The Family History Group

Leader:  John Dogherty - familyhistory@ashbyu3a.co.uk - phone 01530 411148

13th March

A very good turnout of 7 today with a new member: Janet. We managed fairly well without the second table, which is on loan to the Painting and Drawing group for their entry in the Ashby Outdoor Art Festival.
Janet is working on a fascinating project to get as much life detail as possible on the soldiers named on the Donisthorpe War memorial for the First War. She already has a fair amount but would like as much as can be found.
We looked at the various sources and how to access them.
Rhona has her DNA Report, and this is showing a very interesting story with a large proportion of Indian DNA. She will be working on it to extract as much information as possible from it. Mary worked with her.
Eileen is still working through personalities named in the 1634 Will. We had a very interesting discussion on the effect the change from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendars had on the dating of documents.
It seems the earliest countries to change were the mainly Catholic ones in 1582. The UK moved in 1752, but at least one country (Saudi Arabia) did not change until 2016.
Elizabeth is searching for her Great Great grandparents on both paternal and maternal sides. She has been making good progress in Scotland, using Scotland’s People, and the Church of Scotland Parish Registers.
Her next targets will be in Ireland.
Linda is still building up her Ancestry family tree. She is putting a lot of effort into checking her sources.
Shirley has been chasing down information about her ancestors in newspapers, especially a grandfather who was fined for involvement in an accident to a child who was burnt.
JD is now working on the life of his great uncle and building his school in 3D on the computer.

We meet again on the 10th April