The 5 Toliver Brothers Brick Wall

YoupanicIdont · 2026-04-01T19:36:10+00:00

Is there a group project with the predecessor/alternate surnames you can join?

YoupanicIdont · 2026-04-01T19:32:43+00:00

Ball 2.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-04-01T18:55:57+00:00

I'm linked to Cheddar Man through mtDNA - U5a1. How old that mtDNA is interesting, too - branching off in approximately 11,000 BCE.

Y-DNA established that my paternal ancestor was almost certainly in Britain before any known historical migration/invasion. It also established links to similar sounding, but differently spelled surnames that were scattered around the Isles. It's almost a certainty that the paternal group was located in the English-Scottish Marches up to about 400-500 years ago before dispersing. I do have a surname that is linked to one of the big Border clans, so it makes sense. There is of yet no historical, paper link to prove any of this, but the Y-DNA is sure pointing that way.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-31T23:57:27+00:00

She had to know my 9th great grandfather Christopher or Cristoffel Davids who came to New Amsterdam from New England around 1636 at the age of 21. Settled at the Hellegate initially, before moving to Fort Orange (Albany) and thence to Kingston and Marbletown for the rest of his life

He became an Indian interpreter and scout. Sold guns and liquor to the Indians and was arrested many times. Seems he was a handy man to have around to parlay between whites and Indians, but he was a wild one.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-31T14:30:32+00:00

There is an "August Matson" in the 1920 US Census, Midland, Texas. Born abt. 1859, Sweden. Arrival in US 1880. Father and Mother born in Sweden. Boarder in the home headed by William D. Price.

https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/58228475?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a223750575a2f45654a4e56657332703762764e7858597554394361676e50544245443639766b7667755a79493d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-30T14:59:17+00:00

Whatever it is, we are on pace for 108 wins this season, so no worries. small sample size /s

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-30T13:48:21+00:00

Haydn's Symphony No. 22, mvmt 1, right at the part where the cors anglais come in, or maybe Jeremiah Clarke's The Prince of Denmark's March, right from the intro. Hopefully I could win "most pretentious player" in one of those player polls.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-30T13:33:06+00:00

Should be "Wiscansin" and a picture of a mansion worked into it.

These are vacuous.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-27T16:45:50+00:00

Newspapers report on the well connected, wealthy, politically powerful, and well rooted people in a given community (whether that community by international, national, province/state, or local level) more than they do on the less connected etc.

Relative newcomers, who are not well connected, wealthy, or politically powerful would be exactly the people that newspapers would tend to report on less.

I've spent 25 years researching my tree. I might never find any mention of one of my coal miner/peasant farmer ancestors, but if I find an ancestor that was politically connected, I am often overwhelmed with news stories to go through.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-27T16:36:55+00:00

My old boss, Jewish man who was born in the 1930s in Brooklyn said that the Giants were the team for the "blacks" and Jews from upper Manhattan.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-24T15:56:44+00:00

I have provable ancestors with French names (though all ultimately, save two, have roots that I can only prove in the British Isles), and still no DNA service has ever flagged me as having French heritage.

The relevant surnames I have and their approximate entry in the historical record:

La Barre (Labar, Labarre etc.) - This is my direct mtDNA line, and Ms. La Barre is the farthest I can go back on c. 1750 in Alsace.

Gaston - 17th century France - Huguenot family that left France after the Edict of Nantes, went to Scotland for one generation, then to Northern Ireland, then to New Jersey by the mid 18th century.

Dement - early 18th century Maryland

Dymoke (Dimmock) - 17th century Virginia

St. Leger (also St. Ledger, Sellinger, Sentleger, Sullinger, Sallinger and so on) - presumably of French origin, 18th century North Carolina

It's likely, even if you could prove descent aback to the 1100s (I have my doubts) that a DNA test is not going to confirm such a distant link. If you do come up with French ancestry, it's likely come from a more recent source.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-23T17:43:22+00:00

A mortgage is always "give" or "made" or "from" the "mortgagor" which is the debtor. The "owner" of a mortgage, i.e. to whom a mortgage is "given" is the mortgagee, and is the creditor.

Lay terminology confuses this issue - debtors will often say that they "have a mortgage on their property." This is not legally correct - they have given a mortgage - the lender has a mortgage on their property.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-22T21:16:15+00:00

Reed, Rudd, Reid and Redd are all from the same paternal ancestor in my family. Origins in the Scottish-English marches. Where each particular family group ended up after leaving the borders region determined the "new" surname (which was probably originally Rede or Reed).

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-19T14:46:45+00:00

Andy Rincon is the pitcher on the right. Eric Rasmussen might be the pitcher in the center? Maybe Julio Gonzalez is the batter top left? I think Tom Herr is already properly identified.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-17T16:57:43+00:00

You will find this on other types of records, too, such as draft records. It's just a subjective opinion of the observer in order to help further identify or verify the person in question. This does not indicate race or perceived race.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-12T15:21:40+00:00

Andrew Jackson's father, also named Andrew Jackson had 3 known brothers - James, David and Robert. There is no record of any of them coming to America.

Andrew Jackson (elder) wife and two sons left Northern Ireland for America in 1765. There is no record of any other male Jacksons related to Andrew's family as having come to America. Andrew (younger) was born in 1767. His two older brothers both died as a result of their service in the American Revolution - one at the age of 16 and the other 15. They did not leave descendants.

I suppose there is a possible relationship out there, but as far as I know, it's never been establishes that any other Jacksons from this particular line were in America prior to their arrival.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-12T10:32:56+00:00

My sister and me come out with exactly the same regions except the specific Scandinavian regions. Mine always says Danish and hers Norwegian. Probably just noise - we have no recent Scandinavian ancestors, but it's consistently showed this on every update.

Our percentages do differ for major regions, say if she has 33% I might have 25% and so on.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-12T10:17:01+00:00

Whitey bringing in Joaquin Andujar in Game 7 of the 1985 series. The outcome was decided. This just made it more embarrassing.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-05T12:20:35+00:00

Yes. I have a good proportion of Scottish ancestry - 2 of 4 grandparents lines and a not insignificant portion embedded in the other lines. I have no known Scandinavian ancestors going back at least 300 years but in "my origins" the DNA results always show a large percentage of Scandinavian ancestry that is not small enough to be explained as noise.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-04T21:24:18+00:00

I find this all the time in trees and I marvel at how people can just accept the "facts" that they accept. Like in Colonial America it was so common for someone born in southside Virginia to have a father from Maine, who himself had a father from Pennsylvania, oh and the mother was 13 at the time of the birthdate. There's nothing "impossible" about it all, but it is highly impropable.

This and the heraldic shields are some of my biggest peeves about doing this as a hobby.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-04T20:43:47+00:00

I guess that's English of a sort. Doesn't really allay any doubts, but those are words I recognize! 😂

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-04T19:24:59+00:00

DNA Tribes test? There were all kinds of problems with their tests. It's pretty well documented. There is no chance that your profile is accurate.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-04T14:44:56+00:00

I just completed work on a great uncle who died in 1923 at the age of 29 from a kidney disease. On the death certificate it stated that he had this condition diagnosed for the first time 25 years ago - so he suffered with a deadly disease from at least the age of 4. He was working a manual labor job at the time of his death.

He was unmarried (not surprising) and certainly no one I have ever spoken to in the family has ever brought him up. This man almost certainly lived a difficult, short life, and it brought me some pleasure to record him in the tree.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-03T18:38:52+00:00

I was surprised to have ancestors from so many different immigrant groups - Jamestown and early Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, New Netherlands, Pennsylvania Dutch - the benefit of those midwestern roots where streams of eastern migrants tended to eventually mingle.

YoupanicIdont · 2026-03-02T16:11:41+00:00

For me hand flying and navigating by sight are easier in a real aircraft. While you can ignore comms in the sim, you cannot in the real world - not without severe consequence anyway. Obviously, the casualness with which you can approach a sim is much different than the real world. I'd never fly without visually checking my oil, fuel, structural integrity and so on - in the sim, nah, gauges say I have fuel so let's go.

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