Thanks, to Michael Clark, one of my Scottish correspondents, I now have a link to British Listed Buildings for Gimmers Mill, where my Maitland's lived until just after the death of Dr. Alexander Maitland who was my great-great-great-great grandfather, and who died in 1826. I present the link since I have no rights to the photos. In the submitted photo on the page, just to the left of the tree line on the right is Gimmers Mill House with the mill in the background. Pretty awesome.
Gimmers Mill
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Monday, June 29, 2020
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Do You Get Excited When ...
I love it when I get a message from someone on ancestry dot com. I hate it when the message is:
And their tree is locked. Which Bowman? What do you do then? Well, you go to your DNA matches and search for the user, which you can do now, by searching for their name. And then you get this:
16 cM (centiMorgans) across 1 segment really isn't anything to get excited about. It's somewhere in the range of 5th to 8th cousin.
But. Bowman is in my paternal direct line. So I do get excited. If nothing else, it validates my own research.
Now to hear back from the person who guesses we are related through the Bowman link!
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Hi there, I guess we are related through the Bowman link.
And their tree is locked. Which Bowman? What do you do then? Well, you go to your DNA matches and search for the user, which you can do now, by searching for their name. And then you get this:
5th–8th Cousin
16 cM (centiMorgans) across 1 segment really isn't anything to get excited about. It's somewhere in the range of 5th to 8th cousin.
But. Bowman is in my paternal direct line. So I do get excited. If nothing else, it validates my own research.
Now to hear back from the person who guesses we are related through the Bowman link!
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
RIP Jan Steven Zaleski
I received sad news today of the passing of a friend and fellow volunteer at The Westland, Michigan Family History Center, Jan Zaleski.
When I was actively and aggressively researching my husband's Polish ancestors I tried to learn everything I could from Jan. He had a lot to teach.
He asked me once if I had any brick walls in my research that might have appeared on the Hamburg (Germany) Passenger lists. I gave him a name - we weren't even sure of the spelling - and he found the family on the passenger lists. It gave a prior residence which led us to figuring out who the ancestor's parents were, where my ancestor was actually born and about 5 different spelling of the last name.
After I retired from the Family History Center and from my paying job, my husband and I moved down to Tennessee. But Jan would keep in touch, sometimes by Christmas card, sometimes by email, keeping me apprised of what was going on in the research world.
He had a great sense of humor, always telling me I was pronouncing Polish names wrong - he was right - and making jokes. I'll miss him.
Copyright 2010-2020, ACK for Gene Notes
When I was actively and aggressively researching my husband's Polish ancestors I tried to learn everything I could from Jan. He had a lot to teach.
He asked me once if I had any brick walls in my research that might have appeared on the Hamburg (Germany) Passenger lists. I gave him a name - we weren't even sure of the spelling - and he found the family on the passenger lists. It gave a prior residence which led us to figuring out who the ancestor's parents were, where my ancestor was actually born and about 5 different spelling of the last name.
After I retired from the Family History Center and from my paying job, my husband and I moved down to Tennessee. But Jan would keep in touch, sometimes by Christmas card, sometimes by email, keeping me apprised of what was going on in the research world.
He had a great sense of humor, always telling me I was pronouncing Polish names wrong - he was right - and making jokes. I'll miss him.
Copyright 2010-2020, ACK for Gene Notes
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