Category Archives: DNA

View some of Annie Barnes’ genealogical DNA discoveries.

Which Dando Fathered Sydney Herbert Hall?

Posted on 7 July 2025 by
A section of Sydney Herbert Hall's birth certificate showing no father

Don’t want to read? Click PLAY to hear an AI-generated audio discussion on this blog post’s key topics. (The audio was produced by NotebookLM Deep Dive Conversation.) For a while now, my dad has had a DNA match to another … Continue reading →

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Geake Family: DNA Goes Some Way Towards Uncovering The Truth

Posted on 21 October 2022 by
AncestryDNA Genetic Communities for the descendants of James Geake

Don’t want to read? Click PLAY to hear an AI-generated audio discussion on this blog post’s key topics. (The audio was produced by NotebookLM Deep Dive Conversation.) For some time I’ve been working on a family history mystery. The records … Continue reading →

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AncestryDNA’s Ethnicity Inheritance Tool

Posted on 1 July 2022 by
My Dad's DNA Ethnicity

Not long ago, Ancestry introduced a new DNA tool called Ethnicity Inheritance where they apparently show you which ethnicities you have inherited from each parent – even if your parents haven’t taken DNA tests. As it happens, both of my … Continue reading →

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On This Day In 1873

Posted on 8 October 2021 by
Baptism of Alfred Charles Newbold Hibbitt

8TH OCTOBER Not only is it the 49th anniversary of my Grandpa Hibbitt’s (Charles George Hibbitt) death today but I have only just realised that his father, Alfred Charles Newbold Hibbitt, was baptized on this day in 1873, exactly 99 … Continue reading →

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Solving The Next Ridley Riddle

Posted on 29 August 2021 by
Descendants of Samuel Ridley

In my previous post, I described how I learnt that Joseph Ridley and Mary Dean were the parents of my 2 x great-grandfather, Henry Frederick Ridley. My next task was to discover where Joseph and Mary came from and how … Continue reading →

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DNA Finally Knocks Down My Brick Wall – Ridley Family History

Posted on 27 August 2021 by
The Family of Henry Ridley & Hannah Cotterill

I recently made some headway with a family history brick wall. For many years I’d been stuck on my 2 x great-grandfather, Henry Ridley. I was even beginning to wonder whether he was in fact my biological ancestor as I … Continue reading →

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A Modest Update To The Barnes Y-DNA

Posted on 8 January 2021 by
Section of the Y-haplotree showing Harvey's BY100453 subclade

I logged into FamilyTreeDNA today, something I hadn’t done for quite some time, and noticed that my hubby, Harvey, has travelled down the Y-DNA haplotree a couple of more branches. This would be because there have been new people taking … Continue reading →

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Update On The Hibbitt/Hibbett/Hibbit Y-DNA Haplogroup

Posted on 16 April 2019 by
The R Z2189 Haplogroup on the YTree

Following on from a previous post where I explained that my patrilineal line doesn’t match the Hibbitt haplogroup, I am now giving an update for those called Hibbitt or a variant of the name. We now have four people called … Continue reading →

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DNA Highlights My Grandpa Geake’s Mysterious Irish Connections

Posted on 15 January 2019 by
Connacht with sub-regions of North East Mayo & North West Sligo, North Connacht and North Mayo

Ancestry has recently completed its Irish ethnicity regions update and now offers 92 distinct regions in Ireland. This has resulted in my being able to identify some areas on my maternal grandfather’s side (William Hellyer Geake). My mum, aunt and … Continue reading →

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DNA Uncovers A Family Secret

Posted on 7 May 2018 by
Who Was Laura Payne's Father? (AI Generated)

A new DNA match recently appeared in our match lists (I’ll call her Sally – not her real name) which revealed something about my maternal grandmother’s uncle that I feel sure my gran never knew about. Richard Arthur Weaver, brother … Continue reading →

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