Further info in relation to the name Usov - his great grandfather or great great gradfather won the town of Usov in a card game. Research has indicated that it could be town of Usov in Moravia - which has an interesting history and there is also a castle - Usov:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Asov I have two photos which he gave me a little while back. One is of the Estate House previously mentioned with his russian writing on the back which has been translated for me by Barry Lewis whom I have had contact with over the last 10 years or so with other things for translation.
The other photo is a photo of his family in 1910. I do not want to place these photos on photobucket or any other such site as I have had problems previously with intruders hacking in. My facebook page is only for my friends that I know i can trust so I am not going to make that public for all and sundry either, again I have had problems previously with intruders when it has been made available to all and sundry.
Is it not possible for me simply upload them from my computer directly here? He has given me the names of family members, as in their first names, but not their surnames.
I did ask an admin to help me via emailing them as attachments but was refused, could this please be reconsidered.
The other thing I do know is that and this was confirmed by Professor Stewart (Part of the London Royal Free - haematology section) is we are related some 6 generations back via a common ancestor. I was told this around 5 years ago. This puts a timeframe of late 1700's and early 1800's. I was informed I was related to a family called "Smith", whom I am also in contact with. After some discussions with him he urged to me to write a letter to the British Royal Family, but not to expect too much as they would probably get one their "lackeys" to respond. I informed him that I had already done that in 2003 and had received a response from the Queens "lackey" to say that "No member of the British Royal Family could help me". However, the reply that came back from Prince Charles was distinctly warmer in that his lackey had conveyed via Prince Charles that "It was good of me to write about my father". I as lo explained that after the really awful things that started happening after that, to me and my friends made me feel distinctly unwilling to attempt another letter. I had tried to explain things as they were and it wasn't probably written in the "correct" way to be received. I also was unaware of the old history that has played out from between the Russian and the English Royal families prior.
I have also been informed that there are only 21 people in the world that share this particular autosomal dominant deletion mutation. I don't know exactly what this means - if anything..yet. however the London Royal Free Lab c/o Professor Hawkins and also the Jack O"Neil Lab, are now doing further testing, after I emailed them some further information about my father and those particular 2 photos I have discussed here.
So far we know that all people with this delm694 all come from Northern European heritage. They think there is a common ancestor that links all of the 21 people that have it (plus my family).
My Father is Russian and born in Russia and my mother is English. Mothers family come from Wiltshire, Mildenhall, yet none of them seem to have a history of anything like this, and they go back many generations there. I had wondered if perhaps way back in mothers family there may have been a connection to Russian Nobility...6 generations ago....Tsar Alexander 1st?.....and this, teamed up with my fathers DNA has somehow produced this exceedingly rare thing we have.
Onwards and Upwards! Lets work it all out, if you can help me, please do so, because its driving me nutty. lol
Susannah.
