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Glamorganshire / Re: John Rhodda in the 1871 census for Aberdare.
« on: Wednesday 18 February 26 13:43 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: ColC on Wednesday 18 February 26 09:57 GMT (UK)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRMS-V15?lang=en

According to Google Translate Gafeel = Feel Good.

Some Welsh Speakers may disagree?

Colin

Gafeel is not a word in the welsh language and google translate is not an adequate translation tool.
Thanks

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Armed Forces / Re: Brian William Hasker born 1937 Royal Airforce 1950's
« on: Thursday 11 December 25 14:55 GMT (UK)  »
from Wikipedia.

In the United Kingdom, military conscription has existed for two periods in modern times. The first was from 1916 to 1920, and the second from 1939 to 1960.

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Armed Forces / Re: Brian William Hasker born 1937 Royal Airforce 1950's
« on: Thursday 11 December 25 14:52 GMT (UK)  »
Conscripted or not he was in the RAF for real.   The members of my family who were conscripted would be insulted if there service was not taken as "for real" .. Please remember those conscripted serviceman who served and died overseas....their service was "for real".
Nesta

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Essex / Re: Eliza Reeve born 1883 Great Canfield
« on: Thursday 23 October 25 14:11 BST (UK)  »
Have a look through the newspapers online to see if you can find any details about the wedding.   
Nesta

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Cardiganshire / Re: Tregaron Williams strange?
« on: Tuesday 21 October 25 14:11 BST (UK)  »
Please remember that not all of us have access to Ancestry - its always better to trnascribe.
Nesta

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Managment.
« on: Tuesday 23 September 25 17:37 BST (UK)  »
How exciting - when I was very new to DNA a cousin asked my other half and his mother to get their DNA tested as she was trying to trace her father (they were related to her Mum and so we were using the exclusion method to find matches).   About 2 years later I got a message out of the blue from Ancestry - a half sister to his Mum had appeared; no-one knew.   This lady's son knew a lot about the adoption of his mother and we were able to work out when it had happened, etc which was whilst he (my MIL's Dad) was married to his first wife.   Again, there wasn't much need for DNA this gentleman (the son) was very like his grandfather and also to the original cousin who had asked us to test originally.

So we had

Firstly the lady who asked us to test (in bold)

Grandad's brother + wife = MIL's cousin = daughter adopted out (full 1C1R to my husband) who also had a likeness to her great uncle (Grandad)

Grandad + Second Wife = My mother in Law = my husband

then

Grandad + Another Woman = half sister to MIL = son (half 1C to my husband) (great likeness to Grandad)

and the lady who brought it all about


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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA testing an artefact.
« on: Wednesday 17 September 25 13:40 BST (UK)  »
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Difficult to say the oldest sampled DNA in a study seems to have come from a person who died in 1930, but that does not mean older samples would not be viable.

The DNA of the Romanov bodies who died in 1918 was tested in the 1990s to confirm their identities. I believe that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh supplied a blood sample for DNA for the testing as he was the closest descendant on the maternal line - his grandmother was sister to the Tsarina (and they were both also grand-daughters of Queen Victoria).  Apparently they used the mitochondrial DNA to match.

This was initially checked in the 1990s but  believe more sophisticated tests were made in the 2000s

Nesta

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/prince-philip-family-russia-murder-b1829742.html

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Wales / Re: www.welshmariners.org.uk
« on: Tuesday 05 August 25 16:40 BST (UK)  »
Unfortunately the gentleman who did the research, Dr Reginald Davies, has passed away.

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Caernarvonshire / Re: Mary Brown, born Bangor 1890(ish), daughter of James
« on: Thursday 12 June 25 14:16 BST (UK)  »
Hello,
St David's (also known as County) Hospital, the children & maternity hospital in Bangor was not built until 1913, it was closed and then demolished in 1994.  I was born there  in 1962 and my son in 1983  I still have two bricks from the demolition as they sold them for charity - it was a big red brick building.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_David%27s_Hospital,_Bangor




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