My English Genealogy & DNA

08/08/2025

The gravestone of my 6xgreat granduncle Francis BRADLEY (died 1784) relocated to the wall of St Giles church. The family were recorded in Elkesley from the early 1600's.

08/08/2025

The gravestone at St Mary the Virgin for my 5xGGF, Thomas

08/08/2025

The gravestone at St Mary the Virgin for my 4xGGPs, William & Ann

04/08/2025

22/07/2025

Ancestry recently introduced matches by cluster a new ProTools feature that clusters your matches together. And no, before you ask, this is not the long-awaited triangulation. Ancestry’s new match …

25/06/2025

The gravestone of Frederick Richard POTTER & his wife Martha SANDERS. As far as the Leicestershire family is concerned, this line is extinct. The couple had one son, Joseph Sanders POTTER (1861-1940) who had five children. None of them produced living descendants as far as we know.

26/05/2025

Let me know if this happens to you.
If this happens to me, my project work will be severely curtailed and I will reduce my subs to the basic plan.

It appears that MyHeritage is phasing out uploads. Some users in Europe are reporting this message, although I still have the option to upload here in the US as of Saturday, May 24.

26/05/2025

23andMe has declared bankruptcy, but now is not the time for genealogists to panic. As a publicly traded company, it will be many months before a resolution is clear. In the meantime, our data has …

13/04/2025

is a little village to the east of the city of in England. I have roots there, going back to 1500's. This is not a paper trail but also indicate by rare shared segments of DNA.

My closest family who last lived there were the and families, and there is a small farm that has the old Bradley Yard.

My 9x greats in Plumtree were John (1589-1654) & his wife Isabell . As far as we can tell Richard was the s/o Richard HUBBARD of Plumtree (1562-1605) and his wife Elizabeth . Richard appears to the s/o Robert and unknown wife, which takes us back to the start of church records in England. Elizabeth was from nearby . It is not clear where Isabell comes from, but may be local or possibly from Elland in Yorkshire.

It is the DNA of my sister that provides the segments supporting Joseph & Ursula HUBBARD (our 8x GGM) as siblings. The DNA trails finds that two children of Sarah HUBBARD (2723-1795) of Plumtree who married into the local family connect all these lines.

05/04/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfVaYVADS24

The ancestry-research company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy, raising questions about what happens to its stockpile of DNA profiles. Attorney and author Ma...

28/03/2025

As some of you may have noticed, have filed Chapter 11 ahead of restructuring. It will be interesting to see what becomes of the company. While all this is going on there is no need to delete your data if you have tested with them. Hopefully, the company will be taken over by someone with money to invest in additional services.

06/03/2025

has provided new updates on ( ), if you have tested with them. My previous T1a1a has now a 'y' added, pushing my direct maternal MRCA up to 850 BCE.