Elijah Fox, father of Sarah Fox-Lee-Williamson and the source of a lot of frustrated searching on my part and that of several other researchers in the family, can be safely assumed identified now. Based on Autosomal DNA matching, I have linked at least 62 of us together. 28 of those are descendants of Elijah’s daughter…
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The family Genealogy Nut!
2021 Comes to a close..
The year is wrapping up, and it’s time to start planning for 2022. I am making changes to the site, again. Nothing here now but updates on progress, and with luck, a wiki-style set of profiles for the dear Ancestors as I find them. The Tree links will point to one of my other sites….
Site Changes!
I have finally gotten around to updating the site. Gave it a facelift, got the forums in place and connected the family tree information. Next steps: Testing to be sure things that should be private to members stays private. Ensuring the registration passes through from the WordPress side to the TNG side. Get DNA tests…
Shrader update
I’ve been busy working with adoptee lines the last several months and have not been focusing on my own research.So, yesterday I start poking back at my own dna matches and realize that none of the descendants of Adeline Fox I can find show ‘in-common’ matches to my Shrader known lines.Did that make sense? I…
John McCurdy Williamson’s Will
I’ve had a copy of the will for a while, but had never noticed the division of property until this morning.(Odd grammar and misspellings are the writer’s, not mine)“First i give and bequeath to my beloved Wife Sarah Williamson all my personal property also all of my real estate her natheral life and at her…
DNA & Shraders
I have not been able to pinpoint this one yet, but there are a lot of DNA matches for our little clan the connect to a Shrader line, specifically back to Daniel Shrader b. 1765 and his wife Patsey Rowsey b. 1770, both in Amherst , Virginia it seems.I can find distant matches leading back…
More on DNA tracing
It’s been a while since I’ve updated anything, mostly because it’s been a while since we’ve had any new information to share. Genetically, it’s no longer a question of us knowing the McCurdy family is connected. Through autosomal DNA we have connections that fit tidily with at least 4 of the children of Elijah McCurdy…
DNA for tracing the trees
Slowly, but surely, we’re able to fill in some blanks in the trees using DNA. John McCurdy Williamson and Sarah Fox had 7 children, Sarah had 4 daughters with her first husband as well, only one of which lived to adulthood and had children of her own. Of those 8 children we have DNA results…
DNA connections..
I use multiple sites to share and find data. http://dna.ancestry.com for Autosomal DNA http://www.gedmatch.com for Autosomal DNA http://www.familytreedna.com for Autosomal, mtDNA and Y-DNA http://www.yfull.com for Y-DNA interpretation https://www.23andme.com/ also does Autosomal testing https://www.fullgenomes.com/ for Y-DNA and full genome sequencing Then there are sites that are useful as tools, as well as some softwares that…
DNA & Other things
It’s been a while, so I thought I’d update a little. Dear old John M. & Sarah had 7 children together, and Sarah had 2 surviving children from her first marriage. That’s 9 children to follow. We have Y-DNA samples from two of John Anderson Williamson’s male descendants and auDNA samples from 4 of his…
Harriett McCurdy found?
Over 15 years ago, back before the turn of the century even, I posited that our John McCurdy Williamson was the son of who we then identified as Sarahtee McCurdy, daughter of Elijah McCurdy and Ann Handy Harris. All we knew then was that Sarahtee, and her sister Rebecca, had both married Williamson men. Over…
Updates in Progress
Sorry for the disruption, there are changes in progress. All the old data is backed up and will be back online soon. This site is perpetually in progress…