Transcript Getting Started in Your Family History

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ROWBERRY ONS
Started family history research in late 1976
Direct line in Bristol back to my 3 x great-grandfather George
RUBERY
Family story said that he came from Birmingham and was
related to the RUBERYs who had founded the engineering firm
Rubery, Owen & Co
Despite extensive searching no link found – but a large family
tree built up for them
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His death certificate showed he was a Chelsea Pensioner
His Army records gave his date and place of birth – 1773 in
Hereford
He was baptised there in 1773 as a ROWBERRY
Registered the ONS in 1981
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Visiting London to extract all the R GRO references took 20 years
Completed (to date) in 1998 when FreeBMD began
All BMD 1837 to 1983 uploaded
BMD 1998 to 2008 collected as available
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Using Excel to draw up family trees
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ROWBERRY Tree Three Overview
Note the different variants
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The RONS Trees and their
documented roots
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Births per tree:
Total births from 1837 – 2008
Births from 1837 to Mar 1911
Births from Jun 1911 to 2008
(data sorted on this column,
note that this is a good
indication of relative tree size)
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Marriages per tree:
Total marriages from 1837 – 2008
Marriages from 1837 to Mar 1911
Marriages from Jun 1911 to 2008
(data sort in same tree order as
previous slide, not much difference)
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The ROWBERRY One-Name Study yDNA Project started in Nov
2006
Project website set up on the FTDNA website – note and link on
home page of the RONS website
RONS Family Gathering in April 2008 - notification of the
Project was sent with invitations to attend
First test was taken by my first cousin Peter RUBERY (free kit)
11 tests so far, all by volunteers – 8 part paid, 2 paid kits
Donations to Project General Fund very helpful
BUT some very interesting results...
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ROWBERRY ONS yDNA
Results by tree
3 results – 1 per tree - no
match to any other tree
5 results for r1 tree – 4
matches, 1 for suspected
illegitimate line
2 results for row~gom
tree AND 1 result for
rowlug tree – all match
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ROWBERRY Tree One
extract to show
relationship of tests
Volunteers, but they “shut
the chain” by resolving
what were the “weakest
links” on the documented
tree
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ROWBERRY Tree One
The weakest link 1
Stephen’s descendants
match those with an
unbroken documentary
chain
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ROWBERRY Tree One
The weakest link 2
Richard’s descendants match those
with an unbroken documentary chain
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ROWBERRY Tree
One
Documents
indicate a possible
illegitimate line
yDNA indicates a
broken chain
(male line)
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ROWBERRY Tree Five
extract to show
relationship of tests
Volunteers, but they “shut
the chain” by resolving
the “weakest link” on the
documented tree, and
showed that there is
another link still to be
forged...
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ROWBERRY Tree Five - The weakest link
George’s descendants match those with an unbroken
documentary chain
Chain shut!
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ROWBERRY Tree Five – link not made
John’s descendants match those with an unbroken
documentary chain
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This PowerPoint Presentation was produced February
2010 for the Guild of One-Name Studies Seminar
“DNA Developments” held on 20th February 2010 at
National Star College, Ullenwood, Cheltenham
If you have any queries or comments they will be
welcomed by Polly Rubery who can be contacted at:
[email protected]
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