Welcome to the DNA Workshop!
In every issue of Family Tree, DNA adviser Karen Evans will be helping you gen up on your you can:
•Learn practical skills with the DNA case studies
• Try it out for yourself with our task of the month
• Discover the latest tools, books, blogs and must-have kit to take your DNA learning further. It’s time to unlock the story of your genes…
DNA is as fascinating as it is complicated. In the DNA Workshop we’ll aim to give you practical advice in understandable wording. So, whether you’ve taken a test, or are simply curious to learn more, read on! Let’s jump right in with a case study.
DNA CASE STUDY
This time the case comes from reader Pat Thorsing. Pat writes: Dear Karen Here is my quandary, I am trying to find my grandmother Kate Ashdown.Kate was my father’s mother, and although there does not appear to be a birth certificate for him, there was one for his sister, Hilda (born 17 July 1900), showing her mother as Kate Ashdown, a domestic servant, and the address is 2 Crown Terrace, Lower Sydenham. There is also a baptismal certificate dated 11 June 1902 on which John George Ashdown's birth is given as 4 April 1902 and Hilda Emily Ashdown's birth as 17 July 1900. This is at St John the Divine, Richmond, Surrey.
On the 1901 Census Hilda is with George and Emily Upjohn, 10 Duncan Road, Richmond, Surrey, with other members of the family, and she is recorded as nurse/child. On the 1911
Census they are at 33 Danemore(?) Street, Putney; Hilda is 10 and John George is now Harold, both born in Richmond. I had a DNA test in January 2019, and the result shows a relationship with the Upjohn family, and I am hoping you can find the link between them and Kate.