
Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Battle of Waterloo 200 Years Anniversary - June 1815 - June 2015
Family history research, gets quite involved when you can dig up stories this far back.
It's even more involved when multiple family members are involved with the same story, albeit a few years apart.
The Battle of Waterloo...
Sunday, 10 May 2015

My Direct Male Lineage to Ireland - Fitzgerald
What is known that 2 Generations (William and son Thomas) were from Cork City, it is unsure where William's Father originated. I'm suspecting he may have traveled from Far West Cork, or from Limerick to be placed in Cork City by the 1800 era.
(image...
Saturday, 9 May 2015

My Direct Female Line to Ireland - Blood/Persse/Newenham/Blakeney/Burton/Davies
Anne Blood is the Daughter of Neptune Blood and Marianne Davies.
They are the Blood's of Applevale - County Clare and distant relatives of the famous Thomas Blood, who went on to steal the Crown Jewels. It isn't known...
Friday, 1 May 2015

Understanding my deep "Irish" connection between Protestant and "Young Irelander-ism".
I am now at a weird, but deep phase on understanding this Irish Family History of mine.
So deep, that I am having trouble with the complexity of 2 'very different' cultural lines of "Irish". One being Protestant...
Friday, 17 April 2015

Maternal connection through my Newenham / Burton Line to the Usher's
In recent weeks, through DNA technology, I have been able to identify, a little bit more of my lineage. Almost of "untold proportions" and this connection, also connects to more of a Lord Mayor of Dublin link than I ever thought...
Saturday, 28 March 2015

In search of who killed Lt. Charles Burton Newenham - 1793
Departing from Genetic Genealogy for a bit, I wanted to focus on a story that I can't keep my mind off.
With the 200 years anniversary of the end of Napoleon's reign, coming up in June 2015, I wanted to step back a further 22 years...
Monday, 9 March 2015
Am I of "Native Irish" Blood or I am of Norman Blood?
Since I last posted, I'm getting into something much deeper, than I expected.
That is, my Paternal Line (Y-DNA) has shone a light to mostly being of "Native Irish" descent, but I struggle to comprehend how deep this goes.
I have placed myself in a few DNA projects and finally seeing a trend, that doesn't seem to fit with what I know of. My surname is supposed to carry the story of the Norman Conquest of Ireland in 1169 AD. But interestingly, I do not show the Y-DNA Haplogroup to Normandy or any other earlier European/African DNA structure.
When...
Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Part 2 - Y-DNA & Autsomal DNA Picture Maps
Well, here is my Y-DNA & Autosomal details as based in images.
(Please click on the images for separate viewing)
FTDNA - Ethnic Origin
Gedmatch Details - Admixture with Oracle (4 Populations) :
FTDNA Details of my Y-DNA 67...
Saturday, 27 December 2014
Part 1 - Y-DNA and the Irish Fitzgerald connection.
About 10-11 Months have passed, quite a lot of data has been collated, but still not fully understood (would have to be a professor to understand it?). But it has shone a light, that I am on to something, quite extraordinary, particularly heading to my Paternal heritage.
In essence, I initially used the DNA to trace connections to my Maternal heritage, but after a while it seemed to become stonewalled, because I could not connect with surety, of other Family DNA matches other than the Irish "Galway" Persse family.
I had no other people who I...
Saturday, 25 October 2014
DNA Testing, Results and Thoughts (Initial blog)
Well, 9 months have passed, since I took the Family Tree DNA test.
9 confusing months, with almost daily intrusions into my deep inner self.
9 months of trying to unravel, this fascination with my inner coded building blocks of my Human Genome.
There are 3 parts to Ancestral DNA test (the basic parts that you need to know).
Autosomal testing : Links you with Cousins from both sides of your parents
Y-DNA : Strictly your Paternal line (Testing for Males only)
mtDNA : Strictly your Maternal line (Testing for both Male and Female)
This...
Sunday, 27 July 2014
Deeper Ancestry
I ventured along a path that lead me to my burning thought.
I know so much on my Maternal, I now have the tools and empowerment to finally tackle the Paternal side.
I knew a little of my Paternal side, but not enough. It has "got my goat", to actually find out and venture a little deeper into finding out what historical ties we can find.
I chose to do a DNA Ancestral test, to see where the Fitzgerald side would take me. Not only that, but my Mother's side was still quite blank in some parts.The whole basis on why I chose to do the DNA test was for heritage/historical...

Edgar Claude Hasler - 1874 -1946
Continuing from Part 6 (Final):
All the hard work, all the thoughts and processes of his life, his family life, came crashing down on 23 of August 1946.
The day, Edgar Claude Hasler - Kelwylyn R Moure, passed away in an aged care facility in Sydney.
He...