of these stories so they don't become lost overtime.

It is good to know that quite a lot of David and Christian's other descendants are still in Fife.

Goodnight,

Leigh

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