Genealogy DNA

[Daisy]

Enfys - you may already have read The Forest by Edward Rutherford, but I have only just starting it and am enthralled. It starts with William Rufus and the comings and goings of the Norman knights in the New Forest. It's a fictitious story based on the history and evolution of the New Forest and really fascinating, and I seem to remember you saying about someone in your family coming from this area. Apologies if my memory's playing tricks on me!

[Enfys]

Daisy, I love his,books and have read all,of them. Have just finished Dublin, a great read. I really enjoyed The Forest especially as it was all local to us but it's not me whose family comes from here....we all originated from Gloucestershire, Wales and Bedfordshire

[Enfys]

Have just had my DNA results, no great surprises but interesting. It seems I am 40% Great Britain, 35% Western Europe, 7% Irish, 7% Scandinavian and various tiny percentages including Russian and Asian! A real mongrel .

[Gemini]

A varied lady

[Oma]

I traced my paternal grandmothers side back to the 1600 but they all came from Driffield in Yorkshire and didn't move around a lot , I have a will from the 1600 and the ancestor who left it gave a cow to the local village so they would have milk then meat when the cow died and he left his wife a spoon of the finest silver 😀 obviously the silver spoon I was born with in my mouth (not) hahaha.
My father's side I traced back to my GG Grandfather but they came from gate house Kirkcudbright Scotland and I couldn't get to the record office up there so for the moment at a dead end but I will some day get back to it

[Gemini]

A few years ago an American friend of mine did some research for me, when she belonged to Ancestory.com. She was keen to, as she was fascinated by my Italian ancestory. I wasn't particularly curious, but she wanted to do it.
Then a local friend offered to do family research for both OH and myself. She gave us tons of paperwork! I was grateful, and enjoyed reading through it. However, I would be a million times more interested if it was in some readable biography type format! I suppose I'm not interested enough to put the work in. I need it presented like a story.

[Daisy]

Have just had my DNA results, no great surprises but interesting. It seems I am 40% Great Britain, 35% Western Europe, 7% Irish, 7% Scandinavian and various tiny percentages including Russian and Asian! A real mongrel .

I think that's interesting, Enfys and I'd say a rich heritage rather than a mongrel.

Oma - my lovely friend who looks after Eva when we go away is from the Driffield area and her maiden name has French connections. By the way, it's easier now to get information about Scottish ancestry - via Scotland's People which is an offshoot of findmypast.com.

Gem - perhaps that's an idea for a Story Chellenge - write Gem's family story.