I have recently begun to collect postcards from Kimpton, a village in Hertfordshire where Mike’s grandfather Alan Smith was born, and in particular postcards published by George Matthews, who was the postmaster in Kimpton from the 1890s until his death in 1933.
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Marja-Kristina and Mike’s Excellent DNA Adventure
Mike and I recently had our autosomal DNA tested by Ancestry.com in the hope of either substantiating or laying to rest various family legends on both sides (royalty, mysterious grannies, etc.), and maybe eventually filling in some blanks in the family tree where conventional genealogy research had run into cads who rudely didn’t leave their names after leaving their lady… Continue reading Marja-Kristina and Mike’s Excellent DNA Adventure