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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've found the Iberian connection, 4x grandparents from Limerick they all seem to go back hundreds of years in the same place, right back to the migrations from Iberia that go right back to at least the iron Age and probably further back still. If all the families in that area stretch that far back then it would explain the relatively high 7%, Iberian DNA. 

    Now I'm trying to find my granddads line, but there are so many with the same names in the same area and so many are so badly written in the first place, it would seem that there are some baptists or even primative baptists in the family and it's thier names that get mistranscribed at source, its like the registrar didn't approve and changed the names out of spite!

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  • I've found the Iberian connection, 4x grandparents from Limerick they all seem to go back hundreds of years in the same place, right back to the migrations from Iberia that go right back to at least the iron Age and probably further back still. If all the families in that area stretch that far back then it would explain the relatively high 7%, Iberian DNA. 

    Now I'm trying to find my granddads line, but there are so many with the same names in the same area and so many are so badly written in the first place, it would seem that there are some baptists or even primative baptists in the family and it's thier names that get mistranscribed at source, its like the registrar didn't approve and changed the names out of spite!

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