Rachel King 🧬🌲

🧬Genetic Genealogist, 📺consultant, ethical investigative/forensic genealogy. 🐈‍⬛ guardian. Proudly Neurodiverse, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally, Ace 🖤🐘🤍💜, she/hers

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

Oh, that’s me! Hi! @BearGrylls the thing I wasn’t allowed to tell you, I am also descended from Archibald Campbell and Mary Stuart… so your (verrrry distant) cousin was revealing this to you!

[Bear Grylls OBE @BearGrylls]

This was such a powerful journey of discovery for me… Thursday 9pm @BBCOne “Who Do You Think You Are”. All is revealed… #heritage #family #ancestors #beheaded #family #faith #nevergiveup

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@cairennoid welcome to my day job life (why did I go back again?!)

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@danielmloftus @Ancestry E.g, create a family tree to say great grandparent level and call them ‘tether 1’, ‘tether 2’ etc, then give tether 1 two parents, E.g your ‘smith hypo 1’, and ‘smith hypo 2’ etc. that also keeps all your research in one place.

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@danielmloftus @Ancestry Psh, I have 3 pages, and that’s after I delete the ones I’m sure I never need to use again! I’d love an archive folder 🤞but for now use naming strategies. Btw, if this is DNA research, you can use 1 tree and just have the different trees ‘floating’. Or create tethers.

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@HowtoADHD Stop attacking me 😂

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@megansmolenyak That sucks 😡

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

And the result is… the name Dryden Gordon Young is firmly imprinted in my brain, but I had *no* idea about the military story or in fact any of the stories they told in this episode! it all starts off with a tree, but as a genealogist you have no idea where it will end up!

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

If you’re like me and fell asleep at 8pm, catch up on iPlayer! I kicked off the research on this way back in 2020, let’s see how much I actually remember when I start watching! #memorylikeasieve

[Chris Ramsey @IAmChrisRamsey]

Imagine fighting in a world war just so your idiot grandson can pull faces like this on TV?

My episode of Who Do You Think You Are is on tonight at 9pm @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@GenesBlog In the beginning I was most often consulted to look for specific ancestry, or a historical ‘who’s the daddy’, increasingly the participant who or a relative has already tested or is keen to! Sometimes it’s where paper trail is ambiguous or missing, as it was with Anna’s story.

[Emma Jolly @emmajolly]

I’ve written for August’s @familytreemaguk on the concept of family history, health & wellbeing. It’s for a series which I’m hoping will be the start of some interesting conversations.

This issue also features ancestors overseas, Victorian rural life, and DNA advice.

Enjoy 💚

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@DawnButlerBrent Not rare. And if you’re a daily commuter you get to pay a large chunk of your wages each month for being regularly assaulted.

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@megansmolenyak In England/wales it’s not even that common to have an obit, & if you do it’s in the family notices in the local newspaper which often aren’t online, so requires a trip to the British Library! Thankfully the death index is only missing the last couple of years.

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@wdytyamagazine @GenesBlog There were so many stories in Kevin’s tree you could do a whole season or devote a magazine issue to his tree alone!

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@wdytyamagazine @GenesBlog This season I also did analysis on ALW, Emily Atack, Dev and the twins, but DNA was either not integral to the stories told, or did not find what we were looking for. I would have LOVED to have done DNA for Kevin Clifton’s episode!

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@wdytyamagazine @GenesBlog Next time someone asks you this question you can add Alex Scott and Anna Maxwell Martin 🥰 it’s not mentioned in Alex’s episode but is in Anna’s, it’s how we proved the Youngson in Oz was the same man who fathered Anna’s Youngson ancestor in Scotland!

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@GenesBlog Ps, we didn’t use it for Chris’s episode (or at least I didn’t, I just did the initial genealogy research way back in 2020)

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@GenesBlog Alex Scott’s episode and Anna Maxwell Martin. Many more where I’ve done more general analysis or DNA has not been able to answer the specific question.

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

This is NOT ok. Ethical investigative genetic genealogists do NOT use MyHeritage for suspect or Doe cases. I don’t care if you’re the FBI, if you can’t solve using Gedmatch and FamilytreeDNA then don’t. I can’t believe this has to be said. https://t.co/oVNGdIyxBP

[Rachel King 🧬🌲 @rkinggen]

@ElaineBelz @carrieehowell And I’m useless after about 3pm so we might have to set up some kind of shift system, what d’ya reckon?