A DNA study has found that people of European ancestry are more closely related than thought. It also found that UK residents shared more recent ancestors with people in Ireland than with each other.
Family Tree DNA |
90% of genealogists choose the world's largest Y-DNA and mtDNA databases. |
Do you descend from Native Americans or 'Niall of the Nine Hostages'? Your ancestors left the clues in your genes. Family Tree DNA, the pioneers of genetic genealogy, will help reveal your deep ancestry. |
 |
| 1940 US Census |
87% of Americans will find a relative in the 1940 Census. Search FREE. |
On 1 April 1940 the 16th US Census was taken across America. Every one of the 134 million records is now ready for you to explore on Ancestry.com. Search for your family member by name and find their address, age, occupation, income, education level and more. |
|
| Online TEFL course |
A TEFL course is all you need to teach English abroad. |
If you speak English, you can teach English. Open the doors to thousands of job opportunities overseas with an internationally accredited i-to-i TEFL course. Explore the world, experience new cultures and get paid to do it. |
|
Bluehost |
Reliable, cheap, hassle-free hosting for your website. |
Thinking of running your own website? Come and join the millions of other website owners who have already chosen Bluehost. Providing outstanding customer service for the best possible price. |
|
| Ancestry DNA |
Your DNA has a story. It's time to discover it. |
Full breakdown of genetic ethnicity; list of new relatives updated in real-time; personal results delivered online in weeks; simple integration with Ancestry.com; tests for both men and women. |
|
| Historic Newspapers Online |
Read history as it was happening. |
More than 16 million pages from over 1000 different newspapers across the US, UK and Canada dating back to the 1700s. Full-text index and Advanced Image Viewer deliver highlighted search hits on every page. Subscription includes access to over 9 million obituaries. |
|
| British Military Records |
Giving you the firepower to research your family's military history. |
Records include: Waterloo Medal Roll 1815; Casualties of the Boer War 1899-1902; WW1 Army Service Records, Pension Records and Medal Rolls Index Cards 1914–1920; WW2 Army Prisoners of War 1939-1945; and WW2 Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945. |
|
| Irish Records |
Irish BMD & Parish Collection 1742-1978. |
The people of Ireland have always had a passion for their land and traditions. Our Irish records help you meet these people — your ancestors — and learn more about the places and eras that shaped them. |
|
Category Archives: Genealogy
Swedish lumberjack declared legally dead after being missing in Canada for 102 years
Johan Johansson’s family hadn’t heard from the 139 year-old émigré to Canada since his last letter home in April 1911.
Man ‘kidnapped as new born’ in 1964 and ‘returned’ to parents a year later is not their son, DNA test reveals
In April 1964, newborn Paul Fronczak was kidnapped from a Chicago hospital. When an infant boy was found abandoned in July 1965, Paul’s parents believed he had miraculously returned – but a DNA test has finally revealed he is not their missing son.
Red hair genes directly inherited from the world’s first Redheads 70,000 years ago
ScotlandsDNA believes that everyone who carries one of 3 variants of the red-hair gene is a direct descendant of the first redhead ever to have it – two variants originating in West Asia around 70,000 years ago, and a younger variant originating in Europe around 30,000 years ago.
Iceland’s ‘incest alarm’ for dating couples – new smartphone app checks 1,200 years of genealogy
Iceland’s population has been inter-related since the island was first settled by the Vikings – the question for couples has always been, just how closely? A new smartphone app can now discreetly provide the answer.
Descendants of 18th-19th century convicts pose with the pitiful loot that saw them transported to Australia
A Sydney-based photographer has come up with a stunning new take on family history. Mine Konakci gathered the descendants of 47 convicts transported to Australia for petty theft and photographed them with a representation of the stolen items.
America’s oldest genealogy records, detailing life in 16th century Florida, to go online
Florida parish records, dating from 1594 through to 1763, are being digitised and will be put online for anyone to view.
10 Lancastrian-Americans – notable Lancashire exports to the USA
Irish-Americans have St Paddy’s Day, African-Americans have Black History Month, Italian-Americans have Columbus Day. It’s time that Americans with Lancashire ancestry celebrated their historic links to the best county in the UK. Here are 10 notable Lancastrian exports (some saints, some sinners) to the US.
How a length of rope changed American history
One of the reasons why the Mayflower story continues to fascinate is how all modern American history, and world history, was confined to that creaky tub and its occupants in 1620.
10 young priests who became Pope
In 1902, a 21 year-old farmer’s son wondered in his diary if God had brought him to Rome for a purpose; 56 years later he became pope. Here are 10 men, some born to privelege, some in poverty, who all made the journey from priest to pope.
Y-chromosomal Adam suddenly got much older
When Albert Perry was living in slavery in mid-19th century South Carolina, he could not have imagined just how ancient and significant his origins were. His Y-chromosome DNA shows that here, enslaved in America, was the direct descendant of an African who could rightly be called the ‘father of all mankind.’
Rare images of smiling Victorians found in Scottish antiques shop
Most photographs of Victorian people tend to show them as stiff, formal and unsmiling, but rare glass negatives found in a Scottish antiques shop show that they were not so grim and humourless in everyday life.
Follow Abroad in the Yard:
Categories:
You may also like:
Old shoes in the news - discovery of ancient Egyptian shoes in Luxor and a medieval shoe stuffed with coins in Holland
18th century tokens which linked abandoned London babies to their true origins to be exhibited in US
