SDGS Fall Seminar,Daniel Horowitz Information Shared.

 

Today, Shirley Becker and I went to the SDGS Fall Seminar and listened to Daniel Horowitz with his terrific knowledge in doing Genealogy and DNA.

She picked up a tip that may help her to work with her newly discovered distant cousin, about 5 - 6 out in distance that is the generation she is frustrated with.  DNA connected them. They are both stuck in the same place.

Daniel explained some of the linking where my brain  could accept and understand it.  Listened to him in Grand Rapids and in San Diego before and Jamboree before.

I wrote some tidbits down that I felt were vital and I have almost always used that method.

He did give a couple more tips that I want to encourage all to try.

1. Always contact the potential match person especially about sources and family further information.

2. Always scan to bottom of the match page so you can do Consistency Checks. It will show errors.

3. Make sure matches are based on names, dates, places and facts and relationships.

4.  A Sun Chart will hold the most families of the past.

5.  He has a blog page you can follow.

6.  He is also on Facebook.

7.  My Heritage does not do Y DNA testing.

8.  It does do the other tests, Autosomal, etc.

9.  Some countries do not allow tests to be given or taken.

10.  Indogamy is the inter close marriages of two families that change the amount of ancestors you have.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › english › endogamy

endogamy definition: the fact or custom of having marriage only between members of the same group: . 

These are only some of the highlights I found very much worth passing on to readers. 

I like to think of endogamy as when a brother and sister of one family marry the sister and brother of the other family.  Which happened more than once in my Duvall lines. Also other lines.

Mayflower group has this as do many other small groups whom have few choices for marriages.

Suspecting Jamestown was the same,  even early San Francisco could probably qualify.

More to come. 

Lost Ancestors by Attendees at Workshop

 Lost Ancestors We Wish to Find



We had a nice small turn out.  With that in mind we covered a lot of ground at our meeting.
 I played the CD  about the Trail of Tears Cherokee Legacy. We discussed the knowledge we learned and then all seemed stunned of what had happened after what all had been done.

We then shared going around the group their hopes and needs to move forward in their research.

Linda Cross, is looking for slave records about 1841. Two of her blank walls are TILMAN and BOWEN.  I need to find time to go through cousin Vicki's, Bowen files. I will do this before next Saturday. She has them into Kentucky.

Virginia Taylor is organizing some of the files since she has located a distant cousin that was unknown. She was anxiously waiting to hear back from this person.  BLAND has pretty well been unblocked but she has a couple more we will address.

Shirley Becker is still looking for William WRIGHT in NY. Many stories but no solid fact that he is the husband of Aurila Wright. An obituary says she was a widow at the time of her death.  ??
Arises because no data found on where died, buried, obituary any thing that would verify stories.
Was this maybe a divorced and covered by saying widow?

She is also looking for the ancestors of her GRAVES that were in NY and at least one moved to WVA of today Va of old.

Sheila Cloharty  is looking for CLOUGHTRY, ERTY,  in New Hampshire.
Looking forward to seeing you again Sheila.

Cynthia Teysko, is searching a new found line the WARREN'S and OTIS.

Gary Brock is looking for his half siblings, last name DAVIS in Toledo, area of Ohio.

Having learned I also have WARREN in my direct line. Some of us Warren descendants should chat.
That was my find of that week.

Any one with data on any of these names please contact me for access to these people to share information.  SusiCP1@gmail.com  or SusiCP@cox.net or here in message section.

Class Reunions, have you checked?

Class Reunions, have you checked?

 O wow, I missed our reunion again but just chatted with a classmate of the 1950's era and learned we have family coming from the same region in mid west and states.

A few years ago there was a bad fire in Central Ca and I then learned a class mate of mine was a distant relative.  She shared their son had been burnt out completely lost everything. So in the course of chatting we discovered we were 4 Cousins.

In school we never talked that much about the potential for making cousins.  We did have a couple of interesting history type assignments that had us talking about our ancestors.

The community I had lived in for 9 + Years but they were slow to accept us.  In school it was easier because we took up a large area of communities to create Tomales High School. Go BRAVES

As a Senior I did a thesis on my Great Grandfather's battle in the Civil War.  But it was not known until 10 years after that he was there. What a jolt that was. I picked the battle he lost his brother in and almost lost him in.

Many other classmates wrote about WW2 or WW1 for theirs.  Now wondering how many in our class of 32 with 28 graduating were actually distant kin back about 5 to 7 generations.

So if you can recall the shared stories in class you may have a way to pick up on pieces you have not found by attending a Reunion and asking about the parents and ancestors.

Mr. Sullivan would get us to talk about some of out past and it was always fun and interesting for me.  I had great teachers there.

Ironic I majored in English in High School. But living in a mixed community of nationalities, it is something I have to think about some time to make sure I have used the current correct grammar.

I have had Latin, Spanish  *Spain style, Border Spanish for high schools here and learned a tidbit of Russian from Rich Pozzi's Grandmom and always wanted to learn more about that language.

Enough that one day at hospital a man needed help and I could understand him, so I helped the nurse with what he said to get the help he and wife needed. I hadn't realized I had retained so much of that language.

Maybe someday I can learn more.  Of course I learned a bit of Italian living in Valley Ford.   : > )


Check what your classmates may be able to help you with before you are all gone.

Some Indian Tidbits to Learn

Indian Tidbits to Learn.

Native History: Pocahontas Marries John Rolfe in Jamestown

click for live link. 

Pocahontas was The True Story of Pocahontas told by the Mattaponi Tribe. Her husband was killed and child was given to her relatives prior to being  forced into the new life with John Rolfe, about 15 years of age. my source below

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/8-big-lies-history-books-tell-about-natives-NE1GQCD2zkesXSp-ftdatA/

A true heart breaker is this one.

In 1621, Wampanoag Indians investigated gun and cannon fire at a Pilgrim settlement to see them celebrating a successful harvest. The Indians—all male warriors, were fed as a gesture of peace. The act was not repeated annually.

Alas in 1636 , a man found murdered triggered the  Massacre of 400 Men, Women and children .  Ordered by English Major John Mason.

Plymouth Governor William Bradford  applauded the massacre. The Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony William Newell, Proclaimed that we shall celebrate the day for subduing the Pequots.   

What Really Happened at the First Thanksgiving? The Wampanoag Side of the Tale

 What is a Redskin? 

Dallas Goldtooth  a well known Comedian  wrote  and included data about his families past in his acts.

He also created a stir on FACEBOOK for some of the data he posted regarding his families background.

 Pres. Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota men, after a revolt because of lack of food, and mistreatment and very harsh conditions. In 1862.   Alas there are tribes yet today that are struggling to live a normal per se life.

Dakota Man Exposes Vile History of ‘Redskins’  He posted newspaper and picture reports. 

Video: ICTMN’s Man on the Street: How Many Tribes Are There?

Unwritten History of the African Americans and Natives.

Dr. Arica L Coleman  is the assistant professor of Black American studies at the University of Delaware. She is African American and Native American (Rappahannock).

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Then there was Plecker, who altered census records to expunge Indians from their Virginia Records. I had not learned this before.

Courtesy Richmond Times-Dispatch Plecker was determined to expunge Indians from Virginia’s official records.

 Dr Coleman also mentioned Plecker.

*Coleman also writes about Walter Plecker, a man who once worked as the first registrar of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Records. A man who literally changed races in Virginia’s birth records. His actions have been coined as “pencil genocide.”

Her book brings different life to the mixing of the early peoples and their survival.

William Loren Katz, the author of Black Indians has written how entire cities of blacks and Indians came together as a strong force against European settlers including huge factions of black Seminoles who created nearly impenetrable forces against those soldiers foolish enough to try and break into Florida, and suffered miserable defeats over several years.

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/the-1491-census-native-creates-tribal-nations-map-of-turtle-island-xU-3W_G-N0u39YzxqV1TSw/

Map at the end of blog/ contact I can send in email. 

I have several pieces of information on Indian Research and Heritage. Hoping to share a bit each event we do.  

https://www.myheritage.com/FP/inbox.php?thread=62345031Clark

http://nativeheritageproject.com/2019/03/08/cherokee-white-intermarriages-in-indian-territory/  Roberta Estes is the author  She worked on Roanoke Island Information. Tis where I met her on line.