Mossie's Musings

First up, thank you to Chris C for sharing her "7in7+" on Thursday.  You can watch Crista Cowan's RootsTech 2023 presentation,  What's new at Ancestry,  HERE.  Remember there are lots of other interesting DNA presentations from RootsTech that you can watch at no cost with an account. You can look at Ancestry's  2022 Annual Impact Report  HERE. You can join  Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Australia & New Zealand  Facebook group  HERE. You can purchase access to the 2023 Institute for Genetic Genealogy conference videos  HERE. Dana Leed's blog post,  The Order of AncestryDNA's "Coloured Dots",  is  HERE. You can upload your DNA to  DNA Justice  HERE. You can join  The DNA Roundtable  Facebook group  HERE  to read about the "DNA Prediction Tool Evaluation". Contributions can be made  HERE. Two books to read- Barbara Rae-Venter  I know who you are Edward Humes  The forever witness Two of Veronica's links to demonstrate resear

First up, thank you to Andrew, Lynelle, Donna and Sally for sharing their DNA work with us on Tuesday.  Here's the link to Andrew's "DNA Journey" -  https://andrewredfern.com/top-5-tips-using-dna/ You can watch Crista Cowan's RootsTech 2023 presentation, What's new at Ancestry,  HERE.  Remember there are lots of other interesting DNA presentations from RootsTech that you can watch at no cost with an account. You can look at Ancestry's 2022 Annual Impact Report  HERE. You can join Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) Australia & New Zealand Facebook group  HERE. You can purchase access to the 2023 Institute for Genetic Genealogy conference videos  HERE. Dana Leed's blog post, The Order of AncestryDNA's "Coloured Dots", is  HERE. You can upload your DNA to DNA Justice  HERE. You can join The DNA Roundtable Facebook group  HERE  to read about the "DNA Prediction Tool Evaluation". Contributions can be made  HERE. Two books to r

Purpose  If you find a NSW birth, marriage or death record listed on Ancestry , you can purchase a transcript by a direct link to  Marilyn Rowan's NSW Transcription Service . I purchase transcripts this way as they cost less and you receive them quickly. The current price is $17.50 and I generally receive the transcript within three to five business days as the process is more automated.  NSW birth, marriage and death registrations When your search for a NSW birth, marriage or death produces a result on Ancestry as shown in the first image, select View Record to see the second image. You can purchase the record by selecting Order Record . The first time, you'll see this message which will take you to the portal for NSW Transcription Service. So the request for the transcript has been added to the cart. At this point, you can either choose to continue searching or checkout . Checkout will take you to this screen when you will create an account or log in to your existing accoun

These notes accompany my presentation for Hawkesbury Family on 8 March 2023.  Others are welcome to use these notes for their personal research. Please contact me at chrisw9953[at]gmail[dot]com for  other uses.  My aim is to encourage all participants to use both traditional research and DNA evidence so we don't miss any "vital" evidence. In 2023, genetic genealogy is an essential part of our family history toolbox. You can register for "First Look at AncestryDNA" which I'll be presenting by Zoom for the Society of Australian Genealogists at 7.00pm on Tuesday 28 March  HERE. Genetic genealogy has exploded since 2015:- AncestryDNA has become the leading testing company since it entered the Australian market in 2015. Currently, over 80% of Australians test at AncestryDNA and 25% of these people test or transfer to other testing sites and GEDmatch.  My HeritageDNA is the second most popular testing site.  There's been more than a 700% increase in testers in

Australians are taking commercial DNA tests to- find biological parent/parents, solve family mysteries generally who's my great-grandfather to great-great-grandfather, verify their genetic pedigree (and often finding it's not the same as their social pedigree) and establish ethnicity. Louise Coakley (aka "genie1") is an Australian genetic genealogist with an excellent website.  You can read about genetic genealogy  HERE. Testing at any of the major commercial DNA companies gives useful ethnicity estimates.   However, if you're testing for any other reason, my first step would be to take an autosomal test.  Often called cousinship tests, you'll get matches across all your ancestral line.   They're offered by all the major commercial companies but there's a definite path I'd recommend- testing at AncestryDNA which has the largest data base and most Australians test here, downloading your AncestryDNA data and upload it to MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, Li