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Jude’s Gen – What’s Left Unsaid

Editorial 1907 Map of Australia and New Zealand from The Catholic Encyclopedia When researching your family tree, you soon discover that not all the information you come across, even that found in official records, is necessarily correct or accurate. For example, an age on a marriage certificate may be a few years off, or a…

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Organising DNA Matches on Ancestry

DNA has been the big story in genealogy for some years now and rightly so, as it opens up so many possibilities. Seemingly intractable problems, especially those concerning the paternity of children born illegitimately, can be solved through the wonders of DNA, uncovering relationships that would be difficult to prove through traditional research alone. Nevertheless,…