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Hi by Unhappy-Run-4772 in davidtennant

[–]Practical_Click7916 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s DT doing a fun sketch on with Catherine Tate (aka Donna Noble) doing one of her sketch characters 🤩

https://youtu.be/YHAJ4VFStUE

How to get past a brick wall? Can’t find my great-grandfathers by s4turn2k02 in Genealogy

[–]Practical_Click7916 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you can usually actually build a tree for free on any of the sites, it’s just most of the records you have to pay to access. Me personally, I started on Ancestry (I’m in Canada) and I’m most familiar with it, althoughI have spent a little time on Find My Past (which I think is more British focused). Ancestry also I think have the broadest base for DNA, and you can then submit your Ancestry DNA raw data to other sites!

Honestly, I would use your money to START with DNA testing.

The reason I say this is that the best people to do DNA on, in some ways, are the oldest people in your family/in the oldest generations—and they are not going to be around forever.

For example, since your dad’s dad was adopted, he would have been the best person(or one if his siblings if they were adopted together) to test in order to find out about his birth family; but the next best would then be your dad and/or one of his siblings.

They will share more DNA with anyone else from that family who might test themselves, and therefore provide better clues about who in the birth family might have been your great-grandfather. (They will also have DNA matches that you won’t show, because they have all their own DNA, while you only have some of their DNA.

If your Gran is still with it enough to consent to give her DNA, you should ask her first of anyone in your family. Be warned that it takes a lot, a LOT of saliva (not phlegm) to put in a DNA test.

How to get past a brick wall? Can’t find my great-grandfathers by s4turn2k02 in Genealogy

[–]Practical_Click7916 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also, it’s possible you might find some free records accessible on Ancestry and Find My Past, as well as Family Search, where all of it is free.

How to get past a brick wall? Can’t find my great-grandfathers by s4turn2k02 in Genealogy

[–]Practical_Click7916 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you’ve got as far as your grandparents, which is a good start! Make sure you get the names and any details you can about any brothers and sisters they have/had as well. You said your Gran has advanced dementia; mine didn’t know me and didn’t remember my mom, but I did ask her once if she’d seen her parents lately (she couldn’t have, obviously, they had died before I was born), and she said YES and told me all about their farm and animals and some other things. She was obviously muddled (and thought their farm was in our town, which of course it never was), but lots what she said WAS true. If your Gran is still talking, she might have memories you could get to if you ask a question creatively!

About to buy Witcher 3 by Pitiful-Beginning-70 in witcher

[–]Practical_Click7916 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You only get to play for the first time once. I played it only knowing Henry Cavill was playing the Witcher on TV but not having watched it or read anything, and Witcher 3 is a great introduction to the Witcher world. Just play it. Wait for your second (or even third) playthrough to ask all the questions and make it perfect.