Ben, are you kin to the Coopers, James Lee, that settled near Clarksville abt. 1860? Nancy Gentry ----- Original Message ----- From: Carol or Billy To: txredriv@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:31 AM Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Census Records Question > In one census, my ggfather and children were listed, but ten years later > they had disappeared. I found them by chance reading the entire census and > finding GW Bates with my ggfather's children. Undoubtedly, the census > taker wrote out GW Bates rather than GW Butts, my ggfather, who could not > read nor write as many of his earlier documents were signed with an"X"; > later he learned to write his name as it appears on some later documents. > Billy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ben Cooper" <bcooper@mc2k.com> > To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 11:34 AM > Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Census Records Question > > >> Joyce, it makes a difference if you are talking about a maternal or >> paternal >> DNA print match. >> >> The paternal DNA print test is on the Y-Chromosome which is unique to the >> male and is passed from father to son generation after generation and >> changes rarely, like on the average one-marker every 500-years as such is >> very useful in identifying familial kinships going back through the >> years. >> If you cannot find your most recent common ancestor back to 1850 it >> becomes >> much more difficult, if not impossible beyond that. If you have not used >> the >> message boards in genealogy.com, you may try that. >> >> I have found numerous irregularities with census records which compounds >> the >> problems when searching census records. I found one ancestor in RRC where >> the first name was listed as the last name in the 1860 USC. I found it >> only >> by doing a page by page search of the census. >> >> If it is a materal match this is another issue. I have yet to find a >> common >> ancestor with 20-25 mtDNA print matches with my mother's DNA print >> withother >> families. I have not gotten off the ground with this type of match >> research. >> >> Regards, >> >> H. Ben Cooper >> Bella Vista, Arkansas >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Joyce A King" <jkin467@juno.com> >> To: <txredriv@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:34 AM >> Subject: Re: [TXREDRIV] Census Records Question >> >> >> A lady and I have connected our gr grandparents through a DNA project, >> however, through years of searching and every different spelling of their >> names, we have never found them on a census record anywhere--I even hired >> a >> professional to do the census check and he couldn't find anything - so, >> my >> question is, why would there be people that never show up on a census >> record? Has anyone else had this problem? Were the census records so >> inaccurate that this could happen? Anyone have any opinions on this? >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com 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 TXREDRIV-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.15/847 - Release Date: 6/12/2007 9:42 PM