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I'm not sure of the accuracy of this tool, for my husband's surname the whole map just said "no data" 😆

But this pretty much fits the research I've been doing into the Onion family recently. Most records turn up in the west there, and then a little patch in Kent.
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Yes I am most definitely excited! Watch this video for Ancestry news about their new clustering tool coming sometime this year 😁

Highlight, you can filter by parent 😁 Yes I love it!

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Oh I've been there. At the moment it's John and William Onion I have too many of, but weirdly not enough of

You can connect to the TV ;)

1% is incredibly small. I have 6% ethnicity from a great great grandmother who was born about 1840. I would have about 3% from her mother, and 1.5% from her mother (who may be Sephardi btw).

Ethnicity estimates are estimates only. The paper research gives you the answers

Two lists of data side by side. One a list of marriages, one of baptisms. With lines highlighted in different colours to show families connecting together

A number of mini family trees on a large piece of paper, and the corner of a list of baptism data

A number of mini family trees on a large piece of paper with lots of arrows, notes, and scribbles all over

I set myself a task on Sunday to see if I could work out how the various people called Onion who lived In Kent in the 18th and 19thC were related to each other. I'm still going!

I can’t recall where I saw it or I’d share, I was working on a very complex tangle last week and it was one of those people 😆

There was one set of records the other day that the recording officer had incredibly beautiful script. The issue was more too many curls but it was very neat

Are they Welsh by any chance? We get lots of Dai Davies and in my husband’s family, Griffith Griffiths which is a mouthful

I’ve been reading Unwell Women recently and I think Mary Wollstonecraft should have an honourable mention here for her campaigning efforts and then the way she died

Thought that was kicking around in my head somewhere. These are early computing examples and I love them ❤️

Is there a musical instrument that worked this way too?

I told my FiL about this, he suggested their fathers might have been an onion seller and a cheese maker and encouraged the marriage to get them to start a pie business 🤣

Kind of how genetics works. But it's a lovely image to explain the basics of DNA :)

A tangle 😂

I suppose they consider thrulines does this, but it's appalling at it much too often.

I'm relaunching my website in a couple of days, and at the same time a newsletter. My assistant (husband) has one thing to tweak then we're ready. The newsletter will be full of genealogy stories and DNA news :)

In the 1740s Paul Onions married Sarah Cheese and I just had to stop work and have a fit of the giggles. That's beautiful.

Bag of crisps anyone?

Yep, I follow several cat accounts and daily bunnies. We need the sweet ones to keep us smiling 😃

I've been reading transcripts of 16thC and 17thC wills today and writing down all the people. I've joined 4 of the trees together to make this one. The wills are on mingay.one-name.net if anyone else finds a one name study fascinating. I'm just putting a tree together to see if my family connect :)

Definitely, it's so satisfying :D

Well that's my Saturday sorted then. Along with reading very old wills on the Mingay one name study website after getting an email about at midnight last night 😆

In the Scottish part of the tree it's going well, I spend credits to see certificates and confirm 3 times over that the people are definitely the right people. Other parts of my tree are going to be harder work 😉

#occupationoftheday is such a useful resource both for genealogists and writers of historical fiction. I've tried to buy books of occupations before and they don't scratch the surface

Apparently there's an app for doing that. I do it with the computer sometimes because my laptop screen is small, it helps when I'm transferring lots of shared dna data from MyHeritage. Google how to cast from phone to tv

It's much worse on the app as well so many of the errors put there could be from people using that, I wish they'd make the app work as well as the website. Today thrulines was insisting 2 people called William Mingay were the same, but they have completely different ancestors 🙄

In DNA Genealogy you might start with what we call quick and dirty trees. Lots of them. But now I've found my paternal tree I'm working back through and firming up those roots, making sure my evidence is watertight.

Really useful info here

On Ancestry too there are trees that are full of errors that are hard to understand. But that said sometimes the software does something silly and if I wasn't on the ball it could easily put a man being married to the same woman 3 times or something 🤔