This Blog is a companion to the Thew One-Name Study website, and is managed by John Thew. As our Thew research continues to develop, we will be using it to post articles about individual Thews, as well as about relevant subjects such as our Thew DNA study. Several of the initial posts will collate Thew information that has been shared over the last few years on our Thew One-Name Study Facebook group. We look forward to reading your comments. All…
Image credit: Quentin Blake from Discovering the ‘secret of life’ 70th anniversary of DNA double helix breakthrough.
We made great progress during July – and there’s a BIG August sale you can all take advantage of. July highlights: 2. An Australian Thew has upgraded from 37 to 111-markers which will help us find out more about their Northumbrian ancestry. And how closely they’re related to other NE England Thews who’ve tested. Some of whom stayed in the UK. Others who emigrated to Australia, America, Canada, New Zealand, … FTDNA has launched Globetrekker, which shows the migration path…
So far I have created 12 Thew family trees on Ancestry with a combined total of 7,983 people. Several of the trees go back past the start of consistent parish records i.e. 1650-1700 (a lot of records were lost due to The English Civil War) so we’ll need DNA participants from each tree to establish earlier links between them. I’ll post separately on DNA. Meanwhile, let me know if you’d like guest access to any of the trees (there’s a…
Through having my Y-DNA tested I’ve discovered that I belong to the “Little Scottish Cluster”, a group of men who share a common ancestor about 2,300 years ago. Today, members of the Little Scottish Cluster group have a variety of surnames and the majority trace their ancestry to Southern Scotland, where the common ancestor is believed to have lived. He would have been one of the Maeatae Tribe/People of Scotland who were the barbarians who lived just north of the…