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The Great Philadelphia Wagon Road

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Using your own families’ genetic results you can follow the routes they took and use those matches to guide your searches for paper records and documentation. You are welcome to download this map. This is from a 1751 map that is in the public domain. (See Library of Congress website of map free maps, newspapers and records – all online and easily and freely accessible.) Although we know maps must be tweaked and re-tweaked, we must have a public domain map to work from and this is a great place to start.

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Türkiye ~ Anatolian Masterpiece with Ancient Hot Springs

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Türkiye ~ Anatolian Masterpiece in a dozen blogs. This is the first with an overall look at the trip. Each place will get its own blog and as they are written, links will be added here and you can click through. Follow us for DNA for Travel for DNA.

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Cherie Lynn’s Lewis Collection – John Lewis of Page’s Warehouse, & Old Hanover Court House & his son David Lewis with the 1st land patent west of the Rivanna river

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The David Lewis of Charlottesville Family and his father and family John Lewis of Hanover and Wales and brother Abraham of Hanover and Pennsylvania.

OK, ftDNA has put together a really fun feature for y-DNA

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I love it. It has the giggle-while-the-hair-stands-up-on-the-back-of-your-head genealogy rush of fun. And it does not stop there. These readings of a man's y-DNA haplogroup provide fun facts and are understood to be fun facts, only. As with all the bells and whistles of the genetic genealogy that we love to bits, I always say, "If … Continue reading OK, ftDNA has put together a really fun feature for y-DNA

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Here’s Why We Test y – The Thomas Knight, Rockingham family comes into focus.

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- A Herstory Guest - I hope my readers will help me welcome our guest blogger, one of my Knight cousins, Charlotte. Her trees and work can be found on ancestry.com and familysearch.org, all the usual places, but with a very special and not so usual story of her Knight ancestry. She has been a … Continue reading Here’s Why We Test y – The Thomas Knight, Rockingham family comes into focus.