I'm going back to Dorset. No, not physically (I wish) but through family records. I'm currently taking the DNA Skills Course through Your DNA Guide. As part of this course, each participant needs to find a research question to look into to practice manipulating DNA information to answer the question(s). In my case, I'm going to try and prove the link to my 2 x great grandparent, Mary Maidment, through genetics. We'll see how far I get.
The course has begun and I'm frantically trying to get caught up and fill in my family tree at the same time. I have a bare bones tree on Ancestry at the moment but I need to fill it out with siblings and descendants. That means adding all those collaterals that I ignored for the longest time.
It will be good to delve back into the research on my Dorset lines. It will remind me of being there back in the early years of this century. At the time that I visited I only made it to one ancestral village, that of Evershot where my maternal line of Chubbs had been for a while. Unfortunately, I didn't make it to Ashmore, where my line of Rideouts had lived for at least two generations that I know of. I'm looking forward to going through the records I collected on that branch of the family. Who knows how far DNA might take me on the research into that line.
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