Projects

Publishing
Updated 18 April 2024

• Talking Kin™ blog on Blogger and archive on Permanent
• Posting information and articles of interest, subject to updates and confirmation
• Family Photos
• Inherited several boxes of family photos with thousands of pictures spanning at least 4 generations including Benton, Brosier, Brown,  Crawford, Day, Lawson, Rummel, Sherron, Steger, Tridle, and perhaps others, along with many other friends and family members.
• Setting up to scan and sort with facial recognition for publishing all of them in Person folders on Permanent with selected photos to be uploaded to genealogy sites.

Surnames
Updated 25 March 2024

• Listing
• Maintaining a list of those in my direct ancestry, along with earliest dates and locations.
• To do: add the latest dates and locations
• Birthday Biographies  
• Going back a generation at a time and adding or updating a surname page for each ancestor, including brief biographies, lineage, migration, geography, and bibliography

DNA
Updated 2 April 2024

• Ancestry DNA
• Submitted 2015
• See geographical DNA results on the Geography page.
• FamilyTree DNA
• Autosomal file exported from Ancestry DNA and imported to FamilyTree DNA on 8 March 2024 and unlocked on 12 March 2024
• Received notification that new DNA samples submitted on 20 March 2024 had been checked in for testing
• mtFullSequence test for the maternal lineage takes at least 6-8 weeks to process, so results should be provided by mid-June 2024.
• Big Y-700 test for the paternal lineage takes at least 11-13 weeks to process, so results should be provided by mid-July 2024.

Mayflower
Updated 31 March 2024

My 9th great-grandparents, John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley, came over on the Mayflower. Elizabeth was a passenger along with her parents, John Tilly, Sr. and Joan Hurst. John Howland was an indentured servant of John Carver, who, along with Elizabeth's parents, did not survive the first winter after their arrival at Plymouth. 

Line of Eligibility for Membership in the Society of Mayflower Descendants
(pending completion of documentation)

General Society of Mayflower Descendants Research Center has confirmed this blood lineage from John Howland through Barzillai Worth and his son Alexander Worth, brother of Mary Worth, and furnished a copy of the approved Application GS#-98144 (TX3866).  

 

  1. John Howland

  2. Desire Howland

  3. Shubael Gorham

  4. Lydia Gorham

  5. Thomas Worth

  6. Barzillai Worth

Documentation is being researched to confirm the continuance of the blood lineage from Barzillai Worth through his daughter Mary to the author, as DNA evidence also suggests.

  7. Mary Worth: birth, marriage, and town records, Find a Grave 

  8. David Day: 1860 Census, marriage registration

  9. Phedora Alice Day: birth and marriage records, death certificate, Find a Grave

10. Lenore Inez Steger: marriage record and death certificate, Find a Grave

11. Barbara Lou Tridle: birth and death certificates, Find a Grave

12. Author: birth certificate

Updated 18 April 2024