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Ancestry Pro Tools Shared DNA
When I saw that ancestry was showing how many centimorgans, cM, your matches share with other shared matches like 23andMe and MyHeritage have been doing all along, I decided I needed to purchase the Pro Tools. One of the things I’ve been doing is to look at close shared matches and see how much they…
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Preserve
This week of the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks the keyword is preserves. There could be lot of meanings to preserve. When I first read this I thought not of saving records, but of my mother making preserves with various fruits in the summer. She made peach and pear preserves every summer. When I was…
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Looking for Thomas Barry in Kilkenny, Ireland before 1840
We know that Thomas Barry and his wife Mary Aide lived in Moanroe Commons, Knocktopher, Kilkenny when their son, Edward, was baptized at Ballyhale Catholic church in February 1840, and when their daughter, Mary was baptized in May 1843. Also Thomas Barry is listed in the 1845 House Book for Moanroe Commons, however, he is…
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Thomas Barry in Kilkenny, Ireland
Like everything else this year the Celtic Connections Conference went virtual. That gave me the opportunity to attend, as the dates of the live event would have conflicted with several local things I would have been involved with. There were several presentation dealing with Griffiths Valuation. Although I’d used it several times in the past,…
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Welcome to Patricia Coleman Genealogy
My Dad and VE Day My Dad has been in the news a lot recently – in London, England – that is. The 75th anniversary of VE Day was May 8, 2020, and there was a large remembrance celebrated in London during the week leading up to it. At the beginning of May, I received…