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This is one of three possible birth stories* for Christine Cambridge , my great-grandmother, based on DNA matches on Ancestry. You can read about the DNA evidence here, but this post is an attempt to review any documentary or circumstantial evidence that might support this hypothesis. Christine would later claim the 20th of November 1881 as her date of birth, and although there's no reason to…
This is one of three possible birth stories* for Christine Cambridge , my great-grandmother, based on DNA matches on Ancestry. You can read about the DNA evidence here, but this post is an attempt to review any documentary evidence that might support this hypothesis. Christine would later claim the 20th of November 1881 as her date of birth, and although there's no reason to think that's correct,…
This is one of three possible birth stories* for Christine Cambridge , my great-grandmother, based on DNA matches on Ancestry. You can read about the DNA evidence here, but this post is an attempt to review any documentary or circumstantial evidence that might support this hypothesis. Christine would later claim the 20th of November 1881 as her date of birth, and although there's no reason to…
I'm not a monarchist, so I'm not one of those family historians who hunts for connections to royalty. I take pride instead in having ancestors who worked for a living, and most of mine must have worked really hard . That makes it pretty funny that I'm going to bump up to royalty again . You may remember that I'd identified Richard Penson and Frances Drury as ancestors of Christine Cambridge's…
This is the continuing story of how I found the birth parents of Christine Cambridge , my great-grandmother, using DNA matches on Ancestry. One parent was a child of Alfred and Georgianna Bond , and I'd narrowed the possibilities down to Gerald, Ethel or Leila (read my comment at the end of that post for the latest information). It wasn't until I began looking at the Penson DNA evidence that I…
This is a supplementary analysis using your DNA on Ancestry. It's labour intensive and doesn't always tell you anything new, but it can provide additional evidence for the theory you've carefully honed using hypotheses, research, triangulation and stepping . It operates on the same principle as the Leeds Method and is really just a different way of thinking about the same process. If, on the other…
This is the continuing story of my search for the birth parents of Christine Cambridge , my great-grandmother . One parent was a child of Alfred and Georgianna Bond , and I'd narrowed the possibilities down to Gerald, Ethel or Leila (read my comment at the end of that post for the latest information). The DNA evidence indicated that Christine was descended from James Roffe 1 and Sally Penson , and…
This is the continuing story of my search for the birth parents of Christine Cambridge , my great-grandmother . One parent was a child of Alfred and Georgianna Bond , and I'd narrowed the possibilities down to Gerald, Ethel or Leila (read my comment at the end of that post for the latest information). The DNA evidence also indicated that Christine was descended from James Roffe 1 and Sally Penson…
This is the continuing story of my search for the birth parents of Christine Cambridge , my great-grandmother . One parent was a child of Alfred and Georgianna Bond , and I'd narrowed the possibilities down to Gerald, Ethel or Leila (read my comment at the end of that post for the latest information). The DNA evidence also indicated that Christine was descended from James Roffe * and Sally Penson…
This is the continuing story of my search for the birth parents of Christine Cambridge , my great-grandmother . One parent was a child of Alfred and Georgianna Bond , and I'd narrowed the possibilities down to Gerald, Ethel or Leila (read my comment at the end of that post for the latest information). The DNA evidence also indicated that Christine was descended from James Roffe 1 and Sally Penson…
