YOUR CELEBRATING DISCOVERIES
As she posted off her DNA test, Lynsey Ford had no idea of the amazing family secrets it would help her unlock. She would go on to discover ancestors who were members of Parliament, bishops and authors, and who had links to royalty: James I, Elizabeth I – and even Princess Diana.
Lynsey, a postgraduate student at Oxford University with a PhD on the horizon living in Wimbledon, South-West London, is no stranger to research. It's perhaps no surprise then that she would be gripped by the family history bug. “My grandfather used to tell my mother that he knew he was related to a squire, but his knowledge was a bit patchy.” He also had a deep loathing for MPs, which is ironic.
“I did my first family tree when I was eight years old,” she says. “It went back to my great
