Donna, who knows, I may turn out to be a cousin after-all. LOL Connie Quoting Donna Cooper <thedonnacooper@gmail.com>: > Good Morning List Readers, here we are on the first day of a brand new > year. It looks the same as the last day of 2011 - wonder what > happened? > > As I told you yesterday I did DNA back the first part of December and > my results came in yesterday. For hours I have plowed through that > stuff reading and trying to understand what I have. All this time my > mud and tape job is going to the dogs while I study genetic markers. > > Here is the long and the short of it - I am related to all of you! LOL > No, not so! Just kidding! But the truth is that I have cousins that > connect to names that I have never heard of before. > > I have done more genealogy that 90% of the people out there so I > really didn't expect too many surprises; however, there was one major > one around 12% of my ancestors came from Sweden and Finland. Maybe > this has something to do with my Simpson mystery - don't know. > > I plowed threw stacks of New England families, checking my work > against the DNA results - coming up with no new surprises other than I > have a lot of relatives. My Barry County Crumley line connects in > Georgia, and so I see a lot of names there on trees of cousins that I > am surprised to find. Daniel Boone's Morgan connection and mine > connect and his Sarah and my Ruth were sisters - looks like I had that > one right. > > Anyway, I see that I have my Fedro - Fetrow family lineage correct and > that they did come from Heidelberg, Germany as I have reported. This > one has Barry County by the neck with Janetta Fetrow who was married > to New Englander James Alvin Pease. A lot of the Fetrows are buried in > Cedar, Kansas. > > On my Hancock - another Barry County family - I see that Cooper > County, MO, was named for one of my kinsmen - connecting to the > Shashell Cooper line, a famous frontiersmen who built Cooper's Fort in > the early days of Missouri. I am related to them through Ruth > Hancock, daughter of Stephen Hancock and Catherine Merchant - through > Benjamin and Jane (Armeger) Hancock of Goochland Co., VA. I see that > my Jamestown connection to the Hancock family looks sound, too, since > I am a cousin to one another leg of the family that comes through the > group. > > In the data was pages and pages of connections to families that I > would have no idea about had I not studied some of the early colonial > families. Don't misunderstand me - there is plenty there that is > confusing and much there that I don't understand. > > Since I have cousins on the brain I chose a featured photo that Jay > McCandless submitted that he called cousins - submitted a few years > ago. Jay said that those in the photo were cousins. What he didn't > know was that I am a cousin to some of them, too. Most of you know > that Florella Ireland was a Haddock descendant. > > Cousins - taken 1928 - From left to right: Doris & Morse Baker - > daughter and son of Evert and Mabel (Owings) Baker; Laura Muriel > Owings - d/o Vance and Florella (Ireland) Owings; Eral McCandless - > s/o Leonard & Cressy (Owings) McCandless; and Pauline Owings - d/o > Vance and Florella (Ireland) Owings. > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mobarry/oddsnends/bryfams.htm > > Now that you are fully aware that I have have the goods on this > subject you should be aware that I might say you are my cousin. Hear > this, you can't say that I didn't warn you! LOL > > Have a wonderful 2012. > > Donna Cooper, Coordinator > The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (thedonnacooper@gmail.com) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >