tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89894519303054130212024-02-07T17:02:17.686-08:00Carrow and Faunt family talesGenealogy about and for my family lines which begin with a Carrow and a Faunt who met and married in a small town near the Delaware River.Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-65312864427226300712012-12-13T12:48:00.002-08:002012-12-13T12:48:24.602-08:00For Family And Friends
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Calibri;">23andme tests the entire genome which is 22 chromosomes and
the X and the Y and mitoDNA.A male has one X and one Y.Everyone has
mitoChondrial DNA which they inherit from their mother, only females pass on
their mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).Females have 2 Xs,one from each parent.Men get
one only from their mother..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The test is Autosomal which means across the whole genome
and arrayed are 2 of each chromosome ( maternal and paternal).</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">They are in tiny tiny pieces called SNPS<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>different from older tests on<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>mitoDNA and Y DNA tests which are in STRS. STRS are bigger chunks of
DNA.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">These autosomal snps are in clusters inherited through your
ancestors and are specific to YOU and your family.Anyone who you share a
segment with is related to YOU, the larger the segment the more closely
related.Smaller segments of less than 6.5cM are thought to indicate an
ancestral place or a very distant ancestor and shared by many more people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Calibri;">I now have 1082 cousin matches,some are my first cousins who
I knew about. Others are startlingly with people I never knew about who descend
with me from John Carrow’s line<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>1660-1750; Charles Swanson in 1809;my many Irish ancestors and a few
cousin from the same small village north of the Arctic Circle where my
grandfather Sigurd Boe was born.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Calibri;">23andme also tests health traits for the same $99 and they
are also available to you without charge. Every time new tests get completed
new cousin matches and health traits are sent to you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">I have tested Family Tree DNA's Family Finder, 23andme and
DeCodeME ( by upload). I have not tested at AncestryDNA but it is available to
me via a cousin and it is not as good as the other two.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I feel 23andme is the BEST autosomal test It has the largest
database at about 200,000 and are now in a growth phase to reach 1 Million..
Family Tree DNA has about 35,000 and AncestryDNA has slightly more than 50,000
( they have given many free tests out)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am an Administrator of 5 surname groups at Family Tree
DNA, 3 Ancestor Projects at GEDmatch.com</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">and 5 at Ancestry.com.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Calibri;">Gedmatch.com and others are called “third party” comparison
sites. They are available to folks for free.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">You must have access to your Raw Genome to transfer your
data to the third party</span> <span style="color: #674ea7;">sites.Ancestry.com currently does not allow you access
to your own genome so transfers cannot happen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Family Tree DNA allows upload of 23andme genome for a
transfer fee of $89. You must have a V3( newer test) to do that upload.23andme
does not upload FTDNA data at this time. AncestryDNA used to allow you to manually
put your test results from other companies into their groups but that is no
longer being done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">DEcodeME is an Icelandic company that allowed genome
transfer but they have been purchased by another company.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-73809092075168363652012-02-17T14:28:00.001-08:002012-02-17T14:57:31.769-08:00It's been HOW long?<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">It has been a whole year since I have communicated via this blog.I DO Communicate on Facebook where I have some groups for family and genetic genealogy and at the various DNA testing sites where I participate.Find me there!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Last year was one of change..some health issues, now remedied resulted in losing 47 pounds and walking two miles a day.My better half fell and broke 5 ribs so we were pretty much chained to the farm, as well as needing daily help with the horses.Upwards and onwards is my motto this year.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">March will find us in Florida for 10 days in our travel trailer.April we will be at our Beach house on the Outer Banks with family for Easter. In June we hope for a week in New Jersey and then back to the Beach in July with maybe the whole family.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"> While in Florida I will spend a day with my 2nd cousin who "found" me via my Ancestry.com Tree.Our grandmother's were sisters.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Currently I am waiting with bated breath for my 23andme test results to be uploaded to Family Tree DNA.I am hoping to match with lots of new cousins via that route.The Norway DNA site has maybe 50 people who have tested there.I have joined that group.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">As administrator of 5 surname groups there I anticipate matches with Irish cousins and Colonial Delaware folks also.FTDNA where I originally tested almost 6 years ago is pairing with a genealogy company and they will reciprocally share records.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">April 2 the 1940 census will be available and am SO Looking forward to finding new information.Additionally Ancestry.com has an autosomal large group of tests coming out in some fashion. I have several DNA groups there as well.Wondering if they will allow uploads from either FTDNA or 23andme?</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Finally 23andme has begun some exciting new efforts for Genealogy minded customers. They also at this point are the "biggest game in town" with 200,000+ autosomal kits. I remain committed to them for cousin matches but new winds are blowing everywhere as regards to genetic genealogy.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Life is exciting for those of us who participate in this field of interest.</span>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-60214143878089962982011-02-11T07:09:00.000-08:002011-02-11T07:54:21.961-08:00Was This a Defining Moment for the Faunt Family?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfCWX3NxE9uf2LUwj1ZjQQHaoTO844KppXhBHwYZfqDynWL7VBL4F2ziRWhjJ6U0klmhIgl2NH8ewrSQ4YVq8FdodnUhJrw60qLKW0redm2dkzzEVGypR4d8SagYUWa_xmXhxwGjBhWBw/s1600/Rose+Faunt.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 71px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572452737880033346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfCWX3NxE9uf2LUwj1ZjQQHaoTO844KppXhBHwYZfqDynWL7VBL4F2ziRWhjJ6U0klmhIgl2NH8ewrSQ4YVq8FdodnUhJrw60qLKW0redm2dkzzEVGypR4d8SagYUWa_xmXhxwGjBhWBw/s200/Rose+Faunt.bmp" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDEgIMhA6c6sT4g2K2GNsIzuiB8eY11w3SYfohSnu9doBKgdZ2FOsyUINjEo6pECR1ypgK_IGpSt6a-1az-uqeGlUPFJDjqHYTPGcfAcSZi_m8olj6zRqtLmhkHN0_QmFxTEsZ8n2Mw8a/s1600/William+Faunt+baby.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 114px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572450174880567634" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDEgIMhA6c6sT4g2K2GNsIzuiB8eY11w3SYfohSnu9doBKgdZ2FOsyUINjEo6pECR1ypgK_IGpSt6a-1az-uqeGlUPFJDjqHYTPGcfAcSZi_m8olj6zRqtLmhkHN0_QmFxTEsZ8n2Mw8a/s200/William+Faunt+baby.bmp" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixbn0P_LspgIZAUrpROshl_pjz1jp2GRTDu_LnueUxxQAIjRVWlSi7rKY0LWC3kSMhd7b1bKoud2QLz6oQBaNXm002GnCMORiAO4bO3agVLlCavWHqwl348Do0hBhSDV8gbG-JBnOWNGMm/s1600/William+Faunt.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 82px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572450030567409938" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixbn0P_LspgIZAUrpROshl_pjz1jp2GRTDu_LnueUxxQAIjRVWlSi7rKY0LWC3kSMhd7b1bKoud2QLz6oQBaNXm002GnCMORiAO4bO3agVLlCavWHqwl348Do0hBhSDV8gbG-JBnOWNGMm/s200/William+Faunt.bmp" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihq9b1FwwR4TTO1Acjaf7SbCP4fhYTPNpET1lqaNh073tkOVMUkqGK60lUSOYxAf_M3qJkuAS_NU6564t97Pgp-AO92bcab4-S6HJPb89l-zFGRyUgnk017F-IgMuO8H8zRQ1uDA8ndOn5/s1600/Ellen+Faunt.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 126px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572449890983199618" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihq9b1FwwR4TTO1Acjaf7SbCP4fhYTPNpET1lqaNh073tkOVMUkqGK60lUSOYxAf_M3qJkuAS_NU6564t97Pgp-AO92bcab4-S6HJPb89l-zFGRyUgnk017F-IgMuO8H8zRQ1uDA8ndOn5/s200/Ellen+Faunt.bmp" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#663333;">Our <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt</span> family has connected on several levels in the past two years. Cousins from the siblings of my Patrick <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt</span> who share William and Ellen as progenitors are sharing pieces of what we know. Two weeks ago the 1885 New Jersey census index was online and I found our family in somewhat different configurations than I saw in the 1880 census.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#663333;">My Patrick , married to Mary <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugan</span> and listed as "Patsy" is listed in two separate places, although both are him. William and Ellen and younger children are joined by Louisa <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt</span>.Louisa I had previously found in the 1900 census with a baby named Helen ( another variation of Ellen).I did not know who she was but her place in the 1885 census as a child less than 5 must signify she is a child of the family.</span></div><div><span style="color:#663333;"></span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#663333;">I have never been able to find Ellen <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt's</span> death but after William dies in February 1889 she marries Charles Schneider a Prussian born baker. Her daughters Jennie and Nelly are married in that decade. Is Ellen deceased by 1900? I think she may be and surely in 1911 when her son Michael passes away as his obituary so states.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#663333;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#663333;">Now I go on to look at the events posted here and wonder if the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">commitment</span> of William <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt</span> to the state hospital signified in 1887 the end of the family living together? Did the deaths of the two children above cause a crisis in the family? They lost at least 4 children, one a first William in Belfast before they immigrated.</span><span style="color:#663333;">Does the peace bond against Ellen <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt</span> predict or tell us anything?</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#663333;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#663333;">Patrick <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt</span> married Mary <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugan</span> in 1883.They lost at least one child also and Mary <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugan</span> passes away in 1902. Edward <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt</span> my grandfather was less than 4 and Jesse was 2. Patrick as a single parent leaves something to be desired or maybe the times were just very tough. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Grandpop</span> told me nothing of those years except that evictions were constant and that the children often needed to run home from school to save their possessions which were at the curb.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#663333;">He never said he was motherless but that surely played into his inability to cope with his own 4 children when Grandmother <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">Retta</span> dies at 25.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#663333;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#663333;">Was this a family in trouble between 1885 and William's death in 1889. What did "dementia " mean in this case? Did he have a stroke or was he a very heavy drinker? He was only 47 years old. Did his children take sides? Children of his younger brother William, who was affluent, know nothing about our family. William <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt's</span> children visited with Jennie and Nelly's families over the years.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color:#663333;">Was my "Patsy " a drinker or a gambler? He marries again possibly twice and has two children Helen born in 1915 and George Patrick 1918. George Patrick <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt</span> is killed in WWII.</span></div><div><span style="color:#663333;"></span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#663333;">I don't know, maybe he just remained tied to Old Country ways because the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugans</span>, his <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">in laws</span> visited in Beverly and were know to us.. Surely poor Patsy was not successful. His wife Mary and his mother worked as Green Grocers both in Beverly and Philadelphia until their deaths, that part we do know.</span></div></div></div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-63347530906622506362010-07-11T13:18:00.000-07:002010-07-11T13:50:25.876-07:00Taking a breather and Sullivans!<span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">It surely has been awhile since I posted.I have been managing 5 genetic genealogy DNA accounts which is very very time consuming.This will be a brief return and I will try to do better.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Two of the biggest mysteries I wanted to solve with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">autosomal</span> DNA was first to ascertain my Grandfather's identity and that has been done. This week 23<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">andme</span> introduced an "Ancestry Finder" program that is both exciting and informative. It shows the 23 chromosomes and our matches, even those who decline to contact. l It is a bit like a crystal ball and shows my ethnic background in a nutshell as # 1 Ireland and #2 Norway. (well it varies a bit but I said a nutshell)</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Very wonderful experience for me.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">The number two mystery I wanted to unravel was the family of my <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">mitoDNA</span> ancestor Margaret Lynch of Cork who is born in 1841 and marries Charles <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Rementer</span> most likely in 1860 in Rhode Island. I have known of her <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">existence</span> for almost 30 years and have gotten no further than that.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Enter DNA and I have a very close match with a full sequence Mitochondrial test which shows 2 of us as being almost 2 peas in a pod with J2b1a1 mutations. Our ancestors both hailed from Cork around 1840. We have hung in THAT spot for almost 2 years..</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">My buddy and I have tested first our own <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">autosomal</span> DNA and then a host of cousins and siblings</span> <span style="color:#660000;">( I have but one).My sister Carol, bless her, spit for the family cause and with that we miraculously got two matches on her DNA.My DNA apparently did not take this excursion.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Having been recently told by a cousin that our Lynch family was said to be cousins with the noted John L.Sullivan, I pounced on both a Lynch and a Sullivan cousin match when they "came in". Apparently my Margaret was born to a Jeremiah Lynch and a Mary or <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Margaret Sullivan</span> from the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Beara</span> peninsula near <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bantry</span> Bay. </span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">I definitely have a general location and also know that THIS generation at least came to Newport Rhode Island and stayed in New England for keeps. Later generations of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sullivans</span> may not have done so.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;">I am content.</span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#660000;"></span>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-45035290890050882882010-05-09T07:33:00.000-07:002010-05-09T07:40:52.294-07:00Mother's Day for Elizabeth Faunt Carrow<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Nyxak8deLeEJE6BNjATBb4lYAAMr89fRg8JcyzHGbVJNyaqb8JTcE25pt6g9ZouLQcfeipK_rygYcmeC3dPDcJrcm6eomlE8SvqMPW5k0HWMfEoEDHwQKXwUmniO2CQXdKtJKuipVw00/s1600/Mom.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 147px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469279252876892018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Nyxak8deLeEJE6BNjATBb4lYAAMr89fRg8JcyzHGbVJNyaqb8JTcE25pt6g9ZouLQcfeipK_rygYcmeC3dPDcJrcm6eomlE8SvqMPW5k0HWMfEoEDHwQKXwUmniO2CQXdKtJKuipVw00/s200/Mom.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#333399;">Your mother is always with you... She's the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the street. Your mother lives inside your laughter. She's the place you came from, your first home...She's the map you follow with every step that you take and nothing on earth can separate you. Not time, Not space...Not even death will ever separate you from your mother... love going out to my Mom who I now understand so much better..</span></div><div><span style="color:#333399;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#333399;">Thanks of course to my genealogy efforts and the genetic genealogy which has lately been consuming my time, I do now know so much more about Mom's childhood and her own mother.</span></div><div><span style="color:#333399;">I know more most probably than she ever did about <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Swansons</span>, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunts</span> and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugans</span> those folks whose lives made us all what we are.</span></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-50166979186654018782010-03-15T07:41:00.000-07:002010-03-15T08:55:38.541-07:00Madness Monday - How many Duggans?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixmwNhFFIzsbg3WTGs8R6xsUJa3Yvjs6WVtltOtu6tUssyY4dYmkcHFdEtjDFUzLhHMDH1fBCF-uMN_csv0KJVJW43_NJgBUo_aFUpT5_XuIgKbH-G0xXlz222NJ40vdyVZKoTwDRJKTdo/s1600-h/Barney+Dugan+circa+1920.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 128px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448883056652031682" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixmwNhFFIzsbg3WTGs8R6xsUJa3Yvjs6WVtltOtu6tUssyY4dYmkcHFdEtjDFUzLhHMDH1fBCF-uMN_csv0KJVJW43_NJgBUo_aFUpT5_XuIgKbH-G0xXlz222NJ40vdyVZKoTwDRJKTdo/s200/Barney+Dugan+circa+1920.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMdkSElviBZwHSr32WS_XuHK1zRDDSnFI6hj9HZbnLkfVUG5ZmOHh5ry2mLjN_S3so6fqP3wT2td7nfuq-8CNYkYDf7vnzkVHAG6m9Xfp0DJrcdPgsi1qVHn885KsITnPSwXVpuef8Qlmf/s1600-h/Tory.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448879216477795074" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMdkSElviBZwHSr32WS_XuHK1zRDDSnFI6hj9HZbnLkfVUG5ZmOHh5ry2mLjN_S3so6fqP3wT2td7nfuq-8CNYkYDf7vnzkVHAG6m9Xfp0DJrcdPgsi1qVHn885KsITnPSwXVpuef8Qlmf/s200/Tory.jpg" /></a><br /><strong><span style="color:#006600;">Tory Island</span></strong><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMPhcE7tz5OpsbiNp28w57nhgBmY-hXKxizO2-L1mBDqHyshoGGn9l1EFRZVWO-7YUix5KEvhfdwgaW46J3uGGroTCb9cEZ24SY5ORi306nACFF7nHkHprnycP1iqjGfSlCywQ3QuLJbXS/s1600-h/Tory.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">Close to St.Patrick's Day it makes sense that the number of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugan</span> families living in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Falcarragh</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Donegal</span> in 1850 is at least a sense of puzzlement, if not actual madness.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">A clue came a year or so ago when my male cousin of this line matched no others in his Y line DNA not even the 'other' Paddy <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugan</span> from that area.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">A larger clue came last week when I got a "cousin match" at 23<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">andMe's</span> Relative Finder, another woman and I share a segment on a chromosome. She and I both descend from a Patrick <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugan</span> from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Falcarragh</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Donegal</span>.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">So why is this maddening in any way?Well remember the Y DNA? We don't match these <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugans</span>.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">New cousin has a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Duggan</span>/<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Doogan</span> marriage, so surely that is where we come in?No, those names and locations do not identity our family either.They are called the '<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bartley</span>' <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Duggans</span> from the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">Rosses</span>, still not us!!</span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">Pictured above is Bernard 'Barney' <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugan</span>, my Great Grandma's brother. We have lots of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bernards</span> (aka Bryan) and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Denises</span> in our family.Ours are farmers and not the owners of 'The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error">Rosses</span>" a historical pub.</span> </div><div></div><span style="color:#006600;"></span><div><span style="color:#006600;">New cousin and I suspect a McFadden or a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">McClafferty</span> is in fact our common ancestor who passed down our segment of chromosome #12. We are on it and each have another cousin testing.</span></div><p><span style="color:#006600;">How about those <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugans</span>? Well my cousins and I are looking into the possibility that we are in fact, 'Tory Island <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error">Doohans</span>'. This family was known to marry into the somewhat unrelated <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error">Duggan</span> and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error">Doogan</span> families from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error">Falcarragh</span> also. Many records spell it <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-error">Doohan</span> I have found and we are surely working on it.</span><br /></p><p><span style="color:#006600;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-error">Éirinn</span> go <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-error">Brách</span></span><br /></p></div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-79050868196610574912010-02-24T05:59:00.000-08:002010-02-24T06:25:31.024-08:00Wordless Wednesday (sort of) - Autosomal DNA,cousins and me<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuM9CIjm2PYO_CBfSUE6B3iuljVo3GlwjsI0tqq61RfOtGZUi1AHEnc6vSiaHeCGU_Z0UJmoV7Bl-NF2gxkVSfiT_-THAsDYcBB05u6jfe23UPXuPuplojfs1UPP_n3gmMU1Aq3KsNCM3M/s1600-h/Mary.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 112px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441814919920935282" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuM9CIjm2PYO_CBfSUE6B3iuljVo3GlwjsI0tqq61RfOtGZUi1AHEnc6vSiaHeCGU_Z0UJmoV7Bl-NF2gxkVSfiT_-THAsDYcBB05u6jfe23UPXuPuplojfs1UPP_n3gmMU1Aq3KsNCM3M/s200/Mary.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Iw0ipTcY3e4IjJp_m0Ike8JdR1hgXm6BCLxyowD5IQjBP1xZHp5Y8Gc2n_L1yJH3KDT4r5B-vgqzhZPu8yf1ZhGT9IO5k-cY7dvRzlwDJvSjnaQIF6E2t62_qSfNvhJeJJCMRmbtlPFL/s1600-h/William+carrow.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441814719340497506" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Iw0ipTcY3e4IjJp_m0Ike8JdR1hgXm6BCLxyowD5IQjBP1xZHp5Y8Gc2n_L1yJH3KDT4r5B-vgqzhZPu8yf1ZhGT9IO5k-cY7dvRzlwDJvSjnaQIF6E2t62_qSfNvhJeJJCMRmbtlPFL/s200/William+carrow.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">In addition to testing my <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">autosomal</span> DNA at 23<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">andme</span> in their 'Relative Finder' and finding out my unknown paternal ethnic background I have had two REMARKABLE cousin matches.</span><span style="color:#cc0000;">We each share a segment of a chromosome, part of a larger segment passed on by our <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carrow</span> ancestors all three of whom were siblings born between 1814 and 1830 in Duck Creek Delaware.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#cc0000;">Family Tree DNA will also begin a similar testing program called 'Family Finder'. I have been a surname group administrator there for a few years.Instead of words today I will include links to what I am talking about. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carrows</span> please join the Ancestry.com group! Also there is a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt</span>, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Rementer</span>, Swanson and Norwegian group.</span></div><div><a href="http://groups.ancestry.com/signup/respond.aspx?invid=AHgfBfwdUVd484DebDOSiQ">http://groups.ancestry.com/signup/respond.aspx?invid=AHgfBfwdUVd484DebDOSiQ</a><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/landing/family-finder.aspx">https://www.familytreedna.com/landing/family-finder.aspx</a><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.23andme.com/">https://www.23andme.com/</a></div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-4054138105299216962010-02-18T15:12:00.001-08:002010-02-18T15:24:25.975-08:00A Treasure from Troms Norway<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiq_0HBVjBjaBQEv0SEuLUxAfMEZCehNeNk5imq-Q4cVa-6DuZr-m7NHZnoEoPKGHc6of2F8qo_pXINaMJwfqY1G1UmSjZbslIfa7EzTKVep4lyJ1HrpxqHs_L4mxs6ps5Zbx7fMNcO2hw/s1600-h/Tore+Hund.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 180px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439725594822835538" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiq_0HBVjBjaBQEv0SEuLUxAfMEZCehNeNk5imq-Q4cVa-6DuZr-m7NHZnoEoPKGHc6of2F8qo_pXINaMJwfqY1G1UmSjZbslIfa7EzTKVep4lyJ1HrpxqHs_L4mxs6ps5Zbx7fMNcO2hw/s200/Tore+Hund.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="color:#666600;">Bleak and bare in this woodcut, this view of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bjarkoy</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Troms</span> Norway is from about 1000 AD. It represents a "Peasant Revolution" against the King of Norway King Olaf by the citizenry and in particular one Tore <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hund</span>.</span><br /><p><span style="color:#666600;">Olaf ( also called St.Olaf ) was killed by <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hund</span> a native of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bjarkoy on July 29, 1030</span>.</span><span style="color:#666600;">I have not yet found Tore in my ancestor file, thank goodness, he looks a bit grumpy.</span></p><p><span style="color:#666600;">I am struck by the stark scenery although of course it is stylized.</span></p><p></p>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-33270433580333731842010-02-16T15:01:00.000-08:002010-02-16T15:27:22.748-08:00Tombstone Tuesday - Sadie Kirwan Carrow<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOOJoCsQqrcTGigwYBslg4sVe7PIAnMA5xF_ZPnkWZBuuFWKiPQmuiZGdbOmflHgyiKBhzZCq0i5eVja9aHBTC2bqBoRUiIJA7paQhptKf2N6bOiQeG0ggq8qBpb7FKYT6wLSsvxl8DiA/s1600-h/nj+oct+04+017.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 133px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438982101987828386" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOOJoCsQqrcTGigwYBslg4sVe7PIAnMA5xF_ZPnkWZBuuFWKiPQmuiZGdbOmflHgyiKBhzZCq0i5eVja9aHBTC2bqBoRUiIJA7paQhptKf2N6bOiQeG0ggq8qBpb7FKYT6wLSsvxl8DiA/s200/nj+oct+04+017.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWb-9BvcE9HDPYKwLkNL9mTEQhpHGYXM8Yhnd1Ae8aN5wd-PUBbvEuElU3c5fso7jYOVME9uFzVqtjCKvjNsRpwVCyMRM2dpNtbUbCFnBB-wWUI_-t6ELgXo8tGE__mpNVlgN3A8BLzdfx/s1600-h/nj+oct+04+018.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 133px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438981669229977426" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWb-9BvcE9HDPYKwLkNL9mTEQhpHGYXM8Yhnd1Ae8aN5wd-PUBbvEuElU3c5fso7jYOVME9uFzVqtjCKvjNsRpwVCyMRM2dpNtbUbCFnBB-wWUI_-t6ELgXo8tGE__mpNVlgN3A8BLzdfx/s200/nj+oct+04+018.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="color:#006600;">My father, mother and I spent hours one Saturday afternoon carrying a pot of geraniums looking for his Grandmother's grave at Old St.Joseph's in Swedesboro NJ.</span><br /><span style="color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#006600;"></span><span style="color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">Sadie adopted and raised my father her grandson and only grandchild after my Grandmother Elizabeth sent him back to Penns Grove from Baltimore MD when he was about 3.</span><br /><span style="color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">She died during WWII and all Dad knew is that she was buried next to her mother and 'near the fence'. We were told the graves had 'sunk'. Dad always wanted to get her a headstone.</span><br /><span style="color:#006600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#006600;">I was able to find Sadie's grave as well as her mother Lizzie Sweeney Kirwan who died when Sadie was about 3. I purchased her a headstone, poor dear soul. </span><span style="color:#006600;"> A Boy Scouts Eagle project had righted the graves leaving Lizzie's stone after 100 + years.She died in 1890.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#006600;">Requiescat in pace et lux perpetua luceat, Sadie, Lizzie and baby Maggie</span>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-80451924623839938782010-02-16T06:33:00.000-08:002010-02-16T07:03:20.844-08:00Norwegian Bygdebok, my cousins and Neil<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWyXNwYohCSBhKDnsyRVBm8RFDxEsu9-TJO-qj350OtghFMcyKqCgJ4wV8aS3XMYpZI91q1hNAoOdTs6umEm1DpFlxWFfsfZk6uGRgXS-MoH3ZvJTDmt8QQKjjhPe6LKOYylrP_WG7PWB/s1600-h/fjordhes.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 48px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438856256952561218" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWyXNwYohCSBhKDnsyRVBm8RFDxEsu9-TJO-qj350OtghFMcyKqCgJ4wV8aS3XMYpZI91q1hNAoOdTs6umEm1DpFlxWFfsfZk6uGRgXS-MoH3ZvJTDmt8QQKjjhPe6LKOYylrP_WG7PWB/s200/fjordhes.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#666600;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#666600;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#666600;">I was able to determine through 23<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">andME</span> that my previously unknown grandfather was in fact my <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">stepgrandfather</span> Sigurd <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Boe</span> a Norwegian sailor from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bjarkoy</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Troms</span> Norway. </span></div><div><span style="color:#666600;">Norwegian records being astonishingly wonderful I was able to find his family of origin and later his extended paternal family in another Norwegian county. My closest Scandinavian matches at 23and me are both Norwegian but both have an adoption. They both have names and locations. </span></div><div><span style="color:#666600;"></span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#666600;">A wonderful man whose passion is the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bygdebok</span> for <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Laerdal</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sogn og Fjordane</span> Norway sent me his work of art..5 books for <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Laerdal</span> in a genealogical database that goes back to the 1600s. In that I was able to find the families of my 23<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">andMe</span> cousins and it <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">indicates</span> I am related to their family although distantly. A small miracle.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#666600;">A definition: " <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bygdebøker</span> are basically local history books that contain a wealth of genealogy information. A <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">bygdebok</span> will generally cover a small community, perhaps one or two parishes".</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#666600;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#666600;">I am amazed, thankful. and grateful. My heartfelt thanks to Neil and whatever ancestors guided our efforts to find one another.</span></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-83737505782107278162010-02-03T05:07:00.000-08:002010-02-03T05:13:15.890-08:00Wordless Wednesday - Faces of America<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/">http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Join me in front of your TV on this date. I discovered so much of my heritage via DNA that it almost is unbelievable.</span>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-5039521654564347662010-01-31T07:25:00.000-08:002010-01-31T09:15:04.854-08:00Sentimental Surname Sunday - Keys of Delmarva<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSHxO5Hc1l2P4S5OEmxk7-4jU7tyOhAe-2aGzVTxjT-YZtUQW76xZWYY_YJl_ERgRGZ7XWPy0A_3Gj3m3OQrS6gadldCv1t_-971IKPw6IjiGFXqpgGwA-0cKSjka6xOqRHVTcapjeD_EQ/s1600-h/ststephensbw.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 158px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432936438151893106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSHxO5Hc1l2P4S5OEmxk7-4jU7tyOhAe-2aGzVTxjT-YZtUQW76xZWYY_YJl_ERgRGZ7XWPy0A_3Gj3m3OQrS6gadldCv1t_-971IKPw6IjiGFXqpgGwA-0cKSjka6xOqRHVTcapjeD_EQ/s200/ststephensbw.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#660000;">In preparation for my <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carrow</span> and allied families compilation, I wrote this and decided it was both a surname and sentimental. I decided to post it here as my week-end endeavor.</span><br /><br /></div><div><span style="color:#660000;">I first became aware of the Keys family when I became acquainted with Mary Keys <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carrow</span> as an ancestor. I had hoped in 2005 to establish John <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carrow</span> as a Revolutionary War ancestor but his geographic location during that time was in question. Vernon Skinner who has researched large parts of my Delmarva lines for me presented me with William Keys as a Revolutionary War Patriot and I was very happy to have found him.He (William not Vern) and I were easily established into the Daughters of the American Revolution database.<br /><br />William Keys may have served in the French and Indian Wars as a young man We do know he is born in Queen County Maryland March 23, 1738 and is baptized at St.Luke’s Parish there. His parents were John Keys (Key, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kees</span>) and Anne <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sewell</span> daughter of Rev. Richard <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sewell</span> of Cecil County. He first appears in our sights in Kent County Delaware when he returns from his Revolutionary War service. He is not found in Kent Co. prior to 1782.<br /><br />William serves in the Continental Army as a Private 1st Company, 2<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">nd</span> Battalion under, Col. Otho Holland Williams Regiment, Southern Army of the United States. He served in the Delaware Regiment until very late in 1782. He was at or near Yorktown at the surrender surely as his unit served under Gen. Nathaniel Greene.<br /><br />They then marched to near Charleston SC where at Camp Ashley River they kept the British under <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">surveillance</span> with nightly skirmishes for 2 more years. Records show they (Delaware and Maryland regiments) were extremely poorly clothed and underfed.<br /><br />Did William return to Queen Anne Maryland and marry? This is a possibility as although he had property in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Murderkill</span> Hundred Delaware in 1782 we find him not living there and either <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">unfound</span> or delinquent until 1786. In 1786 he is head of household and we find him there until 1794 occasionally as William <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kus</span> and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kees</span>. He marries Mary who may be a connection of Nathaniel Wilds wife Mary so is possibly an <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ebtharp</span>, Numbers, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tilton</span> or <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">Alleband</span> from Queen Anne Maryland.<br /><br />Did William have a prior wife or children? This is unknown although there are two William Keys’ mentioned in Maryland in prior years in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dorchester</span>. It is surely possible although we do know there is at least one other William Keys living in Maryland.<br /><br />We do know that our William with his growing family is in Dover Hundred in 1793. In 1792 a Bounty Land grant was applied for by William although it is not obvious whether it was used for this or sold for cash. Did William sicken at this time due to his years in the swamps near Camp Ashley River SC? He is not found in tax lists until his Probate accounts in 1796.<br /><br />Children born to William and Mary during those years are Mary, Elizabeth, Ann ,Priscilla and lastly his only son William in 1795. Timothy Lister who marries Mary Keys present accounts in 1796. He is stepfather to the children and Mary Keys <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carrow</span> names her first son Timothy surely in his honor. Elizabeth Keys who marries John Cook names her first son William Keys Cook after her departed father.</span> </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;">John <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error">Keye</span> is the first man bearing the name that I can link with a paper trial through the generations. In 1665 he is listed as a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">Headright</span> and by 1669 he is a servant on the plantation of William <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">Parrott</span> on the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error">Choptank</span> River Talbot County at “Seventh Heaven”.<br />He must have been <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">successful</span> during this time as he next comes into view in 1696 as John <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error">Keye</span>, witness to the will of John Pennington. He has two sons John and Richard born between 1688 and 1696.<br /><br />He is a member of St. Stephen’s Parish, Cecil Co where in 1696, a John <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error">Keye</span> he witnessed the will of John Pennington. He is widowed at some point and makes the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">acquaintance</span> of Henry Pennington who dies 1702 <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sassafrass</span> Neck MD.It is possible that his first wife could have been a relative of John Pennington but what we know for sure is that Elizabeth as wife of John Keys, filed administration accounts as widow of Henry Pennington in 1702. Another witness to Henry’s will is Thomas <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ebtharp</span> and this family that will follow us into Kent County.</span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;"><br /></div></span><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;">Elizabeth Boyer Pennington Keys as widow of Cecil Co., deposed her age as 57 in 1721. She dies 25 April,1738 and is buried at St. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_27" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Stephen</span>’s Episcopal Church, in Cecil County. Elizabeth and John Keys have a son Thomas who is born about 1706 who signed inventory of Richard Keys as next of kin in 1748 and with wife Esther, filed administration accounts on estate of John Irons the same year.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;">Many of the Keys family either precede William into Kent County Delaware and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_28" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dorchester</span> County Maryland around the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_29" class="blsp-spelling-error">pre</span>- and post Revolutionary years.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#660000;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#660000;">Reverend Richard <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_30" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sewell</span> grandfather of William <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_31" class="blsp-spelling-error">Keyes</span> is a player in all of this as</span> <span style="color:#660000;">he was sent by the Bishop of London, and appointed by Governor Nicholson to serve as the rector of both North and South <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_32" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sassafrass</span> parishes of St.Stephens' Church in Cecil County Maryland.He married Jane Ellis there in 1699 and was the father-in-law of John Keys the younger.</span></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-70968029460193780002010-01-28T06:44:00.000-08:002010-01-28T07:07:18.836-08:00Treasure Chest Thursday<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPphj03Uq-YX7uCNRmbLxPn_3Gr1EF6ehSCfkw2wLeXNRt5eSsLTUlOztxMKmDH5GD-w7FGqjD1PoLH8wsL3Ta76oLo4U6IjwIezqeNDBYCDUvNrkCFgFHxBgfAuENhRzMxIn82ulOdXIq/s1600-h/Faunt+wedding.jpg"></a> <span style="color:#333399;">John Swanson and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Rebecca</span> Spencer</span><br /><div><span style="color:#000099;"></span> </div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Y-IG8j_vuuCja_S9fxKGhyW8oo-F_tNutbwslQXsCIyWc67srL6pIhzj-X2rALQXvftjyPLwnIlYkgC9EPVj3rnqrPzmBK1jVdmux8mMqDRxvVCy_qiWq-ZReJTxPNh2yTbUx_vNvwE9/s1600-h/Swanson+Bible.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 150px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431804928747509250" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Y-IG8j_vuuCja_S9fxKGhyW8oo-F_tNutbwslQXsCIyWc67srL6pIhzj-X2rALQXvftjyPLwnIlYkgC9EPVj3rnqrPzmBK1jVdmux8mMqDRxvVCy_qiWq-ZReJTxPNh2yTbUx_vNvwE9/s200/Swanson+Bible.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="color:#333399;">John <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carrow</span> and Mary Keys</span><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0WxswxOuoZlgAmQ2UkyqeQrttAOy_NrbivxNMsO34J_rn2_I0_3naZqQLtXLso5iMIOCywUj99JJcTpgOIjTbOcyKAHolhD9kQ9MFlzQYNl44R2NAnbdg6dmXOb8KNPytq31FQCUhcRX/s1600-h/carrow+bible+1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 152px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431804320827426338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip0WxswxOuoZlgAmQ2UkyqeQrttAOy_NrbivxNMsO34J_rn2_I0_3naZqQLtXLso5iMIOCywUj99JJcTpgOIjTbOcyKAHolhD9kQ9MFlzQYNl44R2NAnbdg6dmXOb8KNPytq31FQCUhcRX/s200/carrow+bible+1.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Two sides of my family in records.Without these marriages and these people who came before me and lived simple and honest lives, I would not exist.</span></div><div><span style="color:#000099;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#000099;">Without these records handed down sometimes absentmindedly, my family history would be nowhere.</span></div><span style="color:#000099;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#000099;">I am grateful for everyone who came before me and everyone who has helped in my search.</span> <div><br /><br /></div><div></div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-20769509978268969062010-01-28T06:14:00.000-08:002010-01-28T06:22:19.471-08:00(Belated) Wordless Wednesday<span style="color:#993300;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheJecFo6C3DfwHk4IP2Hg9-aCvVPxtjAi1v_0GF_BhgyHlCV66z3rsUaFrG68UCCDPi9RZ0Z66fA0XovW6cOjBaT6RaeHcCRTyaQ2Rpa-JVJL8blA8YQQwb0aN7qSQ-E42OmE18gqTD9Vb/s1600-h/Bjarkoy.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431794769334346530" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheJecFo6C3DfwHk4IP2Hg9-aCvVPxtjAi1v_0GF_BhgyHlCV66z3rsUaFrG68UCCDPi9RZ0Z66fA0XovW6cOjBaT6RaeHcCRTyaQ2Rpa-JVJL8blA8YQQwb0aN7qSQ-E42OmE18gqTD9Vb/s200/Bjarkoy.JPG" /></a><br /><p>Probable birthplace of Sigurd Ole Boe and home of his grandfather Ole Larson Boe.</p><p>Bjarkoy Troms Norway</p>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-67026014061796828992010-01-24T09:28:00.000-08:002010-01-24T10:08:00.874-08:00Sentimental Sunday - Line Street in Penns Grove<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHc05VkxK-g8kq7_6VIS1PApgMbtUEBGQll-nVmiBBMmfcZFIwvKP1dQgmjSCs97M-hjFG8_tapiHvy4TxQFK4ce_A88bdDRkSCxH2zDiXy9o6TG76edm_kRWMGbWaLzxKNw4R0z4ltxJ/s1600-h/kathleen.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 190px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430366198954864274" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHc05VkxK-g8kq7_6VIS1PApgMbtUEBGQll-nVmiBBMmfcZFIwvKP1dQgmjSCs97M-hjFG8_tapiHvy4TxQFK4ce_A88bdDRkSCxH2zDiXy9o6TG76edm_kRWMGbWaLzxKNw4R0z4ltxJ/s200/kathleen.jpg" /></a><br /><div><br /><div><div><span style="color:#996633;"></span></div><div></div><br /><div><span style="color:#996633;">A sentimental journey back in time to the first house I remember, 35 East Line Street <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Penns</span> Grove NJ. In addition to the house ( which I actually dream about sometimes ) I want to visit in my mind's eye my first real playmates who were not family. Joey <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Vanderslice</span> lived next door to me and his cousin Jerry Howard lived down the street. </span><br /></div><br /><div><span style="color:#996633;">In recent times I have come across genealogy records for their families also and realize they and others in their lines were very "Old Salem County" families. Of course we did not talk about those things being children with more immediate issues. Joey and Jerry came to my first birthday party in this new house built by my parents in the Post WWII era, I am sure.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#996633;">Jerry being somewhat older than I was was my escort for a first outing, to movie at the Grove a few streets away.My mother wrote this is my baby book in May 1950.Why then, I wonder was Mom surprised that I dropped her hand and went into kindergarten myself 3 months later?</span><br /></div><br /><div><span style="color:#996633;">Joey V. tried to teach me to shoot marbles but I had definite fine motor issues. I tried to interest him in my <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bobbsey</span> Twin books which I began to read at 5 and 6 but Joey was not a big reader.</span><span style="color:#996633;">I am not sure what we had in common except the neighborhood.I called his mother "Aunt Mae" and liked to hang in her kitchen where she was quite the cook.</span></div><div><span style="color:#996633;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#996633;">East Line Street was on the boundary line between <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Penns</span> Grove and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carneys</span> Point, then called Upper <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Penns</span> Neck. An old sewage ditch ran along the back property lines and behind that was a woods.Joey was allowed to explore, I was not but am unsure I would have ventured there anyway. None of that exists now.</span></div><div><span style="color:#996633;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#996633;">Joey's parents had chickens in a coop as did Jerry's. Jerry's family also did a bit of farming, I remember corn growing so surely they had more than the two acres we did. Others on the street had truck gardens and we were the last block in town before actual farms started.</span></div><div><span style="color:#996633;"></span> </div><div><span style="color:#996633;">Several years after that my mother went to work as school nurse and we moved to a big house on the river, their dream house.They never looked back,but in my minds eye and sometimes in my dreams I revisit that house and climb the steps and Joey calls me "Yo Kath-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">ee</span>" and off we run.</span></div></div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-25149054392692645422010-01-19T16:04:00.001-08:002010-01-19T16:26:39.001-08:00Tombstone Tuesday - The Sweeneys from Ireland<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAh5EPWTfb9EoRhpXCC0bApeYcHB_BQjbNJEspFxlAclXAYa4HC9pAd1JW7tOQUmziEK0he-7FEOJSqLVZiR7ZIBcDI-0k9ecWlQ0KUXrF_csG81Ay5Xh27wLQUMHwFTEKnUgKNR_1XGER/s1600-h/Sadie.jpg"></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7GzH53mFGQAVNoT9k0eJ52HRikkz-X_XULmFqjGgvATMRoKThysNemIjpwWeiEYANLSbY3QTznOSTop-FKLRxYM1tAOMUH0DtUPuk3VCknDd6cWsdupjTlOP5VhrYYpIMtShp-QDoLUI/s1600-h/Mary+Jane.bmp"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428606834014243410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7GzH53mFGQAVNoT9k0eJ52HRikkz-X_XULmFqjGgvATMRoKThysNemIjpwWeiEYANLSbY3QTznOSTop-FKLRxYM1tAOMUH0DtUPuk3VCknDd6cWsdupjTlOP5VhrYYpIMtShp-QDoLUI/s200/Mary+Jane.bmp" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXyv_KcU_gF9IpfiAyRFPUVuPYLIwgbYPJ2ggvoqtrsSig_EfdsOM6Op6yNN7-bd1XparPrzHSSaXCWxQ72-0xm5R5jTjNP6UdODXRyDNJriyPRhs270E4WLRFhG6czQsKkcSkIsD0j2fD/s1600-h/James.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428606619343162450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXyv_KcU_gF9IpfiAyRFPUVuPYLIwgbYPJ2ggvoqtrsSig_EfdsOM6Op6yNN7-bd1XparPrzHSSaXCWxQ72-0xm5R5jTjNP6UdODXRyDNJriyPRhs270E4WLRFhG6czQsKkcSkIsD0j2fD/s200/James.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilbOCJlKV4eIZd8MGYFJvrR6vi6RGcgbzsjHAUrmOb5B_T33x1RU6avwq_pvzM3LLqmDzpuYdpSJdvaT62V5ktdz0aKjGUnaTAGmU_gbkw9y-qLqrbkLb-ayS_HuGDdz4tEhHv1rHhIbzE/s1600-h/Sweeney.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428606484278872338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilbOCJlKV4eIZd8MGYFJvrR6vi6RGcgbzsjHAUrmOb5B_T33x1RU6avwq_pvzM3LLqmDzpuYdpSJdvaT62V5ktdz0aKjGUnaTAGmU_gbkw9y-qLqrbkLb-ayS_HuGDdz4tEhHv1rHhIbzE/s200/Sweeney.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;">James Sweeney and his wife Mary Jane Huey rest at St. Mary's RC Cemetery Salem NJ. </span><span style="color:#000099;">Mary Jane was from County Tyrone daughter of James and Letitia who were farmers. </span><span style="color:#000099;">James and Mary Jane were also farmers in the Quinton/Alloway area in Salem County NJ. They were among and early group of Catholics farming in South Jersey and James was a founding member perhaps of the Grange.</span></div><div><span style="color:#000099<br /><br />;"></span></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#000099;">Their children moved into Gloucester County near Swedesboro and attended St.Joseph's.</span><span style="color:#000099;">Their daughter Elizabeth married Patrick Kirwan also from Ireland. Lizzie dies young and tragically leaving young children and a newborn who lived one month.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#000099<br /><br />;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#000099;">Lizzie Sweeney Kirwans' daughter Sadie Kirwan Carrow raised and adopted as her own my father William Charles Carrow. Sadie was only 2 when her mother died and she was interred with her in Old St.Joseph's in Swedesboro.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#000099;"></span></div><div></div></div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-72266652396965214352010-01-15T06:47:00.000-08:002010-01-15T06:59:26.948-08:00Follow Friday - Whatever gets you there<span style="color:#003333;">I have been really immersed in my Norwegian DNA and have concluded that my step grandfather Sigurd Boe is actually my biological grandfather which he indicated at least twice to me. Norwegian records are awesome and free and I now have several generations of my paternal ancestors in and around Bjarkoy Troms Norway. A cousin, son of my father's half brother has been located thanks to a wonderful native of that small island, and I have exchanged pictures with him.<br /><br />I tried to do the same for our Swansons but it is very difficult.I paid for a trial subscription on Genline but so far it is an uphill struggle without knowing the parish.Norwegian records have something called ' bygddebok' which are family pedigrees for certain lines. Bless them!<br /><br />The Genline US specialist tells me ( as I knew ) that very likely our Swanson men were Anders and Carl son of Swen and from Gothenberg which can mean the city or the county. She sent some other possible places to check but our men came too early for them.<br /><br />One new thing was said however: "While they would not be part of the original Colonial Swedes or included in what is defined as the Colonial Swedes, they may have become active in the Swedish community at the time and joining some Swedish organizations. However, they may have known someone or been related to someone and that is why they emigrated to Philadelphia "</span><br /><span style="color:#003333;"></span><br /><span style="color:#003333;">So possibly we are actually some kin to the Colonial Swedes or were known to them. That could be a clue and I will follow it.</span>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-7555846407418968042010-01-13T09:44:00.000-08:002010-01-13T09:45:41.520-08:00Wordless Wednesday<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjYz_opW0kI_MocRJfW5Ddr-UNsc5ts52LjDG29ScdHhmD3Qsmy2ia36Bk2z7f-4ypDIK_8w9LFm-7tVEnMYcWmnAxzbdMrb0KDw-KdYI1HWKoe4M0mQpzRe27cemlGoF_yMiDihvWYAnI/s1600-h/Retta.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426281949916764146" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjYz_opW0kI_MocRJfW5Ddr-UNsc5ts52LjDG29ScdHhmD3Qsmy2ia36Bk2z7f-4ypDIK_8w9LFm-7tVEnMYcWmnAxzbdMrb0KDw-KdYI1HWKoe4M0mQpzRe27cemlGoF_yMiDihvWYAnI/s200/Retta.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-57711276596876153042010-01-12T16:56:00.000-08:002010-01-12T18:07:09.465-08:00Oh My Gosh! Happy 101 Award!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEw29aXtiC5xQiFD25Is0MiHI3CKqyVWRrM9PTzCUw4_t75TGn_o_M3_lhdaGha2KobTbyY54HkafvslOr5r0OoOu2evna5pZlOpLrvVfhRQVt7dNZF_Djm6RyQf1qpNEnKyT_kZho083n/s1600-h/Happy_101_Award-1_Sweet_Friends.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426022202829526002" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEw29aXtiC5xQiFD25Is0MiHI3CKqyVWRrM9PTzCUw4_t75TGn_o_M3_lhdaGha2KobTbyY54HkafvslOr5r0OoOu2evna5pZlOpLrvVfhRQVt7dNZF_Djm6RyQf1qpNEnKyT_kZho083n/s200/Happy_101_Award-1_Sweet_Friends.jpg" /></a><span style="color:#cc0000;"> Oh My Gosh! Here I am doing my genealogy and DNA intensely and not even Blogging and to my surprise I get an award. Linda <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">McCauley</span>, thank you! I sure did not get it for promptness.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Now 10 things that make me happy and 10 <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bloggers</span> who get an award.</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">1. My four adult children. ( 3 sons and a daughter)</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">2. My six grandchildren. ( 3 girls and 3 boys)</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">3. Jim who shares my life.</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">4. Finding Family ( if you read my blog, you know!)</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">5. Genetic Genealogy ( includes all those I have met doing it)</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">6. Reading ( Mysteries both historical and foreign)</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">7. Our Beach House ( Outer Banks 4 wheel drive)</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">8. Retirement ( always and every day I marvel at it.)</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">9. My New Jersey roots ( small town girl)</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">10. Blogging and sharing genealogy</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Now for 10 <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">awardees</span>, and this is hard (and late)therefore I absolve them of some of the second ten requirements (Waving my Magic Wand about).</span><span style="color:#cc0000;"> Some new ones who are very exciting and also my old favorites and some who have recently inspired me. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Gone But Not Forgotten </span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Ancestor Tracking</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Of Trolls and Lemons</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Nordic Blue</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">My Genealogy Blog</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">A Light That Shines Again</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Small-Leaved Shamrock</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">The Genetic Genealogist</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">The Spittoon</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Be Not Forgot</span>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-6689614577161406232010-01-06T10:32:00.000-08:002010-01-06T10:33:57.134-08:00Wordless Wednesday<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXYUdvh8fIztO05oEtScXmcwnh6ouJmf9mCLBiJBWThehhRvoH9shtOOutwQ4pjQHTbSY1TdSi1w0jjCxWB6r-9iLqQXosP8fdNnvg_RYjiKM8nbrJcmlpXljFK9z6LM1PP3vcExBxEnY/s1600-h/Christmas+006.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 133px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423696842736402402" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXYUdvh8fIztO05oEtScXmcwnh6ouJmf9mCLBiJBWThehhRvoH9shtOOutwQ4pjQHTbSY1TdSi1w0jjCxWB6r-9iLqQXosP8fdNnvg_RYjiKM8nbrJcmlpXljFK9z6LM1PP3vcExBxEnY/s200/Christmas+006.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-31109601412192007282010-01-02T06:22:00.000-08:002010-01-02T07:57:29.435-08:00Surname Saturday - Boe and Olsen<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj06xu7spWkZ4pVtymXZ5_AVbVVx7TeEFedXtmUNg3JoOpaN3LOm2msbLpUG4EdEJLWo6J-iklARHYheGJZiNNtm0nzXqohyphenhyphenAu2a9I8DaUXnh1AUiNHDEJUaQP6jeA7jtRc0WnStsqwLc3S/s1600-h/Sigurd+Boe+1969.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 151px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422171890248363330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj06xu7spWkZ4pVtymXZ5_AVbVVx7TeEFedXtmUNg3JoOpaN3LOm2msbLpUG4EdEJLWo6J-iklARHYheGJZiNNtm0nzXqohyphenhyphenAu2a9I8DaUXnh1AUiNHDEJUaQP6jeA7jtRc0WnStsqwLc3S/s200/Sigurd+Boe+1969.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#000099;">Several new ancestral surnames have bubbled to the surface for me in December.Most important for me I believe is what I have now deduced to be my paternal surname.</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">In November I wrote about my "Search for My Grandfather" an event which actually had propelled me into both genealogy and DNA in retirement. 'Holes' in a pedigree is what many of my genetic genealogy compatriots have in common and surely understand and I have written about that already.</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">With 209 current cousin matches on "Relative Finder" at 23<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">andme</span>, my closest matches are turning out to be from Norway. On this, the second exploration of my <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">autosomal</span> profile, but the first of the full genome ( all 23 <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">chromosomes</span>) a Baltic area native element like <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Saami</span> continues to be evident.</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Dad's stepfather Sigurd <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Boe</span> twice alluded to being Dad's father in my hearing.My Dad, although he referred to his mother and stepfather as "my parents" was less sure of this fact and he legally was named <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carrow</span> after his Grandparents adopted him. Four years ago for the first time I received Dad's birth certificate naming "Louis <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Saybold</span>" as the father but the document was stamped "illegitimate" and also gave his name as William Charles <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carrow</span>.</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Yesterday I found a link from another Blogger of the Digital <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Archives</span> of Norway. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Grandpop</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Boe's</span> death certificate as reported to the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Norwegian</span> consulate called him "Olaf <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Boe</span>.His given name was Sigurd <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">Boe</span> and sure enough I find <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ove</span> Sigurd's birth and his confirmation as <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ove</span> Sigurd <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Boe</span> in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bjarkoy</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">Troms</span> Norway.Thrilling to me of course!</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">His father is indicated as <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oskar</span> Ludvig <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bremer</span> {<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oleson</span>} and his mother <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error">Lorentse</span> Sofie <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kristiansdotr</span>. His paternal grandfather is listed as both Lars <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oleson</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-error">Boe</span> and Peder <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-error">Oleson</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_27" class="blsp-spelling-error">Boe</span> which I suppose points to the patronymic of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_28" class="blsp-spelling-error">Olesen</span> or 'son of Ole' and a place or origin name of Bo/<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_29" class="blsp-spelling-error">Boe</span>? I am not at all sure of that but I am sure it is him as he is born in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_30" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bjarkoy</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_31" class="blsp-spelling-error">Troms</span> as found in his first visa to the US in 1920.He seems to have retained his Norwegian citizenship although I know he received Social Security and a pension from a Philadelphia bank building where he was their operating engineer.</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Rounding out this found information in 2010 is the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_32" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">place</span> of residence of my Great grandparents</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_33" class="blsp-spelling-error">Slagstad</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_34" class="blsp-spelling-error">Troms</span> Norway which is either part of or near to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_35" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bjarkoy</span>. My paternal <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_36" class="blsp-spelling-error">GGrandmother</span> ( can you believe this!!) is Elisabeth <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_37" class="blsp-spelling-error">Martinsdatr</span> also of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_38" class="blsp-spelling-error">Slagstad</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_39" class="blsp-spelling-error">Troms</span> Norway.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-62844189655915127182010-01-01T06:36:00.000-08:002010-01-01T07:29:12.798-08:00Follow Friday 2010<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-J6XgKCK6WlwhymVF8hQAXbWsy4LIctrTNk1WGI9IwAHvaC3A56IB7n8XxnI0YOkMgsOn94X_lzftANYrroocAlPGyQKpG-_zWp_YTPrLe15OUmg1VN8ZNUUq_FY9FImcNlxxj0qtCgX/s1600-h/Margery.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 126px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421783409225531298" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-J6XgKCK6WlwhymVF8hQAXbWsy4LIctrTNk1WGI9IwAHvaC3A56IB7n8XxnI0YOkMgsOn94X_lzftANYrroocAlPGyQKpG-_zWp_YTPrLe15OUmg1VN8ZNUUq_FY9FImcNlxxj0qtCgX/s200/Margery.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#993300;">A new decade has arrived and with it my determination to continue discovering what I can about my ancestors. I use a multi-disciplinary approach for most things and genealogy is no exception; a favorite expression is "when the tide rises all the boats will float".</span><br /></div><br /><div><span style="color:#993300;">Who do I follow and what are my tools? A thoroughly modern 'baby boomer' I believe in shortcuts which include: genetic genealogy aka "DNA", the use of experienced and trusted researchers and my own anthropology education which highlights customs and traditions of each culture.In addition, I am grateful that I live in an age where I can find a birth record in the old country which will link me with another cousin.</span></div><div><span style="color:#993300;"></span></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#993300;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#993300;"></span></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#993300;">The end of the past decade allowed me to find cousins in New Zealand and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Donegal</span> Ireland who are now friends using all of the tools I just described. I also know the path of my family in this country from 1643 forward to the present day.</span></div><div><span style="color:#993300;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#993300;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#993300;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#993300;"></span></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#993300;">Susan <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carrow</span> and Don <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Carrow</span> whose ancestors left <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Accomac</span> Virginia and went to Bath North Carolina, David Font in New Zealand and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Manus</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">McClafferty</span> from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Falcarragh</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Donegal</span> as well as my Quinn/Doogan cousins are folks I now communicate with routinely thanks to this great age I live in.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#993300;"></span></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#993300;">In the coming decade I am vowing to illuminate my ancestors paths in even more detail. Online records some for free and some for a nominal amount of money will make that possible.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#993300;">As my cousin <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Manus</span> says "</span><span style="color:#006600;">Le <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">grá</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">agus</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">beannacht</span> </span><span style="color:#990000;">" for 2010.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#990000;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#990000;"></span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#993300;"></span></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-70460280505409586642009-12-01T08:12:00.000-08:002009-12-01T09:01:24.149-08:00Advent Calendar - The Christmas Tree<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhskdDMmkylufUG8zJnJBfOgBS7QAF6ydfjqc9idnXAvFvrnHurMH0oBSsOgJkt-F2NKv_SYDy1Q5KrHgNkVlyYWqokf1xxoM1ImRUdRsbPPalprqLAcTBmn1opbFay0IYTgZzojYyjGSBk/s1600/Christmas+1969.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 160px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410313205188711714" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhskdDMmkylufUG8zJnJBfOgBS7QAF6ydfjqc9idnXAvFvrnHurMH0oBSsOgJkt-F2NKv_SYDy1Q5KrHgNkVlyYWqokf1xxoM1ImRUdRsbPPalprqLAcTBmn1opbFay0IYTgZzojYyjGSBk/s200/Christmas+1969.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-5RgsseUsDyDsVok71FiZtBvmEVyo6yaU7gJdE7QC6Orf7dJ71fjqjeA9qZuZjeLpm9iDUskcGMiN1Vjzbzkt70n85Z4qkEdP2Z8o-L8PTZoPDnc498nA67Ag94dhwY7BwpkHwzYFc6Cl/s1600/Christmas+1969.jpg"></a><span style="color:#336666;">Bill and Betty Carrow and grandsons Peter and Ronnie Morrison</span></div><div><span style="color:#336666;">Carneys Point NJ 1969</span><br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_q101EKRO_PCUiFsZgq2Ughd-g_UtwcxoZewf7Ua828WdtgCfd95AKue8R-USKvNyQkaRQ5-X5f0ckP1E1mIoqGvX7hVpOjRZvzBMqVdOb_7GaYeXd86Qfw3mpiLKfChay468H0e4tz2A/s1600/family+christmas+55.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 143px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410310131600708370" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_q101EKRO_PCUiFsZgq2Ughd-g_UtwcxoZewf7Ua828WdtgCfd95AKue8R-USKvNyQkaRQ5-X5f0ckP1E1mIoqGvX7hVpOjRZvzBMqVdOb_7GaYeXd86Qfw3mpiLKfChay468H0e4tz2A/s200/family+christmas+55.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmCQU37dhj0sDT33KE_rbjk6ECvpc1jy8Zo_K51DU-6Gys0XErDG0SdjKoAuiaNDr0Sa_YANg0sv27zaFZSelWVJKW_kFc9O6fQJOjHONYajEVe2R3rOGkqQwGpgeCv5PHr7Gcku0_pDyD/s1600/Christmas+1969.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#336666;">Sister and I in 1953 ( below) and Christmas with my cousins in 1955 ( right).Just two of us but they had four more siblings after this.</span></div><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3kpeSWa_-d-7s4q46y1yk5Hh9AjuG6sKCUNMZCg7TPpumk8xKx-wnbSZ8q2A6iSyA5_oT_ozokT9I6oxqWFz6KzSvTSt3ogkPMvKNMKkn14s0VlUmuRG2v2Hfkxy7aEylLUhK17Z2CYzT/s1600/Christmas+1953+001.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 197px; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410307529822992354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3kpeSWa_-d-7s4q46y1yk5Hh9AjuG6sKCUNMZCg7TPpumk8xKx-wnbSZ8q2A6iSyA5_oT_ozokT9I6oxqWFz6KzSvTSt3ogkPMvKNMKkn14s0VlUmuRG2v2Hfkxy7aEylLUhK17Z2CYzT/s200/Christmas+1953+001.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="color:#006600;">My genealogy of my family has illuminated many things for me.Two generations of my family before me had a bumpier ride through life. I don't know how their Christmases all were, just a few sad <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">anecdotes</span> from Depression years.</span><br /></div><div><div><div><br /><div><span style="color:#006600;">My Grandfather lost his mother when he was only four. He never told me that although we were very close. He did tell me they were evicted often and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">their</span> possessions scattered over the years from being tossed out at the curb. My first memory of Christmas was the bubble lights on his post WWII tree and my rag doll "Buttons" that he bought me. </span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">In turn his wife Margaretta died when his oldest son was eight and the youngest of the four, My Mom was only 3.The three boys were for some years in St.John's Orphanage and must have spent Christmases with his family in <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kensington</span>.<br /></span></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">Christmas in my family of origin was somewhat festive and our tree was picked out by us shortly after Thanksgiving and rooted.<br /></span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">My parents did the same when the grandchildren came.</span></div><div></div></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div></div></div></div></div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-26390483618880009852009-12-01T03:53:00.000-08:002009-12-01T07:01:54.998-08:00Kreativ Blogger Award - who me?<span style="color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZiff0y-eK7OnAg-RaxQyGAqkwNQZyhX8ESB4J3tKgFUBOcy-l5fJdcR2ea0xeOXEMaluXGPWw56RX8boWUlOQgXYEgI4jKZbv9W4Vhr859fyRCFE_z7r-9oZ8H_bScQbWF1yWBubdb-Yd/s1600/kreative_blogger.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 148px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 160px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410236709505915762" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZiff0y-eK7OnAg-RaxQyGAqkwNQZyhX8ESB4J3tKgFUBOcy-l5fJdcR2ea0xeOXEMaluXGPWw56RX8boWUlOQgXYEgI4jKZbv9W4Vhr859fyRCFE_z7r-9oZ8H_bScQbWF1yWBubdb-Yd/s200/kreative_blogger.jpg" /></a><br /><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">I am very surprised and honored this morning to find I was nominated for the </span><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kreativ</span> Blogger Award</span><span style="color:#6600cc;"> by Mary <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Beaulieu</span> from Ancestor Tracking. Mary was and always has been my inspiration to Blog about my 'folks'.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">My task this morning is to tell 7 things about myself and then to nominate 7 other <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bloggers</span> for this award. I definitely need more coffee for this.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">1. I began doing my family's genealogy upon my 'early retirement' in 2002 , quite possibly to keep my mind occupied. It has answered many questions for me, including why I need to keep my mind occupied.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">2. The 'holes' or 'empty spots' in my family tree have played a role in how I lived my life. If I had had more information life could have been a bit less bumpy, both for myself and for my four children. This is my gift to them.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">3. The more I uncover the more I want to know about those who came before me.I am absolutely positive that we are the sum total of all of these people. I have as Mary indicated in my nomination 'jumped the pond' and have contacted relatives in Ireland.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">4. I believe that DNA is an amazing shortcut to our 'Brick Walls' in genealogy and that I am perfectly willing to use whatever is necessary to achieve success.This includes paid researchers, DNA and contacting perfect strangers here and abroad.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">5. Partly for me and partly for my children and grandchildren I am thrilled to know that my unknown grandfather was likely Norwegian.There is a good <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">possibility</span> that it was my step-grandfather or at least someone he was <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">acquainted</span> with from his ship or his country.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">6. My second great passion, books and reading reflects my need to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">unpuzzle</span> things.My cousin Francis told me yesterday I should have been a detective and I missed my calling.Mysteries and specifically those from other cultures are what I immerse myself in.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">7. My roots and my family's roots are in Southern New <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Jersey and</span> across the Delaware River in Delaware and Philadelphia. I lived in the same small town for 56 years until moving to North Carolina in 2002 with my incredible husband who I have been with 9 years ago this week. He supports me in all of this,without him I would still be a social worker at a prison. I am blessed with him and my three sons, daughter and six very talented and beautiful grandchildren.</span><br /></div><br /><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">My nominated Blogs are those who have inspired me of course and Ancestor Tracking would always be first. Our ancestors trod distant paths together in both Delaware and Maryland in a time when others had not yet arrived.</span></div><br /><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">Honorary award to <a href="http://%20ancestor%20tracking/">Ancestor Tracking</a></span></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">1. <a href="http://becky/">Becky's Grace and Glory</a></span></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">2. <a href="http://the%20genetic%20genealogist/">The Genetic Genealogist</a></span></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">3. <a href="http://%20trace%20my%20origin/">Trace My Origin</a></span></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">4. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Of%20Trolls%20and%20Lemons">Of Trolls and Lemons</a></span></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">5. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Genealem-genetic%20genealogy"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Genealem</span>-genetic genealogy</a></span></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">6.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/Searching%20for%20the%20Lost%20Colony"> Searching for the Lost Colony</a></span></div><div><span style="color:#6600cc;">7. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Canada%20Genealogy">Canada Genealogy</a></span></div><div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989451930305413021.post-15791424331472166002009-11-15T16:02:00.000-08:002009-11-15T16:48:27.696-08:00Surname Saturday Doohan/Dugan of Donegal<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC7taW5gv6nLrl3CpJA0dHKs7t4P_iR5K2LO89c8iOLJKQx71y_wDEKUYKjUPzkTB3bEYlD7P2RFNChSguPFGf9iTlhPhDOA0_E9i3rZkletbre5crPBhRgUmCYrHhajFdECfDQODBmTRX/s1600-h/falcarraghpic.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 136px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404488695708912034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC7taW5gv6nLrl3CpJA0dHKs7t4P_iR5K2LO89c8iOLJKQx71y_wDEKUYKjUPzkTB3bEYlD7P2RFNChSguPFGf9iTlhPhDOA0_E9i3rZkletbre5crPBhRgUmCYrHhajFdECfDQODBmTRX/s200/falcarraghpic.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><br /><br /><div><span style="color:#006600;">Another generation has been documented of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">Doohan</span>/<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugan</span> family of Crossroads <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Donegal</span>.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">Mary <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugan</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt</span> and Rose <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Doohan</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Coyle</span>, first cousins died young and left young children with no clear story of their origin. </span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">A very small group of cousins have connected in this electronic age and are piecing together the family.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">My Grandfather Ed <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Faunt</span> who was 4 when his Mother died belonged to the "Sons of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Donegal</span>" and often sang a song about it. His cousin Jimmy <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">Coyle</span> has a memory of walking up Broad Street with his mother at 3 or 4 and no other recollection of her.</span><br /></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">Norah </span><span style="color:#006600;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">Doohan</span> McFadden of Crossroads sold Irish <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">Sweepstake</span> tickets to her cousins until her death after 1965. Her sister Catherine Doohan worked at Mt.Carmel Rectory 3rd and Snyder when she immigrated in 1928 and later moved to Norristown.</span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">Rose Veronica <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Coyle</span> granddaughter of Rose <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error">Doohan</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">Coyle</span> was Miss America in 1936. Everyone in our family has always been aware of this astonishing fact but not one of us could figure out how Rose <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">Coyle</span> is related to us. Now we do.</span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;">Patrick, Denis, Bryan(Bernard) and John <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugan</span>/<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error">Doohan</span> were brothers in Ireland. Just past Crossroads (now <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error">Falcarragh</span>) is the 'Bridge of Sorrows' that took them out of the valley toward the port at Derry and left their families behind.John <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error">Dugan</span> and his newly married wife emigrated to Philadelphia in 1865.They had no children and he prospered and one by one many of his nieces and nephews joined him there.</span> <div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div><div><span style="color:#006600;"></span></div></div>Katie Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288076216088750998noreply@blogger.com4