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Hester Coley

Hester has been a professional genealogist for ten years and is a Member of the Association of Genealogists & Researchers in Archives (AGRA). She specialises in genetic genealogy, which usually means applying DNA analysis to a client’s brick wall in their family tree, most often to determine the identify of an unknown grandfather. DNA can also be used to solve problems of several generations ago.

DNA testing in the north of England

5 May 202512 May 2025 by Hester Coley in DNA Testing

Following the last post on DNA, this article goes into further detail on the findings in Yorkshire and other northern counties of England. When I joined the Halsted project there was already an established group of men who had tested and matched each other (not necessarily exact matches), although almost none of them were already […]

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The Halsted DNA Project

2 September 20242 September 2024 by Hester Coley in DNA Testing

As can be seen elsewhere on the Halsted Trust’s website, there appear to be three distinct areas where families of the name Halsted and its variants lived about 300 years ago.  These are Yorkshire & Lancashire, Cumbria and Sussex.  Essex may be another area of interest but that needs further investigation. Did they once, hundreds […]

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