Victoria family tree queen elizabeth4/11/2024 Speaking of DNA tests, whilst there were plenty of talks, the big WDYTYA? Live test company, Ancestry were not present. I’ll definitely go looking for the extra tagging in AncestryDNA to help me manage these matches as I have 6 tests, and 1 more to go. Donna Rutherford talked about how to get more out of your autosomal DNA test results.ĭonna’s talk gave me plenty of things to think about in how to best use the data in my matches, but also ideas on what level of cM to draw a line after and put on the back-burner. Clearly a popular choice as I stood with others at the back. I headed over to the Family Tree DNA theatre and caught Donna Rutherford‘s talk on getting more out of an autosomal DNA test. Like other shows, there were a large number of Societies with stalls – these are great for shopping some county data collections, or asking one of their stand experts for advice on county-level sources. Fingers crossed that Saturday is a roaring success. With this being a Friday, it’s hard to judge success, as many people may not have taken a day off work to attend. I arrived at about 10am and the show steadily increased in visitors over the next hour. The first thing I noticed once into the exhibition hall was that there was plenty of space between the stands – a welcome addition after what had at times been a bit of a squeeze between stands at WDYTYA? Live. Once in, get your printed ticket ready and you can make your way through to the hall, past a myriad of signs telling you to not take photos or film things without specific permission of the exhibitors. Family Tree Live 2019 at Alexandra Palace. The entrance is on the far side of the building, so if you’re attending tomorrow (Saturday 27th April), then expect to walk around the pretty Victorian facade, unless it’s raining. This helped my journey pass quite nicely, although it’s little more than an hour in total, ending with a nice walk up the hill along the edge of Alexandra Park to the venue. Discovering our same destination, we stuck together and talked about research and events we’d been to in the past. On my trip today I befriended a traveling companion at Stevenage, when a fellow family historian from Lincoln asked me if it was the train to Welwyn. The show is what felt to me like the first of the three contenders to being the ‘replacement’ for the now defunct Who Do You Think You Are? Live annual show that closed its doors after a long run in London and later in Birmingham.įor me, the journey to Alexandra Palace has a couple of changes that I needed to make on my train journey, rather than my direct route. Today was the first day of the first ever Family Tree Live show at Alexandra Palace in London.
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