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    MWS reacted to pjmburns's post in the thread Alma -Elma Gibson. with Appreciate Appreciate.
    If I have the right record there is an elder brother Alfred born 1926 and 2 blanked out entries. Living in Farm Street
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    MWS replied to the thread Alma -Elma Gibson..
    Is there a blanked out entry at the same address that could be her? If not then wherever she is, she will probably be blanked out...
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    MWS replied to the thread D.N.A. TESTING.
    And when the English invaded Ireland in the reign of Henry II most of the leaders would have been of Norman (and hence Viking) descent...
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    MWS reacted to Lady Penelope's post in the thread D.N.A. TESTING with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Stokkie, I bought my husband a test for his birthday last year and he had a high percentage of Norwegian. Bit of a surprise except for...
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    MWS reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Birmingham Street Name Origins with Appreciate Appreciate.
    From a 1939 article by J. Nigel Hay (attached), I've extracted the origins of earlier Birmingham names. Some refer to the names of whole...
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    MWS reacted to mikejee's post in the thread Flaxley Road, Stechford with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Labelled Flaxley Lane in early 1900s, which it was called then. But more recently Flaxley Road. Presumably near Station Road, as then...
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    MWS reacted to Stokkie's post in the thread D.N.A. TESTING with Appreciate Appreciate.
    The ethnic origins are said to be the most open to interpretation in these tests and vary historically. The last upgrade said I'm 2%...
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    MWS reacted to Stokkie's post in the thread D.N.A. TESTING with Appreciate Appreciate.
    There is a risk in submitting DNA to a company, but nothing is risk free and the benefits of doing so are that you can be more sure your...
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    MWS replied to the thread D.N.A. TESTING.
    The results from each company will be skewed somewhat by their database of DNA tests that they have. A little simplistic but if a...
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    MWS reacted to Eric Gibson's post in the thread D.N.A. TESTING with Appreciate Appreciate.
    I heard that the companies are not really providing verifiable DNA results, people say going to several different providers get...
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    MWS reacted to Stokkie's post in the thread D.N.A. TESTING with Appreciate Appreciate.
    'In September, the firm settled a lawsuit alleging that it failed to protect the privacy of nearly seven million customers whose...
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    MWS replied to the thread D.N.A. TESTING.
    What happens to your data when a DNA testing company goes bust? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9q4r9xy9wro
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    MWS reacted to ghostof82's post in the thread Andromeda Bookshop with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Upstairs in the Suffolk Street shop, where they had the magazines and second hand paperbacks... when trains for New St station passed...
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    MWS reacted to Vivienne14's post in the thread Smallbrook Street with Appreciate Appreciate.
    A few more memories starting off in Smallbrook Street. Source: British Newspaper Archive
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    MWS reacted to Stokkie's post in the thread land where my house is built on with Appreciate Appreciate.
    Google Maps can go back as far as 2007. But fortunately historical maps can be overlaid. I'd recommend following @pjmburns advice in #3...
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