Category Archives: Highlights

The DNA-Secret that went to the grave too early

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Phil Grass

Combining traditional and genetic-genealogy to find an unknown family connection. Continue reading →

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On the Origins of the Grass family Surname in the Brandon Area of Suffolk

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Phil Grass

A short guide to the six families with the surname Grass, found in the Brandon area of Suffolk in the early nineteenth century. Continue reading →

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Finding Roy’s Grandparent – How DNA testing helps your research

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Phil Grass

Foreword I have been involved in ‘genetic genealogy’ since I took a DNA test at 23andMe in 2012. Whilst I have found such testing interesting and occasionally useful, I’ve never used it for something “really important“. However, for the last … Continue reading →

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Finding Home, the Ulster roots of John & Jane Stewart

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Phil Grass

John and Jane Stewart are my Great-Great-Grandparents, they are some of my closest and most enigmatic GG-grandparents. Close, in as much as my Grandma was a Stewart, and I carry the name Stewart as one of my middle names. Enigmatic, … Continue reading →

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