Mudlarking TRASH to TREASURE! Plus my DNA results
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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I want to do a dna to see if my birth father my mother told me is really my father. His twin brother offered to give his dna to find out but I dont know how to do it. My uncle believes my mother but I want proof. How do I do that.
@@pigoff123 Probably some kind of paternity test
Ok
did a MyHeritage DNA test a couple of years ago - 92 % Danish/ Swedish / Norwegian - the rest Southern France - Rumania/ Bulgaria & northern Turkey - sadly Si we're not related 😉 - liked the outventure in the mud
@@bnanabelle aw shame lol
Most heart-felt condolences over the loss of the Queen (and Long Live The King) -- even here in the US she was a symbol of the enduring strength and steadfastness of the UK. Let's all celebrate her reign and her consistency through huge changes across the world and in the UK!!!
She died?? Awe. She was getting up there in age. It's weird how she looked well one day and gone the next. Harry had just been out to see her and tried to get his kids to see her as well. Sadly he did not. Even though I did not wish anything bad on the Royals, i think the whole institution is a load of crap.
Cheers Aengus
It would be cool to make an art piece out of a bunch of the broken bottle tops!
Yes! I'll get thinking
The mirror is perfect - rustic yet beautiful. The shards of Roman pots are so interesting. Great vlog.
Cheers JoEllen 👍🏻🐾🧡
Well on the cod bottle and a beautiful little porthole mirror! I love the gold colored acrylic glass!
So back in 2017, my Dad and I did a DNA swab. The results were not really what we imagined they would be. I had been told alley life that there was alot of Native American heritage in my DNA. Well, to my surprise, no Native American was there but a huge percentage British, add in a dash of Scottish and a dab of something else European. I am in the US and as far as I knew, all my relatives have been just American. But it seems like there is a solid line right back to Britain for me. I think the percentage British was something like 90%. Who knew?! Take care Simon!
Yep! All Americans were ultimately from somewhere else. We haven’t been around long enough to be our own group. The Native Americans have, although they mostly came from elsewhere as well.
Next your family tree!
Love these hovercraft adventures. Giving snails eviction notice, 😆. Great find that complete cod bottle. Heather’s magnum is a great find also. Nice DNA results. I have a 54% Spanish as my mother was from Spain. Sending best wishes for Steve’s quick recovery. I like the mirror upcycle, really nice.👍
Cheers Coni! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Beautiful mirror upcycle. I didn't look through the comments to see if anyone said it, but I believe the 1/2 glass might refer to the thickness of the glass. It does look to be about 1/2 inch thick.
Wow, I literally gasped out loud when you turned the porthole around with the mirror in it - it's stunning! I didn't think it'd look much good with the old broken glass still in it, but I was wrong and it makes it look better. Well done, Si, I love it, it's so beautiful!
Cheers Jan!! Appreciate the kind words👍🏻🐾🧡
Another upcycling triumph! The mirror is gorgeous. Those hovercraft look so fun, just gliding and drifting too!
Get Well Soon Steve, missed seeing you out with Simon the hover. Lovedvthe cod bottle find Si and what you did with the porthole xx
Cheers Gaynor! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Wow! Lovely effect with the golden glass. Looking into the porthole is like peering into a parallel world. Great stuff Si. Thank you.
Cheers Jake 👍🏻🐾🧡
Oh that porthole and how you bought it back to life is just stunning. How I wish I had something like that, brilliant idea to make it into a mirror, the patina of the metal is so beautiful...you are so very clever at finding ways to re purpose things. I almost get tears in my eyes when I see the Roman artefacts, how incredible that they have survived so long, so much history in the UK. Wish I could come back to London and go mudlarking...cheers from Vicki in Australia.
Thanks Vicki! Yes we are blessed with lots of history to save
My Heritage DNA Kits are fun! I found out a few things that I wasn't aware of...
Yay! a complete cod bottle, marble and all..well done! and I love the mirror, it looks great where you hung it 🤎
Thanks for the trip out!
hello from Denmark 🌸🌱
Cheers Z! What was your heritage if you don't mind me asking?
@@Sifinds
...besides the 47% Danish bit
28% Norwegian & 20% Anglo-Scottish, much more than I ever thought and the remaining 5% were Swedish, German and a smidgen French 😉 oui, oui
Great finds love the roman, all that history behind it, lovely bottles. Just like to ask i know you have to have a mudlarking licence for the Thames but do yoy need one where you are also on the coast
Cheers Kim, not currently
Kim, my late father used to say to us x5 sisters and a brother, " when in town keep your window down " meaning to look around all the time as you don't know what is below your feet
I absolutely loved your mirror, excellent find Si. Amazing as always, till next time. Enjoy your week. 🍁🇨🇦🐘🌞💚
Cheers Marion 👍🏻🐾🧡
That was great seeing all the hovercraft's going to the same place!!
What great finds by everyone!! Your bottle still had the marble in it which was great!!
Love your new mirror!! See you in the next video Si!!🌊😻
Cheers Mudover!👍🏻🐾🧡
another thrilling video, the mirror is fab, what a great find. Showing the DNA kit was such a good idea, so many people will have the confidence to try it for them selves. best of all are the hovercrafts, so exciting x
Hi Si.
I Live across the pond and was watching the announcement of the Ancient Proclamation of King Charles. I noticed Chris Ship the Royal Editor and he reminded me of Steve.
We are so sad for the loss of your WONDERFUL QUEEN. God save the King.
Well done! Simon, condolences to you on the loss of your Queen. She was much respected.
Peace be with her.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Your upsized porthole looks like a portal into another world. Really trippy.
I am fascinated with your knowledge of pottery and how to date it and other things. I am learning. Thank you so much x
Loved the mirror❤️. And the effect outside.. It looks like a window with you looking out... Have to try something similar. Mums got an old small window frame....
The odd pottery on minute 19:27 looks 16th or even older to me....Reminds me aswell to some roman stuff... So yes; you live it there, but it worth picking it and searching for more information!
Or not cab but create freestanding base and make them sculpture, these shards are so lovely
Just seen your video from 3 years ago, the poison bottle one, and shortly after Tim found a long thin bottle with a rounded bottom for worming or something, the reason the bottle is round is they fitted into a pouch on the saddle bag, saw it being explained on antiques road trip by the militaria expert who found a camera for fifty quid and they flogged it for over 20 grand, name escapes me, but the long thin bottles usually go with equine equipment.
The mirror looks great. Such a lovely piece xx
Awesome day Simon I love the history and information about your fines great day in the mularking. 👍
Love your port hole mirror, glad you found your tripod and Cod bottle. Thanks Si.
My pleasure thanks Debs 👍🏻🐾🧡
Hi Simon, a cousin of mine started a family tree n she found that on my mum's side we have English, Irish n Scottish heritage. Her dad n my mum were brother n sister. Our grandfather's parents were from Scotland. They met on the ship coming to Australia. They married n granddad was born in Charters Towers, Queensland. My grandmother's parents, one was from England n the other was from Ireland.
Great finds by everyone, love the up cycle it looks amazing. Take care and thank you for sharing 👍👏❤️
Cheers Chris!
I was gifted a kit for my birthday 2 years ago, they really are interesting, I’ll be buying one or two for Xmas gifts this year, highly recommended 🙌
Great idea!
Love the mirror!!!!! It turned out perfect! ❤
Thanks so much!
Hi, Si!! What a great day you had! I’m very impressed with your “1/2 Glass Porthole Mirror” project! The tinted mirror was a brilliant addition, and very complimentary to the crusty finish on the porthole! Thanks for sharing your day and your project with us! ♥️🥰♥️
Cheers Mary! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Hi Simon. Love your channel! I've been doing picture framing as a profession since the 80's. I've seen videos of you framing things before. Here in the US, most small framing shops love to help home crafters. The big box stores, not so much. A "not-too-posh" framer would more than likely cut your glass for you for a minimal charge. You should (LOL.. that's always a loaded phrase) But seriously, you should poke around and see if you can find a custom picture framer that has a small shop and cultivate a relationship with them. Especially for small stuff. A framer always has lots of scrap. Best wishes Si. Thanks for your great videos.
I love the patina and markings on that porthole! What a great find and even greater on the wall!
The golden finish to the mirror is perfect!
Cheers Angela! I thought so too x
Going out in a hovercraft looks like such a blast! You have your fair share of fun and then some! It’s such a great way to be - getting all you can from life, doing the things you enjoy and making so many interesting friends. I’m pea green!
My favorite finds were definitely the Roman pottery pieces. To feel that connection with someone from a time 1700 years in the past must be very special. I’d have to have a craft all my own because I’d want to load it ALL up to cart home. I’d be hoarder, but I’d be hoarding worthwhile pieces! 😂
Nice cod bottle, complete with its marble, and looking shiny and pretty. And your fellow larkers found some real treasures, too! The pipe with the bird and the figural one of the black man were different from the usual. That third pipe almost looked to me like deer with antlers, but I didn’t stop the video to have a good look. I’m guessing it’s just my whimsical imagination since you all were wondering about Masonic symbolism.
And then there’s the porthole. It was a pretty great find to begin with, and then you took it and elevated it to so much more. I love the patina, but I actually love it even more with the couple of added spots where you brushed some of it away. It gives it an added bit of depth. Definitely your best work yet! And that’s really saying something. Clearly, sweet Daisy agrees!
Thanks so much Lucinda, such lovely sentiments, you clearly appreciate my work as much as I appreciate your kind words. Thank you
I think if I had this chance to see all this lovely pile of shards and seconds I’d bring a pail and pick up all I could!
My Heritage is a lot of fun to see your DNA mix and develop a family tree and find others. The more people who do this the better!😊
Cheers Wanda, good idea
I agree I was hoping Simon would pick some of that beautiful creamy green glass and use it for an up cycling project
Super episode! LOVE that porthole mirror! 😍😘❤️
I did my DNA, British, Irish, French/German, Scandinavian, Ashkenazi Jewish, East European, Gujerati Indian, Mongolian!!!!!
WOW! That's awesome - thanks for sharing
Ooh, cutting the Roman pottery into cabs would be cool
The gold tinted mirror was an inspired choice, it turned out beautifully. Just gorgeous!
Thanks so much!
Love the mirror Si..👏👏
I really like the finished porthole mirror. An interesting adventure thank you for letting us tag along.
Cheers Dawn 👍🏻🐾🧡
Loved watching your group of hovercrafts out in the mud. We missed Steve, glad he's on the mend! I really like the amber mirror in the porthole frame! 😻
Cheers Mirkatu 👍🏻🐾🧡
Love the porthole makeover
Hi Si from North Carolina USA. My dna show I am 40% Scandinavian,25 % Scottish, 23 % Irish, 11% English/Wales and 1% Nigerian! Love love your channel!!
all green wow love the colour green
Loved the end result of the porthole! It looked great, especially with the gold glass. It really suited the colouring of the metal. Thanks for another great video 💗
Cheers Nat!! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Awesome mirror port hole repurpose
Cheers Shaka!
Simon, my wife thinks the 1/2 Glass on the porthole is to indicate the glass thickness required by that particular porthole. However she does not know if the measurement is in cm or inches. The glass looks as if it could be either with what we could see of the broken edges... Fabulous results! I think it means one half inch thick glass is required. I think that, because, using 1/2 for cm measurement would be awkward, weird, and probably no one says " 1/2 of a cm." in reference to a measurement.
Good sunday!!!
Hi Lara!
@@Sifinds Hi Simon!!!
Really excellent job with the port hole love it ❤️hey there's a little bit of Irish in ya Si 😀 congrats hahaha I'm from Ireland. Get better soon Steve ❤️
I love the mirror!!!
Cheers Jamie
Loved seeing an army of hovercraft heading out, the gold tone mirror in that porthole looks awesome, the still shattered glass still around the edge is pretty cool…
Cheers Nicole!
1/2 inch glass, my friend.
Nice job with the porthole!
Hello 👋 from New York USA you did an Amazing job upcycling the Porthole it came out Absolutely Beautiful Thank you for Bringing me Along with you Guy's I can't wait to see What you Find Next 😊
Cheers Tarra👍🏻🐾🧡
@@Sifinds 😊
That is probably the cleanest DNA test I have ever seen! Awesome finds and another amazing video! Thank you!
Cheers Jon
Love these hover craft vlogs! ❣️💕💙💜❤️ I was shocked to find out I was Welsh not Irish!
A nevermind 😂
Hola Simón,viendo recién tu video ,wud interesante lo que encontraron ,pero también viendo funeral de su reina ,por ser mujer ,y por su legado 😔🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👏👏👏👏🥰
Love, love, love what you did to the port hole 🥰.
Cheers Patti! 👍🏻🐾🧡
I love the port hole mirror... Very cool
Cheers pal!
wow, so nice mirror! 👏
Fantastic mirror, thanks for the video Si 👣🧡🇬🇧
Cheers Essie ; )
very cool upcycle
Lovely video today! Love the Cod bottle and the mirror turned out Awesome! Every Sunday is better with a video from you! Much love from Louisiana ❤️❤️
Thanks so much sweetie!
I did a test with 23 and me , I thought I would be 100% British...how wrong I was . My results were 79% British, 11% German, 9% Scandinavian and 1% Korean ...I don't have a clue where German and Scandinavian came from ...but Korean who would have thought 😂. I keep in touch with 2 2nd cousins who live in the US...it's a brilliant way to know family you didn't know you had 👍💞
Awesome thanks for sharing. So fascinating isn’t it!!
The mirror is now my favorite of your projects. Turned out great!
You have half the porthole.. the outside glass half, the other half goes inside the boat and they bolt together
Amazing finds love the cod bottle and the port hole. X
Cheers Elaine 👍🏻🐾🧡
That's a very cool upcycle.
Cheers Mudlover 👍🏻🐾🧡
Really enjoyed this Si.
Cheers Sheena!👍🏻🐾🧡
Si So sorry to hear about the dear Queen. My condolences. Are you going to see her in the queue?
Great video - it covered two of my interests, relic hunting and genealogy. I have had my DNA on MyHeritage for several years - 43.6% English, 8.5% Irish, Scottish and Welsh! Maybe this explains my interest in your London mudlarking videos. Keep up the good work.
Cool. What about the other 50%?
@@Sifinds 19.8% Scandinavian, 13.5% Iberian and 13.7% North and West Europe (Germany/Austria).
It looks like fun on those hovercrafts, what a way to get at places not easily accessible!
Stay safe and keep em' coming!
Hi Si. As an adoptee, the DNA tests I took really surprised me. I didn't know I had Welsh ancestry but considering much of my maternal relatives were from Staffordshire, more specifically Walsall, Walsall/Wolverhampton isn't that far from the Welsh border. I wonder how many Welsh left their hometowns to look for work in the industrial centres of England. Finding out you have Italian ancestry makes me wonder how many Romans integrated with the local population. Si, I was curious, if your family lived in the greater London area for severall generations. Why i am asking is I also got a Danish result in I can't remember if it was 23andMe or Ancestry. Early in English history I learned from an English history class in college that there was era of history were parts of England were under Danelaw.
I have over 1500 distant cousins Si.
Yes northern England were taken by Viking’s
Hi, Si! Loved the DNA results. I keep meaning to do that, but have never gotten around to it.
Also liked the Roman pottery!
It’s so easy to do, give it a go
Nice goin Si, your m8s have some interesting go anywhere toys. Stay vertical.
Lovely 👍👏👏
Thanks Si ! For taking us along on you "boating adventure. You found some beautiful treasures. The porthole mirror is very artsy!! Love it❤️
Cheers Kris!!
I know this episode was from a year ago, but I decided to do the test anyway. It happens to have a BF discount anyway. Perhaps I will find out if my Mum’s family have some Spanish blood in them! 😂 The story goes that when the Spanish Armada ships were wrecked on the Irish west coast after their defeat, some of the crew decided to stay in Ireland to live. They married local women and she was convinced that this was the reason she had black hair and not the red or auburn hair that many Irish people have. 😂😂 Can’t wait to find out! Just love your channel! (and Nichola’s 😊) Happy days! ❤😊
Great stuff. I hope you get some answers!
Love the mirror! Great idea, and I enjoyed the "see myself" mirror pun as well.
very nice upcycle si, well done
Cheers Matt
I love your version of the Dad voice, "oh yeah, brilliant" or , " yeah, that's nice" when someone shows you something you'd just leave...
Haha. Well it is nice for them, I have to remember that 😉
What a great day! And the port hole mirror was the cherry on the cake! Absolutely beautiful 😍 You picked the perfect mirror for it. It invokes the person looking into it to dream about the open sea, of places far away and coming back home again. Si this is in the top 3 of my favorites out of all your up cycles! So talented!
Thanks so much Amy!!
Simon, your up-cycling of the porthole mirror is BRILLIANT! LOVE!!!
Aw thanks pal
Awesome up-cycle! Those pottery shards are epic! Thank you for sharing your time! It's always an adventure!!👍🤟🪡🎨
Cheers Pal 👍🏻🐾🧡
Simon, I love your porthole mirror. Just lovely 😍
Cheers Mary! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Great video Simon! The cod bottle was an excellent find and love the pottery bits. Your up cycling of the porthole was perfect. So happy you left the lovely patina on it. Have a great week and please keep safe. ❤️🇨🇦
Cheers Diann! 👍🏻🐾🧡
Great video. Love the shots of all the boats skimming along. A hole cod bottle, WOW. Great job on the mirror. And the tea cup. NO WAY, you found the missing piece.
Cheers Mudlover 👍🏻🐾🧡
Amazing work on the porthole mirror! Love that you kept the patina
Thanks.
That cod bottle is a gem 💎. Great find! Glad the tripod lay visible for you 👏♥️
Oh Si, I'm a real genealogy geek; it's fascinating stuff. I have Swedish, German, Dutch, and pretty much the whole of England, Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland represented in my family tree. I've even traced back to a 7th century Welsh saint!
Hell yeah! Another Si Finds vid. Love this channel brother! Best mudlarking channel on the tube.
Thanks so much Ben! Means the world to me brother 👍🏻🐾🧡
I’ve often wanted to see the inside of your house to see how you display your collections. You have so many lovely finds.
Working on it Terry 😉
Cheers Simon 😁 I really like that porthole 👍
I had mine tested a few years ago and was surprised when I looked at it again because it had changed! Apparently the more samples they get, the more they can hone the results. I'm 99.8% European with the majority 66.2% from the Bavarian region which can be either German or French, 33.6% Polish (which was just listed as Eastern European previously) and the final 0.2% is Somali. Kind of goes along with what I had been told by my parents.
Nice one Jim! Thanks for sharing, and for the order! Appreciate it my friend!
great finds, the mirror came out awesome! Definitely think the engraving was 1/2" glass. Pretty sure I see the " to the top right of the 1/2
the porthole glass, Simon.....half inch thickness? looks good as a mirror especially against the blue painted wood.
Cheers Ruth, that's what i thought
The broken cup with the cement type of stuff in it would make a beautifully pin cushion if you can't remove the cement stuff.
I'm so in love with that porthole mirror and using the gold mirror was genius also such a good idea not cutting the mirror.
Thanks Joy! 👍🏻🐾🧡