This is the weblog of Brian Curd. A lot of it is written on the spur of the moment and any benefit you gain from it is worth exactly what you paid!
About a year or so ago and all in the interests of genealogy, I had a Y-DNA (follows the male line) test done. At the time there were only a couple of matches to mine and they were already known to me through more conventional records. After a few months, as more people had tests [...]
A while ago somebody suggested I join facebook (fb) as a way of contacting other people interested in the genealogy of the Curd family. Well I joined and have given it a try and, after a few weeks of nothing much more than the inane chatter I would normally hear from somebody on a mobile [...]
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Votes please; should I respond or not? This mail arrived this morning and is the first personalised one of its type I have seen: YANG LIM & ASSOCIATES SOLICITOR AND ADVOCATES NO. 101, JALAN PUDU RAYA, TAMAN DESA RAYA MALAYSIA TEL: +60122473440 Email: barryanglim@XXXXXX.XXX I am Yang Lim, an attorney at law. A deceased client [...]
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We now have a date for the family get together: Sarratt Local History Society are planning an Open Day and Curd Family get together in the village of Sarratt on Saturday July 19th. There will be a display devoted to the story of the family of John Curd who married Susannah Pymley in the village [...]
After months of spam abuse I had to take down the Curd family forum . Seems phpBB is just too open to abuse and requires constant tweaking and attention to keep running. I have now switched to another system and am hoping it won’t be such an “open target”, we’ll see.. Check it out at [...]
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There are plans underway to organise a CURD family get together for those interested tracing the family history. This applies particularly to people, like me, who can trace their ancestry back to John CURD and Susannah PYMLEY in Hertfordshire UK. It’s hoped to hold the event in September 2008 in Sarratt Herts – stay tuned [...]
This time of year always seems to encourage a sudden burst in genealogy activity – I have made three solid new contacts for my tree in the last couple of weeks and am looking forward to making a few steps further back on the CURD line and a completely new start on the GRANT tree [...]
I now have the results from my DNA test. It turns out I am part of Haplogroup R1b1 (which means little to me yet!) but here is the description from Wikipedi which doesn’t tell me a lot except that I seem to be in the most common male group in Europe. Markers 1-12 Locus 1 [...]
The Family Tree Maker website is offering a free download of the beta 2008 software. It’s a biggie at 170Mb, so don’t bother if you don’t have a decent connection. I took a look at it this afternoon and looks to be a big improvement over the older version I have. The main difference seems [...]
