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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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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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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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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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DNA & Family – Close, Extended and Distant

Pages Family In memoriam – Joseph Kerr Hunter Robert McCallum Hunter Ann Jane Hunter DNA Posts Post relating to DNA & Family can be found on “Our Journey” Page

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Image above is Jane and Ian’s Great-Grandfather Joseph Leigh Hunter, his wife and step-daughter Finding the real identity of Leigh Hunter and his son Joseph Leigh Hunter How we smashed our genealogical brick wall and made other interesting discoveries during our search to solve our family mystery DNA doesn’t Lie, Read more

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Contact Form – DNA Doesn’t Lie

Please feel free to contact us. Please note we will include your I.P. Address in any form sent: Your I.P. address – Ian has a keen interest in the following and more: We aim to respond to Contact forms with 48 hours Despite our lack of formal Genealogy training or Read more

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Facts and memories of Robert McCallum Hunter (1939 – 2010)

Robert, the younger son of Thomas and Jessie Forrest Hunter nee McCallum, was born 12th August, 1939, in Bathgate, Scotland. His father informed Ian, that as a child he had attended Bathgate Academy. At age 17 he enter the R.A.F. ( Royal Air Force )

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