Ancestry / Genealogy

Jumper118 said:
I wouldn't do any of the DNA tests as they are clearly just to harvest your DNA for the government. That said it's interesting to see your family history. My dad has looked into ours and on his side all seems to lead back to Germany in the 1700/1800's and unfortunately the records don't go back as far as some UK records. its amazing when people can trace back nearly 1000 years.
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This is either a beautifully self-knowing wink to the camera about how fragile and facile contemporary thinking is, viewed through a distorted lens of hyper-greed and anti-trust in fundamental laws, or a tinfoil hat parading as words.

Choice, choices.
 
Not doing a DNA test is one way of avoiding the rude surprise of extra kids from one night stands yonks ago.
 
tres said:
Has anyone delved into their ancestry using something like Ancestry.co.uk or Myheritage?

I signed up for a free trial. It's so addictive, and fascinating. I can't imagine how laborious and difficult it would have been prior to the digital age.
I've got about 1200 in my family tree. The earliest direct lineage is to a viking Jarl of Orkney in the 900s AD. Some french and Irish royalty.
My surname origin is from a bunch of London criminals who enjoyed lots of time in a workhouse.

Interested to hear what you've found.
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Spellowhouse comes from Liverpool. It is, needless to say, the house of the Spellow family. A fairly uncommon name, now, because they were wiped out in their entirety in the first wave of the plague that swept the UK. One of the little snippets of fun I discovered when I traced my family back.

My family eventually trace back to land owners but I lost the trail in the 13th Century. My "branch" broke away around the 15th Century and was not the rich one, though, it was the poor one (typical) that spent a quarter of a millennium living in one small house and working the cotton mills. No wonder they didn't write any books about them.

I do know that genetically, they are part Viking, but given they were land owners they were most likely Norman. Could have been Celtic, or Saxon, though.
 
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