Person: Lily May Lucas nee Hodges (01 Jun 1915 - 30 Dec 1976)

Today is the 37th anniversary of the passing of my paternal grandmother Lily aka Dixie (you guessed it this blog was named after her).  When family pass I am a firm believer of keeping their essence alive and a part of our lives, without them we wouldn't be who we are, so in honouring her memory today I am sharing a snippet of her tree.

It is believed her father is a gent named Harry Jamieson as told to me by my grandfather when I expressed an interest in our family heritage all those years ago.  I am hopeful that one day DNA will be able to shed some light on this or point us in the right direction to fill in this branch for her, I'm hopeful she won't shoot me down for doing this, it's done with love in the heart <3

embeddable family tree updated live from WikiTree

Surname: Melrose DNA Study

As a family group we are interested in tracing our Melrose (and Schofield) origins especially as we have pretty much come to the end of the paper trail from the Australian end.

MELROSE
We are particularly interested to connect with descendants of Thomas Graham Melrose and Anna Horrigan/Harrigan located in Michigan and Canada who would be willing to take a DNA test to compare results.  With the objective to prove or disprove whether the two Thomas Graham Melrose's are indeed one and the same.

There are 5 descendants covering 3 separate lines of descent from the Australian branch of Melrose's via George Melrose & Jane Schofield that have taken autosomal/family finder DNA tests through 23andme to compare with.  We also have our results at Gedmatch.com.

If you would like to join us, please contact me on dna [at] dixie9 dot com or here.

We would also be interested in connecting with the Melrose's of South Australia to see if they are related as well.  We believe they are, we just haven't confirmed how or where ;)

Click here to see chart in larger view.

George's DNA Inheritance Chart

embeddable family tree updated live from WikiTree

Genealogy's Star: Flash Drive Disaster -- Genealogists Beware!!!

About two years ago I had spent the day scanning all my folders of certificates and documents, it was an ambitious task, but one that I really wanted to do, at the end of the session I started the eject procedure for the flash drive, but it would not complete, it hung forever to the point I pulled the flash drive out beginning my own demise.. when I popped the flash drive in my home computer it wouldn't register, absolutely nothing could resurrect that little sucker, hours and hours of lost work and a very valuable lesson learned... Some really sound advice here so you don't repeat my mistake,  have a read and learn for your own sanity - Genealogy's Star: Flash Drive Disaster -- Genealogists Beware!!!

My Ancestry Composition at 23andme including Split View

Thought I would post my Ancestry Composition according to 23andme.  I'm quiet impatient for the day we can knock out those 'Nonspecific' assignments!

Conservative ancestry composition for Rhonda

Speculative ancestry composition for Rhonda
This one is more interesting!

Standard ancestry composition for Rhonda

This 'standard' chart is is the one shown when you first check your results.

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As both Mum and I have been tested I am able to view the Split view, this is the best part of having a parent test especially as in my case my father has been deceased for 14 years, thanks to Mum I am able to view a breakdown of his composition!  To me this is priceless.

Conservative Split view

Speculative Split view

Standard Split view

Switching genealogy programs is not a fruitful process

I have discovered that my database is a complete and utter mess, switching programs has not been a fruitful process (for me).  Many moons ago I started out with FTM, them moved to Legacy (which I loved), however now I am Macified I went back to FTM and then switched to Reunion. Sadly between the latter two my files are a MESS, not completely corrupted but well on the way. Mainly all to do with my fastidious sourcing which is now swapped around, or attached to the wrong people.  We won't mention the multiples of duplicates from the dreaded TreeSync (FTM).

There is only one thing for it, I am starting afresh.  From scratch. So now is the perfect time to send me through any updates that need doing, or people to add!  I do believe this is going to be a protracted process.

Now to decide, will I do it in FTM Mac or Reunion or purchase a straight out gedcom program and stick totally to gedcom to save corruptions?

Thoughts welcome!