Category: DNA-10: The Celts of Cornwall, England
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Looking for the family of Cecil James Babb & Nora Hodge of Cornwall
We are looking for the family of Cecil James Babb (1903-1983) & Nora Hodge (1909-1987) of Launceston and North Hill, Cornwall. Their two children were:Christine Mary Babb (1937-2014) & Cecil John Babb (Unknown) If you have any contact with this family, please respond to me by commenting on this post. Your comments remain private, and…
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William & Grace (Halls) Babb and the Power of Color Correction
This is a simple little post with some powerful advice. I received this picture of William & Grace (Halls) Babb who are also members of DNA-10: The Celts of Cornwall & Cornwall Pedigree 02. The image I received had a deep green hue, which makes it stand out. At first I believed that it was…
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Will the Real Ernest Babb Please Step Forward?
I need to post a retraction on an incorrect association I made yesterday about one Ernest Babb. The offending post has been corrected. The Photo is for a different Ernest Babb from the same tree. But the Ernest Babb pictured was born in the UK before moving to Australia. He did not come to America…
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Announcement: 10th Proven Y-DNA Lineage
The waiting game for the two outstanding Y-DNA tests from Cornwall Pedigree 02 have come in and are resoundingly different than the other 9 established lines of Babbs throughout the US and England. But the tests provided a match for each other! While I was waiting on the results I took a deep look into…
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The Early Babbs of Cornwall
As promised here is a review of the first Babb families of Cornwall, England. We see 4 early encampments pop up in the late 1500s and early 1600s in different parts of Cornwall. Each of these trees is likely the parent tree for those that came later, though at this time we cannot say this…
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Ernest Babb – From Cornwall to Galveston
Ernest Babb (a descendant of DNA-10: The Celts of Cornwall & Cornwall Pedigree 02 living in Bristol) left his family behind in England and came to Galveston several years after the deadly hurricane of 1900 and worked as a House Carpenter. There was a giant project underway in the city at this time to raise…