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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Stories.
« on: Friday 18 April 08 10:49 BST (UK)  »
Each surname project has its own funding policy and you would have to inspect each one individually to find out. I offer free tests to Kennedys subject to some criteria.

http://www.kennedydna.com/volunteer.htm

A number operate like mine by offering free tests to build the base for the paying customers (usually brick-walled in the New World) to compare themselves against.

Iain Kennedy

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Stories.
« on: Friday 18 April 08 09:37 BST (UK)  »
The only organisation I know of that offers free testing is SMGF and that would not cover low level SNP testing such as you mentioned.

http://www.smgf.org/

Iain

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Stories.
« on: Wednesday 16 April 08 17:36 BST (UK)  »
Ursula Helena etc are user-friendly names made up by Professor Bryan Sykes to head up the maternal (mitochondrial) groups. These are what he called the Seven Daughters of Eve as almost everyone in Europe descends from one of them. I'm in Helena (group H) along with about 40% of Europeans.

R1b is the biggest paternal (Y-chromosome) group in Europe.

Both groups have sub-divisions. eg I'm in R1b1c7 for Y-DNA which is a Celtic sub-group from Ireland and Scotland mostly. You can get sub-group tests for Helena too although I haven't done mine yet.

Iain

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA Stories.
« on: Wednesday 16 April 08 12:12 BST (UK)  »
I have tested with 6 different DNA testing companies now and run the Kennedy project with DNA Heritage who use 43 markers. This test is compatible with the new DNA.Ancestry (ancestry.com) test. Although I have used Oxford Ancestors they are lagging a bit in terms of what they offer (10 markers). Bit of a shame really as Professor Sykes at Oxford was the one who got the whole concept of surname DNA testing going.

Yes you could wait for more people to populate the various databases, but suppose everyone did that?

Iain Kennedy
http://www.kennedydna.com

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Roxburghshire / Re: James Kennedy, Hawick
« on: Friday 04 April 08 19:12 BST (UK)  »
Additional stuff on this line.

Janet Kennedy b 9 Oct 1884 to James Aitchison Kennedy and Mary Wemyss Beattie
James Kennedy [her brother] married Christina Elder 17 Jul 1908 Hawick. At this stage he was a sergeant 2nd [battn.?] Black Watch.

No obvious sign of children born to this couple in the area, based on a quick look.

Christina Elder was James' first cousin, b 7 Sep 1881 Wilton to James Elder and Mary Kennedy, who married 1 Jan 1872 Hawick. Mary was daughter of James Kennedy and Elizabeth Pattison and brother of James Aitchison Kennedy senior.

James Kennedy b 26 Dec 1881 died in Palestine 11 Apr 1946. His testament was confirmed the same year:

Confirmations and Inventories 1946
Capt. James Kennedy Black Watch Oakbank Lilliesleaf died on active service in Palestine testate. Confirmation Jedburgh 23 May to Christina Kennedy same address, executrix. Value of estate £1317 12s 6d.

Mary [Kennedy] Elder died in Hawick 26 Dec 1919 and is buried in Wilton cemetery along with her husband who died 29 Dec 1908. I have a photo of the gravestone if you want it.

That's all I have to add for now.

Iain
www.kennedydna.com/kons.htm

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Roxburghshire / Re: James Kennedy, Hawick
« on: Wednesday 02 April 08 14:52 BST (UK)  »
Aitchison was born 13 Jul 1889 5 Forrest Rd? Hawick

married Elizabeth Revel Amos 1 Aug 1913 Hawick.

The confirmation of his father's estate reads:

James Kennedy Clerk, 6 Sandbed, Hawick, died 18 Jun 1918 intestate. Confirmation granted at Jedburgh 18 Mar to James Kennedy, 7 Slitrig Crescent, Hawick, Lieut-Col, 13th Welsh Regiment, his son. Value of estate £50 1s.

which gives a little clue about James jnr.

I will be at New Register House on Friday so will let you know what else I can dig up. Not clear if I have any more on James yet unless he's duplicated in the database. You will surely find entries on him in the London Gazette (www.london-gazette.co.uk) for all his miliary promotions, along with hundreds of other James Kennedys!

Iain Kennedy
Project leader
Kennedy One-Name Study
http://www.kennedydna.com/kons.htm



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Lanarkshire / Re: Can anybody help?
« on: Thursday 07 February 08 12:36 GMT (UK)  »
Have you looked at the entries in Donald Whyte's books on Scottish emigrants to Canada, as there seem to be several groups of Kennedys (or one big family) from the Falkirk area who went to Egremont?

Iain Kennedy
www.kennedydna.com/kons.htm

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Scotland's first family history centre has opened in Dundee.
« on: Saturday 15 December 07 22:19 GMT (UK)  »
Sounds interesting but I'm a bit sceptical about them tracing most families back to the late 17th century... perhaps they meant late 18th century which is a lot more straightforward?

Iain Kennedy

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Stirlingshire / Re: Textile industry in Stirlingshire
« on: Sunday 09 December 07 09:14 GMT (UK)  »
My family were calico printers in Lennoxtown from 1850 through to the mill closure in 1929. We still have a piece of calico cloth my ggf worked on. There is a definitive account of it in

The parish of Campsie: a series of biographical, ecclesiastical, historical, genealogical and industrial sketches and incidents. With "Calico printing in Campsie" appended.

by John Cameron.

ISBN 090496616X

The mill later became a nail factory before being pulled down recently.

Iain Kennedy
Glasgow
www.kennedydna.com/kons.htm

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