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Martin Swain
Honor Code SignatorySigned 14 Aug 2019 | 9,670 contributions | 300 thank-yous | 1,483 connections
After joining the German Project I am working on my wife's family, an interesting challenge. However, I'm always pleased to be side-tracked by anyone who needs help or thinks we may have joint ancestors.
When I started asking those preliminary genealogical questions more than forty years ago my father was unable to help much. His brother, my uncle Val was a little more informative. He gave me a “tree” with notes drawn from memory as well as three newspaper cuttings relating to the funeral of his father, much to the amazement and amusement of my father. However, it was only after I retired, and by then both father and uncle were no longer there to ask, that I started to unravel the Swain family history, and found that much of Val’s “information” was misleading, to put it mildly.
My mother's family proved easier to research as several family members were also working on it and we were able to trade finds.
In the meantime I have traced and made contact with numerous cousins around the globe thanks to this interesting hobby. Adding my findings into the greater picture is my main motivation in participating in the WikiTree project. And it is there for my children and grandchildren when they in turn start asking those preliminary genealogical questions.
Furthermore, so that all my hard work on WikiTree remains there to answer those questions, I hereby grant permission that after my death all the profiles I manage be transferred to someone in my family that can ensure their continued support for the project, regardless of whether or not they are currently on the trusted lists.
Swain-2725 10:38, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
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Many thanks for your message. All is well at the present time with the current projects. However, at some point I shall be looking for a team working on the overlap between London's East and Essex. I have a few brick walls in the Stratford / West Ham area.
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The London Team and Essex Team sound like the ones you should join. You can be a member of more than one team. I can add you now if you would like; or you can let us know when you want to be added.
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Thanks for your message. In the past few months I have been sidetracked away from my family involving the England and Derbyshire Projects as I have been trying to unravel my wife's family which involves the Germany Project of which I am also a member. I shall be returning to my family before long and am looking forward to the continued support of the Derbyshire team who were most helpful in the past. Regards Martin
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Yes, I certainly wish to remain a member of the Germany project. I shall fill out the survey forthwith.
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I was cleaning out my inbox today and spotted a message of yours from November 2020. I've spent the day working up Nellie's family. Have added her parents and also added her grandfather, William Hanstock. When Nellie's father Thomas died, his parents were indexed as William and Alice Hanstock, so that Yorkshire family looks to be the right one.
Please accept my sincere apologies. It will be interesting to see if the two lines do intersect further back. It's a fairly unusual surname. There's a family originating from Ireland in New South Wales, too.
Warm regards, Christine
Many thanks for your message. Frankly I have no idea what I wrote to you back then; I presume in connection with Sarah Ann Hanstock (Hanstock-10) who married my great uncle Edmund Swain in 1892. I have not researched Sarah's family apart from having names for her parents. Her father, John b1850), may be a brother of the William Hanstock b1847 you've entered. Maybe I'll get round to all the "collaterals" one day! Regards Martin
Cheers, Christine
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Thanks for the message. I do have one problem. I tried to enter my Ancestry ID under "Ancestry.com user name" on the DNA test page but it didn't work. My membership to Ancestry is with dot co dot uk where the DNA results are stored but it would not accept that user ID. Somewhere else there was a mention of " AncestryDNA user ID"; I'm not aware of having one (?). Can you advise? Thanks Martin
It could be the UK part. Hmmm. Let me check into it. I'll get back to you as soon as I learn something.
Best,
Claire
Here are two suggestions: 1. Log in to whichever Ancestry you uses. If you click on your name in the top right corner and select Your Account, your username is listed under Account Settings.
2. Are you trying to put the URL of your home page in the Ancestry name spot? Here is a link to Ancestry's help page on finding the Username: https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Finding-Your-Username.
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Let me know how it works?
Best,
Claire
Thanks for your message. I tried the first suggestion and it worked so I didn't bother about the second. Many thanks for your help. Best regards Martin
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Thanks for your message. Having read some of the links especially Space:England_Project_-_Profile_Standards I think I am not yet ready to delve into pre-1700 as I still have too many biographies to enter in the post-1700 period. But I'll get there in due time. Regards Martin
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