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Well, I'm just beginning at this game of genealogy, poking around to see what i can find.
I did get all the way back to Scotland, seems they were mostly church ministers. Ok, well, I have a geneaology that was in my grandmother's things, I never really looked through it. I re-discovered it last night, gave me goose bumps! parts of it track exactly! The geneaology was done by a distant cousin, now deceased, from that part of the family. what a thrill to see my own work validated.
Also, I have a rather extensive geneaology on my father's side, there again, I didn't pay much attention to it. My family comes somewhat in the middle. There again, I found it tracks! I'm starting to see some of the same names in both! And, they too descend from a long line of Scottish ministers. Watch it bee they knew each other at some point. I plan next to delve into ship manifests, see if they were in the same group coming over, This stuff really draws you in!
Lines on my maternal family and on my paternal family lived in the same Arkansas county for over a hundred years, and never interacted. They were on opposite sides of a mountain, and apparently never went to the other side!
I've also found two different branches of my family tree living next door to one another in 1850 Illinois.
But none of my maternal or paternal lines have "crossed over" to the other side!
Lines on my maternal family and on my paternal family lived in the same Arkansas county for over a hundred years, and never interacted. They were on opposite sides of a mountain, and apparently never went to the other side!
I've also found two different branches of my family tree living next door to one another in 1850 Illinois.
But none of my maternal or paternal lines have "crossed over" to the other side!
On one of the y-dna surname project sites my marker chart is directly below some descendents of my maternal ancestors of the same last name as mine. Happy to report that the differing haplotypes show I'm not related to myself in that way. Strange though to see the names of unrelated paternal and maternal ancestors from 200+ years ago on the same page.
When you think about the number of ancestors you have when you go back many generations, all of us have some common ancestors in our maternal and paternal lines. Populations were smaller and many people never traveled more than a few miles from home.
And since marriages between cousins, even first cousins, was common not too long ago, for some people the consaguinity may be a bit close for comfort.
When you think about the number of ancestors you have when you go back many generations, all of us have some common ancestors in our maternal and paternal lines. Populations were smaller and many people never traveled more than a few miles from home.
I've never found any but I've only traced them back to their arrival in North America. A lot less likely if you can only go back 300 some years. There were a lot of folks here, even back then.
Well, its not so much the similar names, its that ancestry tracks with a geneaology I inherited from my grandmother. I had researched on Ancestry back to Scotland, then compared it to my grandmother's geneaology. Actually, I had forgotten obout GM geneaology, then re-doscovered it. I was amazed to see the information I found in ancestry tracked exactly what I found in the old, "hand-done" geneaology.
I find it amazing people could go so far back in the 1940's, when that geneaology was compiled. I don't know how anyone could do such an extensive tree without a computer, but obviously they did. How amazing!
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