The Leeds Method is very valuable in sorting out grandparent lines from DNA matches. Unfortunately, one of my lines has no matches with whom I share 90-400 cM. Thankfully, a brother has tested and he does have one of that … Continue reading →
Ancestry.com has recently updated its ethnicity estimates and split the estimates between your parents so that you can determine where a particular ethnicity has come from. Unfortunately, in my case, it may not be very helpful as my parents came … Continue reading →
Did you know my grandmother, Juliane Christiane Mann (nee Riedel) was born in Prussia? She was born on 14 September 1860 in Niebusch in Schlesien (in German) or Niwiska in Silesia (in Polish) to Johann August Riedel and his wife, … Continue reading →
My father died 40 years ago today on 19 April 1982. Arthur Theodore Mann was born on 13 October 1903 at a property owned by Johann Gottlieb Jaensch near Murray Bridge, South Australia, near the “old granite rock”, which he … Continue reading →
My Mum died 40 years ago on 12 October 1981. Louise Elsa Kuchel (known as “Elsie”) was born on 15 December 1909 in Murray Bridge. She was the oldest of 4 children of Otto Kuchel and his wife, Marie (nee … Continue reading →
According to my 2xgreat grandmother, Maria Anna Fleischmann’s baptismal registration, my 3xgreat grandmother, Maria Anna Rößler was the daughter of Joseph Rößler, Cottager, in Oberschwarzbrunn (Horní Černá Studnice) Nro. 47 and Theresia née Swarowsky from Brande (Žďár near Tanvald) N. … Continue reading →
I have so far been unsuccessful in tracing the parents of my great grandfather Johann Christian Mann or the father of his wife, my great grandmother, Johanne Louise Bradtke. Descendants of these unknown people could be as close as 3rd … Continue reading →
I have considered my ancestors to be Germanic peasant stock. Imagine my surprise to discover my 3xgreat grandmother, Rosine Dorothea Schlinke (nee Janotte) practised as a midwife in the district of Cicha Góra, Posen/Poznan. She passed her midwifery exam in 1820 … Continue reading →