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Finding my past

TheCatWoman

I've been tracing my family history for a while now and got stuck with the normal seaches, the further back you go the harder they are to read and often there are some name changes due to people registering using thier local accent which is misunderstood by the registrar, so I've started using AI to search as it can access anything thats in a public record and free to access, it can also tell you where to look for documents that haven't been transcribed or are in private collections, although you often have to pay for copies of records you want.

Because two of the family surnames are very localised, one hyper localised, I've been able to get back to before the Norman Conquest, by tracing who owned the land when, when it was transfered, was it mentioned in the Doomsday Book and things like that. I've got two other branches to trace, but it looks as though my ancestors have been here for a long time, a very long time, maybe even sinse the neolitic. Now I just need to get my ancient done and I'll know a lot more.

Its really interesting

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  • I have reliably traced one branch of my ancestors to 1578 and unreliably to the 1400s and earlier. I did an ancestry DNA test, that has given me some surprising results. I have a substantial amount of Irish ancestry and always thought that my English ancestry would be mostly ultimately Celtic also. This was supported by two ancient remains that I share a stretch of DNA with, a Neolithic man buried under the Poulnabrone dolmen in Co. Clare over 5,500 years ago and an Iron Age Briton buried in Dorset around the time of the Roman invasion. However, my Y chromosome haplogroup originated in the Bronze Age in Southern Scandinavia and I have a majority of ancient DNA matches to Viking Age or earlier Scandinavians, mostly, rather surprisingly, Swedes (Central Sweden and Gotland) - two of whom were buried in longships with weapons (alongside around 40 other men of fighting age - the Salme I and II ships).

  • in reply to Martin

    I've no Irish or Scandinavian DNA, it's the 7% Iberian that fascinates me, other than that I'm almost pure Southern English with a few continental aditions, France and Belgium sort of areas

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    My English ancestry is all over the place, Lancashire, Cheshire, West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, the Black Country the Forest of Dean and the East End of London. I have a dodgy pedigree, that I have an electronic image of. It is a version printed in 1933. It is based on one compiled by Charles Bernau, a founder of the Society of Genealogists, London, in 1913, itself based on one used in a chancery court case in 1900. I have no way of verifying the original documents it was based on, so have no idea of its veracity. I definitely slot into it, via known ancestors. If it is true, I can trace a line of descent from Owain Glyndwr, through his daughter Alys, who married Sir John Scudamore. 

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    My English ancestry is all over the place, Lancashire, Cheshire, West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, the Black Country the Forest of Dean and the East End of London. I have a dodgy pedigree, that I have an electronic image of. It is a version printed in 1933. It is based on one compiled by Charles Bernau, a founder of the Society of Genealogists, London, in 1913, itself based on one used in a chancery court case in 1900. I have no way of verifying the original documents it was based on, so have no idea of its veracity. I definitely slot into it, via known ancestors. If it is true, I can trace a line of descent from Owain Glyndwr, through his daughter Alys, who married Sir John Scudamore. 

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