Genetic genealogy

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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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Its embarrassing, and it illustrates how the ancestral trees can be worthless, no matter what database.

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And laziness begat disregard for the truth. Add anyone. Oh it "must" be them. No one can prove it wrong. The dilemma of copying trees. Genealogy is hard work. All research is hard work. Multiple sources are needed for an assertion of any event - birth, marriage, death, date of founding, name, full name, name … Continue reading Its embarrassing, and it illustrates how the ancestral trees can be worthless, no matter what database.

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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

More Lashon Hara – Gossip. Ethel’s Rings – Sold!

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Blog world: But what matters to family herstory? below She never quit telling the story -- that and a few others. There was the one her being upset that Harry had served Black people in the soup kitchen during the Great Depression. She told that one even the last time I saw her. And the … Continue reading More Lashon Hara – Gossip. Ethel’s Rings – Sold!