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!
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 church 8th [...]
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 www.curdfamily.com/bbs.
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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 for more [...]
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
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
DYS#
393
390
19*
391
385a
385b
426
388
439
389-1
392
389-2
Alleles
13
23
14
11
11
14
12
12
12
14
14
30
Markers 13-25
Locus
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
DYS#
458
459a
459b
455
454
447
437
448
449
464a**
464b**
464c**
464d** [...]
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 to [...]
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 which [...]
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Eastman’s Genealogy Newsletter is reporting problems with documents produced using Word 2007:
“ If you write articles for magazines, you should be aware of some new restrictions. Two of the nation’s most prestigious magazines have advised authors that they cannot accept articles written in Microsoft Word 2007, and I expect that more magazines will follow soon. [...]
Stumbled upon the Ancestry Aid genealogy website today. It’s free to register and although I didn’t find anything of immediate interest, it does look very promising.
Another potentially useful list of search sites also came to light here.
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