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 [...]
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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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 FamilyTreeDNA website is a centre for those wanting to make real and proven links with others who share the same male line name. This is a particularly important area of genealogy as nobody can be really sure that documentary evidence is 100% correct – transcription errors and lies on certificates being just two areas [...]
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