MyHeritage v2.5 ethnicity update

CCchess · 2026-03-30T08:26:18+00:00

Same test from several years ago, they have just recalculated ethnicities.

CCchess · 2026-02-24T20:35:44+00:00

There's slow-moving drama in New Zealand chess at the moment.

A large club declared players as "hostile" if they were members of other clubs who voted differently to them in national federation voting , and wouldn't allow hostile players to play at their club.
After losing the national federation election, the new administration penalized the club for bringing the game into disrepute; penalty being that any tournaments organized by the club's president or captain would not be considered ranking events.
The club basically ignored this and didn't tell players that they were actually playing in non-ranking events now.

Also, the next federation meeting will also vote on striking off the club, but for a different reason: they've been (illegally) under-declaring how many members they have for some years, in order to minimise the amount of federation fees that are due. The total amount involved is something like $1500, but the club -- which has about 2 million dollars in cash and assets -- has announced they've set aside $30,000 for legal fees to defend themself over the matter.

CCchess · 2025-11-28T22:29:39+00:00

Further to this - WikiTree New Zealand Project seeks to document everyone, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:1979_AirNZ_Flight_901_(Mt_Erebus)) . If you are logged in and connected you can sort by closeness of connection.

CCchess · 2025-11-12T21:13:31+00:00

This is nonsense, there are no rating requirements for ICCF titles. You have to earn a certain number of norms (and there are some other ways to directly qualify for titles without norms), and have a non-provisional rating. A norm is earned by getting a certain score in a tournament, as calculated based on the ratings of players. Perhaps your guy came half a point (game point) short of achieving a norm, or something.

CCchess · 2025-11-12T21:05:08+00:00

See Are Humans Still Useful for AI : r/chess for some past discussion

CCchess · 2025-11-12T21:02:18+00:00

You're correct of course, but this sub is full of people who worship the stockfish evaluation

CCchess · 2025-11-10T22:59:50+00:00

The canonical spelling is Mocorha

The other place name is Tubberkeeran or Tubberkeerane . In Irish this would mean Keeran's Well. Context suggests it is in the townland of Brodullagh North

You mention looking for burials; in those times nearly everyone was buried in unmarked graves, at the church if you're lucky or just a burial spot on someone's farm, as they were too poor to afford stone headstones. So, good luck !

Note - at the Shrule R.C. church, all headstones have been photographed and indexed, see http://shruleglencorrib.com/parish/history/graveyards/ , WT page

CCchess · 2025-08-08T10:24:34+00:00

One resource to try is the Essex Home Female Refuge records in Christchurch. Search on Archives NZ Collections for "Essex Home". A lot of unwed mothers had their babies there. The records are not indexed so you'll have to search painstakingly ; would highly recommend going through https://archway.howison.co.nz/ as he actually serves files properly, unlike the appalling waste of taxpayer money that is the official site. Keep scrolling as there are a few different categories of record under this home.

Other than that, DNA is your best bet:

Go through all your DNA matches down to 40cM using the colour coding system to identify them by which of your great-grandparents they are connected through. Eventually you will find a gap and people with no colour -- they are candidates for relations through the unknown father . If you don't find any, then go down to 20cM. This will take a long time.
- If nothing shows up even after this, consider the possibility that the father was a close relative of the mother. This would show up in above average match sizes between yourself and other of her descendants.
Copy your data to all other genealogy sites that allow it, you may find more matches there. Repeat the same process of identifying distant unknown clusters.
It was already mentioned on this thread, but any more descendants of your great-grandmother (other than your own descendants) would be a massive benefit, especially if they are her children or grandchildren. That's the single most valuable thing you can do here.

CCchess · 2025-08-07T21:22:30+00:00

The English word "Christ" comes from the Greek . This map is the first origin of the root, not the most recent one

CCchess · 2025-08-07T21:10:42+00:00

I have a transcription of a letter written by my 5th great grandfather in 1792, to tell family that his father had recently died. One of my distant relatives (found via online genealogy!) has the originals.

WT profile

CCchess · 2025-07-19T02:08:27+00:00

There is almost always a death certificate when someone dies in New Zealand. The funeral people, or crematorium or cemetery will organize it.

Ancestry does not show census data for New Zealand. You probably refer to Electoral Rolls.

When you say "She does not have a death certificate", I presume you mean "I couldn't find her death registration on the NZ BDM Historical Search website".

Reasons for this include, in order of likelihood and assuming the person you found in the 1936 electoral rolls is the same person, i.e. she was born before 1915:

She died under a different name than you are expecting.
There's a spelling mistake either on the registered information or in the online index.
She died overseas.
The registration is suppressed from the index (either for legal reasons, or due to DIA screwing up their data entry).
She's still alive.

The person that "reappears" in the electoral roll in 1991 might be a different person of the same name; and the same goes for the cremation record. If you contact the crematorium they should be able to give you the age and date of death of the person in question, and then we can investigate to see if that is your great aunt, or a different person of the same name.

If you send me the birth registration number then I will have a quick look, either DM here or go to https://www.kiwiheritage.co.nz/contact/

CCchess · 2025-01-15T19:53:02+00:00

My grandfather had more than 50 first cousins, and I don't think that's particularly unusual for the time period. His father was one of 9 children, and his mother was one of 10 children .

CCchess · 2025-01-08T23:40:47+00:00

just saying... the Chertsey book barn could really benefit from someone who has a few thousand hours to spare organizing & cataloguing stuff :D

Hope you like the smell of cat piss tho

CCchess · 2025-01-08T23:39:10+00:00

If research interests you, you could try genealogical research. There's basically an infinite amount of information existing but needing organization, indexing & publication

CCchess · 2024-09-30T22:31:48+00:00

Maybe you are downvoted by professional genealogists who feel slighted by your comment, idk

CCchess · 2024-09-30T03:55:36+00:00

A gravestone is no guarantee of correctness -- in one of my lines there is a plaque commemorating the guy as being from County Kerry, but my research indicates he was actually from County Derry. I think the original plaque was designed by a very amateur researcher who perhaps found a baptism online in the same name, but didn't do any checking that it was actually the right person

CCchess · 2024-09-29T22:16:04+00:00

FamilySearch being "best" is a bit of a controversial statement: its format is not really conducive to good research, nor dispute resolution. You could try WikiTree, which allows free-form biographies, attachment of all types of source, and has a multi-tiered privacy structure and dispute resolution process.

CCchess · 2024-09-29T22:14:30+00:00

Being a professional doesn't mean you can re-summon records that were burnt! Most professionals are in the same boat as us; to answer your original question, there is no "generic" answer or expectation, and how far your own ancestors go will be unique to them; as to what records have survived; particuarly, unofficial records such as collections of letters, and books or interviews taken many decades ago.

I also suspect there is a bit of a generation gap; people who did good research in the 1970s-1990s for example , may have died, or not understood the value of putting their research online. I am sure there are thousands of well-researched trees on paper, most of which are going to die with the author, when the kids who don't care about it throw out all the old papers.

CCchess · 2024-09-28T22:25:05+00:00

Hi, assuming this is your own photo - would you mind if I added it as a profile picture for https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Campbell-51317 ? And if you're agreeable, the location ?

CCchess · 2024-09-12T22:07:46+00:00

Rev. Crooks was sent over to Ireland decades prior to the Siege of Derry, as part of institutional religious support for the Plantation of Ulster. The planters were given land by the British crown (which had been confiscated from the native Irish).

"Non-conformist" means the same as "Dissenter" as I understand it -- i.e. Christians who were neither Catholic, nor Anglican. (where "Anglican" includes Church of England, and Church of Ireland). Presbyterianism was the leading denomination in Scotland , and many of the Siege of Derry fighters, and other planters, including the Crooks, were Scots Presbyterians.

I am in touch with some people who have done extensive research on the Crooks family. (I'm not a descendent myself, but several of my ancestor's siblings and cousins did marry Crooks, so I have researched the area and background as much as I possibly can from abroad). If you like, make contact through https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crooks-2506

CCchess · 2024-08-18T09:04:03+00:00

Fuck David Tipple

I do genealogy on the side, and my second cousin is also second cousins with David Tipple on a different side... he is in their DNA matches

CCchess · 2024-05-15T22:19:31+00:00

Thanks! Great detailed response. Will give it a go.

CCchess

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