DNA Test: atDNA : Family History of Ivan Hurst

Test Information

Taken by	Karen C Bell
Match Date	23 Oct 2022
Test Type	atDNA (Autosomal)
Test Group	DNA Test matches found on Ancestry
GEDmatch ID	ET3691084
Most recent common ancestor	Edith Jane Bailey, b. Apr 1838, Farrington, Dorset, England d. Sep 1901, Alresford, Hampshire, England
Linked to	Karen C Bell, b. 1954, Southampton, Hampshire, England Karen C Merritt Ivan Hurst Ivan Guy Hurst Peggy Alice Mary Pomeroy, b. 20 Sep 1928, Southampton, Hampshire, England d. 11 Mar 2016, Southampton, Hampshire, England Thomas Albert Merritt, b. 30 Jul 1924, Southampton, Hampshire, England d. Dec 1988, Southampton, Hampshire, England Thomas Albert Merritt, b. 30 Jul 1924, Southampton, Hampshire, England d. Dec 1988, Southampton, Hampshire, England Bertram Harry Stephen Pomeroy, b. 4 Jul 1902, Southampton, Hampshire, England d. 10 Oct 1975, Southampton, Hampshire, England Bertram Harry Stephen Pomeroy, b. 04 July 1902, Southampton, Hampshire, England d. 10 Oct 1975, Southampton, Hampshire, England George Thomas Merritt, b. 7 Oct 1901, Southampton, Hampshire, England d. Sep 1974, Southampton, Hampshire, England George Thomas Merritt, b. 7 Oct 1901, Southampton, Hampshire, England d. Sep 1974, Southampton, Hampshire, England Thomas Bailey Merritt, b. Jun 1879, Bramdean, Hampshire, England d. Sep 1937, Southampton, Hampshire, England Thomas Bailey Merritt, b. Jun 1879, Bramdean, Hampshire, England d. Sep 1937, Southampton, Hampshire, England Dan Pomeroy, b. 8 Apr 1870, Farnham, Surrey, England d. 25 Jan 1939, Southampton, Hampshire, England Dan Pomeroy, b. 8 Apr 1870, Farnham, Surrey, England d. 25 Jan 1939, Southampton, Hampshire, England Edith Jane Bailey, b. Apr 1838, Farrington, Dorset, England d. Sep 1901, Alresford, Hampshire, England Edith Jane Bailey, b. Apr 1838, Farrington, Dorset, England d. Sep 1901, Alresford, Hampshire, England Peggy Alice Mary Pomeroy

DNA testing adds a whole different aspect to Genealogy

You can find relatives you did not know you had, open new branches to your tree, and create validations of people between the match and myself.

Whilst the improbable tree has lots of information yet to be validated, the tree I have created just for DNA matches and the links of ancestors between us, only has spouses that are not in some way validated.

I have started with DNA matches in Ancestry, but will eventually include MyHeritage and GEDmatch matches as well.

A lot to do.

Family Trees can be just a list of people and how they are interrelated.

However they can contain so much more. Records, so many records.

Part of the process of assessment of a record for me, is about location. This takes me into social economic history. In the 19th century, where a lot of our records come from, life was considerably different form today. The very rich could move about the country, and indeed they would with a degree of ease that we have today, albeit on a different timescale. I recently found people on my tree that migrated to North America, and subsequently part of the family moved on to Australia, and set up home there. Shipping passenger records indicate that people from that family frequently visited their relatives both in North America and Britain, before returning to their home in Australia. That was not the lot of the masses though.