Family Finder with Y-DNA and mtDNA test you can, so they say, discover connections to descendants of all sixteen of your great-great-grandparents...5 generations. "Surname projects can use Family Finder to better define branches in a family tree. By using Family Finder testing, close Y-chromosome and mtDNA matches without traditional records may be assigned to a pedigree with greater confidence. Even more exciting, surname projects may now bring female cousins into the project as additional evidence." These are the close matches for me Gerald McClain Tim Garland Gardner 3rd Cousin, Shirley Burgess Vanderbeck 3 cousin, Gordon Leslie Stevenson 4th cousin and Eugene D. Melvin 4th cousin. I still have not found the paper trail or connections to these "cousins". PJ since we know our relationship perhaps you may know some of these "cousins" according to Family Finder from FTDNA. Gerald McClain Stillwater, OK -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 2:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: TNWEAKLE Digest, Vol 5, Issue 155 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Speaking of Indians in Weakley Co. (Leslie Moore) 2. SUBJECT LINE (pj) 3. Avon French (Mary Louise Gossum) 4. Sunday Rocking' (pj) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:49:34 -0500 From: "Leslie Moore" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TNWEAKLE] Speaking of Indians in Weakley Co. To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Thanks for the information. I was interested in proving that I was descended from the Nansemond Indian tribe through my mother's line. Does the whole line have to go through the females though? For instance my line would go through my mother and grandmother but then goes to my great grandfather and from there back to the tribe it would be through males. ----- Original Message ----- From: "marigold castle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [TNWEAKLE] Speaking of Indians in Weakley Co. Hi Leslie, Mitochondrial DNA - it passes from mother to daughter down through the line, men have it too from their mothers but they don't pass it on apparently. The problem with MitDNA is it doesn't mutate like YDNA (the male side) so it's less useful in genealogy. Literally millions of women will match your MitDNA. It's good for confirming relationships (this is how they positively identified the body of Louis XVII) and/or for confirming things like alleged Native American or African descent (because certain forms of MitDNA are more common in certain racial/ethnic groups) but it's not very useful in general genealogy, not like YDNA anyway. Family Tree DNA can run the MitDNA test if you are interested, but the geneological use is limited. Our Mit test told us we probably don't have Native American bloodlines - on the female line that is. Any male relative wouldn't show. But other than that, the MitDNA hasn't accomplished much. Our YDNA test, on the other hand, took down a brick wall and connected us to several branches of our family back to the 17th C. --- On Sat, 8/14/10, Leslie Moore <[email protected]> wrote: From: Leslie Moore <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TNWEAKLE] Speaking of Indians in Weakley Co. To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, August 14, 2010, 9:44 AM What is MitDNA? It relates to the female line? Where can I have the female DNA done? I am very interested in tracing some parts of my female lines!!!! Thanks, Leslie ----- Original Message ----- From: "marigold castle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 1:52 AM Subject: Re: [TNWEAKLE] Speaking of Indians in Weakley Co. That's interesting, because my grandma always claimed my Williams girls (Mahala and Martha Williams) were part Cherokee. We've had our MitDNA done and it showed European heritage but, of course, that only applies to the female line, if there were any males with Native American DNA, it wouldn't show in the MitDNA in the female line. My McAbee great grandfather (son of one of the two Williams sisters) spoke an Indian language fluently and told my uncles stories about living near/with Indians, but I think that was from living in Massac Co. Illinois in his youth. --- On Wed, 8/11/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TNWEAKLE] Speaking of Indians in Weakley Co. To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 11:31 AM My Williams family of Weakley also claims Cherokee lines. My grandfather, Lawrence Virgil Williams, was born in 1865 and claimed to be one-eighth Cherokee. His father, Lawrence P. Williams, came from N.C. through East Tenn. and was a skilled woodsmen as well as farmer. He died in 1905 and though the entire family accepts the Indian heritage as truth we do not know if it came from the Williams or Cashion line. I also have an uncle named Finis (Finis Buton Williams born in Weakley around 1911. It would figure that with NC so close and the Trail going through TN, there is more to this than some families want to admit. Bobbie W. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:52:36 -0500 From: "pj" <[email protected]> Subject: [TNWEAKLE] SUBJECT LINE To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Folks PLEASE change subject line to fit your email........ ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:10:41 -0500 From: "Mary Louise Gossum" <[email protected]> Subject: [TNWEAKLE] Avon French To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Just curious. The name Avon French sounds familiar. Maybe lived on the Fulton-Mayfield Highway? Did he have a sister Olena French who was a Health nurse? Seems to me when I was in grade school there was a nurse who wore a blue uniform and I think that was her name.I also seem to remember there was a connection to the Paul DeMyer (mayor of Fulton) family. Another couple of names came to mind with a French connection..I think...Alma and Donna Marie. Mary Louise Outgoing mail checked by Norton AntiVirus ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:02:04 -0500 From: "pj" <[email protected]> Subject: [TNWEAKLE] Sunday Rocking' To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" well it is midnight so it is officially Sunday..........Let the Rockin' Begin Just a request or two.......PLEASE do your subject line to fit the email Use CAPS for surnames Start a new email to TnWeakle every time...... thanks........who are we looking for..........pj ------------------------------ To contact the TNWEAKLE list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the TNWEAKLE mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. 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I am looking for descendants from Gladys Onona CROUCH who married George Addison GARNER/GARDNER in 1923. They had two sons, Charles and Billy. Onona was my grandfather's baby sister and she lived either in Martin or just across the Kentucky line. Does anyone have any knowledge of these people? thanks, Leslie Moore [email protected]