Our Journey

Ian’s parents on their wedding day 1963

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When You Discover Your Great Grandfather Hid His Real Identity

It took cousins Jane and Ian years to work out that their paternal great grandfather lied about his true identity. It seems he took the trouble to make it difficult for his family to discover that his real surname wasn’t Hunter. The only thing he couldn’t hide or lie about Read more

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Luckily Bill uploaded his autosomal DNA test to GEDmatch

Below is a comparison at GEDmatch of the autosomal DNA Ian and Bill share Below is a comparison at GEDmatch of the autosomal DNA Joseph and Bill share Below is a comparison at GEDmatch of the autosomal DNA Jane and Bill share

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Additional steps we’ve taken to protect the hosting of our website

We recently updated the content on our webpage, detailing the additional steps we had to implement with additional firewall layers, to discourage hacking Since we implemented changes to our firewalls, including advanced firewalls with threat detection, comprehensive IP Blacklists, IP banning and security tools. We have noticed the number of Read more

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More evidence that Joseph Leigh Hunter was born Matthew Lee

A shared match has recently appeared on MyHeritage showing that they share DNA with Jane, her father Joseph and Ian. Joseph shares the most DNA with the lady, he shares 105 cM as shown be below: We have removed some identifying information and presented the lady’s family tree below. Please Read more

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A little more history – Mary Cotton nee Lee 1861-1946

CottonHistorian posted the following information and photographs on findagrave.com Some photographs of Mary taken at different points in her life CottonHistorian – Was John Nicholas Cotton 1958- 31 May 2021. Nick, as he was known, descended from Mary Cotton nee Lee. Jane corresponded with Nick by email in early 2021. Read more

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NGINX installed as a reverse proxy server

Due to a recent mishap with the web server that hosts this website, Ian wanted more flexibility hosting wise. He wanted the ability to host more than one web server. The problem of hosting more than one web server is you can port forward one port 80 and 443. In Read more

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Related to 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Whilst trying to solve the family mystery of who Jane and Ian’s paternal great-grandfather was, Ian stumbled upon the following: Ian found this DNA connection as he had realised that records were never going to solve the family “Brick Wall”, so Ian was looking at anyone who shared DNA with Read more

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A spare Raspberry Pi 3B, Volumio, Ultravox, Midge Ure, extended / distant family

Ian recently come across another spare Raspberry Pi 3B, which was in a cupboard. Being a bit of a techy and a music fan, Ian thought it was time to do something with it. So, it has become a music streamer for headphones in the study. Just download the latest Read more

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Lise Jane Dwan b. 1956 – Multiple Child Murderer

The image below is from murderpedia.org the following makes for grim reading: We discovered that Jane’s father Joseph, shares DNA with a first cousin of Lise Jane. The shared amount of DNA puts Lise Jane’s cousin in the region of 3rd to 5th cousin to Joseph. Joseph, Jane, and Ian Read more

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