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Just to add, yes you inherit 50% of your DNA from each parent, and matching to relatives by descent involves identifying segments in both your and your matches DNA which are identical. Beyond smaller segment lengths, the results are indisputable.

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Thanks for that explanation Phil. Very much marketing then! As a sanity check, they've at least got the larger geographical areas correct  (Ireland and central/eastern Europe) with a few small surprises.

Hi,
Just received my DNA results from Ancestry and I'm confused (happens a lot).

Ethnicity Estimate... OK, I understand it's an estimate. But even so ...

We get 50% DNA from Dad and 50% from Mum - easy peasy. And I understand that the breakdowns of those 50%s will vary from sibling to sibling

My Dad's side is all Irish and Mum's side is all central/eastern European/Germanic.

Yet the Ancestry Ethnicity Estimate shows 62% Ireland and 36% Germanic/Sweden/Denmark.

How so?  Dodgy algorithm? Or has my confusion meant I've overlooked some simply maths or a lack of understanding re: DNA inheritance??

Thanks

John

Hello all,

I have a few photos left by my Dad, dating back to his University days in the 1950s which I'd like to scan but I don't want to damage them by doing so.

The photos are of a whole Faculty year group and therefore very large - especially long, about 24" long, and 7-8" high. 

But the real issue is that it's been scrolled up and stored in a tube about 1" diameter - so quite tightly.

I'd love to make good quality scans of them & happy to do so in sections and stitch later on. But having got them out previously, they are quite fragile and could easily break into several sections.

Can anyone recommend a way I could make them less brittle and therefore easier to handle?

Would it be ultimately, trying to store them flat somehow?

Thanks

John

Hi Tracey,

I think I can help you with *some* of these names. I have them in my tree and I'm fairly sure we are distant cousins!

I'm delighted to hear from more descendants from my Stanton/Morrison branch in the US.

I'm from, live & work in the Liverpool area - but on the "other side of the water", on the Wirral peninsula.

Before I go on, let me give you a friendly warning that the surname "Stanton" is interchangeable with "Staunton" in my tree.

So.....

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Burnes Campbell Ross m. Norah Winnifred Fitzpatrick  --- liverpool folks

her parents were Bridget Stanton m. Harry Fitzpatrick (scottish footballer)

Bridget's parents were Thomas Stanton m. Mary Morrison

Let's stop there and deal with the above.

My father's mother was Winifred Mary STANTON. Her parents were Thomas Patrick STANTON and Honor MORRISON.

Honor Morrison (b. 1868 +/- 1) was the middle one of 3 Morrison sisters, the oldest being your Mary (b. 1867) and the youngest, Catherine (b. 1870).  There also appears to be a brother, Patrick Joseph, b. 1857, d. 1933 in Liverpool. They were all born in Co. Mayo, Ireland.

All three sisters became heavily involved in family pork butchering businesses in Liverpool with their husbands.

Now it gets a little complicated.

2 sisters, Honor and Catherine Morrison, married a pair of brothers: Honor m. Thomas Patrick STAUNTON and Catherine m. Patrick Joseph STAUNTON.

Mary Morrison married, Thomas M STAUNTON, who apparently was a cousin of the Staunton brothers that Honor & Cath married.

You'll notice that I've used both "Stanton" and "Staunton" with respect to Honor's husband, my great grandfather, Thomas Patrick.

This is because he decided to drop the "u" and call themselves STANTON to distinguish themselves from Patrick Joseph Staunton. The reasons why are not clear - there are 2 theories but I can't verify either.

Thomas Patrick STANTON & Honor had their own Provision shop in central Liverpool and Honor was the driving force apparently. They imported pork from Ireland.

Patrick Joseph STAUNTON & Catherine did the same thing!

Thomas M STAUNTON & Mary did something similar.

Basically, they were all pork importers & butchers.

When I was first looking into this, it was VERY confusing as you can imagine :-)

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So... my great-grandmother, Honor, was Mary Morrison's sister.

Thomas and Mary's 2nd child was Bridget STAUNTON
She married Henry James FITZPATRICK in Sep 1902 and NORAH WINIFRED (1908-1987) was their 3rd child.

Norah m. John BC Ross (BC = Burnes Campbell, I assume) in 1935 and according to my records, Norah and John BC had 3 children: a daughter, then a son and then a daughter.

However, with their births being 1936, 1942 and 1949, I imagine all 3 might still be alive (connected to you?) and Rootschat rules prohibit me from talking about living descendants without their permission

I've worked out that Norah & John BC Ross's children are my 3rd cousins.
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we are looking for Tom O'Malley, how he fits in
he moved to chicago according to the story after he and his first wife moved to a nyc tenement where she died in a fire

Sorry, no idea. I DO have O'Malley's on my tree. One of Catherine Morrison's oldest child, married an O'Malley, but there is no sign of a Thomas in that tree, I know quite a bit about those O'Malleys. You might have to ask your Mum for more details.

my grandpa "Jack" Ross was a chindit highlander
his mom was Christina Cameron

What was "Jack" Ross's real first name and is he related to (John) Burnes Campbell Ross & Norah Winifred Fitzpatrick ? Are they the same person ?

END OF PART 1 :-)
John

Hello all,

I was recently scanning some family albums and one album in particular was causing me grief.
The pages were almost A3 in size so on my A4 scanner I had to scan the pages as at least 2 sections and at some point try and merge/stitch them into 1 image.

To do this, my original plan had been to use my camera's software has a panorama/stitch facility included. I found this rubbish to be honest.

Then I tried the free online Pixlr.com (similar to Photoshop). Far too complicated.

I then tried doing it manually in Microsoft Paint, and got great results, but found each page taking about 10 minutes to get exactly right.

I then found the FREE Microsoft's Image Composite Editor (ICE).
Here is a Youtube video about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEOjZTZb-28

The results are absolutely astonishing. Load in the images, click and you're done. I cannot praise it highly enough.

Here's the download page: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/

The only requirement to get good (great) results is that your images need to have some overlap.

Next time I'm doing a panorama on holiday, I know which software I'm using!

Cheers

John