Family Tree Frog

Earlier this year (2nd January to be precise) I ordered an mtFull Sequence test from Family Tree DNA.  I finally got my results last week on 21 April but I had such a busy week at work and home that I didn't realise I'd received my results until yesterday!  Basically this tests my matrilineal heritage.   I'll be honest and let you know that I failed science at school but I will attempt to explain what I understand about this kind of testing.  As I understand it, most DNA testing tests the inside or nucleus of the cell.  Mitochondrial DNA testing is testing the DNA outside the cell's nucleus.  Mitochondrial DNA is only passed from mother to child.  Why did I do it? Well, really in the fond hope of maybe finding some other cousins out there in family history land.  Unfortunately I didn't come up with any exact matches or even close matches. C'est la vie.   But I can tell you that I'm Haplogroup H5a1.  I'd tell you what that means...

Portrait of Private Edward Hinde of Gilston, Queensland, pictured in France, circa 1916 [picture] / Photographer unknown.  Picture courtesy of Gold Coast Libraries Picture Gold Coast collection.  This image is free of copyright restrictions. Permission is needed to use this image for commercial purposes. It's on again !   Kintalk's Trans Tasman Anzac Day Blog Challenge.  This year I have chosen to focus on the Hinde branch of my husband's family.  My husband prompted this blog by saying he remembered a photo of a digger on the wall of his grandmother's house when he was growing up. He remembered the man's name was Thomas.  I knew it couldn't be Thomas Daw - he was too young for WWI .  Dorothy, my husband's grandmother, was a Hinde before she married. When I searched the NAA records  for Hindes serving in WWI, I found an Edward and a Thomas.  Edward and Thomas would have been Dorothy's first cousins once removed or to put it another w...

Alex in Edinburgh The very genea-ial Alona Tester has come up with a new geneameme for us all. You might want to grab a cup of tea and a biscuit.  This seems to go on and on. I must be very old. Do you (or your parents) have any memorabilia from when you were a baby? (ie. baby book, lock of hair, first shoes etc.) Oh yes.  Mittens, boots and a hat. And a Christening gown. And a rattle. Alex's christening    Do you know if you were named after anyone? No I don't think so.   And do y ou know of any other names your parents might have named you? Not really - although I do remember that my mother was anxious that my name NOT be shortened to Sandy. What is your earliest memory? Clinging onto my father's slippery shoulders in the swimming pool on the Oriana coming back from Scotland.  I must have been about 3 years old.  The water was rocking from side to side in the swell of the ocean.  Note to self - find tha...

Standing Figure by Ante Dabro at University House I promised to write a wrap-up post of my experience of Sunday's talks at the 14th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry  in Canberra so here goes.. SUNDAY 29 MARCH Keynote Address: Meeting people at war: writing war on the home front - Michael McKernan Michael McKernan - photo courtesy of  Allen and Unwin I was really interested in listening to this talk mostly because I've been busting a gut (to use an impolite phrase) creating PowerPoint presentations for our library service to commemorate the lives of the soldiers from the region who enlisted in the Great War.  The PowerPoints are just part of the displays we have in each library and they include display cases filled with artefacts from local RSLs and museums and some A2 sized themed posters. Foyer Caboolture Library with WWI Displays WWI Display Caboolture Library Burpengary Library posters These photos give you a ...