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Contents 1 Biography 2 Sources 3 DNA Confirmations 4 Family History Interest 5 My Ancestors Research Statistics

Biography

Andrew Turvey was born in 1977, the son of Peter and Margaret Turvey in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe).^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth certificate in possession of Turvey-154

DNA Confirmations

Paternal relationship is confirmed by an MyHeritage test match between Andrew Turvey and two third cousins, P.T. and D.C., who are both grandchildren of Florence Turvey, Andrew's cousin twice removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are William Turvey (bef.1834-1898) and Hannah (Whatmore) Turvey (1838-). Predicted relationship from MyHeritage: (P.T.) 3rd cousin (19.0%), based on sharing 58.0 cM across 4 segments; (D.C.) 3rd cousin (26.8%), based on sharing 83.9 cM across 4 segments;

A fourth cousin relationship is predicted by MyHeritage between Andrew Turvey and JJW and also between D.C and J.J.W. Two segments of 21.5cM and 14.2cM are shared between JJW, DC and Andrew Turvey. However, it's unclear what the paper trail is from JJW to William Turvey or Hannah Whatmore.

Paternal relationship is also confirmed by a Triangulated MyHeritage test match between these three 4th Counsins:

1. Andrew Turvey, the 3G grandson of Aaron Duffield (abt.1788-1842) through his son Thomas Duffield (1840-1905);
2. JJ, the daughter of Frederick Edward Jones (1925-2018), who is the 2G grandson of Aaron through his daughter Ann Eliza Duffield (1835-);
3. AJ, the grand-daughter of Violet (Bell) Lay (1916-2000), who is the great grand daughter Aaron also through Ann Eliza Duffield

Two segments are shared between all three people of 15.5cM and 11.8cM respectively.

Family History Interest

I have been researching my family tree since about 1985 - and things have changed enormously since then! At first, I had a few hundred names, mostly derived from conversations with great aunts and uncles and family bibles that had been passed down the generations.

I restarted my research in 2009, when my first child was born. Initially I wanted to create a printed family tree as a keepsake, but I quickly discovered the power of the internet, in particular the digitised census records on ancestry and the various pedigrees online. In a short timescale I quickly expanded my tree into over 5,000 names.

Having been an active contributor to Wikipedia since 2005, it made sense for me to join a free wiki, so I chose the then-largest one, WeRelate. [1] I have been active there ever since, expanding my genealogical work beyond my own family to also cover a "surname study" for my own surname, Turvey, and my mother's surname, Tulloch. [2][3][4] I have also managed to link my mother's ancestry to scottish noble families and, through them, to scottish royalty and most of the royalty of europe. So my family tree now tops more than 10,000 people!

In 2016 I started using WikiTree. The main drivers are the apparent financial problems on WeRelate, accompanied by a growth rate that has ground to a halt and a lack of development.

My experience of WikiTree (so far) is largely positive:
- the size is significantly larger, and this has already meant I have had many more family connections than on WeRelate - comparable to my experience of Ancestry
- the approach to older genealogy is more nuanced than the blanket prohibition on WeRelate, albeit there are significant quality complaints on both
- there is the same desire for quality genealogy, but WikiTree seems to have more positive ways to achieve this
- the manual entry is easier, in particular avoiding the unwelcome "family" type between individuals
- they have found a good solution for including living people but showing them with degrees of privacy. It also means they can merge the "User" and "Person" namespaces (which are separate on werelate), which has significant benefits

The downsides are - so far - manageable, although I'll have to see whether they become more of a problem as time progresses:
- it's still too difficult for the average genealogist to get involved, I think, and much harder than commercial equivalents. That will - at some stage - limit its development potential
- WikiTree X was a fantastic tool, but it stopped working one day for me and my repeated messages on that have fallen on deaf ears
- Perhaps reflecting this, it seems much harder compared to other wiki communities (wikipedia, werelate) to make suggestions and get a hearing. Partly I imagine this reflects the commercially-owned status.
- The community in turns seems much more hierarchical. Users are told they must collaborate with projects on pre-1700 profiles (which I dutifully do with zero benefit). Project leaders set conditions which members have to fulfil to join and then arrogate rights to control certain profiles. Does this result in a better quality website? Perhaps, but I find it quite tiresome myself.

I am looking forward to my time on this site and hopefully the overall good experiences will continue!

My Ancestors Research Statistics

Many thanks to SJ Baty for providing the template, and to the developers of the Ancestor Explorer App:

My Ancestors Research Statistics

		BY GENERATION
Gen. No.	Relation to me	Total Possible Profiles	On Wikitree	Sourced	Open Descendents
1	Self	1	1	0	N/A
2	Parent	2	2	2	N/A
3	Grandparent	4	4	4	ALL
4	Great Grandparent	8	8	8	tbc
5	2nd Great Grandparent	16	16	16	tbc
6	3rd Great Grandparent	32	31 (97%)	31	tbc
7	4th Great Grandparent	64	38 (59%)	33	tbc
8	5th Great Grandparent	128	45 (35%)	tbc	tbc
9	6th Great Grandparent	256	35 (14%)	tbc	tbc
10	7th Great Grandparent	512	33 (6%)	tbc	tbc
11	8th Great Grandparent	1024	19 (2%)	tbc	tbc
12	9th Great Grandparent	2048	6 (0.3%)	tbc	tbc
13	10th Great Grandparent	4096	8	tbc	tbc
14	11th Great Grandparent	9192	10	tbc	tbc
15	12th Great Grandparent	18,384	7	tbc	tbc
16	13th Great Grandparent	36,768	5	tbc	tbc
17	14th Great Grandparent	73k	5	tbc	tbc
18	15th Great Grandparent	146k	9	tbc	tbc
19	16th Great Grandparent	292k	10	tbc	tbc
20	17th Great Grandparent	584k	17	tbc	tbc
21	18th Great Grandparent	1.17m	24	tbc	tbc
22	19th Great Grandparent	2.34m	35	tbc	tbc
23	20th Great Grandparent	4.68m	48	tbc	tbc

DNA Connections for Andrew: 3

It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:

• Andrew Turvey: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 838 markers, haplogroup I-FTA63717, FTDNA kit #IN102286

TEST: MT DNA Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers:

• Andrew Turvey: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test, haplogroup H1, FTDNA kit #IN102286

It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Andrew:

• 100.00% 100.00% Andrew Turvey: Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #IN102286

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