Who When Where

As Kay mentions, Bishop's Transcripts may be useful. Not sure if they are on FindMyPast or not, but they are certainly on FamilySearch, albeit you can't download the images. This link https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1832056?availability=Family%20History%20Library will give you access to ...

No, ethnicity is definitely based on DNA - you can get ethnicity results without having a linked tree so Ancestry can't tell who you're possibly related to. For most people, at least in the British Isles, my impression is that the groupings in the ethnicity estimates go back more like 1,000 years so...

... I feel trying to micro-analyse autosomal DNA for anything but to get a general flavour of ethnicity, in a small area such as the British Isles, isn’t likely to work for most people. ... I'd agree with that - Judy Russell, "The Legal Genealogist" says: ... these estimates are pretty da...

There's plenty of hard evidence - it's the interpretation of it that's moot. Since no-one in Ancestry or Living DNA or ... is going round digging up dead bodies, they can only use current populations in an area as their base. (People do carry out whole genome analysis of skeletal remains, but - unle...

Thanks to blogger Chris Paton, I found this article https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2020/09/11/why-your-latest-results-could-include-more-scotland-in-your-ethnicity-estimates/ about Ancestry's latest ethnicity estimate update. One chart in there shows typical English results - these include some...

... asking them to justify some of their decisions .... Speaking generally, there appears to be a general assumption that if X is a safe practice and Y is also a safe practice, then doing both X and Y must be even safer. Not necessarily true. The wearing of "masks" is a case in point. I a...

... Family Research Files available at the Huguenot Library (UCL). ... Apparently the UCL HL is actually at TNA. One day, when sanity returns to the world, I shall have to take a look as I have just seen that the PDF above includes the surname "Berry" - I have an ancestor of that name in ...

The "no paper" rule is idiotic. Presumably they are worried about me previously breathing over my notepad and resting it on the desk, thus contaminating it. But since I am leaning on the desk, putting my sleeves on it that I have previously breathed over, this seems a pointless worry. Afte...

Some thoughts... 1) Any marriage legally recognised under English & Welsh law would appear in the GRO's indexes and thence in FreeBMD, etc. If I understand matters correctly, any such marriage would need to be either in a register office or in a registered building. The blog on this link https:/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_London gives you the story of "The County of London ... from 1889 to 1965" and references its pre-histories. In particular note "In 1900 the lower-tier civil parishes and district boards were replaced with 28 new metropolitan boroughs" The...