d: William Arthur, b/1814 in North Carolina, Cynthia Christine Bradley Clark Heavins, Susannah Bradley Spencer, Joseph Bradley (may or may not be Joseph Hampton Bradley who married Melinda McCloud), Lucious Bradley and Leonidas Bradley. Brick wall: their parents? I have researched the named parents (LDS, Rootsweb, Ancestry) of William R. Bradley and Mahala Kirkpatrick who came out of Kentucky and find them impossible to unlikely. Any help out there?
Ransom Amos married Elizabeth Kitchen
William Arthur married her sister, Susan…
men have and traces the paternal (surname) line back to pre-historic time, well before names were used. Women can do the MTDNA test that traces only your mother to her mother to her mother back forever. The most useful one for discovering genealogy is an Autosomal DNA test which men and women can both take.
The Family Finder test , 23 and me, Ancestry autosmal tests use autosomal DNA which can trace both your male and female lines from all four of your grandparents. It works for both women and men equally as we both have it. It can detect the DNA you inherited from generations of grandparents on both sides but only for about six to seven generations back getting smaller each generation if it passes at all then it starts disappearing and getting too small to detect. You can tell by the length (which is measured in "centimorgans") of shared DNA shown on a diagram of the 23 chromosomes how recent the ancestor was. They show the diagrams on Family Tree family finder or 23 and me or gedmatch.com which takes the raw DNa from other groups for free and compares them with a tool that shows which chromosome you match on. Ancestry doesn't have that tool but shows you after you load your family tree who else shares DNA with you AND who you both have in your tree. One has to have a written family tree that includes the husbands and wives which grows exponentially every generation to a very broad group of people at six generations in order to make successful matches that are further back, you start by contacting the largest matches you show if they have the surname of one of your parents, grandparents or great grandparents. There is another type of DNA test which can only trace your maternal line and it is called a MTDNA test. That is what you are describing. Some people mistakenly think that the M stands for maternal DNA but the "M" actually stands for "mitochondrial" which, like the Y-DNA is a special female DNA that doesn't change and is passed from mother to daughter. MTDNA is not very useful for finding cousins because only those few people who are daughters and sons of the same mothers in your line will share that with you. The MTDNA test also showswhere your female ancestors came from back in pre-history (your "EVE") and it has a special designation called a haplotype . Your haplotype is: U5b and if you look it up it there will be information on wikipedia about that group's migration from Africa across other continents.If you want to find ancestors I think using Ancestry.com is the easiest way to start, but there are some other free groups you can find too. You have to get a little of your tree down before DNA helps is what I am trying to say in this long winded spiel. After that other people are helpful. There are also some facebook groups for whatever genealogy testing service your son used that have people that can help too. Good Luck!…
n recent ancestor, George Soule of the Mayflower in 1620, we can deduce the Y-DNA pattern for this George.
FTDNA has many family projects, and in the past 9 years some 500,000 tests have been done. Test kits can be ordered on their website, and it helps to go through a family group as then you get the 'group' rate for the test. Anyone who wants can order by putting SOULE in the query box, and thus get the group rate. There are also geographic projects as well as surname projects, so one can migrate his test results to one other project with FTDNA.....you are allowed to list with two projects with FTDNA.
Once your test results come back from the lab, which takes 6-8 weeks, then FTDNA will give you a listing of matches. It help to do the three panel Y-DNA37 test with 37 spots tested as the first panel or Y-DNA12 test only does 12 spots on the Y chromosome and yields a lot of unuseful matches.
My hope is to locate several Sol men and see if any match the known Y-DNA pattern from George Soule descendants. It takes two men who match to identify the Y-DNA pattern for their family......for example, two van Zwoll men in North America have tested and are essentially identical in test results, which proves that they descend from the same distant ancestor in Holland!
I understand there are about 1200 telephone listings in Holland for Sol. So my challenge is how to find a couple of men for Y-DNA testing!!!…
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NNING A NUMBERS GAME --- and It is SHAMEFUL!
by Terry Thornton
At 12:58 PM July 15, 2009, the following arrived in my email from GenealogyWise and appeared also in the Notes Home at GW.
GenealogyWise is running 8 contests with $800 in total prizes between now and August 6:
$100 for the member with the most confirmed friends in GenealogyWise.
$100 to the owner of the group with the most members.
$100 to the owner of the surname group with the most members.
$100 to the creator of the genealogy-related video on GenealogyWise that has been viewed the most times.
$100 to the member who has uploaded the most historical photos.
$100 to the person who adds the most genealogy-related videos.
$100 to the person who has the most popular blog entry (most page views).
$100 to the most active member in the forums.
The contest ends at 1 pm MST on August 6. GenealogyWise employees are not eligible. GenealogyWise reserves final authority to determine the winners, and our decisions are final. Payments to winners outside the US will be made via PayPal.
Golly, GW is starting up a stimulus package and it is all based on numbers.
But then is not stimulus always based upon numbers --- real, phony, inflated, or pure baloney?
It is not how much you've got but how you use it that is really important and I think we should all tell GW that. Contests based upon numbers results in folks running about bragging "mine's bigger" and as a result start believing that "mine's better."
GenealogyWise should be ashamed.
Why not a contest based upon content, character, helpfulness, consistency, and clarity of postings/comments rather than who has piled up the most numbers in any of these categories?
I'm so disappointed with GW for basing a contest on numbers that I am thinking ugly thoughts about whoever let this idea see daylight.
If GW is gonna insist on carrying through with this notion, then perhaps we need more information.
Can we barter numbers?
Could I, for instance, loan all my Friends to someone to inflate their standing? I really like the GeneaBloggers Group so I could ask all the HOGS to sign up over there just to run up the numbers.
Could I, for instance, make a deal with Group A that we will swap, one for one, comments. If I send all my HOGS to GeneaBloggers, maybe all the GeneaBloggers will make comments at HOGS swelling it to bloated proportions. But then all HOGS should be fat, shouldn't they? Answer: Arkansas Razor Backs are not lard hogs --- and I'm talking only about lard hogs.
Could I, for instance, invent a surname and induce mega-membership and still win $100? Couldn't I add a surname group of my name spelled backwards, offer a false prize of $10,000 which I never intend to pay to some "lucky" new member, and walk away with GW's money?
How about if I upload my video and then demand that all my friends and members of my group watch it till their eyes glaze over? I could convert one of my most-looked-at posts at HILL COUNTRY, the one called "Naked Ladies of the Hill Country" and I bet everyone would come and look. It is about a historical subject --- if old-fashioned yard plants qualify as historical.
What's historical in the photo department? I've got several thousand files over at flickr in my account which are, by my definition, "historical" because they are all photographs of grave markers. What if I dump them all at GW --- could I still win $100? Obviously I could if my thousands of photos outnumber your thousands of photos. Throw in all my photographs of my grandbabies (surely they quality as historical) and I'd be a shoe-in to win.
If I start today reading my three blog entries at GW over and over again, could I not run up the most page views and qualify for $100? Maybe all the GeneaBloggers would all read my three blogs posts over and over to help me out.
GW, like DC, has, in my opinion, gone about this stimulus package all wrong. Let us not play this numbers game with GW --- let us instead continue to help each other, share with each other, post interesting comments when the mood strikes, and stop worrying about whose got the biggest anything here.
Shame, GW, for emphasizing quantity without nary a thought of quality.
But if GW insists on playing the numbers game, why not award $1 to GW for its efforts to save or to create the most pure crap between now and the end of the contest.
Now, all of you get over to My Page and sign up as a Friend, join my HOGS BLOGGERS Group, entice all your pals to do likewise (threaten to break their bones if they don't), and start commenting like crazy on my three blogs articles at GW. Don't do a long comment; break it into short two or three words and send hundreds.
Any prize I win will be spent on whiskey as I will need it by then watching this travesty play out.
Terry Thornton
Fulton, Mississippi
HILL COUNTRY OF MONROE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI
HOGS BLOGGERS GROUP @ GenealogyWise…
er, I've always assumed that if the story were true it came down this line. mtDNA is Haplogroup M which does not point to any of the native tribes. No matches in ancestery DNA database or any of the other databases I inputed the information into. My great grandmother was born in GA and the censuses I find her on (1900 and 1910) state her parents were born in GA to. Her surname as handed down our line was Henry. Could also be Henyard. She more than likely had a prior marriage / relationships before marrying my great-grandfather, Cornelius Pierce, as her surname was White when they got married. They were married in Walton County, Georgia but not sure if that is where my great-grandmother was from. My great-grandfather was from Greene County, Georgia. Great-grandmother Fannie is one of my brick walls on my maternal side.
Would als be interested in knowing if there were / are any triracial isolate groups in Georgia. Almost for to mention that on one census she is listed as Mulatto and on the other census she is listed as Black.
Please let me know if you need any other informatin. Would appreciate any advice or information of possible directions to head next. Thank you.…
es just knowing his first name and one of his surnames. I would call my mother and give her the information I would find online from ancestry.com, she would visit her sisters and cousin and related to them the information. Little by little I would receive a bit more information back from my mother concerning my maternal grandfather's family. He died before 1920, I could not find him in the 1910 census. Puerto Rico only has the 1910, 1920, 1930 & 1935 census, anything earlier you would have to order it from the LDS center. I ordered an LDS film from the 1800's Puerto Rico census and was able to find who my maternal grandfather's father was. It took me a while, but I finally found out who he was. If you know the name of your grandfather I would start by looking at the census in the area where he lived and by getting in contact with family members who might have known some details about him and ask questions or look into Church records for the Baptism, they usually listed who the grandparents were, at least in Puerto Rico. I don't know if they list that information in other areas.…
(my Grandfather's brother) about his family in Lithuania, and it's all in English! If only I knew what to do with it...I cannot make out the name of the town that the cousin states in the letter. She mentions of a couple of the uncles either staying there, and/or going back to Lithuania to a farm that was in the family. There is the possibility of having living relatives over there, but again, I cannot make out the name of the town and I wouldn't even know how to begin to find them. Our surname has been: Aleksandrowicz, Alexander, Alek or Aleck. We were told it was Alexandravich, but I'm not sure if that was for pronunciation reasons, or not.
I cannot locate my great-grandfather's (Antoni Aleksandrowicz) immigration record in order to get a location hint, but I do have his marriage record from 1912 which would put his birth around 1880 and it was in Russia at the time. He was a baker in the city of Boston/Charlestown.
I was wondering if anyone out here would know if the Aleksandrowicz surname was/is common to one or two certain areas in Lithuania, and what would I do to see if I can locate this family farm and relatives?
I'm happy to share the letter with anyone who may be interested.
Thanks so much!…
Cremin- The ancient genealogies indicate the origination of the MacCarthy Cremin sept in the 14th century arising from a birth to Donal Glas Mac Carthhaigh (or his son or brother Diarmuid) and…