Forwarding for a non subscriber, please include CEBeal@aol.com in any of your replies to the list. Yours Aye, Lauren Scot DNA List Admin -----Forwarded Message----- >From: CEBeal@aol.com >Sent: Feb 10, 2006 2:19 PM >To: alstair@dnaheritage.com >Cc: bealdna@yahoo.ca, bealldna@earthlink.net >Subject: {not a subscriber} Establshing Ancestral Haplotypes (genetic signatures) in Early America > >Alstair, Feel free to use this News Release in UK publications to push >recruitment for your projects (and mine) It might appear other places, but it is >my article and not copyrighted. >Any comments? > > >News Release, February 10, 2006 >USE OF DNA AND INTERNET AS TOOLS OF GENEALOGY >IN IDENTIFYING COLONIAL IMMIGRANTS TO THE USA > > > >Chronologically this is a long mystery story with a very short abrupt >conclusion! >In the early 1970s I started to compile my Beal Family History ( known >later, as BEAL OHANA) and was not making much headway! It was a period when >research was done by mail and digging through old records. >A pencil and a lined pad were the only required equipment besides a >genealogical library, something I did not have until I retired in Hawaii. >Fortunately, I found the Church of Latter Day Saints known as the Mormons. >At the Family History Library in Kaneohe, Hawaii, I found not only files and >books, but learned about the use of microfiche and microfilm. Over eight years >I managed to trace my family history back to my ancestor William Beale/Bale, >born about 1664 in York, ME. By this time I had contacted other BEAL family >genealogists, including John Beal of Alabama who had researched and written >an article entitled "The Real Father of Arthur Beal of York ME". This article >made many references to sources, most well known researchers and writers on >New England, including Stackpole, Banks, Little, Holmes, Waters, Noyes, Libby, >Davis, Savage, Hotten,plus the general confusion regarding the Beals of New >England in official records, i.e. deeds, courts, wills. He concluded that >Arthur Beal of York, ME was the son of Arthur Beal and Elizabeth Watts and was >baptized in S. Maurice, Plympton Parish, Devon County, England. >I had waded through most of the same sources, he had, looking for William, >but unfortunately when I tried to contact him specifically regarding his >knowledge about the Banks notes regarding a proposed Volume III, HISTORY of MAINE, >he had passed away. > >In my own research and verified by several other Beal Family Genealogists, >namely, Charles Lewis Beal of CA and Ann Beal Logan of Canada, we developed >the descent from William Bale/Beale to present day descendants. >I asked Ann to check out the Banks notes left at the Bangor Maine Public >Library and she found no further information in them. >Charles L. Beal and myself had co-authored an article on Jonathan Beale born >22 March 1737, York, Maine for Joseph Crook Anderson, CG, Editor for Volume >6, MAINE FAMILIES IN 1790, published by the Maine Genealogical Society (pages >11-14). Jonathan was a veteran of the French and Indian Wars and >Revolutionary War.and grandson of William Beale, Sr. > >I had found a handwritten annotated record in the Gaol Records, York, Maine, >also known as the Nathaniel G. Marshall's York town records, The written >record revealed in an entry on 2-40, on page 85 the words inserted "Bro of Edwd >fr 26-Son of Arthur I-" in the first line after "William Bale" This I >questioned, as being Marshall's copy from the original record. >I corresponded with Virginia S. Spiller, Librarian, OLD YORK HISTORICAL >SOCIETY, extensively in 1994. In her final review she concluded that the written >records of Nathaniel Marshall (NGM) are: I quote: " In most cases regarding >this particular book of Nathaniel Marshall genealogists note the source of >the information and attribute it to NGM but they are be no means the vital >records of York when they are addendas such as we see on the pages." >This handwritten annotated record was not included in Lester MacKenzie >Bragdon & John Eldridge Frost's "VITAL RECORDS of YORK MAINE" published jointly by >Picton Press with the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Other notes >made by Nathaniel G, Marshall were apparently not used in their book, either. >I determined that since NGM's transcribed book could only be used as a >source of leads, I had to find some other way to prove or disprove the >relationship between Arthur BALE/BEAL and WILLIAM BALE/BEALE/BEAL. > > >Charles L Beal published his family's descent from William at: >_http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/e/a/Charles-L-Beal/_ >(http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/e/a/Charles-L-Beal/) >and then he specialized in SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLOUTION and the CIVIL WAR >and their cemeteries in California. >Ann Beal Logan became a professional genealogist and Chair, Ontario >Genealogical Society, Halton-Peel Branch in Canada and a Co-Administrator with me for >my BEAL SURNAME DNA PROJECT. > >In 2001, I became a pioneer DNA Genealogist, mentored by Alan Savin of >England, Kevin F. Duerninck, Douglas M. Mumma and Bennett Greenspan using his >firm, Family Tree DNA as my testing provider. My web pages are listed on my >whatsnew web page at: >_http://hometown.aol.com/bealsurnamedna/whatsnew.html_ >(http://hometown.aol.com/bealsurnamedna/whatsnew.html) > >About the same time, I began my world wide search for living male Beal >descendants of William Bale/Beale/Beal and Arthur & Edward Bale/Bales/Beal of >York, Maine. I needed to use genetic tests as a tool for genealogy, to obtain >the necessary Y-DNA results, using their living male Beal descendants to prove >or disprove the relationship.You can find backgound for this process on my >web pages above, or by visiting: _http://www.familytreedna.com_ >(http://www.familytreedna.com/) and: _http://www.dnaheritage.com/_ >(http://www.dnaheritage.com/) on the Internet. > >After several years of searching, I found living male Beal descendants with >proven descent from the two questioned York families. >Look in the results and migration pages of my DNA Project at the Ancestral >Haplotypes (genetic signatures) for William and Arthur They prove they were >not related, as determined by the test results of BEAL 101, 102, 104, 115 for >William and the different migration & test results for Arthur of BEAL 110, >116, 120. Although both were in York, Maine at the same time, Arthur's >earliest known ancestor was in Plymouth, Devon, England and William's parentage has >not yet been determined by genealogical records, beyond York, ME. >Arthur's descent has included many Beal/Beals of Washington Co., ME and has >validated the work in Velton Peabody's, book TALL BARNEY'S PEOPLE of Beals >Island, Maine. > >To determine the validity of establishing an Ancestral Haplotype (genetic >signature) we use standard genealogy research methods to develop proven >ancestry backed up with genealogical records. This recorded ancestry coupled with >DNA test results gives us the Ancestral Haplotype. After that a living male can >take a Y-DNA test and if his test results match the genetic signature, he >knows he is related to the earliest ancestor identified for the Ancestral >Haplotype. Many genealogists find breaks in their ancestral lineage caused by >missing records ("brick walls"). Some brick walls can be broken through by using >this method. > >In addition, we have established an Ancestral Haplotype for John Beal, >colonial immigrant, Hingham, Norfolk, England and Hingham, Massachusetts using the >test results of BEAL 103, 111, 114 and BEALS 202, 203 & 205. ( an example of >name variations that would have been passed over without DNA analysis and >evidence of common descent.) > >For William Beale, another colonial immigrant with descent from Tuckley, >Glouchester, England and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, we established another >Ancestral Haplotype, using the test results of BEAL 106, 108, 112. > >We are working on establishing more Ancestral Haplotypes for other SOUNDEX >B400 colonial families including BEAL, BEALE, BEALS, BEALL, BEEL and BELL in >our DNA Project. > >We are also working to locate more ancestors and lines of descent in the >United Kingdom (UK) and worldwide for our BEAL SURNAME DNA PROJECT participants. >New advances including the use of mtDNA (mitrochondrial DNA) and Y-SNP >(single nucleotide polymorphism) DNA testing are becoming available and our >participants are beginning to use these tests to learn more about their >origins.They can also join the National Geographic Project, which I mention on my web >site above. > >By visiting Google on the Internet, you can find the first article written >on my project in Dick Eastman's Online News Letter, dated 05/24/2001. You will >see that we are meeting much of our objectives for the project. > >Charles E. Beal, _CEBeal@aol.com_ (mailto:CEBeal@aol.com) & >_BealsurnameDNA@aol.com_ (mailto:BealsurnameDNA@aol.com) >Project Coordinator/Manager for THE BEAL SURNAME DNA PROJECT, >Family Genealogist, Member of NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, NEW ENGLAND >HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, OLD YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, MAYFLOWER SOCIETY, >BEALS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, CLAN BELL INTERNATIONAL and BEALL FAMILY ASSOCIATION