The Family of Jeremiah Grace - DNA Project

12/11/2025

08/11/2025

A rare photo of Frederick George GRACE (1883-1966). my great granduncle (taken sometime after 1924) with his second wife, Edith widow nee .

Fred had 5 children by his first wife, Sarah Ann , who died in 1918. The two daughters had no issue, and one son had just one son, who also had no issue. The grandson's DNA did prove a family lineage for this extinct line.

Two sons of Fred & Sarah Ann have a number of descendants (including 3rd cousins to this researcher and their offspring); Walter Frederick GRACE (1911-1964) and Wilfred GRACE (1917-1997).

Descendants of Fred are welcome to respond to the open invitation and join the family DNA project.

30/10/2025

Special deal for DNA test kits with MyHeritage.
Log into your account and you can order for just €29 each. A great way to kick off that project by testing all your close relatives!

28/08/2025

We appear to have found a new DNA match shared with this researcher and cousin Charles, with a descendant of Harriet Ann GRACE's son Edward Frank (born 1862 Spalding, LIN). They have been approached for collaboration.

Edward had son Frank WILKINSON (1897-1971), who had a daughter Beryl (1933-2012) who married . The family are in the Worthing area of SSX. This new match would be my 4th cousin, and the shared segment coming either through Jeremiah or his wife Mary Ann .

The importance of this type of match, back to Jeremiah and his wife, cannot be under-estimated, based on the need for clues for earlier missing ancestry. Such matches will need to be shared to GEDmatch so we can crossmatch all 26 people in the GRACE family, as one of us may show a DNA segment that relates to others outside of our tree.

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 …