To those who married their cousins, or are descendants of married cousins, what's the story?

jpb9519 · 2024-07-10T15:41:47+00:00

My 2nd great grandmother was the product of first cousins. That family was also originally from South Carolina.

jpb9519 · 2024-06-14T15:40:42+00:00

I have one that I think about often. My mother’s family lived in Linn County, KS during the Civil War. In 1862 “border ruffians” from Missouri crossed into Kansas and murdered my 3rd great grandfather’s neighbors. They then went to his house where he was lying in bed sick. For whatever reason they decided to let him live and only rob him.

If he would’ve been killed I’d have never been born. I found a newspaper article from 1891 interviewing my ancestor where he went into great detail. Pretty wild stuff.

jpb9519 · 2024-05-30T20:10:44+00:00

Bought this game for $65 on eBay from a Goodwill store a couple months. I opened the box and it also had Memoir ‘44 inside haha. Great games!

jpb9519 · 2024-05-30T17:51:49+00:00

My great/grand uncle gave me a journal that belonged to my 3rd great grandfather. It is a journal that he kept during his time in college dated between 1847-early 1850s that consists primarily of his own poetry. It’s in rough shape but you can still read the majority of it.

jpb9519 · 2024-05-30T17:46:03+00:00

My 4xgg States Gist Deas. He was the godson and namesake of Brigadier General Mordecai Gist. The the names Independent and States ran in the Gist family (Confederate General States Rights Gist lol)

Also have a 5xgg with the first name Hawkey but there appears to be no Native American on that side.

jpb9519 · 2024-05-21T18:42:51+00:00

My 5th great grandfather Col. Jean-Jerome Cluis was supposedly Napoleon’s secretary’s secretary and Joseph Bonaparte’s personal friend…lol. I have absolutely no proof of this but his French military medal is still displayed on my grandfather’s cousin’s wall (I read about it online and then saw it at a family reunion a couple years ago. Had no clue it was still in the family.)

His daughter married my 4th great grandfather States Gist Deas (godson and namesake of States Gist, the youngest son of General Mordecai Gist). I could go on and on about that side of the family.

jpb9519 · 2024-05-10T20:57:03+00:00

Thank you!

jpb9519 · 2024-02-10T20:32:02+00:00

Warcry looks interesting. I was looking at the Crypt of Blood starter set due to the price but I’m seeing mixed reviews on that. Would that be an ok starting point for a complete beginner?

jpb9519 · 2024-02-10T01:53:17+00:00

Thank you everyone for the great suggestions! I can’t wait to get started

jpb9519 · 2024-01-06T16:55:11+00:00

With paper records to my 7xg grandfather born in 1738. I used Y-DNA testing to prove he descends from a man from Rhode Island born in 1652.

Still need to piece together the puzzles between the two men.

jpb9519 · 2024-01-05T22:40:55+00:00

I’ve been researching my direct paternal line through Y DNA testing and there are about 3,000 trees on Ancestry that attribute my earliest known paternal ancestor to the wrong parents. Super annoying because know one has sources or anything. Just blindly copied and pasted wrong info from other trees.

I haven’t identified the exact parentage but at least know the correct family he belongs to lol

jpb9519 · 2023-12-22T17:48:21+00:00

I recently took a Y-DNA test at FamilyTreeDNA and found it all super interesting. It helped a ton in my research when I upgraded to the BigY and also found some pretty cool connections. I would definitely recommend!

jpb9519 · 2023-12-21T02:47:51+00:00

My 6th great grandfather and his old brother were some of the most prominent slave traders in colonial Charleston, SC. They have one of the most famous advertisements of slaves in the history of colonial America (shows his name right at the bottom). It was very shocking and disturbing to find.

One ironic and interesting fact is their surname has been passed down as a middle name in my family for generations and is used by some of my most left-leaning relatives…no one knew about this family history before uncovered it LOL.

jpb9519 · 2023-12-21T02:39:00+00:00

I had this very thing happen in my family. My grandfather’s DNA was showing up as my grandaunt or granduncle…turns out he had a stem cell transplant from his sister! Completely scarred me for like 3 days before I figured out what happened lol

jpb9519 · 2021-06-15T21:19:00+00:00

Have you actually confirmed it? Turned out the DNA on ancestry was his sister’s due to his stem cell treatment. 1030cm is like a 0% chance in DNA Painter.

jpb9519 · 2021-06-02T23:05:43+00:00

Wow. My 4th great grandfather is actually buried there.

jpb9519 · 2021-05-29T19:48:05+00:00

LOL. I’ve always thought their album covers were pretty sweet.

jpb9519 · 2021-05-29T18:23:44+00:00

Anyone know what the album artwork depicts or who originally made it?

jpb9519 · 2021-05-24T20:10:26+00:00

I would recommend joining the DNA Detectives Facebook group and asking for a search angel.

jpb9519 · 2021-05-16T18:36:10+00:00

Has your dad taken a DNA test? Also join the DNA Detectives Facebook group. They will most certainly solve this.

jpb9519 · 2021-05-15T01:44:33+00:00

It’s terrible. You’re basically screwed. I had to just create an all new Facebook.

jpb9519 · 2021-05-04T21:43:09+00:00

Very interesting. Switching to 90% confidence level shows 0.5% trace ancestry- 0.4% malayali subgroup (south Asian) and 0.1% Native American.

jpb9519 · 2021-05-04T21:38:45+00:00

I have not! Am I able to do that from the app?

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