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A Gathering of Cousins

Since April 2017 a number of newly found Croft descendants that found each other through DNA testing have been meeting and sharing their discoveries.

The details of our DNA journey can be found here http://www.connecting-cousins.co.uk

Welcome!

I had been doing general research up until about 2009 when I came across a brick wall on my husband’s side and thought the best way to get around this was to collect all the examples of the name that I could. This led me to Registering a One-Name study.

By the end of 2016 I had also been thinking about a similar problem I had in my own tree and with the popularity of DNA tests decided to take one and see if I could narrow down my elusive Great Grandfather. I also got my husband to take a test to see if that would help in finding his Great Grandmother and Great Grandfather, that’s when it got interesting……………

He found a match, then another and another and another etc etc.

This project then evolved from my lonely one woman search into one that stretched across the world and resulted in a group of relative strangers sitting in Ask! Italian in Faversham Kent for 5 hours! Talking DNA and Family History.

I realised during one such lunch towards the end of November that what we were doing was turning into a One-Name study. So here we are.

This study is the result of this group of people working together to try and find the connection between these new-found cousins and is very much a work in progress.

Any help / information gratefully received please contact croft@one-name.org


Records added to date:

December 2017

Downloads of FreeBMD Births and FreeBMD Marriages

April 2018

Connecting of the families in these downloads is now taking place, a new tree will be uploaded periodically


 

Benenden, Kent, UK

Believed to be the root of our own Croft connection. Our study starts here and we will be working our way outwards.