Gaetano Brandi 1728 - 1829 Gaetano's death record states he was 101 years old when he died and was buried at St. Pancras, the 28th of May in 1829. We know little about him before he married Rebecca Dando in London 1790. But a couple of newspaper mentions let us know he was playing music, … Continue reading Gaetano Brandi, The Man of Feeling, or the Gentleman’s Musical Repository ~ Music of the 18th century and beyond.
Geeze Loueezz. Update coming. The story of the lost newspaper archives' plots thicken. More information has been sent about where the dear Pages of the Past has been relegated to and still not a word about CH 1844 😦 I shudder as a genealogist to think what I would not know about our Toronto … Continue reading Newspapers, My First Love For Research ~ R.I.P. The Toronto Star’s Pages Of The Past, At least for most of the world
Peanut butter is as much a part of our lives as is our DNA. It conjures up memories of home and family for many people. Dai gets his own jar with his name, he likes to double dip and he is allowed - in his own jar! Aunt Fanny and I still sing the 1961 song … Continue reading Peanut Butter ~ Friends And Lovers and Others. Filling Memorials With Memories And Correcting Mistakes!
Oh, I could cry, I could have... a collapsing illness over the mistakes I saw in a video about two lovely doppelgangers taking DNA tests. Long story short, they look remarkably alike, which we see in genealogy all the time, but when they use DNA to answer three questions about how closely they might be … Continue reading mt-DNA ~ Pedigree Collapse AND collapse over folks mistakes in understanding DNA
Screen capture instructions below! See Google translate! The phrase 'autosomal transfer' sounds to me like you are moving something from one place to another. With autosomal transfer you do put your data in a new place, but it is still there in the old one, unchanged. It is like copy-paste, not cut-and-paste. When testing DNA … Continue reading DNA Uploads ~ Autosomal Transfers – Autosomal Additions!
Cherie Lynn's Herstory 