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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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 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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