DNA Update

 Background Information 

After I started writing this post I attended a zoom presentation by Sophie Kay entitled Six Hats for Genealogy.

This post covers the first of those which is Organisation. It is important to get together everything you know and how you know it before starting to look at anything which might add to your knowledge. Using the Six Hats approach allows us to make considered decisions.

Since my last post I have tested at Ancestry and have made further discoveries. 

I have also decided that I need to share some background information in order to explain some results so before I go further with my DNA posts I want to share some of what I knew from searching the records.

I have needed to be somewhat creative when trying to ascertain where some of my family were and whether I have found the right person in the record. These were illiterate times when most people could not read and write a few could just scrawl their name if required but there was no real consistency in how names would be recorded. 

It is important to consider this and how any accent might change what someone heard. If the person making a record was not familiar with local names or either party was from another area the interpretation could change.

First I will look at my Buckle surname which could be spelt several ways and was even transcribed as Bartlett on one census record for my great grandfather. 

Research on this line lead me to find my 2xgt grandfather who was christened in 1827. His parents were not married and the father although named had no occupation recorded in the register.

However when he married he gave the correct name for his deceased father and an occupation.

I wrote this post in July 2024 but did not publish it. However further developments may make this information relevant for future posts I intend to make so I am publishing it almost 2 years later.