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Tag: Stickle

  • Ethnicity Reports in Your DNA Do Offer Genealogy Clues

    Ethnicity Reports in Your DNA Do Offer Genealogy Clues

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    Patricia Greber
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    I have already done DNA testing on my mother and her brother. Both tested at Family Tree DNA and I really have been one to ignore the Ethnicity reports. But read on as there are clues given in those reports that can be very telling. I recently asked my mother’s sister to also take a…

  • How Far Can DNA Take You?

    How Far Can DNA Take You?

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    Patricia Greber
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    Can DNA break down my long-standing brick wall? Good question, and one of the reasons I started doing DNA testing. Last night I found new information that may yet hammer down another wall and it was uncovered due to DNA. I have been on the hunt for information on a maternal great, great, grandmother for ages.…

  • 52 Ancestors: #9 Elizabeth (Harrop) Young

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    Patricia Greber
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    Elizabeth was the daughter of Anna Eliza Stickle and Lewis Harrop. She was born on February 20th, 1840 in New York, later moving with her parents to Islington, York Co., Ontario and then to Orangeville, Ontario. She married William Young in 1877 in England, the son of Robert and Mary Young. His first wife Isabella…

  • 52 Ancestors – #8 Anna Eliza (Stickle) Harrop

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    Patricia Greber
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    Anna is my 2x great grandmother and passed away at the age of 93 in 1907 in Ontario, Canada. I don’t know much about her life, but I will share what I do know with the hopes of uncovering more information. Census records list Anna as being born in the United States in 1814, and…