tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70775749509181758842024-03-13T06:35:00.030-04:00Welcome to Genealogy By Ginger!Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.comBlogger339125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-34928136350844313832016-01-03T15:18:00.000-05:002016-01-03T15:18:30.005-05:00Louise's Lost Files - Scanning Best Practices for Photographs<div style="text-align: center;">
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You've probably heard me (and others) talk about this before. When scanning photographs, you should scan them at the highest resolution and save them as Tiff files. Scanning at highest resolutions will allow you to have the crispest and most detailed digital image of your photograph. Oftentimes, when you zoom in on a photograph scanned at a high resolution, you can see more detail then you can see with your eye. This has come in handy many times when I have tried to identified a person or place in a photograph or tried to estimate when the photograph was taken.<br />
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Although JPEG is the standard format for saving images to your digital camera, hard drive, and email, it is a good idea to save your scanned photograph files as TIFF rather than JPEG because TIFF files do not lose resolution each time you open, close, and save a file. You can think of a JPEG file as a kind of compressed file which loses resolution each time it is used.<br />
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<b><i>When to Save as JPEG? </i></b><br />
If you are planning to upload your photographs to your family tree software or online tree, or share with family members via email or a website, then you can save copies of each photograph in the JPEG format. When I scan photographs, I save each scanned photograph as a TIFF file and then I make a copy and save it in a JPEG format. I have two folders on my hard drive - one for my TIFF files and one for my JPEG files.<br />
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<b><i>How to Save as Both JPEG and TIFF files? </i></b><br />
This process can be done several different ways:<br />
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1. You save each scanned photograph as a TIFF file, then save as JPEG file directly in your scanning software<br />
2. You save each scanned photograph as a TIFF file, then batch save each one as a JPEG in your photo software<br />
3. You save each scanned photograph as a TIFF file, open each photo up individually and save a copy as a JPEG file<br />
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I have the option of all 3 listed above at my fingertips. My scanning software holds all my scanned images in a queue until I'm ready to save them. Then I select the images I want to save, give them all the same name, for example, "Benson Photos," and select what file format I want to save them in. I save all my files as TIFFs first. My scanning software will append a numerical value at the end of each file name as it saves them. I will then go through each scanned image, identify the person or persons in the photograph and name accordingly.<br />
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Because I usually rename my scanned photographs, I create JPEG copies using the number 2 option above: I open my photo software called XNView (Windows based) and I select batch process to save all of my photos as JPEGs. It will then make a copy of all of the photos I have selected and save them as JPEGs. This is a very handy tool to have at your fingertips.<br />
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My next post will discuss how I name my photos and identify the subjects in each photo.<br />
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Photo: This is a photo of the Canon LiDe 110 scanner downloaded from the Canon.com website. This is my 2nd iteration of this scanner that I have had for 10 years now. It fits nicely in a backpack or briefcase and is fast and easy to work with. The scanning software I use with it is called MP Navigator EX.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-10737819152182124222015-03-07T21:48:00.000-05:002015-03-07T21:48:08.317-05:00Louise's Lost Files - Certificate of MarriageThis is part of my <a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/01/louises-lost-files.html">Louise's Lost Files Series</a> in which I share with my readers some of the items I am inventorying, scanning and posting that came from my great-grandmother, Louise Lasiter's house in Fort Smith, Arkansas.<br />
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The first part I tackled were two small drawers of paperwork belonging to my great-grandmother. They contained basic household mail items such as bank statements, bills, and tax statements. Intermingled in these mundane household items, however, were a few items of genealogical significance including their original <b><span style="font-size: large;">Certificate of Marriage</span></b> shown below.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Marriage Certificate Louise Benson and James Putman Lasiter, from the personal collection of Ginger R. Smith</span></div>
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<b>that on the Second day of December in the year of our Lord 1931,</b></div>
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<b>J. Putman Lasiter and Louise Benson </b></div>
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<b>at Tulsa, Oklahoma </b></div>
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<b>according to the Ordinance of God and Laws of the State of Oklahoma.</b></div>
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<b>Otto LeRoy Curl, Ph.D., D.D.</b></div>
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<b>A little bit about the physical condition of the marriage certificate:</b></div>
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It is a tri-fold and has a piece of braided cord punched through one seam so that when it's folded in 3, it can be tied on the outside. There is also an outer cover which you can kind of see in the scan if you look closely at the bottom. </div>
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<b>A little bit about my great-grandparents: </b></div>
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Louise Benson was 19 years old when she married James Putman "Put" Lasiter on December 2nd, 1931. She had been living with her family in Newby, Oklahoma in April of 1930 when the census was taken. According to the census, she was still attending school, so she must have been attending a junior college of some sort because she graduated from Spiro High School in 1929. </div>
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An interesting tidbit of information was that Louise was pregnant with her first child Barbara when she married Put. And yes, I assure you that her first child was Put's. My grandmother and her sister Barb could have been twins, their likeness was so similar. </div>
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James Putman "Put" Lasiter was 23 years old when he married Louise. He was living in Fort Smith, Arkansas with his parents when the census was taken in 1930. According to the census report, he was also attending school. </div>
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I wish I knew how my great-grandparents met with one living in OK and the other living in AR about two hours away. Maybe I will find some clues in the rest of the boxes? In addition to this marriage certificate, I found their original marriage license and I also found a certified copy of the marriage license which was obtained in 1943. </div>
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<i>I wonder what the certified copy was required for? </i></div>
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<i>Why would someone need a certified copy of a marriage license 12 years after they were married?</i></div>
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They didn't buy their house until 1950, so it could not have been for a mortgage. Hmmm...interesting. </div>
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-70384859890144426172015-02-21T08:57:00.001-05:002015-02-21T12:11:21.470-05:00Running a Targeted Surname Search in my Smith Relatives' ftDNA Results<div style="text-align: left;">
Now that <a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/02/Agee-Ancestors-DNA.html">I have found several Agee matches to myself on AncestryDNA</a>, and I have <a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/02/looking-for-agee-ancestors-building-my.html">entered their direct line ancestors into my Family Tree</a>, I wanted to see which of my other Smith family members had matches to descendants of this Agee family. My Smith relatives having matches to Agee descendants would provide further evidence that our Smith family has a common <b><i>Agee </i></b>ancestor.</div>
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I logged in to each of my Smith family members' ftDNA accounts and searched for the surname <b><i>AGEE</i></b>.<br />
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This is what my list of results looked like for my cousin Shari. You can see that on the right side of the page, the Agee surname is displayed in blue bolded text. The 2nd match down does not have Agee in their list of surnames. They showed up in the results list because they have Magee in their list of surnames. I did not include them in my list of matches.<br />
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In order for the Agee surname to show up in Shari's matches' list of surnames as bolded blue text, I had to first add the Agee surname to MY list of surnames. You can do this by clicking on your name in the upper right hand corner of your ftDNA profile, then clicking the G<b>enealogy </b>tab, then clicking on the <b>Surnames </b>link. </div>
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I added the Agee surname to the surname lists of all of my Smith cousins' ftDNA profiles and then I ran a search for matches who had Agee in their list of surnames. This is what I found: </div>
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<td>Cousin Mike</td>
<td>1 match to a descendant of Anthony Agee & Christina Worley via their son David</td></tr>
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<td>Cousin Linda</td>
<td>1 match who has Agee from France and VA, but no tree (related to Darrel's match who had Agee from France & VA, but no tree)</td>
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<td>Cousin Shari (Linda's Half-Sister)</td>
<td>2 matches to a descendant of Anthony Agee & Christina Worley via their son Matthew (these 2 matches are related)</td>
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<td>1 match who has Agee from SC (no tree)</td>
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<td>Grandfather Darrel</td>
<td>2 matches to a descendant of Anthony Agee & Christina Worley via their son Isaac Agee (these 2 matches are related)</td></tr>
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<td>1 match to a descendant of Mary Elizabeth Agee & Jean Faure Ford via their son Daniel Ford</td>
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<td>1 match who has Agee from France and VA, but no tree (related to Linda's match who had Agee from France & VA but no tree)</td>
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<td>1 match to a descendant of Frances Agee from Wilkes County GA (same match as Tim)</td>
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<td>My father Tim</td>
<td>1 match to a descendant of Frances Agee from Wilkes County GA (same match Darrel has)</td>
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<td>Ginger</td>
<td>No Matches to Agee in ftDNA</td>
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I then pulled up each relative's Agee match in their chromosome browser and downloaded the chromosome data to excel. I combined all of the ch data into one excel file and sorted by chromosome number and then by starting location (on the chromosome). The descendants of Anthony Agee's son Isaac and the descendants of Anthony Agee's son Matthew have a lot of overlap on ch 3. My grandfather's match who descends from Mary Elizabeth Agee, sister of Mathieu Agee, did not match up with anyone on more than 5 cM. He did match up on a small segment on ch 11 from 63-67 mil, 4.61cM, 900 SNPs with the descendants of Anthony Agee's son Isaac (not shown).<br />
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<td>Darrel Eugene Smith</td>
<td>Descendant-1 of Anthony Agee & Christina Worley via their son Isaac Agee </td>
<td>3</td>
<td>169205391</td>
<td>184359986</td>
<td>19.34</td>
<td>3200</td>
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<td>Darrel Eugene Smith</td>
<td>Descendant-2 of Anthony Agee & Christina Worley via their son Isaac Agee </td>
<td>3</td>
<td>169205391</td>
<td>184694720</td>
<td>19.35</td>
<td>3300</td>
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<td>Shari Jo JENKINS-Free</td>
<td>Descendant-1 of Anthony Agee & Christina Worley via their son Matthew</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>171575778</td>
<td>180390543</td>
<td>13.09</td>
<td>2000</td>
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<td>Shari Jo JENKINS-Free</td>
<td>Descendant-2 of Anthony Agee & Christina Worley via their son Matthew </td>
<td>3</td>
<td>171575778</td>
<td>180390543</td>
<td>13.09</td>
<td>2000</td>
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To be honest, I've kind of actually given up on looking at chromosome data to evaluate my matches, but I thought I would include a summary of my cursory findings here just in case anyone was interested. Also, I would need to run a comparison of the matches who are descendants of Anthony Agee & Christina Worley via their son Isaac Agee against the matches who are descendants of Anthony Agee & Christina Worley via their son Matthew to see if they, too, overlap on these same DNA segments. Assuming that Darrel and Shari also overlap on these same segments of DNA, then there is a 3-way match which would indicate a common ancestor shared by Darrel, Shari, and these matches.<br />
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If you are also wondering why I did not do this in my last post with my AncestryDNA results, it is because AncestryDNA does not offer the ability to look at your chromosome data. I used to use a 3rd party tool called Gedmatch.com, but that service is no longer reliable, so I just don't bother messing with the chromosome data much anymore.<br />
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Next Steps:<br />
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<li>My next step will be to add the direct line Agee ancestors of these matches into my family tree and cite them as coming from ftDNA online gedcoms. I will then create an abbreviated family tree chart that I can reference quickly to see what matches came from what Agee Ancestors</li>
<li>My half-brother's AncestryDNA results just came back so I will run a surname search for Agee matches in his results; if there are several, I will organize them by patriarch and add them to my list of matches. Then I will add their Agee ancestors to my family tree if they have not already been added. I will also compare his Agee matches to mine to see if there are any overlaps. </li>
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Previous Posts:<br />
<a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/02/Agee-Ancestors-DNA.html">Looking for Connection to Agee ancestors via Autosomal DNA </a></div>
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<a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/02/looking-for-agee-ancestors-building-my.html">Looking for Agee Ancestors - Building my Match Trees</a></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-16326906589403921732015-02-20T15:26:00.003-05:002015-02-21T08:40:53.264-05:00Louise's Lost Files - Scanning Best Practices for DocumentsIf you have been participating in <a href="http://www.geneabloggers.com/tag/genealogy-do-over/">Thomas McEntee's Genealogy Do-Over</a>, then you know that one of this week's goals was to digitize your photos and documents. Thomas gave a great overview of scanning best practices for photographs. I had a few of my own ideas to add regarding the scanning of documents - especially pertaining to Louise's Lost Files - my great-grandmother's files I've been working on for weeks. I've outlined my best practices below. How do you scan your documents?<br />
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Last week I went through some of the financial records of the last two years of my great-grandmother's life that I found in the two drawer small file box. I also found in this box all of the documents pertaining to my great-grandmother's house - the mortgage note, the deed, and related insurance papers. In order to share these documents with my readers and to further preserve them, I decided to scan them into my computer.<br />
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My scanning software offers several options:<br />
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Deciding on a scanning method depends on what I want to do with my scan. If I want to scan an exact copy of the document as it looks to MY eye, then I probably want to scan in color in order to preserve the appearance of the aged and faded paper. However, this scanned copy does not make for a very good template to print copies from. Printing copies with a colored background, even if it is off white, will use up a lot of your ink. So it is a good idea to also scan each item in black and white, especially if you ever plan to print copies of it.<br />
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This is the deed of trust scanned in color. If I were to print from these scans, the printer would print a beige color to the entire page. Although this scan is nice because it represents the true color and original appearance of the document, it does not make for a good copy to print from. Also, the top image was scanned as a color document and the bottom image was scanned as a color photograph. The photograph picked up the text from the other side of the page which is not good.<br />
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The other option is document versus photograph. Scanning as a photograph would also help to preserve the original appearance of the aged paper, however, it will pick up a lot more of the paper's blips and blemishes, including bleed through of text from the other side. You can reduce the amount of bleed through by placing a piece of black card stock on top of the paper being scanned. Or you can scan as a document and get a much clearer and crisp scan. Sometimes the typed text might not show up as dark with the document setting as it would with the photograph setting, but this can be adjusted in your graphics program using your brightness, contrast, and gamma controls.<br />
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On the left is a document scanned as a black and white document - as you can see the text is pretty light. The one on the right is the same scan with gamma correction applied - now the text is much darker. Click the image to view a larger image. </div>
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Regardless of the scanning option you decide on, you should always check your scans to make sure everything shows up nicely - especially anything that was written in pencil.<br />
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Also, with regard to resolution, always scan in either 300 or 600 dpi resolution. To me, the biggest advantage is readability. If I need to zoom in to a document in order to decipher its handwriting, I can do so easily with a 300 or 600 dpi scan and still see a clear and crisp image. If I zoomed in on an image that was scanned at 100 dpi resolution, the image would be grainy and the handwriting or text unreadable.<br />
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It is best to save your images in both JPG and TIF files types. The TIF files types can be used for preservation purposes and as in the example above, TIF files can be easily zoomed and still maintain their clarity of text and handwriting. Saving images in JPG files is also a good idea, especially if you plan to publish the images on the web, on your online tree, or email to cousins. Most photo and document upload services have a maximum file upload size that can only be adhered to in a JPG format. My scanning software also allows me to save my images into either individual or multiple page PDF files. I often use this to my advantage: PDFs can be easily emailed to cousins, they offer a nice way to keep multiple pages of the same document together, and the text is often searchable (mine is!).<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-51825723164240949722015-02-15T08:00:00.000-05:002015-02-21T12:07:39.898-05:00Looking for Agee Ancestors - Building my Match TreesIn my last <a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/02/Agee-Ancestors-DNA.html">post</a> about the Smith and Agee family, I discussed how I was able to connect my Smith family to the family of Thomas Smith and Leah Agee of Tennessee and Kentucky. By running a targeted surname search through my DNA matches for the Agee surname, I was able to determine that my family was connected to Mathieu Agee, the Huguenot who fled from France and moved to Virginia around 1700. Mathieu was the grandfather of Leah Agee who married Thomas Smith. Two descendants of Thomas Smith and Leah Agee have had their Y-DNA tested and they were a match to my grandfather, Darrel. The results of the Y-DNA test combined with the autosomal DNA test have led me to believe that Thomas Smith and Leah Agee were the common ancestors of my Grandfather and his two Y-DNA matches. My goal is to determine exactly how my Smith ancestors tie in to the family of Thomas Smith and Leah Agee.<br />
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I started off by entering all of the information I learned from my AncestryDNA matches. I entered all 11 of my matches' direct line ancestors into my Family Tree Maker software, starting with themselves and going back to their Agee ancestors. As I entered their direct line ancestors, I added a citation pointing back to their online trees to every name and fact I copied from their tree to mine. This is what my citations look like:<br />
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Citation Title: Public Member Tree Submitted by 5haags<br />
Citation Detail: "Rapp/Knutson Family Tree," submitted by 5haags, accessed 02 February 2015; AncestryDNA match to Ginger Smith. Possible Common ancestor is Mathieu Agee.<br />
Citation Text: This is where I enter the ancestor's name, place and date of birth and death and any other information pertaining to the data being cited.<br />
Web Address: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/18580720<br />
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The full citation is as follows: <b>"Rapp/Knutson Family Tree," submitted by 5haags, accessed 02 February 2015; AncestryDNA match to Ginger Smith. Possible Common ancestor is Mathieu Agee. http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/18580720.</b><br />
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Next time I will run a targeted surname search for the Agee surname in my ftDNA matches and also I will do the same for my Smith family members who have tested with ftDNA.<br />
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Posts related to this topic:<br />
<a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/02/Agee-Ancestors-DNA.html">Looking for Connection to Agee ancestors via Autosomal DNA</a><br />
<a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/02/surname-search-in-ftdna-Smith-cousins-results.html">Running a Targeted Surname Search in my Smith Relatives' Results</a><br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-3448411634169395202015-02-13T07:00:00.000-05:002015-02-17T22:14:29.844-05:00Louise's Lost Files - Cancelled ChecksThis is part of my <a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/01/louises-lost-files.html">Louise's Lost Files Series</a> in which I share with my readers some of the items I am inventorying, scanning and posting that came from my great-grandmother, Louise Lasiter's house in Fort Smith, Arkansas.<br />
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Last week I sifted through the two small drawers of paperwork belonging to my great-grandmother. They contained basic household mail items such as bank statements, bills, and tax statements. Almost everything was in their original envelops. The bank statements were from the two years prior to her death: 1995-1997. Inside the envelops containing the bank statements were also her cancelled checks. Among the cancelled checks I found this one:<br />
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It was addressed to me. My great-grandmother had sent me this check in 1995 when I was in my 2nd year of college in Burlington, Vermont. It was very nice of her to remember me.<br />
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This check is significant not only because it had been addressed to me, but also because it contains valuable <b><i><span style="font-size: large;">genealogical information</span></i></b>.<br />
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<li>It has my great-grandmother's Signature on it</li>
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The rest of the genealogically relevant information gleaned from this cancelled check ties in to the lives of both myself and my great-grandmother. It goes beyond just the genealogical facts that we are first interested in. It helps to build a picture of what life was like for those involved. </div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-89889430313634859222015-02-06T07:00:00.000-05:002015-02-17T21:58:07.289-05:00Louise's Lost Files - Week 1 - The Inventory ProcessThis is the first of my posts outlining the inventorying process of my great-grandmother, Louise Lasiter's files. Louise Benson Lasiter was born January 1st, 1912 in Avant, Osage Co., Oklahoma and died December 27th, 1997 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. I came into possession of <a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/01/louises-lost-files.html">some of her files</a> and photos last December while visiting Fort Smith. I have outlined the inventory process I am using while going through her files below:<br />
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For my first project, I tackled the two-drawer paper box (the smallest of the 3 boxes).<br />
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It wasn't that full and the items inside were mostly papers (and not photographs). All of these papers were folded and some were even enclosed in their original envelops.<br />
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I started by pulling one stack of papers out of the first drawer.<br />
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I looked at each item, one at a time, taking it out of its envelop.<br />
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I then put the item back into its original envelop, indicating on my sheet if it came in an original envelop.</div>
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If I found something interesting in the stack, I put a sticky note on the item so that it sticks out of the pile. I also put a sticky note on the first item of the stack to indicate there is something of relevance within the pile. I also put a big star beside the item in the inventory list<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-16097839820767811612015-02-04T07:00:00.000-05:002015-02-21T12:08:33.160-05:00Looking for Connection to Agee ancestors via Autosomal DNA My grandfather has several Y-DNA matches to men with the Smith surname.[1] We have not been able to figure out how they all connect to each other, however, we have been able to separate them into three distinct groups. I wrote about them previously <a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/08/my-smith-family-putting-y-dna-to-work.html">here</a>.<br />
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My grandfather, Darrel, descends from David Editon Smith, born about 1789 in Tennessee. [2][3] David was probably living in Jackson County, Alabama between 1830 and 1840 [4] and by 1850 was living in Johnson County, Arkansas. [3] His father was listed as James Smith on his daughter's Cherokee Citizen's Application. [5]<br />
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My grandfather's closest Y-DNA match, M Smith, descends from Patrick Smith, born about 1788 in Alabama. M Smith's daughter believe's Patrick's father might have also been James Smith. [6]<br />
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Two additional Y-DNA matches descend from Thomas Smith and Leah Agee, although there is some squabble about them being the ancestral couple of both of these matches and is therefore not conclusively proven. One of these matches descends from this couples' son Richard Smith who married Diana Braswell. The other match descends from Richard's brother, James Agee Smith. Both Richard and James were born in Tennessee, then followed the Mormons to Utah where they settled.[1]<br />
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The family of James Agee Smith was involved in polygamy which was outlawed at the time, but was still being practiced in the community where he lived in Utah. As you can imagine, this has made it difficult to define the exact genealogy of James Smith's family, not just because a man was allowed to have and live with multiple wives, but because it is nearly impossible to differentiate between the children of one wife from those of another. The multiple wives often co-habitated with their husband, "sisters," and their combined children. This is actually represented on the census reports. Here is an example of a polygamous family living in Saint George, Utah in 1880. You see Warren Hardy is the head of house and he has two wives listed with a bunch of children. [7]<br />
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The remaining two matches also squabble about who their ancestral couple was. I will list them individually here and link to previous posts I've written about this family. Their squabble is inconsequential to today's post, so I won't dwell on it.<br />
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Match No. 5, Mr. H. Smith, claims to descend from William Smith and Elizabeth Eunice Ritchie via their son Richard Smith who married Alicia Combs. There is a LOT of information about this family on the internets, but word of caution here - don't believe everything you see as fact! [8]<br />
Match No. 6, Mr. A. Smith, claims to descend from Samuel Smith and Eunice Joliff. He has <a href="https://smithandfox.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/richard-joliff-will/">documentation</a> to support Samuel was his ancestor and not William, as well as Eunice Joliff, instead of Eunice Ritchie.[9]<br />
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As I mentioned earlier, we have not been able to figure out the connection between these three sets of Smith families. We assume that David and Patrick were somehow related because they were both in Alabama around the same time, and they both came from Tennessee. [3] [6] Thomas Smith and Leah Agee's sons Richard and James Agee Smith were also born in Tennessee prior to moving to Utah. [10] [1] William / Samuel Smith and Eunice Ritchie / Joliff were actually from Kentucky and their family stayed in Kentucky - so 3 distinct Smith families with no known apparent connection. [8][9]<br />
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We wondered about how useful the autosomal DNA test would be in narrowing down our list of common ancestors. My grandfather's closest match took the Family Finder test by FamilyTreeDNA (ftDNA), so we compared them. Unfortunately, although they were a match on the Y-DNA, they were not a match on the Family Finder test.<br />
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In case you are wondering, there is an Advanced Matching feature in your ftDNA homepage, that allows you to compare to your match across multiple test types (ie, Y-DNA, atDNA, mtDNA). To access this feature, I logged in to my grandfather's DNA results, hovered my mouse over the My DNA link at the top left of the page, and when a drop down box appeared, I hovered my mouse over the My Y-DNA link and then when a new drop down box appeared, I clicked on Advanced Matching.<br />
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From the Advanced Matching page, I put a check mark beside the Y-DNA67 and the Family Finder test options, then I clicked "Yes" beside the "Show only people I match in all selected tests" option. I then clicked the Run Report button to see my results.<br />
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As I said earlier, unfortunately, my grandfather's closest Y-DNA match is NOT a match on the Family Finder test. You might be wondering why or how this could be? There could be a few reasons for this. 1) The common ancestor is too far back to be picked up by the Family Finder test. The Family Finder test is only guaranteed to work back to 5 generations. [11] David Smith is my grandfather's 5th generation back. If the common ancestor was beyond David, which I'm positive it was, then it is possible it is too far back to be picked up. 2) It is possible that my grandfather and his match did not inherit the same DNA segments. DNA gets mixed up or "recombined" when it gets transferred from a parent to offspring. Oftentimes, siblings do not receive the same exact DNA segments, so one sibling may match a cousin but the other sibling does not.[12]<br />
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Since I could not do much more with my grandfather's closest Y-DNA match, the descendant of Patrick Smith from Alabama, I decided to work with the second set of matches - the descendants of Thomas Smith and Leah Agee. I could try to do a search in my Family Finder matches for anybody with Smith in their list of surnames - but that would results in a high number of matches and a lot of Smiths to go through! Instead, I focused on the AGEE surname.<br />
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The Leah Agee who married Thomas Smith was born about 1755 in Manakin, Goochland County, Virginia. [1] She was the daughter of Anthony Agee and either Christian Worley [1] or Nancy Jane Benin or Binnion. [13] Anthony Agee was the son of a Hugenot named Mathieu Agee who fled France and came to Virginia.[14]<br />
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One of the most successful ways I have found to work with my autosomal DNA results is through a <b>targeted surname search</b>. I have tested with both FamilyTreeDNA and AncestryDNA. I've had better luck working through my AncestryDNA results because more matches have trees posted than they do in ftDNA.<br />
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I started by doing a surname search for AGEE in my AncestryDNA results.<br />
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1. Click the View all DNA matches button on my AncestryDNA homepage.<br />
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5. This is where most people look through their matches' tree for a connection to their own tree, don't find it, give up and throw in the towel. I have a different methodology that is much more helpful. </div>
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1. I open a notepad file, or an Evernote note, or break out a lined notebook and I record the user name of the first match. I will use this file to take abbreviated notes about how my match descends from their oldest known Agee ancestor. </div>
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2. I review the first match. The Agee surname does not show up in the little green "Shared Surnames" box because I don't have the Agee surname listed in my tree - I don't actually know how I connect to the Agee-Smith family (yet). A bunch of other names DO show up in the Shared Surnames box, but I will ignore them for now (remember we are focusing only on the Agee surname! - Just Say NO to the Shiny Bobbly Objects!)<br />
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3. I then scroll down below the green box and click on the Agee surname. On this first match, there are 4 Agees listed - Anthony, Jesse, Mary Polly, and Mathieu Isaac Agee. I click on the oldest one, Mathieu Agee, born 1670 France, died Virginia and it brings up a profile.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Mathieu Agee, b. 1670 France, d. Virginia & Cecelia Ann Godwin ></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Anthony Agee, b. 1719 Goochland, VA, d. 1799 Goochland, VA & Christian Worley ></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Jesse Reuben Agee, b. 1757 Powhatan, VA, d. 1837 KY & Elizabeth Childress...</span></div>
<span style="text-align: start;">7. I </span> repeat steps 1-6 for the next 10 matches. I color code the ancestors of my matches in my list. Every time Mathieu is listed, I color him blue. Every time his sister Mary is listed, I color her pink. Doing this allows me to look at my list quickly to see what matches descend from which ancestors and it allows me to organize my list quickly and efficiently. <span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">My "Notes" on the ancestors of my Agee matches</span></div>
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<b>Results:</b><br />
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<li>I end up with 4 matches whose oldest known ancestor is Mathieu Agee & Ann Godwin and 4 matches whose oldest known ancestor is Mary Elizabeth Agee. Both Mathieu and Mary Elizabeth are children of <b>Anthony Agee and Judith Chastain</b>. </li>
<li>2 of the descendants of Mathieu descend from his son Anthony and 2 descend from his son James. </li>
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I have pretty good evidence, based on my AncestryDNA results, that I probably do in fact descend from the family of Thomas Smith and Leah Agee. Leah was the daughter of Anthony Agee, who was the son of Matthew. This would mean that my closest autosomal DNA matches would be to other descendants of Mathieu's son Anthony. There were at least two of them who descended from Mathieu's son Anthony. According to AncestryDNA, one of these matches was a 5th-8th cousin, with High Confidence and the other was a 5th-8th cousin with Good Confidence. </div>
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<b>How does this help me Interpret my Smith Y-DNA results? </b></div>
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The other thing that these results tell me is that the common ancestor is an Agee (not a Smith). Since my proposed ancestor Leah Agee was the daughter of Mathieu's son Anthony, I can conclude the following: </div>
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<li>With the four matches who descend from Mathieu Agee, the common ancestor between me and the descendants of his son Anthony is Anthony himself. </li>
<li>The common ancestor between me and the descendants of Mathieu's son James is Mathieu. </li>
<li>The common ancestors between me and the descendants of Mathieu's sister, Mary Elizabeth Agee are their parents, Anthony Agee and Judith Chastain.</li>
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Now that I have identified a new common ancestor, I can start tracing him and his children down the line to see if and how my Smith line might fit in. I already know that Leah Agee was the daughter of Anthony Agee and she married Thomas Smith. So my next goal is to determine how my Smith family descends from one of Leah and Thomas' children; Interesting enough, I learned that Leah and Thomas died in Kentucky, which is where the third group of Smith Y-DNA matches are from - so that might be their connection as well.<br />
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<b>Next Steps: </b><br />
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In my next post, I will start looking at Leah and Thomas Smith's children to see if and how my Smith family might have fit in. Because I don't know any of my Smith ancestors past David and his supposed father, James, I do not know which son of Leah and Thomas Smith we descend from. I will have to employ the same surname search technique I employed above to go through each of Leah and Thomas Smith's <i>daughter-in-laws' surnames</i> to see if any matches pop up. That will at least enable me to narrow down which son of Leah and Thomas I might descend from.<br />
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Before I do that, I have to do some housekeeping. I will enter the direct line ancestry of these matches into my online tree (but not connect them to myself because I do not yet know how they connect). I will then go through the process of looking for Agee surname matches in my FamilyTreeDNA Family Finder test results for myself and all of my Smith family relatives (my father, grandfather, and 3 6th cousins). </div>
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<b>Sources:</b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1] Smith DNA Project, Website, http://www.smithsworldwide.org, accessed 01 February 2015.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[2] The middle name of Editon was found on a land grant patent no. 1953, Clarksville, Johnson County, Arkansas, filed 01 March 1855, issued to David Edison Smith, of Johnson County, Arkansas. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch, accessed 08 December 2008.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[3] The birth year and place of David Smith were derived from the 1850 Johnson Co., AR census which listed David Smith as head, 61 years old, which estimates his year of birth to be 1789, born in TN. 1850 US Federal Census, Johnson County, Arkansas, population schedule, Horsehead, taken 11 Nov 1850, page 139, Dwelling 98, family 100, David Smith; digital image, <i>Ancestry.com</i> (www.ancestry.com : accessed ); NARA Film M432, Roll 27.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[4] David Smith's son Richard Smith was born 1838 in Jackson County, Alabama per my grandfather, Darrel Smith's personal notes given to me in 2006. The notes say this information was provided on Richard's enlistment papers, but I have not been able to find such papers. Richard's son William was listed as born about 1832 in Alabama on the 1850 Johnson County, Arkansas census (enumerated with his father David Smith); also David's daughter Sarah Smith was listed as being born in Alabama about 1826 on the 1850 Johnson County, Arkansas census. I have not been able to definitively locate David Smith on the 1830 or 1840 census report in Alabama.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[5] Cherokee Nation Citizenship Application of Sarah Grider, 1898. Obtained from the National Archives by Mike Freels. Sent to Ginger R. Smith by Mail, 2009. Scanned to digital Files by Ginger R. Smith, 07 August 2014.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[6] Briana Felch, brianafelch@me.com, to Ginger R. Smith, ginger.reney@gmail.com, "Smith y-DNA Test Results / Genealogy," 06 June 2014.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[7] 1880 US Federal Census, Washington County, Utah, population schedule, Saint George City, Page 11 (penned), dwelling 79, family 82, Warren Hardy; digital image, <i>Ancestry.com</i>, (www.ancestry.com : accessed 25 September 2013;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[8] Hilliard Smith, III, hilliard_smith@att.net, to Ginger R. Smith, ginger.reney@gmail.com, "FW: Family Tree DNA match," 18 March 2014.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[9] Al Smith, al.smith@insightbb.com, to Ginger R. Smith, grs3275@yahoo.com, "Smith DNA Match," 13 April 2011.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[10] Dana Ekins, dsekins@gmail.com, to Ginger R. Smith, ginger.reney@gmail.com, "Information Request for Kit #47033 from Smiths Official DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA :," 23 September 2013.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[11] Family Tree DNA Learning Center <i>Beta</i>, Website, <i>FamilyTreeDNA, </i>(https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/autosomal-ancestry/universal-dna-matching/generations-family-finder-analyzes/ : accessed 01 February 2015, "How many generations does Family Finder analyze or predict?"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[12] Judy Russell, "Looking at Recombination," <i>The Legal Genealogist, </i>posted 10 November 2013, (http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2013/11/10/looking-at-recombination/ : accessed 01 February 2015).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[13] Agee, Paul Myrtillo <i>A record of the Agee family, </i>Independence, MO, 1937, p. 322; Digital Image of the book downloaded from FamilySearch.org Family History Books, 01 February 2015.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">[14] Public Member Tree Submitted by 5haags, "Rapp/Knutson Family Tree," submitted by 5haags, an AncestryDNA match to Ginger R. Smith, accessed 01 February 2015.</span><br />
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Posts Related to this Topic:<br />
<a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/02/looking-for-agee-ancestors-building-my.html">Looking for Agee Ancestors - Building my Match Trees</a><br />
<a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2015/02/surname-search-in-ftdna-Smith-cousins-results.html">Running a Targeted Surname Search in my Smith Relatives' Results</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-74909661261725189582015-01-31T09:00:00.000-05:002015-01-31T09:00:02.286-05:00Louise's Lost Files - Taking Stock<div>
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I love going through boxes of "old stuff" as much as any other genealogist out there. And I could spend hours doing so, especially if I am looking for that elusive brickwall-busting document or photo. However, I am also aware of the importance of being able to go back and locate an item I thought was interesting without having to rummage through the entire box's contents all over again. This is why I have decided to inventory and subsequently preserve, or in more practical terms "file" these items away for easy access and with little risk of degradation or damage. </div>
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Although I was trained in the arrangement and description of archival material while obtaining my Library of Science Master's Degree, I'm not going to go THAT FAR. I do not intend to preserve these materials for the next 150 years. Let the actual archives take care of that when I'm gone (because of course I'm going to donate ALL of my genealogical materials to the Archives before I die!) What I do intend to do, however, is to inventory the boxes' contents, organize (and describe) the materials, and arrange them into a manner in which they can be retrieved and shared as necessary. </div>
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There is one aspect of training that I will adhere to called <i>RESPECT des FONDS</i>. You may recognize the two main components of this pricinple: PROVENANCE and ORIGINAL ORDER.[1] </div>
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<li>PROVENANCE: refers to the individual, family, or organization that created items in a collection</li>
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An example of why this is important was evident in some of the photos I quickly looked through prior to starting the inventory process... There was a small box about 3x5 that contained photos of my great-grandmother and her school friends, her siblings, her aunts and uncles. Some of the photos had writing on them. The photos of my great-grandmother were labeled "Louise" because that was her name. The photos of my great-grandmother and her mother were labeled "Me and Louise." Do you know what this box of photos was, but more importantly, who they belonged to? They belonged to my <i>2nd great-grandmother</i>, Eva Benson! I mean it's pretty exciting to have photos of my 2nd great-grandparents, but even more exciting that my great-grandmother had a little something that was her mother's. Her mother did not live with them. In fact, she lived in Oklahoma and she had 7 children and umteen grandchildren and she visited every single one of them. My Benson cousins in Oklahoma have a ton of photos of my 2nd great-grandmother and I'm sure they have all of her possessions and personal items. And now I do too. </div>
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I feel that it is important to identify these photos as those having belonged to my 2nd great-grandmother - they were collected by her; they were written on by her; they were important to her. I therefore want to keep these items separate from my great-grandmother Louise's personal items. They will probably get their own photo box. In this manner I am preserving the <i>provenance </i>of the collection by ensuring that the materials that belonged to my 2nd great-grandmother are kept separate from those belonging to my great-grandmother. </div>
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I will also try to keep the <i>original order</i> of the things as I find them. I am not sure if they are in the original order that their creators initiated; but the least I can do is keep them in the order <i>that I found them in</i>. This can be important if and when I run across a photo that is not labeled. Sometimes, the photos it is grouped with can be helpful in identifying the unlabeled and unidentified photo. </div>
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Here is my bulleted list of goals for this project: </div>
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1. Inventory</div>
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<li>Who, What, When, & Where?</li>
<li>Lined notebook</li>
<li>Materials bundled with rubber bands and post it notes</li>
<li>Materials bundled in envelops</li>
<li>Stored in numbered photo boxes</li>
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2. Organize</div>
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<li>Photo boxes (stage 1)</li>
<li>File folders (stage 2?)</li>
<li>Letters, Documents, Bills, Photos, Memorabilia, etc</li>
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3. Preserve</div>
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<li>Scan Items in Collection</li>
<li>How many file folders or boxes are required? </li>
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4. Extract Genealogical Data</div>
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<li>Marriage, Death, Birth Certificates</li>
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I hope to do a little with these boxes each week and report back to you on what I found, what I did with it, and what I learned from it.<br />
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[1] Society of American Archivists, Website, Glossary, www2.archivists.org, accessed 17 January 2015.<br />
[2] Image of Provenance Text Box created by the author, Ginger R. Smith, 21 January 2015. Feel free to use for noncommercial purposes with attribution back to this website. </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-36884501461188932242015-01-22T07:00:00.000-05:002015-01-22T09:07:19.058-05:00Louise's Lost Files<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
In December of 2014, my mother and I returned to Arkansas to clean out my grandfather's house. While we were there, my mother's maternal cousin brought over 3 boxes of family files that had come from my great-grandmother Louise Lasiter's house.</div>
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My great-grandmother was born Thelma Louise Benson, January 1st, 1912 in Avant, Osage County, Oklahoma. She was the first child born to Barney Benson and Eva Dennis and became the oldest of eight children. She was a strong and independent young woman who graduated from Spiro High School in 1929. In the early 1930s she married James Putman Lasiter and they had 3 children: the oldest was Barbara Jean Lasiter, the middle child was James Putman Lasiter, Jr, and the youngest child was my grandmother, Sue Carolyn Lasiter. Unfortunately they have all passed away now. Louise and James "Put" Lasiter raised their three children in Fort Smith, Arkansas. They lived in the same house their whole life at 3720 Park Avenue. My great-grandmother lived in this house until she died in 1997. "Put" had already been gone for 20 years by then.<br />
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When my great-grandmother died, I was away at college. There had just been a big Christmas celebration and then she passed shortly after on the 27th of December. After her death, her estate was divided between her three children, her personal belongings distributed or sold, and the house was sold and the profits also distributed between the three children. When my grandmother died in 2003, I helped my mother clean out her house. Surprisingly I did not find anything from her mother, my great-grandmother's house. I assumed at the time that my grandmother had simply thrown everything out.<br />
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I did not become interested in genealogy until many years later. Then my mother showed me a couple of boxes of family photos that she had retrieved from my great-grandmother's house. She gave them to me in 2009. I inventoried and scanned all the contents and was able to extend the Lasiter tree out one more generation based on some writing on the back of a photo. But there were things missing. These boxes contained photos of my grandmother when she was young and of my mother and I throughout the years, and a few of my great-grandmother and her siblings, but nothing more from her Benson side of the family. I knew if my great-grandmother had kept any keepsakes from her childhood or from her parents, then they had to be in the boxes that were distributed to the other two children. And I was pretty darn sure my great-grandmother had kept some keepsakes. She kept everything and she wrote on everything!<br />
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Well you better believe that I sent letters to the children of my grandmother's oldest sister, Barbara. But they went unanswered. I queried her brother, but he too, said he didn't have anything. Now they are both gone. But his son surprised me. And guess what? His son is now interested in genealogy. Yep, he got the bug now too! And he decided to help me out.<br />
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I had found the genealogy gold mine!</div>
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I found room for 2 bankers sized boxes (they were bigger back then, by the way) and one small box that has two drawers in it on the trailer for the drive back to Georgia and then to North Carolina. I opened the boxes and you wouldn't believe what I found!<br />
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Photos of course! </div>
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Bibles!</div>
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Bills! </div>
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Letters!</div>
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School Report Cards!</div>
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More Photos! </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Three Boxes of Photos, Letters, and Family Memorabilia </b></span></div>
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My goal is to inventory all the items in these three boxes, preserve them, and scan the items of genealogical and historical value and post about them here, under Louise's Lost Files and share them on my Ancestry.com tree. I will also be extracting genealogical data from the items and saving it to my genealogy software. My goal is to two-fold: to share the genealogy gold mine and to show how I can apply research methodology to extract genealogical data from the items within.<br />
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All posts relating to my great-grandmother's materials will be labeled with "Louise's Lost Files" followed by a brief description of their contents. I am estimating this project will take the better part of a year to complete. So stay tuned for more details! </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-56176307253279634082014-10-12T08:00:00.000-04:002014-11-19T10:14:20.291-05:00Annie O'Neal's Will, Johnston Co., NC 1829The will of Annie O'Neal<br />
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Annie O'Neal was the wife of <a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/10/zachariah-oneal-Johnston-Co-NC.html">Zachariah O'Neal </a>who wrote his will in Johnston County, North Carolina in March 1796. Annie wrote her will August 17th, 1829 and it was proved in Johnston County February 1835 court.<br />
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I recorded the will of Zachariah O'Neal and his wife Annie because I was looking for the parents of my ancestor Moses O'Neal who wrote his will in Johnston County, North Carolina in 1813. Zachariah O'Neal wrote his will in 1796 which would be an appropriate time for Moses' father to have written his will. Unfortunately, Moses was not mentioned as a child of Zachariah O'Neal.<br />
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I have still included Annie's will below with the hopes that it will help another O'Neal researcher. In order to save copying costs, I photographed Annie's will with my iPhone. The transcript is below.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Will of Anna O'Neal, 1835, Johnston Co NC Original Will Records, C.R. 056.801.8, </span><span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">North Carolina State Archives, Photographed by Ginger R. Smith, March 2014; p. 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">Will of Anna O'Neal, 1835, Johnston Co NC Original Will Records, C.R. 056.801.8, North Carolina State Archives, Photographed by Ginger R. Smith, March 2014; p. 4</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The will of Anna O'Neal, written 17 Aug 1829, proved Feb 1835. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">In the name of God Amen I Ana Oneal of</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">the County of Johnston and State of</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">North Carolina do this 17th day of August</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">1829 make and ordain this my last </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">will and testament in manner and form </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">as followith first give and Bequeath to</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">my son Stephen Oneal fore negros by</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">the name of Lewis Bransill Charity and Mary</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to Him and His Heirs for ever-------</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">2nd I give and Bequeath to my son Stephen</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">ONeal all my House hold and kitchen furniture</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">of every kind and all my stock of every kind</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Consisting of Horses Hogs and Cattle and </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">all my working tools of every kind. Also two </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Hundred and ninty acres of Land in said</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">County and adjoining the Lands of Josiah &</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Holloman and other for Him and His Heirs</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">for ever.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">3rd I give to my son Micajah Oneal</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">fifty dollars in money for him and his heirs </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">for ever</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">4th I give to Aley Baley seventy five </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Dollars for she and her heirs for ever</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">5th I put in the Hands of Stephen ONeal</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and Benjamin Haut? my Executors to this</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">will five negros by the name of Annicka</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Gatsey Zilla Terrell and Hennery to be sold </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">at _______ of Six Months and when sold</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">my executors pay the Amount of said bond</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">into the hands of the guardian of Lurry? </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Haust, Henson Haust, and Willey Haut orphans</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">of William _ Haust ___ which sum my</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">daughter Lurry Earp Owes to the above orphans </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to the amount of fore hundred and fifty Dollars</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">6th my will is that if the said negros over </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">pays the sum of fore hundred and fifty </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">dollars which my daughter owes to said </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">orphan then the residue of said money </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to be equally divided between Lurry</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Haust, Hinson Haust, and Willey Haust </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">orphan of William _ Haust Est?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">7th I appoint my beloved son Stephen</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Oneal and Benjamin Haust Executors to </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">this my last will and testament in </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">witness where I do here unto set</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">my hand and seal this day and date</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">above written</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> Anna (Her X Mark) ONeal</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Richardson Oneal</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">February Term 1835</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Then was the Execution of this deed duly</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">proven in open court by the oaths of Richardson ONeal one of</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">the subscribing witness - and Allen Richardson the other ______</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">was duly proven and said will ordered to be recorded. </span></div>
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I wasn't sure at first if this Anna was the same Annie, wife of Zachariah O'Neal because Anna only mentioned a couple of the children that Zachariah had mentioned in his will. Did the children die or move away? Or did Anna feel that they had already received their legacies?<br />
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Children mentioned in Zachariah's Will (1796):<br />
1. Thomas<br />
2. Winney<br />
3. Creasey<br />
4. Edee<br />
5. Lodowick<br />
6. Stephen<br />
7. Micajah<br />
8. Aley Houst<br />
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Children mentioned in Annie's Will (1829):<br />
1. Stephen<br />
2. Micajah<br />
3. Aley Baley (is this the same as Aley Houst above? - the Haust orphans are mentioned)<br />
4. Laurie Earp?<br />
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Also, Zachariah willed several negros to his wife Anna named Dick, Peter, and Jinnie. However, in Annie's will, she mentioned negros Lewis, Bransill, Charity, and Mary to go to her son Stephen; and Annicka, Gatsey, Zilla, Ferrell, and Hennery to be sold. What happened to Dick, Peter, and Jinnie? Were they redistributed to Annie's children prior to her writing her will? Did they die? Were they sold or given away to others?<br />
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If I were to continue researching this family, these are the steps I would take:<br />
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<li>Review the Johnston Co Deed records to determine family relationships </li>
<li>Research the 8 children of Zachariah O'Neal to determine why they were not mentioned in their mother Annie's will of 1829 - did they die or did they move away ?</li>
<li>Research Aley Houst, Aley Baley, and Laurey Earp and determine their connection to the Houst orphans</li>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-27785545259424351902014-10-08T10:42:00.000-04:002014-11-19T10:18:45.224-05:00AncestryDNA Post 3 - Doing a Surname Search<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Part 1 of my series of posts about my AncestryDNA test, I wrote about one of my <a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/08/my-ancestrydna-test-part-1.html">closest relative matches</a> and in Part 2, I wrote about those <a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-ancestrydna-test-part-2-shaky-leafs.html">Shaky Leafs</a> you see in your results when AncestryDNA has found a connection in the family tree of you and your match. In Part 3 of my series, I will discuss how I found a connection by using the Surname Search function in AncestryDNA. This can be especially important when trying to narrow down a person as your ancestor or in adding sons and daughters to your ancestral couple. </span><br />
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I became interested in the CREEKMORE surname while working with an adoptee who had several DNA matches with <b><span style="color: blue;">Jasper Newton Campbell</span></b> and <b><span style="color: blue;">Dinah Creekmore</span></b> of Whitley County, Kentucky as their ancestors. I, too, descend from this couple. They were my 5th great-grandparents. </span><br />
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My goal is to find all my Creekmore matches, evaluate their trees and determine which matches are legit, or, in other words, which matches might share a Creekmore ancestor with me. </span><br />
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born 1760 in Grayson, VA and<span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> died
1836 in Whitley, KY as his direct ancestor. I have 3 direct </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Creekmore</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">
ancestors – Robert, </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Ballentine</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, and Dinah. </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Ballentine</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">, the
oldest, was born in Norfolk Co., VA in 1784. Grayson Co., VA did not form until
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parts of Kentucky and West Virginia. It is possible that our two ancestors
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will file this match away as a possible cousin and their ancestor Nancy Ann Creekmore as a possible connection. I am still looking for more solid matches. Let's look at the next match. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clicking on the 2nd match provides a Shared Ancestor Hint (aka Shaky Leaf). It suggests that my match and I are connected via our shared ancestors, Ballentine Creekmore and his wife, Mary Lemon Brown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to this "hint," my 5th great-grandmother, Dinah Green Creekmore and my match's 4th great grandfather, Duane Green Berry Creekmore, were siblings and their parents were Ballentine Batchelor Creekmore and Mary Lemon Brown. This makes my match and I 6th cousins 1x removed. According to AncestryDNA, we are predicted as Distant Cousins, with a possible range of 5th to 8th and a low confidence. Our actual relationship of 6th cousins 1x removed fits in with the predicted relationship of 5th to 8th cousins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My next step is to see if this match has uploaded their AncestryDNA results to Gedmatch.com. If so, then I can compare their DNA results to my father and grandfather, who are also direct descendants of Ballentine Creekmore and Mary Lemon Brown. If they have not yet uploaded to Gedmatch.com, then I will encourage them to do so. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AncestryDNA does not give us access to our chromosome data, so </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gedmatch is a good tool to use to view our chromosome data with and to compare to people who tested with other companies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can also compare the chromosome segments that I share with this match to those that I share with another Creekmore descendant who tested with ftDNA. A positive match will help confirm that the Creekmore surname is the connection that I have with this AncestryDNA match. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had always suspected that Duane Creekmore was also the child of Ballentine Creekmore and Mary Lemon Brown, but I was not sure. An autosomal DNA match between me, a descendant of Dinah Creekmore, and my match, a descendant of Duane Creekmore, provides evidence that supports this suspicion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have YOU tested with AncestryDNA? And if so, what connections have you found? Tell us about them in a comment below or <a href="mailto:ginger.reney@gmail.com">email me</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/08/my-ancestrydna-test-part-1.html">Working with my Closest Matches</a> - How I found a new cousin on my King side (Part 1)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-ancestrydna-test-part-2-shaky-leafs.html">Those Shaky Leafs</a> - The Shaky Leaf and How I found my Next Match (Part 2)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/AncestryDNA-Match-Versus-Gedmatch.html">How my AncestryDNA stands up in Gedmatch</a> - A tale about why it's important to have access to our chromosome data because it's not always what it looks like!</span></span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-79187131020321649282014-10-06T07:00:00.000-04:002014-10-16T21:44:08.603-04:00Amanuensis Monday: Zachariah O'Neal of Johnston County, North Carolina, 1796<a href="http://blog.transylvaniandutch.com/">Transylvanian Dutch</a> blog author John Newmark started the Monday blog theme called <a href="http://blog.transylvaniandutch.com/search/label/Amanuensis%20Monday">Amanuensis Monday</a>. According to John, “amanuensis” means: "A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."<br />
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For this week's Amanuensis Monday post, I have focused on the will of ZACHARIAH O'NEAL of Johnston County, North Carolina, written 20 March 1796. [1] Zachariah was a farmer, as you will be able to tell from the 400 Acres of Land, stock (animals), and working tools listed in his will below. </div>
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I like this particular will because it contains information about the land that Zachariah owned and where he got it from and the 3 negros he owned by name - Dick, Jinny, & Peter. Details like this help us to track and prove his children in subsequent generations. </div>
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He was listed in Captain Houlder's Company in Johnston County, North Carolina in 1787 as having 1 male 21-60 years old, 2 males under 21 and above 60, 5 white females, and 1 black between the age of 12 and 50. [2]</div>
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He was also listed on the 1790 Johnston County, North Carolina census with 4 white males under 16 years old, 2 white males over 16 years old, 6 white females, and 1 slave. </div>
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Zachariah wrote his will on March 20th, 1796, giving most everything to his wife, Annie, and then after her death, to his children. </div>
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I do not know when his will was proved. But his wife Annie wrote her will on August 17th, 1829 and it was proved Feb 1835. Annie only mentioned 2 or 3 of her children in her will; I'm guessing that her older children moved away from the area and that is why they were not mentioned in her will. </div>
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<span style="color: blue;">The last will and testament of Zacharias O'Neal, Johnston Co., NC [1]</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">In the name of God Amen the 20th day of March 1796</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I Zacharias Oneale of Johnston County in the</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">State of North Carolina being very sick and weak</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">in Body but of perfect mind and memory thanks</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">be given to God for the same and calling to mind</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">the mortality of my body and knowing that I </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">have once to die do make and ordain this my last</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">will and testament as touching my worldly Estate</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">wherewith it hath pleased god to bless me with </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">in this life I give and demise in the following</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Impremis. I give and Bequeath to my loving</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">son Thomas Oneale four hundred acres of land</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">in this county being the land I purchased of</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Meed Gulley and took a title in my said son </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Thomas Oneals name for the same I give to him</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">his heirs and assigns for ever he first paying and </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">taking up my obligation of one Hundred Dollars</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">given Meed Gulley for a last payment of said </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">land also I give to my said son Thomas Oneal</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">one Maire of a Sorrel collar and one shot </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">gun also the household furniture that I have</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">given him heretofore in his possession. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Item, I give and bequeath to my loving friend John </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Ogbon one Sorrel Mair with a saddle and bridle</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Item, I give to my loving wife three worke horses</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">two saddles and bridles also six cows and </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">their calves also four head of sheep also one</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Item, I give and bequeath to my loving daughter</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Winn Oneale, two cows and calves two head of sheep</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">also one feather bed and furniture also six heads of </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Item, I give and bequeath to my loving daughter</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">feather bed and furniture six head of </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">hogs two sheep freely by her to be possessed</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Item, I give and bequeath to my loving daughter </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">bed and furniture six head of hogs two sheep </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">freely to be by her to be possessed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Item, I give and bequeath to my loving son Lodowick </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Oneale my lower land and plantation on</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Little River in this county being the land & </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Plantation I purchased of Stephen Young to</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">him his heirs and assigns forever also two cows</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and yearlings freely by him to be possessed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Item, I give to my aforesaid wife, Anne, all the</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">heretofore willed also I give her all my corn and </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">meete now laid up for her use to support my </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">family on so long as the same will serve her also </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I give to my said wife Anney my negro man</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">named Dick during the time of her life time</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">or being my widow and after her death or marriage</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I give the said Negro man Dick to my loving son </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Item, I give to my beloved wife Anne the use and </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Jinney during the time of her natural life and </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">after my said wifes death I give and bequeath </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to my loving son Micajah Oneale my aforesaid </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">negroman Peter to him and his heirs and assigns </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Item, I give and bequeath to my loving son Lodowick</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">woman named Jinny to him and his heirs and assigns forever. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Item, I give to my said wife Anney the use and Privilege</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">of my lands and plantation whereon we now live</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I also give to my said son Micajah Oneale two </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I give to my loving wife Anney all the remainder</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">to my said wife all my dwelling houses and </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">willed to her during her natural life and </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">after her death to be all except one feather bed </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and furniture to be equally to be divided between my </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">daughters herenamed that is to say Aley Houst</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Item, I give and bequeath to my loving son Thomas </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Oneale, one cart and wheeles freeley to be by him possessed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I also give to my said wife all my working</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">tooles of every nature with all the residue of</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I also constitute and appoint my loving wife </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Anney Oneale and my loving son Thomas Oneale </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Execuutrix and Executor of this my last will </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">testament revoking and disallowing other and</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">and confirming this and no other to be my </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">In witness whereof I have herunto set my </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Signed sealed and pronounced to be the last </span></div>
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I have not yet determined if there is a connection between this Zachariah O'Neal and my Moses O'Neal who wrote a will in Johnston County in 1813. I would like to know more information about this Zachariah O'Neal. </div>
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<a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/10/annie-oneals-will-johnston-co-nc-1829.html">Will of Annie O'Neal, Johnston Co., NC 1829, Wife of Zachariah O'Neal</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[1] Johnston County, North Carolina, Original Will Records, Zacharias O'Neal, 1796, C.R. 056.801.8; North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina, copied March 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[2] "State Census of North Carolina, 1784-1787," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 Sep 2014), Zachariah O'Neal under Capt Houlder's Company, 1787. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">[3] 1790 US Federal Census, Johnston County, North Carolina, population schedule, Zachariah O'Neal; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 30 Sep 2014); NARA Film M637, Roll 7.</span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-68972300849036688122014-10-01T07:00:00.000-04:002014-10-01T07:00:05.543-04:00Two William GodwinsDNA is a wonderful thing. Family Tree DNA is for the self-starter who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty. AncestryDNA on the other hand, is geared more towards folks who want all the tiny leaves of their family tree to just fall into their lap. No shovel required.<br />
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This is fine and dandy, but some of those leaves are falling from the wrong tree if you get my drift.<br />
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One of the issues that my Godwin surname project is having is trying to go through page after page of matches to Godwins from the South East, particularly, GA, FL, and AL. We're talking upwards of three to four hundred matches, just on the Godwins alone. It seems this SE group of Godwins were a prolific bunch! Oh, and guess what? They liked to marry their cousins too, making it even more difficult to sort through their matches.<br />
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But, I digress. As I was saying... If you have taken the AncestryDNA test, then you know that many of your matches have a tree uploaded to their profile that you, as their match, have access to. Unfortunately, as you are probably aware if you've ever tried to do any research with Ancestry.com, many of those trees are WRONG!<br />
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The two biggest errors I am finding in these Godwins trees are:<br />
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<b>1. Everyone descends from James Godwin and Mary Parker </b>- who IS this couple anyways? There were several message board posts and articles written in the "Huckleberry Historian" AKA the Sampson Co., NC newsletter that said so and so Godwin was the son of this couple, reference X deed. Let me tell you, this X deed does NOT exist. When I queried the author of these articles and posts, he could not procure the deed. I actually found a copy of the deed he cited and there is absolutely NO reference to any family members at all whatsoever. When I queried him further about the deed he stopped answering my emails. Typical.<br />
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2. <b>William Godwin who married Pheriby and died in Conecuh Co., AL between 1840-1850 and William Godwin who married Winnefred and died in Johnston Co., NC in 1845 are one in the same person and they both are the sons of James Godwin and Elizabeth Dawson. </b>This is the problem I would like to address in this post.<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>There are actually two William Godwins. </b></span></div>
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Any genealogist would know this if they did the research.<br />
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<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;">William Godwin # 1:</span></b><br />
There is a William Godwin who lives in GA and AL who is married to a woman named <b>Pheriby</b>. No one knows her last name. That's ok. This William Godwin died in Conecuh Co (now Escambia Co) Alabama in the mid 1840s. His parents are UNKNOWN at this time. We are trying to use DNA analysis to determine who his parents might have been.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">William Godwin # 2:</span></b><br />
There is also a William Godwin who lives in Johnston Co., NC who is married to a woman name <b>Winnefred</b>. Again, no one knows her last name either. That's ok too. This William Godwin died <i>in Johnston Co., NC</i> on 24 Jul 1845 (actually I'm not sure where this date came from, but it's "accepted."). This William Godwin did not leave a will, but there are estate files pertaining to his death on file in <i>Johnston Co., NC </i>from 1847. His parents were James Godwin and Elizabeth _____ [Dawson?].<br />
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If you descend from either of these two families, please correct your trees with the above information. I would like to prevent this mistake from being copied over and over again. If we can set the record straight, then maybe the CORRECT information will start to be copied.<br />
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If you would like documentation for the above information, please <a href="mailto:ginger.reney@gmail.com">email me</a>.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-59105520478908962642014-09-25T18:33:00.000-04:002014-09-25T18:36:28.359-04:00New Family Tree Settings for ftDNA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A couple of weeks ago, FamilyTreeDNA (ftDNA) revamped their family tree tool on their website. You can access your family tree by clicking on the "Family Tree" button in the middle of your profile page.<br />
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The new family tree tool has the same search functions, but is supposed to be more interactive. Supposedly you can upload a GEDcom that contains collateral lines in addition to your direct line ancestors, which might be helpful in determining where your matches fit into your tree. You can also add people to your tree from within the Family Tree tool.<br />
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These are all good improvements.<br />
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However, there is one thing you should be aware of: Your tree now comes with a <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>default setting</b></span> of <b>showing people born in the last 100 years as "Private."</b> I can understand showing <i>living </i>people as "Private," but why people born within the last 100 years? Who decided this new rule? Has there been anything in the genealogy news about privacy for people born in the last 100 years? Maybe.<br />
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By itself, this is not a huge issue. However, if you look at the trees of some of your matches, you will find that a LOT of their ancestors are "Private." People born in the 1700s are listed as "Private." So what is the problem? I don't have an answer. From what I can tell by looking at the trees of people before they were upgraded and comparing to their trees after they were upgraded, that many of the ancestors listed as "Private" have no death dates. It is possible this new default setting is being applied to other "null" values as well. We just don't know yet.<br />
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So, until we get this figured out, my advice is to change your default settings for people born in the last 100 years from "Private" to "Public" or "Matches." There's another unanswered question - what is the difference between "Public" and "Matches?" I don't know that either. We are still trying to figure that out. There seems to be a lot of bugs....or something. The best I can tell is that "Public" means the project administrator can see your ancestor in addition to your matches seeing them.<br />
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This is how you make these changes:<br />
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1. Click on your name in the upper right hand corner<br />
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3. Then click the public radio button next to "Deceased people born in the last 100 years." Make sure the "Deceased people born 100+ years ago" is also set to public. </div>
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4. Make sure you click the Save button. </div>
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<b><u>Additional Resources: </u></b><br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cGd447">ftDNA webinar</a>: Introduction of the new Family Tree Tool<br />
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ftDNA has a set of instructions for use of the new Family Tree Tool <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/ftdna/how-to-family-tree/">here</a>.<br />
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There is a new thread to discuss the new Family Tree tool at ftDNA. Please feel free to join the discussion by leaving comments and suggestions <a href="http://forums.familytreedna.com/showthread.php?t=35780">here</a>.<br />
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<b><u>Additional GenealogyByGinger Posts</u></b>:<br />
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<a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-family-tree-tool-for-ftdna.html">The New Family Tree Tool for ftDNA</a> - a look at the new Family Tree tool on ftDNA<br />
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<a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/uploading-gedcom-to-family-tree-dna.html">How to upload a GEDcom to the new Family Tree Tool</a> - if you don't have a GEDcom uploaded to your ftDNA profile, please do so because it helps your matches find connections<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-51661133871473765292014-09-25T18:31:00.001-04:002014-09-25T18:36:23.287-04:00New Family Tree Tool for ftDNA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A couple of weeks ago, FamilyTreeDNA (ftDNA) revamped their family tree tool on their website. You can access your family tree by clicking on the "Family Tree" button in the middle of your profile page.<br />
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The new family tree tool has the same search functions, but is supposed to be more interactive. You can now upload a GEDcom that contains collateral lines in addition to your direct line ancestors, which might be helpful in determining where your matches fit into your tree. You can also add people to your tree from within the Family Tree tool.<br />
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These are all good improvements. But there are some limitations with this new tool.<br />
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Here's a look at the new Family Tree tool on ftDNA:<br />
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You can see me in the center and my parents above linked to me. I have uploaded a profile photo, so you can see that too.<br />
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When I click on my photo I get two options: 1) to add a relationship and 2) to view profile.<br />
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If I click on Add a Relationship, I am given the option to add a Spouse, Sibling, Son, or Daughter or to Go Back. I don't have anyone to add at this time, so I will click the Go Back button.<br />
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If I click on the View Profile link, it opens a box with information about me including my most distant ancestors, surnames, and ethnic profile (called "Shared Origins" here). There is an envelop icon used to email me.<br />
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I can click the edit link above this box to edit my profile. I added my place of birth to my profile. Then I clicked the Save button.<br />
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I can add notes to the Story box of my profile as well.<br />
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If you have other relatives who tested with ftDNA, and they are a match to you, and they are listed in your Family Tree, there will be a little pink or purple link icon beside their name. You can click on that icon to link that relative to your Family Tree.<br />
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Click the Link button to link that relative to your tree. You will get a message telling you that linking to this person's profile will update their biographical information and you will be asked to proceed. Click the Link Button. <br />
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My mother is now linked to my Family Tree. My mother's circle now has the blue Family Finder box filled in.<br />
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You can also click on the little link icon on the bottom right of your page for other possible matches. The system found additional matches to my father and his parents. I think this feature is still being worked on because nothing happened when I clicked on their name.<br />
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The new Family Tree Tool is still pretty quirky and ftDNA is doing their best to make it an exceptional experience for their users. I have included some informative links below as well as information on how to upload your GEDcom and how to change your privacy settings.<br />
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<b><u>Additional Resources: </u></b><br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cGd447">ftDNA webinar</a>: Introduction of the new Family Tree Tool<br />
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ftDNA has a set of instructions for use of the new Family Tree Tool <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/ftdna/how-to-family-tree/">here</a>.<br />
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There is a new thread to discuss the new Family Tree tool at ftDNA. Please feel free to join the discussion by leaving comments and suggestions <a href="http://forums.familytreedna.com/showthread.php?t=35780">here</a>.<br />
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<b><u>Additional GenealogyByGinger Posts</u></b>:<br />
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<a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/uploading-gedcom-to-family-tree-dna.html">How to upload a GEDcom to the new Family Tree Tool</a> - if you don't have a GEDcom uploaded to your ftDNA profile, please do so because it helps your matches find connections<br />
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<a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-family-tree-settings-for-ftdna.html">New Family Tree Settings for ftDNA</a> - the default setting for your tree now is to <b>hide all persons born in the last 100 years!!! - </b>Please follow these quick steps to change this default setting.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-68593943387978533012014-09-09T14:12:00.005-04:002015-02-21T16:54:06.185-05:00Uploading Gedcom to Family Tree DNA ProfileLast week ftDNA released a new version of their new Family Tree tool. This new Family Tree replaces the old system which displayed only the direct line GEDCOM. The best feature of this new Family Tree is the ability to attach your matches to your tree! If you already had a GEDCOM uploaded to your ftDNA previously, then it has just been converted to the new Family Tree display. If you did not yet have a GEDCOM uploaded, you can do so now following these instructions. I recommend starting with a direct line ancestor GEDCOM for now. Collateral lines can be added at a later time.<br />
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<b>Uploading a </b><span style="text-align: start;"><b>GEDCOM</b></span><b> to your Family Tree DNA Profile</b></div>
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Log in to your ftDNA homepage with the kit id and password you got when you ordered your kit<br />
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From the home page, click on the "Family Tree" button<br />
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In the lower right hand corner of the page, click the gear icon next to the red box that says "Have a GEDCOM? click to upload it now."<br />
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Select "Upload a GEDCOM" from the drop down box<br />
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Select the GEDCOM you want to upload.<br />
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Select your name from the drop down box of the newly uploaded GEDCOM<br />
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A message will appear saying this GEDCOM is being processed and might take a few minutes.<br />
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After it's uploaded, look through your Family Tree to make sure it uploaded ok.<br />
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If you have other relatives who tested with ftDNA, and they are a match to you, and they are listed in your Family Tree, there will be a little pink or purple link icon beside their name. You can click on that icon to link that relative to your Family Tree. In this picture, the GEDCOM is for my mother, and it is asking if I want to link my profile to hers.<br />
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Click the Link button to link that relative to your tree.<br />
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A message will appear telling you that linking to this person's profile will update their biographical information and do you want to proceed?<br />
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Click the Link button to continue.[1]<br />
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That's it! You're done!<br />
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You can then adjust your settings for who can view your tree by clicking on your name in the upper right hand corner, then clicking on the genealogy tab.<br />
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We do not yet know exactly how this linking system works. We think Family Tree is still working out the bugs. You might get links for matches who don't even have a family tree uploaded. In that case, it might be that you have a surname in common. If you figure it out, please let us know either in a comment below or <a href="mailto:ginger.reney@gmail.com">email me</a>.<br />
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<b><u>Additional Resources: </u></b><br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1cGd447">ftDNA webinar</a>: Introduction of the new Family Tree Tool<br />
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ftDNA has a set of instructions for use of the new Family Tree Tool <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/ftdna/how-to-family-tree/">here</a>.<br />
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There is a new thread to discuss the new Family Tree tool at ftDNA. Please feel free to join the discussion by leaving comments and suggestions <a href="http://forums.familytreedna.com/showthread.php?t=35780">here</a>.<br />
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<b><u>Additional GenealogyByGinger Posts</u></b>:<br />
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<a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-family-tree-tool-for-ftdna.html">The New Family Tree Tool for ftDNA</a> - a look at the new Family Tree tool on ftDNA<br />
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<a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-family-tree-settings-for-ftdna.html">New Family Tree Settings for ftDNA</a> - the default setting for your tree now is to <b>hide all persons born in the last 100 years!!! - </b>Please follow these quick steps to change this default setting.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-59033704008461102282014-09-07T15:42:00.003-04:002014-09-07T15:42:23.014-04:00How my AncestryDNA Match stands up in Gedmatch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In my last <a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-ancestrydna-test-part-2-shaky-leafs.html">post</a>, I evaluated one of my "shaky leaf" matches whom AncestryDNA predicted would have a shared ancestor with me. We compared our online family trees and determined that we were connected via the Long/Lang line of Jasper County, Georgia. This match was instrumental in both of our research efforts because conflicting documentation regarding the Long/Lang surname had made it difficult to place our ancestors with the correct set of parents. This DNA match allowed us to confidently place our ancestors within the same family of John and Margaret Lang.<br />
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<span id="goog_1431339536"></span><span id="goog_1431339537"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a>I have to admit, by the time I finished writing this last post, I was pretty hooked with using <a href="http://dna.ancestry.com/">AncestryDNA</a>. But I know when something seems too good to be true, it usually is. I knew there were going to be limitations with the AncestryDNA service going in to it. And I wanted to put this to the test. Unfortunately, my suspicions were confirmed: My AncestryDNA match and I were not really connected, <b><i><span style="color: blue;">genetically speaking,</span></i></b> via the Lang/Long line!<br />
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<b><u>My Pedigree</u>:</b><br />
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My descent from John and Margaret Lang is as follows:<br />
Basheba Long & Washington Phelps<br />
Lucinda S Phelps & Burwell Binns<br />
Milton A Binns & Susan Ann Dupree<br />
John Milton Binns & Perthinia "Pert" Brooks<br />
John Brooks Binns & Blanche Kathryn Hill<br />
<span style="color: red;">B Binns</span> and <span style="color: blue;">D Smith</span> - my grandparents<br />
T Smith & M Godwin - my parents<br />
Ginger Smith - me<br />
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I have tested myself, both of my parents, and 3 of my 4 grandparents to date. If I received any DNA from my Lang / Long ancestors, I would have inherited it from my Father, who inherited it from his mother, my grandmother, B. Binns. However I tested all of us at <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/">FamilyTreeDNA</a> and tested only myself at Ancestry.com. In order to compare any DNA results from AncestryDNA to results from FamilyTreeDNA, they must first be uploaded to a 3rd party website called Gedmatch.com. GedMatch allows you to compare autosomal DNA across all 3 testing companies - Ancestry.com, 23AndMe, and FamilyTreeDNA. It's FREE and easy to use!<br />
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<b><u>What I Did</u>:</b><br />
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I convinced my match to upload her AncestryDNA results to Gedmatch.com. Once uploaded, I compared her results to my grandmother, B. Binns, who descends from our Lang / Long ancestors. I expected to see a good match since my grandmother is closer to the shared ancestor than I am. Surprisingly, there was NO MATCH. Not only was there no match, but my match did not share the same segments of DNA with my grandmother that she shared with me.<br />
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Here is a list of segments S.A.T. shares with me:<br />
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<tr><td>Chr</td><td>Start Location</td><td>End Location</td><td>Centimorgans (cM)</td><td>SNPs</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">3</td><td align="center">25052678</td><td align="center">30683436</td><td align="center">7.2</td><td align="center">1487</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">7</td><td align="center">88445250</td><td align="center">91973622</td><td align="center">3.0</td><td align="center">731</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">7</td><td align="center">117280746</td><td align="center">123629411</td><td align="center">3.5</td><td align="center">933</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">13</td><td align="center">66743336</td><td align="center">69809017</td><td align="center">1.9</td><td align="center">739</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">18</td><td align="center">22684849</td><td align="center">25803725</td><td align="center">3.3</td><td align="center">977</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Largest segment = 7.2 cM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Total of segments > 1 cM = 18.9 cM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 6.8</span></div>
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Here is a list of segments S.A.T. shares with my grandmother:<br />
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<tr><td>Chr</td><td>Start Location</td><td>End Location</td><td>Centimorgans (cM)</td><td>SNPs</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">1</td><td align="center">95871096</td><td align="center">98378320</td><td align="center">1.6</td><td align="center">970</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">2</td><td align="center">34843826</td><td align="center">37164843</td><td align="center">2.6</td><td align="center">705</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">3</td><td align="center">47546444</td><td align="center">53219643</td><td align="center">1.0</td><td align="center">801</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">10</td><td align="center">73326487</td><td align="center">77694862</td><td align="center">2.8</td><td align="center">759</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">12</td><td align="center">20794787</td><td align="center">22833572</td><td align="center">3.1</td><td align="center">812</td></tr>
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<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.298039); font-family: Times; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Largest segment = 3.1 cM</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.298039); font-family: Times; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Total of segments > 1 cM = 11.1 cM</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.298039); font-family: Times; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 7.2</span><br />
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There are no overlaps between where she matches my grandmother and where she matches me.<br />
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<u><b>Is this For Real?</b></u><br />
<u><b><br /></b></u>If you look at how S.A.T. matches to me, you will see that the MOST that we match on is 7.2 cM on ch 3. Our total matching segments are only 18.9 cM. This is a very low resolution match in my opinion. In order for someone to be considered a "match" in <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/">FamilyTreeDNA</a>, they have to share at least one segment of DNA that is 7 cM long - this requirement IS met in this example. The 2nd requirement by FamilyTreeDNA is to have a minimum of 20 cM total DNA shared between two people to be considered a match. S.A.T. and I only share a total of 18.9 cM, so this would not fulfill the requirement to be considered a match in the FamilyTreeDNA system. So is this a real match or not?<br />
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<b><u>Not Maternal..., so <i>Paternal</i>?</u></b><br />
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Although I was discouraged, I did not let this set back keep me from looking at my match more closely. Although she wasn't a match to my grandmother as I expected, I then compared her to the rest of my family members, including my grandfather and my mother and her father. She DID come back as a match to my paternal grandfather.<br />
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Here is a list of common chromosome segments between my match and my grandfather:<br />
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<tr><td><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Chr</span></td><td><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Start Location</span></td><td><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">End Location</span></td><td><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Centimorgans (cM)</span></td><td><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">SNPs</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">3</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">25052678</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">30677144</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">7.2</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">1475</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">5</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">50991761</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">54288881</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2.9</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">846</span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">6</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">151277980</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">153997386</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4.8</span></td><td align="center"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">924</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Largest segment = 7.2 cM</span><br style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" /><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Total of segments > 1 cM = 14.9 cM</span><br style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" /><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 7.0</span></span></span></div>
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Here is a list of common chromosome segments between my match and me:<br />
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<tr><td>Chr</td><td>Start Location</td><td>End Location</td><td>Centimorgans (cM)</td><td>SNPs</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">3</td><td align="center">25052678</td><td align="center">30683436</td><td align="center">7.2</td><td align="center">1487</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">7</td><td align="center">88445250</td><td align="center">91973622</td><td align="center">3.0</td><td align="center">731</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">7</td><td align="center">117280746</td><td align="center">123629411</td><td align="center">3.5</td><td align="center">933</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">13</td><td align="center">66743336</td><td align="center">69809017</td><td align="center">1.9</td><td align="center">739</td></tr>
<tr><td align="center">18</td><td align="center">22684849</td><td align="center">25803725</td><td align="center">3.3</td><td align="center">977</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Largest segment = 7.2 cM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Total of segments > 1 cM = 18.9 cM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 6.8</span></div>
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You can see that my match shares the SAME chromosome segment on ch 3 from <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; widows: 2;">25052678 </span>to <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-center; widows: 2;">30683436 </span>with me that she shares with my grandfather. That segment is 7.2 cM long. This means that our <i><b><span style="color: blue;">genetic connection</span></b></i> came down to me through my grandfather, not my grandmother, and that our common ancestors ACCORDING TO THE DNA, are not the Langs or Longs, but a different set of ancestors shared on my grandfather's side.<br />
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I am happy to have connected with my match on the Lang / Long line, and to have extended my tree out further with the addition of her line; However, I can no longer conclude that "DNA proves that my Basheba Long was the daughter of John Lang" ...because I am a DNA match to other descendants of John Lang....<br />
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This is where we have to draw the line between DNA testing and genealogy and make distinctions about what each one can do. My mantra has always been, "If you're going to do it, then do it right!" The bottom line is that you can't really use one research method independent of the other. You can't rely solely on the DNA to give you answers and sometimes the paper trail just isn't enough.<br />
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<b><u>Conclusion</u>:</b><br />
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AncestryDNA is a good tool to use to find connections and to expand your paper trail or family tree. However, its usefulness is limited with regards to DNA because the chromosome data is not made available to the testee. In this example, I found a connection with my DNA match via our online trees and genealogical paper trails. However, when I input the raw DNA data into Gedmatch.com, I realized that the DNA connection, represented by the DNA that is shared between us, was not carried down to me from my Lang or Long ancestors like the paper trail suggested. A side by side comparison of the segments my match shared with me to the ones she shared with my grandmother clearly showed that I did not receive the segments that I shared with this match from my grandmother who is a direct descendant of the Langs/Longs. Additionally, when I compared my match to my grandfather, it was clearly apparent that the segments I shared with my match were carried down to me through my grandfather because he, too, shared those same segments with my match.<br />
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<i><b>Now, who's going to break it to my match that we have to go back to the drawing board and start over???</b></i><br />
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<b><u>Related Posts</u>: </b><br />
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<a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/08/my-ancestrydna-test-part-1.html">My AncestryDNA Test, part 1</a> - A look at the Closest Matches<br />
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<a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-ancestrydna-test-part-2-shaky-leafs.html">My AncestryDNA Test, Part 2, The Shaky Leafs</a><br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-70335785656628524782014-09-03T08:00:00.000-04:002014-09-03T09:38:03.100-04:00My AncestryDNA Test, Part 2, The Shaky Leafs<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w_-PlroLaZc/VAZqeh-letI/AAAAAAAAFTQ/we5_ViDoj10/s1600/Ancestry2%2BLang-Long.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="FGS Report of my Lang Ancestors" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w_-PlroLaZc/VAZqeh-letI/AAAAAAAAFTQ/we5_ViDoj10/s1600/Ancestry2%2BLang-Long.jpg" height="179" title="FGS Report of my Lang Ancestors" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">FGS Report of my Lang Ancestors</td></tr>
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This is the second post in a series about my AncestryDNA results. In <a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/08/my-ancestrydna-test-part-1.html">Part 1</a>, I discussed a 3rd cousin match I had found. I found him by looking at my top matches and clicking on one. He was one of two 3rd cousin matches. I clicked on his name, glanced at his tree which contained only 9 people, and immediately identified the connection. Even though I knew right off the bat what our connection was, AncestryDNA did not provide a Shaky Leaf "Hint" because he had not added enough people to his tree (remember I said he had only 9 people in it?). I'm sure that once he starts adding people to his tree, including his 1st, 2nd, and 3rd great-grandparents, whose names I gave to him, a shaky leaf will eventually appear.<br />
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<b><u>The Shaky Leaf and How I found My Next Match</u></b><br />
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My DNA matches are sorted by relationship by default, with the closest relationships at the top of the list. Although a relationship is <i>predicted</i>, it is not guaranteed that a connection will be found and I will be able to place my match on my family tree. Another way to look at my valuable matches, is to sort by "Hints" represented by, you guessed it, those shaky leafs! In order to see my<span style="color: blue; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> </span>"Hints" I clicked on the "Hint" filter at the top of the page. This resulted in two pages of matches - about 100 total matches. I found my match to S.A.T. on page 2.<br />
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<b><u>The Relationship Report</u></b><br />
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When I clicked on S.A.T.'s name, I got a report that told me the following:<br />
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<li>Our predicted relationship was <b>Distant Cousins</b></li>
<li>There was a Possible Range of <b>5th - 8th cousins</b></li>
<li>There was a Confidence of <b>Very Low</b></li>
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This looked pretty dreary at first. But then I scrolled down. This is where the Ancestor <b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">"Hint"</span> </b>came in. I was presented with a Relationship Report showing me how I was related to my match and who our common ancestor was based on that relationship. According to this relationship report, our common ancestor was <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>John Lang</b></span>, my 6th Great-Grandfather.<br />
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This comparison was run by the Ancestry.com servers (in the background - Ancestry.com people say it's an <i>algorithm</i>). For every match that has a tree, the servers run a side by side comparison between their tree and mine and when they find someone in both trees that looks like the same person and it is a direct ancestor of both people, they determine it to be a "shared ancestor."<br />
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ymhaLkAUsC4/U__2hksd2zI/AAAAAAAAFSU/mtcAK7CobkQ/s1600/Ancestry2%2BRel%2Breport.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Shared Ancestor Hint AncestryDNA" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ymhaLkAUsC4/U__2hksd2zI/AAAAAAAAFSU/mtcAK7CobkQ/s1600/Ancestry2%2BRel%2Breport.jpg" height="489" title="Shared Ancestor Hint AncestryDNA" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Relationship Report with Ginger Smith on the left and my Match S.A.T. on the right</td></tr>
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Finding DNA evidence linking my 5th great-grandmother to John Lang has been pretty instrumental to my research. And evidently, it was instrumental to my match's research as well, so she was pretty excited to learn of the match. We both had conflicting evidence about our Lang/Long ancestors that had yet to be resolved.<br />
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<b><u>My Research Problem - the Lang/Long Conundrum</u></b><br />
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My 4th great-grandmother, Lucinda Phelps, and her husband, Burwell Binns, moved with their families from Talbot County, Georgia to Drew County, Arkansas about 1856. Lucinda's mother, Basheba Lang/Long and step-father, Green Berry Jackson also moved with them. Burwell died there in 1866 and his wife Lucinda died shortly after in 1870. Both Burwell and Lucinda were buried in Beulah Cemetery in Veasey, Drew County, Arkansas on land they donated to the Beulah Baptist Church. <br />
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Basheba and Green Berry died after Lucinda and Burwell, however, their final burial place is unknown at this time, but presumed to also be in the Beulah Church Cemetery. There is a piece of paper that someone tacked up behind the glass at the Beulah Church Cemetery entrance that talks about Lucinda's parents, including her mother, Basheba LONG:<br />
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Here is a transcript of this informative paper:</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">"Basheba LONG married Washington Phelps 21 April 1816 at Randolph GA. We have knowledge of one daughter, Lucinda Phelps, being born to them. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue;">I. Lucinda Phelps (born 22 Oct 1818 in Jasper Co GA) Lucinda married Burwell Binns II in GA on 29 Oct 1835. The had ten children and this is the Binns family who settled in the Beulah Community of Drew County. The children were: Milton, Sarah, Elizabeth, Lucinda, Matilda, Edna, Mary Jane, Christopher, and Burwell III.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue;">Basheba Phelps married Green Berry (sometimes called Greenberry) Jackson 21 March 1823 in Jasper Co GA. Court records show Green Berry Jackson as being appointed guardian of Lucinda Phelps (dau of Washington Phelps) sometime after 1823. We have knowledge of 4 children belonging to Green Berry and Basheba Jackson and the names of 3. By the time Green Berry and Basheba Jackson got to Arkansas, Basheba was spelling her name Barshaby. We don't know when this family arrived in Drew County; but they were here by 1857. Children of Green Berry and Barshaby Jackson are: ...."</span></blockquote>
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In this write up, Basheba's last name is "LONG." However, on Basheba and Washington's marriage record recorded in Jasper County, Georgia, she is listed as Basheba LANG.<br />
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Here is the transcript of the marriage record filed in Jasper Co., Georgia:<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Georgia ))</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue;">Jasper County ))</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue;"> I certify the within named persons Washington Phelps and Bersheba Lang were duly Solemnized in the holy bond of wedlock by me this 21st day of April 1816. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue;"> Luke Williams, J. P.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue;">Robert Robey, C.C.O</span></blockquote>
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So far, we now have two conflicting pieces of documentation for Basheba's surname. The paper posted at the cemetery said her last name was LONG and the marriage record said her last name was LANG.<br />
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But I wasn't the only one with conflicting documentation. My match had run into similar issues with her family.<br />
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<b>My Match Has the Same Lang/Long Conundrum</b><br />
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According to my match, her 2nd great-grandmother was Temperance Lang who was born 1850 in Stone Mountain, DeKalb Co., GA and died 1928 in DeKalb Co., GA. On her death certificate, the informant listed her father's name as John C. LONG, however, on every other record she encountered, including the death certificates of Temperance's siblings, her father's name was listed as John C. LANG.<br />
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With DNA testing, we were able to confirm that our two lines were related and that her John C. LANG was the sibling of my Basheba LONG. I had previously connected to another sibling, Lydia Lang via a DNA match as well, so I knew we were on the right path. <br />
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In this case, DNA helped to solve two mysteries and hopefully put the Lang/Long conundrum to rest.<br />
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As you can guess, I will be looking for additional documentation on my Basheba Long/Lang in order to determine if she changed her name, went by both names, or just didn't bother correcting the county clerks who wrote up various documents for her.<br />
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I would love to hear if DNA has helped to resolve any of your name conflicts. Please leave a comment below or <a href="mailto:ginger.reney@gmail.com">email me</a> directly.<br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-38931401949561476272014-08-25T07:00:00.000-04:002014-10-07T12:43:14.522-04:00My AncestryDNA Test, part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I finally ordered my AncestryDNA kit when it was on sale
last month because I wanted to see what all the hype was about. Actually, what
really happened was that I was helping a couple of people out with their
AncestryDNA results and I was really impressed by how well they were finding
matches and making connections.</div>
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I usually recommended Family Tree DNA as a testing
company because they are the most transparent and because they offer testees
the most tools with which to analyze their data. But frankly, I had burned
myself out a year ago trying to do all that chromosome mapping and analyzing
of the numbers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So late last year I switched tactics. I've been
downloading and building out the trees of my matches and looking for
intersections between their trees and my own. This is also a very tedious
process, but I found that I preferred doing this kind of "research" over just
trying to crunch numbers that changed all the time. This process started
working better for me. The number of connections I found doubled. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Since this new process of working the trees was working
so well for me this past year, I decided I would try my hand at the AncestryDNA
test which is based on finding matches within your trees. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Boy was I in for a big surprise! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I was on the site for 10 minutes and in that time I found
connections to 3 cousins! <o:p></o:p><br />
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I don't have all the numbers to share with you, like the total number of matches - I actually can't find that. So if anyone knows how to determine what my total number of matches are, please let me know. I can tell you that I have 2 3rd cousin matches! I've already determined the connection to one of them (see below). I have about 3 pages of 4th cousins and the rest (about 253 pages) are distant cousins. </div>
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Let's take a look at one of my 3rd cousin matches:<br />
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I clicked on his name. He only has 9
people in his tree, but it was enough to see that yes, we are, in fact,
cousins. We descend from a common King line in Howell and Oregon Counties, Missouri. His great-grandfather, <a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2012/03/william-fletcher-king.html">WilliamFletcher King</a>, was the brother of my 2<sup>nd</sup> great-grandmother, Dora
King. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So if you've used Ancestry.com to build your family tree, you are all too aware of their little shaky leaves that offer you "hints" of records that might pertain to your ancestors. Well evidently they've applied these hints to your matches as well. Unfortunately, I did not get a shaky leaf with this match. But I could tell by looking at
his little tree where the connection was - Along the King line. <br />
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Then I clicked on “King” inside the yellow box and it
brought up a list of King ancestors for each of us. This is very helpful, especially if I have forgotten who my King ancestors were! His King ancestors are on
the left and mine are on the right. I am not sure why it did not pull up a
relationship chart.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I entered my match into my Family Maker Software, synced with my
online tree, and then asked my online tree to calculate my relationship to Mr.
King. Here’s what it produced:<br />
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It says we are 3<sup>rd</sup> cousins once removed. This
lines up with what AncestryDNA predicted which was 3<sup>rd</sup> cousins. I'm not sure why it chose to display Tabitha House as the common ancestor between us. She was married to Robert King. He is also one of our common ancestors. We share both common ancestors - not just one. <o:p></o:p></div>
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DON’T STOP THERE!<o:p></o:p></div>
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I always try to remind the people I work with and the
people who attend my presentations that they shouldn't stop with just
identifying the connection with their matches. <o:p></o:p></div>
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These are some of the Next Steps I take: <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Add my match to my tree. If they have additional
family members tested, I add them as well<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Send him information about who his grandfather’s Virgil’s
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</span><!--[endif]-->Ask him to upload to Gedmatch so I can compare our
results to another known King cousin match from ftDNA<o:p></o:p></div>
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KEEP IN TOUCH! <o:p></o:p></div>
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In my next <a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-ancestrydna-test-part-2-shaky-leafs.html">post</a> I will discuss those shaky leafs.<br />
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If you have King ancestors from Oregon or Howell Counties in Missouri, I would love to hear from you.<br />
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<a href="mailto:ginger.reney@gmail.com">Email me.</a><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Copyright © 2007-2015 by Ginger R. Smith, http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/</div>Ginger Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17453442334718861407noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7077574950918175884.post-49007538990717690682014-08-20T08:00:00.000-04:002014-08-20T16:09:52.026-04:00My Smith Family: putting Y-DNA to work! <div class="MsoNoSpacing">
I’m very excited to report on the progress of our Smith
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<b><u>The DNA Journey<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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As you are probably aware, researching the Smith Surname
has its challenges. It is, after all, the most common surname in America! [1]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wikipedia.com - Smith is the No. 1 Surname in America</div>
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In order to gain insight into our Smith ancestry, my
grandfather took the Y-DNA test back in 2005 with Family Tree DNA. He went
several years without a single match. He transferred his results to
Ancestry.com a couple of years later and got a match to two people with
different surnames. I found it very surprising that he had no matches to anyone
with the Smith surname since the Smith Surname Project was boasting to have
well over 2000 members at the time. I began to wonder if <a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2009/03/dna-results-are-we-really-smiths.html">we
really were Smiths after all</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then one day he got a couple of matches through <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com</a> – one to an A. Smith in Perry
County, Kentucky and one to an M. Smith in Utah. Mr. M. Smith, however, claimed
he was a Smith from an adoption that happened a couple of generations back. (I
will come back to this later). <o:p></o:p></div>
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M. Smith was a missionary at the time that I contacted
him, so he was unavailable to discuss our match further. I was able to exchange
information with A. Smith from Kentucky though. Unfortunately, I was not able
to find a connection. And how in the world were we able to find an exact match
to a man in Kentucky at the same time as finding one to a man in Utah? These
two locations are no where close to each other! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Google Maps – says it would take 27 hours to drive from
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<b><u>The Genealogy<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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According to the 1850 Johnson County, Arkansas census
report, my ancestor, Richard Smith, was living with his parents, David and
Sarah Smith. David Smith was born about 1789 in Tennessee. His wife Sarah Smith
was born about 1790 in TN. [2]<o:p></o:p></div>
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1850 Johnson Co., AR census report showing David Smith and his family</div>
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The Cherokee Citizenship Application file of their
daughter Sarah Smith Grider indicated that David’s<br />
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father’s name was James Smith and that he was a Cherokee
Indian. It also listed her mother’s name as Sarah Gallymore, daughter of “Jennie
Gallymore, nee Lee.” [3], [4]<o:p></o:p></div>
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According to my grandfather, Richard Smith was born about
18 December 1838 in Blue Springs Cove, Jackson County, Alabama. Unfortunately, I
have been able to find any source to prove this and we have been unable to
identify either a David Smith or James Smith living in Jackson Co., AL during
the 1830s and 40s who fits our family.[5] You can check out my research
endeavors in my <a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2008/12/alabama-smith-references.html">Alabama
Smith References</a> blog post. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here is a summary of what we are looking for: <o:p></o:p></div>
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AL between 1830-1840<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u>The Y-DNA
Bandwagon<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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Fast forward to the future and now we have 3 additional
matches on the Y-DNA with Family Tree DNA. Unfortunately, Ancestry.com has
decided to <a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/06/ancestry-discontinues-y-and-mt-dna-tests.html">throw
away all of their Y-DNA kits</a>, so unless my grandfather’s two matches from
Ancestry.com (M Smith and A Smith) transfer their results to Family
Tree DNA before September 5<sup>th</sup>, we are out of luck in using their
results to help us determine our Smith ancestry. We managed to get M Smith’s
results transferred over, but still waiting for A Smith to make the transfer.
In a way, Ancestry’s decision to shut down their Y-DNA support is actually
beneficial to us in that now all of our Y-DNA results will be in one place
(ftDNA), making management of the results much easier for the Project Administrators.
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If A Smith transfers his results from Ancestry to Family
Tree DNA, we will have a total of 6 Y-DNA results to compare and use in
determining our Smith ancestry. Here is the breakdown of the Smith testees and
their genealogies: <o:p></o:p></div>
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#s 1 and 2 are from Alabama<o:p></o:p></div>
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#s 3 and 4 represent the Mormon population, but they
disagree somewhat on their origins from Kentucky<o:p></o:p></div>
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#s 5 and 6 are from Kentucky, but they too disagree
somewhat<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Darrel Smith (my grandfather) - descends from
David Edison Smith, b. abt 1789 in TN; was probably residing in Jackson Co., AL
between 1830-1840; Was in Johnson Co., AR by 1850. His father was listed as
James Smith on his daughter's Cherokee Application.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Descendant of Patrick Smith, b. abt 1788 AL married a female
Lindsay. Possible parentage from James Smith.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Descendant of Thomas Smith and Leah Agee - (unproven
- many people claim this is George Thomas Smith from NC but this testee
disagrees with this)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Richard
Smith married to Diana Braswell - I believe this line moved to Utah?<o:p></o:p></div>
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He is the brother of James Agee
Smith who moved to Utah and who is the ancestor of M Smith (# 4 below)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->M Smith – Descendant of John W Stephens, though
he was given the Smith surname through adoption a couple of generations back. Here
is what he claims his ancestry to be: [6]<o:p></o:p></div>
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1. Joshua Stephens<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. Hesekiah Stephens md
Margaret Love; (Margaret married also to James Agee Smith)<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. Wm G Stephens md Susan
Reynolds<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. John W Stephens*<o:p></o:p></div>
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Margaret was married to both Hesekiah
Stephens and James Agee Smith<o:p></o:p></div>
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with Hesekiah Stephens, she had
son Wm G Stephens<o:p></o:p></div>
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with James Agee Smith, she had son
Thomas Washington Smith<o:p></o:p></div>
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Therefore Wm G Stephens and
Thomas Washington Smith are HALF BROTHERS (same mother)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Supposedly, Wm G Stephens died,
leaving his widow Susan Reynolds. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thomas Washington Smith then
marries Susan Reynolds who had 3 children with previous husband Wm Stephens.
(he was also married to Sarah Bolen)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thomas adopts the 3 children,
thus giving them the Smith surname. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So M Smith is named as a Smith,
but he claims he's really a Stephens. <o:p></o:p></div>
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However, he matches my
grandfather and he matches to # 3 above! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I did some research and learned
that Thomas W Smith was polygamous and was living with 4 wives in 1880. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->I think that either Thomas Smith and Susan
Reynolds really were the parents of John Stephens Smith </div>
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OR<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span>James Agee Smith and Margaret Love really were
the parents of Wm G Stephens.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->5.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Descendant of William Smith and Elizabeth Eunice
Ritchie – KY born and bred: <o:p></o:p></div>
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1. Willam Smith - Elizabeth
Eunice Ritchie<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. Richard Smith b. 1771 KY -
Alicia Combs<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. William Smith<o:p></o:p></div>
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4. William Med Smith, etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->6.<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Descendant of Samuel Smith and Eunice Joliff –
KY born and bred: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><!--[endif]-->Samuel
Smith and Eunice Joliff - He refutes # 5s line 1 above and claims William was
NOT the father of Richard Smith. He has good proof that Samuel Smith was the
father and that Eunice JOLIFF was the mother. I agree with his documentation
and conclusions and wrote about them in my <a href="http://smithandfox.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/richard-joliff-will/">“Will
of Richard Joliff” blog post</a> on my Smith and Fox blog. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span>Richard
Smith, b. 1771 KY - Etiticia Combs - # 5 above had Richard’s wife as Alicia
Combs<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><u>Conclusion<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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So it looks like the Y-DNA is matching up except two of
these lines are arguing with each other :-) and the other two (David and
Patrick) are kind of left out in the wind. I guess they decided they didn't
want to go to Utah to become Mormons or stay behind in Kentucky arguing over
whether their ancestor was Samuel or William (I have yet to find a shred of
proof of William being said ancestor except that Richard named his first son
William). <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am very excited by these results. Even though we have not yet tied these 3 lines together, I am confident that we will find the connection somewhere. Researching the Smith surname is hard enough, but adding James to the mix makes it even more challenging. </div>
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These results are also helping me narrow my <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>research focus</b></span> in the following ways: </div>
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<li>Looking for a connection between the Alabama Smiths (David and Patrick) and their Kentucky roots</li>
<li>Looking for a connection between the Alabama Smiths (David and Patrick)</li>
<li>Looking more closely at the records in Utah to solve the Smith-Stephens conundrum</li>
<li>Looking for more Smiths to test in these 3 geographical areas</li>
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This is just a start! </div>
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I'm sure you are wondering if we have started incorporating autosomal DNA to our research and the answer is YES! we are. The key to using autosomal DNA is ORGANIZATION. Check back for updates on this endeavor. </div>
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<b>Sources: </b></div>
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[1] Wikipedia (<a href="http://www.wikipedia.com/">http://www.wikipedia.com</a>),
“<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames_in_North_America#United_States">List
of most common surnames in North America</a>,” rev. 30 Jun 2014. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[2] 1850 US Federal Census, Johnson County, Arkansas,
population schedule, Horsehead Township, Page 268 (penned), dwelling 98, family
100, David Smith; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : downloaded 2
May 2010); NARA Film M432, Roll 27.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[3] Cherokee Citizenship Application of Sarah Smith
Grider, 1896, Arkansas, National Archives. Copies mailed to me by Mike Freels,
2008. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[4] Surprisingly enough, the surname of the two men that
my grandfather initially matched to on the Y-DNA in Ancestry.com was “Lee.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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[5] Personal correspondence with Darrel Smith, 2008. He said
his date and place of birth were recorded in Richard Smith’s enlistment files
but I have been unable to locate them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[6] Mark Smith, [email withheld for privacy], to Ginger R
Smith, grs3275[at]yahoo.com, Email, “Smith DNA,” 15 April 2011.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This has been on my mind for quite some time now. But honestly, I haven't really done much about it. I did take the 18 month long <a href="http://progenstudy.org/">ProGen class online</a> which studies Elizabeth Shown Mills' <i>Professional Genealogy</i> book. I learned how to write a business plan and client contracts and how to set my fees. I networked with other "transitional" professional genealogists. But there's still so many unanswered questions plaguing my mind.<br />
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To help ease my anxiety, I joined the <a href="https://www.apgen.org/">Association of Professional Genealogists (APG)</a> group. It consists of both Professional Genealogists and Transitional Genealogists who might like to become Professional some day. It is a great learning tool. The APG offers a multitude of networking and learning platforms: They have newsletters, journals, webinars, online discussion groups, a mailing list and several location-based or virtual chapters. I think the best part of APG for me so far has been the networking aspect. Although, don't be fooled; I still do my best to lurk in the shadows, but boy, let me tell you, when I'm ready, I will pop out of my shell in full force!<br />
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I have already attended a couple of live webinars by national speakers and the past APG webinars are archived in their Members-Only section of their website. Last night I attended an online discussion group which is a place where APGers can mingle, interact, and ask each other questions about what they do and how they do it.<br />
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Several topics were discussed at last night's meeting. The first topic stemmed from a member question about websites. The question was: <b>I've built my website, now what?</b> Knowing how to market yourself and your website is always a challenge. The moderator suggested that you keep your website up to date with the correct contact details. She also suggested to create a bio that includes more than just your name and contact information. This applies to your APG profile as well. Include items such as your locality and document research specialties, some education background, and maybe some additional personal information. For some examples of detailed APG profiles check out the following:<br />
<a href="https://www.apgen.org/directory/search_detail.html?mbr_id=2213">Amy Arner</a><br />
<a href="https://www.apgen.org/directory/search_detail.html?mbr_id=6479">Rich Venezia</a><br />
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Marketing a website can be particularly challenging, but actually putting yourself out there in front of other people may be even more challenging for all of us introverted genealogy types. The moderator stressed the idea of <b>networking</b>, not just with potential clients, but <b>with other genealogists</b>. A lot of your work will come from referrals from other genealogists. This was especially crucial in our moderator's experience. She said her business took about 5 years to take off and now she has a waiting list. I have to admit I am absolutely thrilled when I talk to other APGers who have waiting lists! That's where I want to be someday!<br />
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Most of the people who participated in the discussion group were bloggers. When the subject of websites came up, some people asked if it was <b>better to have a standalone website in addition to your blog or if it was ok to combine them</b>. The moderator admitted she doesn't even have a website. She gets most of her business from the APG website and from referrals from other genealogist colleagues. I get a lot of research requests from my blog, probably because I am a diversified writer and because I put myself out there, including adding in my bio that I pull records from the State Archives on a volunteer basis. My blog has also been around for a long time, too, which I think has helped. I plan to incorporate my website with my blog when the time comes. Marian Pierre-Louis' archived webinar was mentioned about this topic so I will have to check that out. Lastly, it was suggested to watch YouTube videos on how to build websites if you are hesitant or not sure how to go about setting one up.<br />
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The question of <b>fees </b>always comes up in discussions about starting a business. When I took the ProGen class, we learned a mathematical formula to help us determine our fees. But really, the best way to do it is to cruise the internet to see what others in your area are charging. Of course, we learned that it is actually difficult to do, so you might want to try either asking your friends what they would pay or if you are close to other professional genealogists, asking them what they charge. It really is a close knit society and you want to be competitive, but you also don't want to undercut your competitors.<br />
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Lastly, it wouldn't be a discussion about starting a business if you didn't talk about <b>Sole Proprietor vs LLC and TAXES</b>. I believe everyone in the discussion group was a Sole Proprietor. It was suggested this was the best thing to do when you first start out. We learned about the <a href="http://www.sba.gov/tools/local-assistance/sbdc">Small Business Development Centers</a> run by the Small Business Administration. This program allows you to learn about Small Business stuff through your local college and universities. You can also check out the books offered on Nolo.com or check them out from your local library.<br />
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We covered a lot of topics in last night's discussion. I'm looking forward to participating in more of these as I get more comfortable with the idea of starting, and running my own business.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Register of Deeds Office - A Free Alternative </span></b><br />
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Many Register of Deeds Offices are digitizing their historical deeds and land grants and putting them online. Several North Carolina counties have already been digitized. Here is a list of counties who currently have their deeds digitized and available to download from the web <b>FOR FREE</b>.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.alamancerod.org/">Alamance County</a> - still in the process of being digitized, goes back to 1849 (as of June 2014)</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.alexandercountync.gov/rod/">Alexander County </a>- Digitized deeds going back to 1847</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://alleghanycounty-nc.gov/register_of_deeds.php">Alleghany County</a> - Digitized deeds going back to 1859</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ansonncrod.org/Opening.asp">Anson County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1749</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ashencrod.org/II_main.asp">Ashe County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1799</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.chathamncrod.org/">Chatham County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1771</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.ccrodinternet.org/">Cumberland County </a>- - digitized deeds going back to 1754</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://duplinrod.com/">Duplin County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1749. And they have the land grant maps!</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.edgecombecountync.gov/departments/register_of_deeds/index.php">Edgecombe County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1759. Sign in as a guest, then click the Online Index Books link at the top of the page. (Index only. No access to deed images at this time).</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.co.forsyth.nc.us/rod/online_lookup.aspx">Forsyth County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1849</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.myguilford.com/rod/">Guilford County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1771. </span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.co.iredell.nc.us/Departments/RegDeeds/">Iredell County</a> - Digitized deeds going back to 1788. Select “Search Online Records” in center of page, Sign in as a Guest, and click on Indexes Prior to 1964 tab</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://erec.johnstonnc.com/recorder/eagleweb/historicalIndex.jsp">Johnston County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1789, land division records, plats</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.jonescountync.gov/index.asp?SEC=E1C244F1-2CC1-4306-9304-E7B2A3615402&Type=B_BASIC">Jones County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1784</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://72.15.246.181/LincolnNC/">Lincoln County</a> - digitized deeds going back to the 1700s. Click the "Old Index Book" tab</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.martincountyncgov.com/deeds">Martin County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1771</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://meckrodindex.com/">Mecklenburg County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1763 (See instructions in the comments below)</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://search.mitchelldeeds.com/">Mitchell County</a>- deeds have been digitized but not indexed. Go to "Search Deeds;" Then scroll down to "Non-Indexed Deed Images." Click "re", then click the book and page nos and the deed image should appear.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.courthousecomputersystems.com/orangenc/">Orange County</a> - digitized deeds 1752-1969</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://regdeeds.pittcountync.gov/external/">Pitt County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1792</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.sampsonrod.org/">Sampson County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1784</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.stokescorod.org/welcome.asp">Stokes County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1787</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://services.wakegov.com/booksweb/genextsearch.aspx">Wake County</a> - digitized deeds going back to 1785</span><br />
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<b>Check back with this site often for updates to newly added Counties! - </b><br />
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You can also follow my Pinterest Board - <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/smitty327/north-carolina-deeds-and-land-grants/">North Carolina Deeds and Land Grants</a> - to receive updates to newly added counties.<br />
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Many thanks to everyone writing in with new updated links!!!<br />
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Additional Information: Check out these helpful posts<br />
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<a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2012/01/determining-no-of-acres-of-land-grant.html">Reading land grants in North Carolina</a> which uses Metes and Bounds<br />
<a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2013/05/identifying-land-grants-using-nc-state.html">Finding Land Grants using the North Carolina State Archives' Online Catalog (MARS)</a><br />
<a href="http://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/North_Carolina_Land_and_Property">North Carolina Land and Property</a> from the FamilySearch.org Wiki<br />
<a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/06/why-use-deeds-and-land-grants-in-your.html">Why Use Deeds and Land Grants in YOUR research</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;">William Godwin to Nathan Godwin, Sampson County, NC, Deed 1792 (Book 9, p. 172)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Why use Deeds? </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>Deeds </b></span>are a very valuable resource to have in your research toolbox. The primary use of Deeds is to <i>tract the transfer of land from one person or persons to another</i>. In addition, Deeds can be used to learn about familial relationships and to learn who one's neighbors might have been which can be helpful when tracing persons of the same name. Deeds can tell you who lived where and when.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How did North Carolinians Obtain Land and What is the difference between a Land Grant and a Deed?</b></span><br />
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In North Carolina, in order to obtain land, a person had to first obtain a <b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Land Grant</span></b> from either the Lords Proprietors of North Carolina (who worked for the King of England) or the North Carolina Secretary of State's Office. The Patent often contained a description of the land, what it was bounded by, ie, waterways, and the names of the people who owned adjacent land. Plat MAPS were drawn up and included in the files. After the patent was in hand, they could do what they wanted with the land - live on it, improve it, will it to their children, or sell it. When the land was sold, it was recorded in a <b><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Deed</span></b>. The Deeds contained information about who was selling (the Grantor), who was buying (the Grantee), and anyone else involved. Such information would include where the Grantors and Grantees currently or previously lived, who had ties or claims to the land, ie, wives who may have a dower interest; and who the neighbors were.<br />
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Deeds can help you determine <b>kinship</b>. In 1788, Jonathan Godwin took out a land grant in Sampson County for 50 acres on the East Side of Black Mingo Creek. In 1801, Nathan Godwin sold 50 acres on the East Side of Black Mingo Creek to Elizabeth Bagley, the land previously patented to Jonathan Godwin in 1788. Since there are no deeds of sale from Jonathan Godwin to Nathan Godwin, it could be implied that Nathan had received this 50 acres of land via inheritance from Jonathan Godwin who died in 1791 leaving his widow Rachel in charge of his estate.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Terminology involved when a person applied for a Land Grant</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #222222;"><b>ENTRY</b>: This is an application that a person filled out to apply for a <b>PATENT </b>to occupy and purchase vacant land</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222;"><b>WARRANT</b>: This is issued once the <b>ENTRY </b>is approved, telling the county surveyor to measure the tract of land</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222;"><b>PLAT</b>: This is drawn up by the surveyor describing the land in metes and bounds</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222;"><b>PATENT</b>: This is the final document written by the Secretary of State conveying the surveyed land to the applicant. Also known as a <b>GRANT</b></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">How do I Obtain </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Copies of </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Deeds and Land Grants?</span></b><br />
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The <a href="http://www.ncdcr.gov/archives/Home.aspx"><b><span style="font-size: large;">North Carolina State Archives</span></b></a> has most recorded deeds on microfilm organized by county and date. These books do not contain the actual "original" deeds because those went home with the person who purchased the land. Some of you may have found some original deeds in your family's possessions. The Archives also has the original Land Grants that were issued by either the Crown or the Secretary of State which have been microfilmed as well. (Some books have not been microfilmed and are available for research).<br />
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If you live in North Carolina, you can visit the Archives and pay $0.25 a page to print out a microfilm copy of a deed, or you can order deeds via their online ordering system for $2.00 each and get copies of deeds mailed to your house. This assumes you have already consulted a microfilm copy of that county's deed index and know what book and page number you need, or you have identified the book and page number from an abstract book.<br />
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If you live outside of North Carolina, you can order copies of deeds at $20.00 each, which is a pretty steep price to pay.<br />
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The Archives has all of its Land Grants indexed in their online catalog system (<a href="http://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov/BasicSearch.aspx">MARS</a>). I have written a post about how to find Land Grants using the MARS system <a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2013/05/identifying-land-grants-using-nc-state.html">here</a>.<br />
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Alternatives to ordering deed records from the Archives include ordering the microfilm from your local <span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Family History Library</span></b> </span>for a small fee of less than $10. The microfilm can then be viewed at your local Family History Library during the time you have the film on loan from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, UT. This process can take some time because you have to order the index first which is on a microfilm all by itself. Then you have to order a separate film for the book and page number containing the deed of interest.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Register of Deeds Office - A Free Alternative - </span></b>many North Carolina Register of Deeds Offices are digitizing their historical deeds and land grants and putting them online. Several North Carolina counties have already been digitized. <a href="http://genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2014/06/online-deed-records-north-carolina.html">Click this link</a> for a list of counties that have already been digitized.<br />
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<b>Additional Information:</b> Check out these helpful posts<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2012/01/determining-no-of-acres-of-land-grant.html">Reading land grants in North Carolina</a> which uses Metes and Bounds<br />
<a href="http://www.genealogybyginger.blogspot.com/2013/05/identifying-land-grants-using-nc-state.html">Finding Land Grants using the North Carolina State Archives' Online Catalog (MARS)</a><br />
<a href="http://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/North_Carolina_Land_and_Property">North Carolina Land and Property</a> from the FamilySearch.org Wiki<br />
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<b>Ancestry.com made some very big announcements on their <a href="http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2014/06/04/ancestry-com-focuses-on-core-offerings/" target="_blank">blog</a> this week: </b><br />
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<li>Ancestry.com will no longer sell the Y-DNA and mtDNA kits – deciding to focus on their autosomal DNA test only</li>
<li>Ancestry.com will no longer keep Y-DNA and mtDNA samples in storage – all samples will be destroyed and cannot be used to upgrade to an autosomal DNA test</li>
<li>Ancestry.com will no longer offer access to your Y-DNA and mtDNA results – all results must be downloaded before September 5th, 2014 when they will be permanently removed from their servers</li>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT TO DO?</span></b><br />
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<li><i>Contact your matches! </i></li>
<li><i>Download your results to a CSV file. </i></li>
<li><i>Transfer your Y-DNA results to <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/" target="_blank">Family Tree DNA</a></i> (ftDNA). They are offering the low price of $19 for the transfer of both the Ancestry.com 33 and 46 marker tests. Upgrades are available to ftDNA’s standard 25 and 37 marker tests for an additional fee of $39. See ftDNA FAQs <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/imports/transfer-dna-heritage/already-results-y-dna33-y-dna46-panel-need-order-transfer-y-dna33-y-dna25-transfer-y-dna46-y-dna37/" target="_blank">Why upgrade to more markers?</a> </li>
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<li>The $19 fee allows you to transfer your results to ftDNA and to join projects; however, you will not receive matches or a haplogroup prediction. Your results will be available to your project administrator and will be displayed in your project's public page. </li>
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<li>Once your results are transferred, <i>join the appropriate <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/projects.aspx" target="_blank">surname project</a></i> in ftDNA</li>
<li><i>Join the appropriate Y-Haplogroup project </i>and geographic projects to learn more about your Y-DNA results and ancestry. </li>
<li><i>Upload your Y-DNA results to <a href="http://ysearch.org/">Ysearch.org</a></i>. This database is free and searchable by surname, results, or user ID. It is FREE!</li>
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<b>What about my mtDNA?</b><br />
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There currently is no company offering transfer of your mtDNA results. I recommend that you upload your results to <a href="http://mitosearch.org/">mitosearch.org</a> for FREE.<br />
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<b>Other Ancestry.com Discontinued Services and Products:</b><br />
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A number of other recently acquired products will no longer be supported or made available to users:<br />
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<li>Genealogy.com service, including the message boards</li>
<li>The MyFamily website. All content can be downloaded and zipped up but must be downloaded by September 5th, 2014</li>
<li>MyCanvas story creation and printing service</li>
<li>Mundia</li>
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For more information, check out <a href="http://www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com/2014/06/ancestrycom-officially-retires-y-dna.html" target="_blank">CeCe Moore's full report</a> and Ancestry.com's <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/cs/faq/legacy-dna-faq" target="_blank">LegacyDNA FAQs</a>. </div>
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