Using Naming Patterns in Genealogy Research 

Another useful video, I enjoy the way you share your thought processes and evaluate the various documents. I look forward to your videos. Thnk you

I have been looking at naming systems in investigating a brick wall. My 2GGfather Richard was from Nottingham. He and his wife used the name James for two sons. My strongest suspect for Richard’s father is a man named James. Still poking along for proof on this! -Adele

I’m currently in the process of re-verifying all my ancestors so these videos are very helpful! :)

Oh, that is certainly very interesting. So, excuse my complete lack of experience as a foreign Biochemistry undergrad but for our research presentation in genetics we stumbled upon some recent developments in applications of the newly completely sequenced human chromosomes and this came up: so about the Y chromosome that pushes differentiation towards the male sex, it became obvious that the fact it is only passed from father to son( along with the mitochondrial DNA that is passed from mother to child exclusively), made it's variation within populations quite lower compared with the rest of the DNA on which the contribution from each parent is recombined constantly and randomly. So it was possible to make genetic maps for some studied regions where the distribution of a couple of variations of the entire chromosome Y is shown on the map, and one could see clusters of some far common heritage, which should be relatively stable throughout centuries given that there was not some massive movement or I don't know what else in the population. And because leaving these highly invariant regions of the DNA for population analysis is either expensive or easily misinterpretable, we saw some authors discussing whether they could use technices like yours with the common surnames and stuff to take a good guess whenever the data is not specific enough. Like, oh, we found the Y haplotype of that father and a a couple of suspects that share it, in some randomn detective case, it is not important, and in order not to spend a lot in sequencing the rest highly variable DNA, they could use your genealogy techniques to find out who are really closely related. But now, I want to turn this around at your side. I see you also had to search at the maps, do you think it would be helpful for you if you had a map of a genetic distribution, be it with low analysis, that would not have changed - a lot- from how it was in the 18nth century? Or if the evolutionary trees that we do all the time even for short periods of time could be combined with your search for common names among grandparents and nephews, to make an automated tree , be it highly dependable or not? Has it been discussed with geneticists ever on how you could join your research? How do you fell generally on opening up on such techniques? Oh dear, I never expected to get so caught up on something like this

Where was the mother from? Could the baptism be at the mother’s family parish?