tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post933804192789013036..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Where You Come FromAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-59676117248834781562009-08-31T00:27:49.897-04:002009-08-31T00:27:49.897-04:00My confidence in having a fair number of East Angl...<i>My confidence in having a fair number of East Anglian forebears has waned recently.</i><br /><br />My understanding is that the bulk of the Puritan migration to NE was from East Anglia. My NE hometown has its twin in East Anglia. So if you have some old NE background, East Anglia is a fair assumption. We are awaiting your reasoning.<br /><br />Much of my ancestry has the ornery gene: Scots-Irish and religious dissidents- Quaker, not Puritan in my case.<br /><br />My sister-in-law has done a lot of genealogical research, and what has impressed her has been the number of double cousins, or of marrying the sibling of your deceased spouse. In such circumstances, a "false flag" father- the one on the marriage certificate- may have been already related to the actual father, thus not resulting in a big change in the DNA.Gringonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-16995465870472534982009-08-29T22:58:10.652-04:002009-08-29T22:58:10.652-04:00There may well be a non-paternity event between me...There may well be a non-paternity event between me and my DAR ancestor too, but in a way it doesn't matter. <br /><br />What I plan to do (and I should get hopping on it!) is write a personal history for my grandchildren so they have an idea of how their ancestors lived. <br /><br />I want to make history a little more interesting for them, if possible.<br /><br />The other grandparents of my only (so far..) grandchild have an immensely interesting history and I'm trying to convince them to do something similar. <br /><br />When my other daughter has children, it will quite easy to do this as we've already found she and her husband have a common ancestor. Barring non-paternal events, that is.Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-72374820884005560762009-08-29T12:01:55.694-04:002009-08-29T12:01:55.694-04:00I probably misremembered the decade in question......I probably misremembered the decade in question...karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-83334590287985165212009-08-29T11:59:19.495-04:002009-08-29T11:59:19.495-04:00karrde - if it was Boston, it was probably a touch...karrde - if it was Boston, it was probably a touch earlier. The migration before Cromwell was Puritans going to NE. After Cromwell, it was royalists going to VA.<br /><br />Not a lock, of course, as people did continue to come to NE throughout the 17th C. But the bulk came within a few years plus or minus from 1635.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-29249703041870910552009-08-29T10:00:19.684-04:002009-08-29T10:00:19.684-04:00I have an uncle who has traced the "official&...I have an uncle who has traced the "official" genealogy for every member of the extended family, as far as he can.<br /><br />Every once in awhile, at a family gathering, he will comment that so-and-so's fifth cousin's parents were found buried in some cemetary, and the archived obituary in the newspaper told him interesting things about the family tree.<br /><br />To my knowledge, he doesn't know (or care) about the paternity issue you mention.<br /><br />It's still interesting, though. We have the family tree in North America all the way back to a man who stepped off a ship in Boston Harbor in the 1650's.<br /><br />But we have no records from London, which was his port of departure from the old world.karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-1155265107542654282009-08-29T03:24:51.147-04:002009-08-29T03:24:51.147-04:00We sent a DNA sample from my father and it matches...We sent a DNA sample from my father and it matches neither of the two "known" lines with his surname.<br /><br />We're pretty sure there's a non-paternity event there. What was amazing was getting the surname that his DNA did fit in with. Not that there's much we see that we can do with that information.<br /><br />You've just reminded me that I still have one document to submit to finish my DAR application. It's on my mother's side and I had a great head start there because my mom's sister started gathering family information in 1918.Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.com