tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62045894303859804662024-03-05T15:46:51.928-08:00Taylor Topics, the Taylor DNA BlogWe discuss the Taylor y-DNA project and all related topics.WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-32231256550980317422017-07-27T17:57:00.000-07:002017-07-27T17:57:28.560-07:00July and August are Great Months for Family Connections<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the time of the year that many families plan
reunions or visits to relatives. That makes it a perfect time to increase your
knowledge about all the branches of your family. Including the Taylors, of
course. There are several ways to do this, and all work in different
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Let’s start with the soft approach, one in which you may not
even “officially” discuss genealogy. You are at a family gathering at a park
with a spread of food and children playing. Here are some questions that might
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<li>“I love this dish! Is this a family specialty? Who started
it?”</li>
<li>“What’s your favorite dish today?” (Ask when the person won’t
offend others by passing over their dishes.) What was your mother’s/grandmother’s/great
grandmother’s favorite summer dish?” You can substitute cousins, male
relatives, and so forth.</li>
<li>“Isn’t little Johnny cute! Who in the family does he
resemble?”</li>
<li>“What games did you play when you were a kid at a summer
picnic? Who was with you?”</li>
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A more serious approach might have you with a notebook or a
recording device asking questions about older or departed relatives. Here I
recommend that you offer to share any information that you gather. This could
be as a public member tree at Ancestry, or a website dedicated to the family,
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Here, again, you probably want to prompt your subject to
remember the olden days. Many will not have critical data like birth and
marriage dates for the departed at their fingertips (and you can easily look
that up). What they can offer is clues to the personality of important figures
in your family tree. They can also offer information that opens up new areas of
exploration, and even solves family puzzles. Here are a few ideas to get you
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<li>“It must have been hard during the Depression, how did your
family cope?”</li>
<li>“During WWI/WWII/Korea/Vietnam how did you deal with being
separated from each other? How did the children cope with it?”</li>
<li>“What was the best part about growing up in New York
City/Tallahassee, Florida/Dayton, Ohio?” There is always a best part. Sometimes
it helps to ask about the worst part, too. Also you might ask, “Would your
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<li>“When did your family move to Kansas City? Why?”</li>
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Here’s a question I got a while back, “Did any member of our
family die from the Spanish Flu?” According to Molly Billings at <a href="https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/https:/virus.stanford.edu/uda/">https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/</a>
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killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at
somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most
devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza
in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347
to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the
influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the case of my family, and the direct ancestors of my
first cousin the questioner, the answer was no, none of our family members had succumbed.
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While you take your leisure this summer, and meet family
members, this is your chance to get some of these questions answered. I wish
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WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-72597871569800256112012-09-02T09:28:00.000-07:002012-09-02T09:28:15.910-07:00Actor Keanu Reeves has a British Taylor MotherAn interesting offshoot of the Taylor lines is Canadian-American actor Keanu Reeves, born in Beruit, Lebanon to a British mother, a Taylor, and an American father. Reeves was born on 02 September 1964 in Beruit, Lebanon.<br />
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Wikipedia says, “Reeves is known for his roles in <em>Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure</em> as well as <em>Speed</em>, <em>Point Break</em> and the science fiction-action trilogy <em>The Matrix</em>... A repeated theme in roles he has portrayed is that of saving the world.”<br />
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Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon, the son of Patricia Bond (née Taylor), a costume designer/performer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, Jr., a geologist. His mother was English and his father was a Hawaiian-born American of English, Irish, Portuguese, Native Hawaiian, and Chinese descent. <br />
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Through his mother, Reeves is one of our cousins from a Taylor line that stayed in Britain. Depending upon when related lines moved to North America, certainly offshoots within about 200 years, we could have Family Finder matches, should Reeves participate in FTDNA. <br />
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Should he do so, and have a documented pedigree from his mother’s line, we may be able to resolve some of the questions linking North American Taylors back to the British Isles. May it be so!<br />
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Lalia Wilson for the Taylor Surname Project<br />
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Lalia is keenly interested in genetic genealogy for many reasons, among them the many common surnames in her personal genealogy. In addition to Taylor, these include: Jackson, Johnson, Madden, Moore, Robinson, Stone and Wilson. These families were in North America prior to 1700 and followed migration paths from Virginia or Pennsylvania or New York to Ohio then Missouri or to Kentucky then Missouri. Please contact Lalia with questions about the blog, or story ideas, or if you think you’re a relative: Lalia W /at/ aol dot com. <br />
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Leonard, Born, Barteaux, Whitman, Starratt, LeCain, Ritchie, Ryerson, Gaston, Perry, Lockwood, Beall/Bell/Beale, Beatty, Wheat, Muliken, Foster, Vail, Salmon, Goodwin, Kinnan, Mead/Meade, Augustus, Bright, Pope, Dickerson, Pulliam, Glover, Scott, Sutton, Rice, Hutt, Spence, Crockwell, Cassell, Lingenfelter, Harbaugh, Springer, HockersmithWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-69590725289796749862012-07-05T11:22:00.000-07:002012-07-05T11:22:22.591-07:00Phineas Taylor BarnumBorn July 5th 1810 in Bethel, Connecticut, P. T. Barnum is descended from a Taylor family. Let’s start with his full name, Phineas Taylor Barnum. P. T.’s mother was Irene Taylor, daughter of Phineas Taylor (1760-1837). Phineas Taylor’s father was Nathan Taylor (1717-1798), and his father was also called Nathan Taylor (1682-1782). Nathan Taylor the elder’s father was Thomas Taylor, born in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut in 1643 (died in 1735). All these Taylors were born and died in Connecticut and I do not have record of their immigrant ancestor.<br />
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Wikipedia describes Barnum as “an American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.” Barnum brought memorable people and performances to the American audience. These included celebrity midget Tom Thumb and Swedish singer Jenny Lind. Barnum served a couple of terms in the Connecticut State Legislature and as Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut. But his greatest fame comes from his work as a circus entrepreneur. He started the Barnum and Bailey Circus, which lives on in at least one form today.<br />
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In addition Barnum is well known for a remark that may be true to his spirit, but cannot be documented to have been uttered by him: “There’s a sucker born every minute.”<br />
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Barnum lived a long and full life, cramming more experience into his 80 years than most people could do in three times that long. He died in 1891 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.<br />
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Does your Taylor family intersect with the line of Phineas Taylor Barnum?<br />
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Here is a link to P. T. Barnum’s genealogy: http://www.barnum.org/fam00170.htm. <br />
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Lalia Wilson for the Taylor Surname Project<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Lalia is keenly interested in genetic genealogy for many reasons, among them the many common surnames in her personal genealogy. In addition to Taylor, these include: Jackson, Johnson, Madden, Moore, Robinson, Stone and Wilson. These families were in North America prior to 1700 and followed migration paths from Virginia or Pennsylvania or New York to Ohio then Missouri or to Kentucky then Missouri. Please contact Lalia with questions about the blog, or story ideas, or if you think you’re a relative: Lalia W /at/ aol dot com. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Leonard, Born, Barteaux, Whitman, Starratt, LeCain, Ritchie, Ryerson, Gaston, Perry, Lockwood, Beall/Bell/Beale, Beatty, Wheat, Muliken, Foster, Vail, Salmon, Goodwin, Kinnan, Mead/Meade, Augustus, Bright, Pope, Dickerson, Pulliam, Glover, Scott, Sutton, Rice, Hutt, Spence, Crockwell, Cassell, Lingenfelter, Harbaugh, Springer, Hockersmith</span><br />WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-77644573490394213672012-04-27T13:40:00.001-07:002012-04-27T13:40:17.570-07:00The Theory of Autosomal DNA MatchingYou have seen the basic theory behind y-DNA matches and mt-DNA matches. Briefly the Y chromosome changes minutely about every fourth generation, as you can see by comparing 67 marker results from the same male lineage. In actuality it is a matter of statistical probability and the minor change may have occurred just between the last two generations, or it may have been six generations ago. The usefulness of using the Y chromosome for matches is to learn more about a male line of descent. The mitochondrial DNA changes much less frequently. It changes at about 1/10th the rate of changes in y-DNA. Thus it is of less genealogical help when fine-tuning recent generations of a family line, but can definitely establish a connection to an historical maternal line. (For more on y-DNA or mt-DNA see previous Taylor blogs.)<br />
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Autosomal DNA which is tested through as “Family Finder” at www.ftdna.com, is entirely different. This test looks at segments of the non-sex determinate chromosomes and compares matching segments throughout the Family Tree DNA database.<br />
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Here is the theory behind this test. Each of us has received our genes from our biological forebears. Each time a new human is created, some genes from each parent are combined and some are not included. Approximately ½ of our autosomal genes come from each of our parents. Each of them received half of their genes from each of their biological parents. <br />
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To simplify our understanding we are going to consider these blocks of genetic material as playing cards. Imagine you are holding a hand of cards—8 cards—and each card represents a unique inheritance from one of your great-grandparents. From Great Grandmother Susie you got the Ace of Spades, for example. But you have 8 cards and one is from each of your great-grandparents. <br />
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Let’s follow that Ace of Spades backwards in time. Great-grandmother Susie received it from one of her great-grandparents. And that great-grandparent received it from one of his or hers…<br />
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Now back to Great-Grandmother Susie. She was part of a large family. Let’s say there were ten children. Maybe half of those children, Susie’s siblings, got that Ace of Spades in their genetic package. Those of Susie’s siblings who reproduced gave their children part of their genetic heritage. For many it may have included the Ace of Spades, but probably not for all. <br />
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Now consider again the hand of cards you received as your birth package of DNA. You got the Ace of Spades (which is a simplified way of saying you got a unique segment of DNA). Anyone else in the Family Tree database who also has the Ace of Spades is a cousin to you. Their relationship may be as far back as seven generations, or more! However we know that you are biologically/genetically related individuals. Now the practical aspects of using this autosomal testing method, Family Finder, become of interest. We will take up that topic in a future blog.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Lalia Wilson for the Taylor Surname Project</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Lalia is keenly interested in genetic genealogy for many reasons, among them the many common surnames in her personal genealogy. In addition to Taylor, these include: Jackson, Johnson, Madden, Moore, Robinson, Stone and Wilson. These families were in North America prior to 1700 and followed migration paths from Virginia or Pennsylvania or New York to Ohio then Missouri or to Kentucky then Missouri. Please contact Lalia with questions about the blog, or story ideas, or if you think you’re a relative: Lalia W /at/ aol dot com. </span><br />
<br />WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-80912092845099364152012-04-21T12:42:00.001-07:002012-04-21T12:42:23.381-07:00Sale on genetic tests!Greetings fellow Taylor fans! If you have been putting off genetic testing because it's too expensive, order your tests today. If you've ever wanted to do genetic genealogy there has been no better time than today. <br />
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We at the Taylor project can also probably be of some help with Family Finder, y-DNA or mt-DNA results and matches, if you want our help. We are your first choice for the Y-DNA, of course, but some of us have done a bunch of work on the other tests, too.<br />
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The site www.ftdna.com is the place to go. They have by far the biggest database--about 10 times what's available elsewhere--and the focus is on genealogy, which is not necessarily the case at other sites.<br />
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For Y-DNA, do 67 markers or more. A 67/67 match means that the men are related (50% probability) no further apart than second cousins. You are wasting time and money to test fewer than 67 markers. (A 12/12 match means you are related in the last 2,000 years! Not much genealogical help.)<br />
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I recommend you also do a Family Finder test that tests all family lines on autosomal DNA. This will even be of help assuming you are a male Taylor wanting information only about the Taylor line. Why? Because one of your cousins, not a Taylor direct descendant, may have that critical missing piece of information about your Taylor line.<br />
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If you want to do mt-DNA, go ahead. So far my brother and I have no matches there, but we do know we are haplogroup T2, the same as many of the deceased in 79 AD in the Vesuvius eruption, and the same as Czar Nicholas II.<br />
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Lalia Wilson for the Taylor Surname Project <br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Lalia is keenly interested in genetic genealogy for many reasons, among them the many common surnames in her personal genealogy. In addition to Taylor, these include: Jackson, Johnson, Madden, Moore, Robinson, Stone and Wilson. These families were in North America prior to 1700 and followed migration paths from Virginia or Pennsylvania or New York to Ohio then Missouri or to Kentucky then Missouri. Please contact Lalia with questions about the blog, or story ideas, or if you think you’re a relative: Lalia W /at/ aol dot com. </span><br />
<br />WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-29789351075466407222012-03-12T07:14:00.000-07:002012-03-12T07:14:33.118-07:00Prominent American TaylorsWe have the Taylor name in the news again today with James Vernon Taylor’s 64th birthday. James Taylor was born in Boston on 12 March 2012. He is famous as a singer and songwriter in the folk music and folk to pop music category. <br />
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Another famous Taylor was born on February 27th 1932: Elizabeth Taylor born in London. I did not know until this year that she is part of an American Taylor family.<br />
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If your Taylor line connects to either of these well-know Taylor lines, please let me know!<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Lalia Wilson for the Taylor Surname Project</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Lalia is keenly interested in genetic genealogy for many reasons, among them the many common surnames in her personal genealogy. In addition to Taylor, these include: Jackson, Johnson, Madden, Moore, Robinson, Stone and Wilson. These families were in North America prior to 1700 and followed migration paths from Virginia or Pennsylvania or New York to Ohio then Missouri or to Kentucky then Missouri. Please contact Lalia with questions about the blog, or story ideas, or if you think you’re a relative: Lalia W /at/ aol dot com. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span><br />WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-69962279741884475622012-01-20T17:18:00.000-08:002012-01-20T17:18:04.907-08:002012 is the Hundredth Anniversary of the Titanic DisasterOn Friday the 13th of January the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a reef on the Isola del Giglio. Of the 4,229 people on board, few were likely to be Taylors. The ship carried 126-129 US citizens, 25 British, 21 Australia, 12 Canadian and 1 New Zealander. Only two of these people from English speaking countries are dead or missing—Jerry and Barbara Heil from Minnesota.<br />
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Though the expected loss of the ship, at a cost of $500,000,000, is great, the loss of life is small compared to the Titanic and other notable maritime disasters.<br />
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On the Titanic, 2224 people were on board; only 710 survived (32%). There were 10 Taylors on board the Titanic, 5 survived. <br />
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While the loss of life was much greater in number and by proportion for the Titanic, the Costa Concordia has been compared to the more famous shipwreck for several reasons. There were ill omens at the christening of the Costa Concordia—the champagne bottle did not break. One of the surviving passengers of the Concordia was the granddaughter of a Titanic survivor. Apparently the Titanic movie theme song was playing in the Concordia lounge when the ship struck the reef.<br />
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But perhaps the biggest surprise was the sense among we privileged people of the 21st century that shipwrecks and loss of life at sea is something that happened in previous times and not a current day matter. Clearly we are not immune to the misfortunes of people of all the ages. <br />
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More on the Titanic Taylors in a future post.<br />
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Lalia Wilson for the Taylor Surname Project<br />
Find us at www.ftdna.com. <br />
<br />WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-89066502376127014542011-12-06T15:51:00.001-08:002011-12-06T16:21:23.254-08:00Pearl Harbor and the Taylors<br />
Tomorrow, December 7th, is the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Among the 2,402 Americans killed there were six Taylors. I am not sure which of our Taylor project families they represent, but please let me know if one of these is from your family: <br />
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Taylor, Aaron Gust, Rank of M.A.T.T.1c, United States Navy, on (or attached to) the USS Arizona<br />
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Taylor, Charles Benton, Rank of E.M.3c, United States Navy, on (or attached to) the USS Arizona<br />
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Taylor, Charles Robert, Rank of PFC, United States Marine Corps, on (or attached to) the USS Oklahoma<br />
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Taylor, Harry Theodore, Rank of G.M.2c, United States Navy, on (or attached to) the USS Arizona<br />
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Taylor, Palmer Lee, Rank of M.A.T.T.1c, United States Navy, on (or attached to) the USS Shaw<br />
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Taylor, Robert Denzil, Rank of Cox, United States Navy, on (or attached to) the USS Arizona<br />
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Today Pearl Harbor is a place of beauty, much like it was before the attack. Here is a photo of today's view. But on the morning of 07 Dec 1941, things were quite different. Here is a map of the large natural harbor and the battleships arrayed around it.<br />
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Wikipedia summarizes this event:<br />
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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia.<br />
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The base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four being sunk. All but two of the eight were raised, repaired and returned to service later in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. One hundred eighty-eight U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,402 Americans were killed and 1,282 wounded. The power station, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of the intelligence section) were not attacked.<br />
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The attack came as a profound shock to the American people and led directly to the American entry into World War II in both the Pacific and European theaters. The lack of any formal warning, particularly while negotiations were still apparently ongoing, led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to proclaim December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy."<br />
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This resulted in the enlistment of my great uncle, Olin Taylor, who served in the Pacific. Olin joined the Navy in the spring of 1942 and saw action in the Pacific from July 1942 on until the end of the war. Olin is still alive and of sound mind; he is also a member of the Taylor surname project. My grandfather, James Bentley Taylor, was already an Army officer. He was part of Patton's efforts in North Africa and then went to Europe. Unfortunately James Bentley Taylor was killed in action in August 1944 and lies buried in Brittany, France.<br />
Many Taylors served in the Second World War, including members of our Taylor project and their direct relatives. May we remember their heroism and sacrifices on this anniversary. <br />
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Lalia Wilson for the Taylor Surname Project</span><br />
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P. S. In the interest of providing you with more human connection to Pearl Harbor see this item from the Sacramento Bee. One of the Pearl Harbor survivors lives in the metro Sacramento California area and this is her story:<br />
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According to the Sacramento Bee, Beverly Moglich has a unique perspective.<br />
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Moglich, an 82-year-old El Dorado County resident, is a Pearl Harbor survivor. As a 12-year-old, she stood on her porch and watched a Japanese pilot strafe the house from so close that she saw his eyes and can still remember his smirk. "His facial expression indicated he was enjoying every moment of his mission, which was to kill," Moglich wrote in her self-published "Memoirs of a Navy Brat," which came out in 2010.<br />
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"For 40 years, I didn't even want to talk about it," she said.<br />
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For more information see: <a href="http://www.pearlharborevents.com/">http://www.pearlharborevents.com/</a> <br />
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For more on Beverly Moglich see: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/06/4102273/a-childs-perspective-on-living.html#ixzz1fnhQdEBA">http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/06/4102273/a-childs-perspective-on-living.html#ixzz1fnhQdEBA</a></span><br />
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<br />WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-19139094786570311032011-11-22T18:54:00.001-08:002011-11-22T19:04:44.303-08:00The Simple Way to Understand Genetic Genealogy Tests, Part 2In part one of this series we discussed mitochondrial DNA and how it mutates (changes) so slowly that there are almost no changes over genealogical time periods, which would be the last 700 years when surnames and vital records have been commonly maintained.<br />
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However, the y-chromosome does mutate much more frequently. In fact if you are looking at 67 markers on the y-chromosome, the mutation rate is about 100 times the rate of mutation of the mitochondrial DNA. <br />
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If you wish to think of these markers as a hand of cards, about one changes in each four times the cards are dealt. However, an easier way to visualize these changes is to imagine a slot machine with 67 wheels turning, not the three wheels on the machine illustrated. Only about every 4 times you pulled the lever would you get a change in one wheel—corresponding to a marker on the y-chromosome. You would be pretty much guaranteed a change with 9 pulls of the lever.<br />
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Not only that, the change would be such that it could easily be seen as the offspring of the original!<br />
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For this reason, y-DNA testing is the most widely used genetic test for genealogy purposes. We know that males carry their father’s same y-chromosome, with the occasional one-mutation change. <br />
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This property of the y-chromosome allows us to see which men are related to each other within a genealogical time frame and how closely they are likely related along their paternal line. It is of great use to establish lines of descent when records are not available that accurately trace the movements and offspring of our ancestors. However, it requires a sample from a male, and samples (and hopefully genealogies) from other men who turn out to be related.<br />
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Lalia Wilson for the Taylor surname projectWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-82297368799938357882011-11-07T13:29:00.000-08:002011-11-07T13:29:46.543-08:00The Simple Way to Understand Genetic Genealogy Tests, Part 1As a co-administrator of a y-DNA/surname project, I and my colleagues get many questions about what various genetic tests can do for people. The long answer probably requires an advanced degree in genetics… something most participants don’t have. Here is a simpler explanation which is true in the macro sense, though extended details are not covered.<br />
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Basically, there are three different kinds of genetic tests used in genealogy. One test is for markers on the y-chromosome. This test requires a sample from a male, as females do not have a y-chromosome. It looks at markers and allows you to compare them with other samples of known or unknown genealogies in hope that you will find a relative who proves a specific lineage.<br />
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The second type of test concerns mitochondrial DNA, the DNA which was in the egg from your mother (that became you!) and consequently the bodies of your cells today. Mitochondrial DNA comes only from your mother. It is only passed down a female line. Your mitochondrial DNA came from your mother and her mother and her mother back in time to the first human woman.<br />
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The third test is of autosomal DNA. Autosomal DNA is the DNA other than the sex chromosomes. In reproduction the autosomal DNA is mixed up with the creation of each new child, sometimes coyly referred to as a “transmission event.”<br />
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These three types of tests give us different information; and importantly, that information yields different genealogical information for different time periods. <br />
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Let us begin with our mothers and mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA changes very slowly. One research paper recently reported a rate of one change per 371 “transmission events.” Thus, over 371 generations, there is a 50% chance that <strong>one </strong>child will have a change in her/his mitochondrial DNA. Population geneticists and genealogists define a generation as somewhere between 20 and 30 years. If we use 25 years here, we are talking about the likelihood of one change per 9,275 years. Now this change is random, so it could have occurred between you and your mother, but the likelihood of that is 1/371. <br />
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Here’s the simple way to look at this. Suppose we represent your mother’s mitochondrial DNA (mt-DNA) as a hand of four playing cards: the 2 <span style="color: red;">♦</span>, the Queen <span style="color: red;">♥</span>, the 10 ♠, and the Knight of ♣. The odds are that your mt-DNA is exactly the same (the 2 <span style="color: red;">♦</span>, the Queen <span style="color: red;">♥</span>, the 10 ♠, and the Knight of ♣); actually 370/371, or 99.73%. And if there is a change, it is minor and closely related. An example of a change would be represented by this configuration: the 2 <span style="color: red;">♦</span>, the Queen <span style="color: red;">♥</span>, the 9 ♠, and the Knight of ♣. We expect this same situation to hold true up and down your maternal line. A fifth cousin sharing the same maternal lineage will likely have the exact same mt-DNA with perhaps one minor change. For that reason, mt-DNA is very useful for establishing maternal shared ancestors, but of much less use to understand lineages in what we call genealogical time—the seven hundred years since surnames and some record keeping became more common. (Though royal lineages have been kept for thousands of years.)<br />
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Because mt-DNA changes so slowly, and because it is present in much larger quantities in people than other DNA and usually survives for years after death and burial, it is used to understand the genetics of earlier humans. One group of people killed by the <strong>Mount Vesuvius</strong> volcanic eruption of 24 August 79 AD (which destroyed the two ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum) was analyzed over 1,600 years later. The mt-DNA showed that six of 13 individuals in one house were maternally related, all having the unusual haplogroup T2b. Because of the slow rate of change of mt-DNA, scientists can confidently say that all of our mitochondrial lineages trace back to a common ancestor who lived in Africa 100,000 to 150,000 years ago. Some lineages migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, while others remained.<br />
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I will return with further information about the rates of change for y-DNA and the autosomal DNA. The card game becomes much more complicated! Mitochondrial DNA changes <em>so slowly</em> you could think about dealing out the same four cards 371 times in a row. But for y-DNA (at 67 markers) it is just 3-4 hands in a row. And for autosomal DNA you get a new shuffle and a new hand with <strong>every transmission event</strong>.<br />
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Lalia Wilson for the Taylor surname project<br />
<br />WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-15385393980993251252011-08-05T15:36:00.000-07:002011-08-05T15:36:18.469-07:00Adding in Taylor data from non-Family Tree projects<span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/DNA-Secret-James-D-Watson/dp/0099451840?ie=UTF8&tag=joyandharmony&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="DNA: The Secret of Life" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0099451840&tag=joyandharmony" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=joyandharmony&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0099451840" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span>Family Tree DNA is offering special pricing to include people who have tested their y-DNA with other companies. This is important to the existing members of the Taylor Project at FTDNA, and to other people who have tested at other companies. Why? Because everyone new being added to FTDNA brings more matches.<br />
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If you are currently a FTDNA member, tell your friends about this. You also can expect to pick up new matches as more samples are added to the entire database of y-DNA.<br />
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If you are a member of another project at a company other than Family Tree DNA, you can add your sample to the world's largest genealogy DNA database and will then have much more likely matches!<br />
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To summarize, in the words of our project leader Ralph Taylor:<br />
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§ For $19, Taylors with Ancestry (or other testing company) results can transfer to FTDNA and join Taylor Family Genes. Their results can then be compared and possibly matched. We could pick up as many as 200 additional members. <br />
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§ For another $39 ($58 total), they can add analyses of markers “missing” from the FTDNA 25- or 37-marker panels to make for consistent comparisons. <br />
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If you are a person who has tested elsewhere, go directly to the FTDNA website to arrange to be included in the largest database.<br />
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If your sample is already at FTDNA, encourage others to take advantage of this opportunity. It is a way to find more matches for all of us!<br />
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I certainly am looking for some missing "links" on some of my family lines.<br />
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LaliaWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-57695372308072109842011-08-01T08:57:00.000-07:002011-08-01T08:57:37.858-07:00Genetic Testing, what to do after 25 Markers<span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Louisville-Remembered-American-Chronicles-Gary/dp/1596296283?ie=UTF8&tag=joyandharmony&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Louisville Remembered (American Chronicles)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1596296283&tag=joyandharmony" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=joyandharmony&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1596296283" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span><br />
I was working with a project member this morning who had done 25 markers and was looking for how to make sense of the match. Here's what I told him, information that will be helpful for everyone:<br />
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I see that you have only tested 25 markers. You have 16 exact matches at 12 markers. While you are related to all those matches, they could be relatives prior to the last 700 years, when surnames came into existence. Thus, 12 marker matches do not mean much, unless you already know for sure (through a paper trail) your relationship.<br />
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At 25 markers, you have one match at a genetic distance of 1. This, again, does not mean much. Your match, Michael X*, has tested at 67 markers. So, you probably ought to upgrade your testing to 67 markers to see if you are still just one marker off an exact match, or if the match falls apart. <br />
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Here are two additional strategies you can try. Through your documented family history, find another male Taylor from your line (as distant a cousin as you can prove is your relative) and have him test. At that point, he will either match you closely (65, 66 or 67 or 67 markers), or not. If you do not match, then the paper trail is not accurate, and one or both of you descend from a line of a different male progenitor than is indicated on your genealogy.<br />
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A second strategy is to do the Family Finder test. Here you are matching autosomal DNA, matching across all family lines. While I am excited about this DNA test, and have done it for two of my Taylor and one Robinson relative, the matching is difficult so far because the people I've matched have not responded with their genealogical information. I'm not blaming them, as the protocol for how to work with others in matching autosomal DNA is not developed and many of them may be clueless. So, the science of autosomal matching is definitive, but the cooperating with one another to discover how we are related is in its infancy.<br />
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I hope all this is helpful. Please do more y-DNA markers, at least 67. Then consider the Family Finder test. Together with the Taylor team, we should be able to assist you with your genetic matches.<br />
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Lalia <br />
*Complete name not give for reasons of privacy.<br />
Note: the image is a Taylor important in the history of Louisville, Kentucky, whose name I did not get.WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-83468843704265457532011-07-18T06:26:00.000-07:002011-07-18T06:26:59.206-07:00Summer Sale at FTDNA<span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tracing-Your-Family-Tree-ebook/dp/B003ES5QRC?ie=UTF8&tag=joyandharmony&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Tracing Your Family Tree - How to Reseach Your Family History" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B003ES5QRC&tag=joyandharmony" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=joyandharmony&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B003ES5QRC" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span>Hi,<br />
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I have more coming up about interpreting DNA results, but today I need to let you know about the current sale going on at Family Tree DNA. Now is the time for you to let others know about genetic genealogy and testing so that they can take advantage of major discounts for the next few days. See prices below.<br />
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Good luck on spreading the word. The more people tested, the more likely you will find additional matches!<br />
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Y-DNA37 for $119 (Regular price would be $149)<br />
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Y-DNA67 for $199 (Regular price would be $239)<br />
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Family Finder for $199 (Regular price would be $289)<br />
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Family Finder + Y-DNA37 for $318 (Regular price would be $438)<br />
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Family Finder + mtDNAPlus for $318 (Regular Price would be $438)<br />
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mtDNA Full Sequence for $219 (Regular Price would be $299)<br />
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SuperDNA for $418 (Regular Price would be $518, includes Y-DNA67<br />
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Comprehensive Genome for $617 (Regular Price would be $797,<br />
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The promotion will start today, Friday the 15th at 6PM CST and will<br />
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LaliaWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-31448147596004241252011-06-18T19:19:00.000-07:002011-06-18T19:19:40.291-07:00The Case for Using Family Finder in a Surname Project<span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Saxons-Vikings-Celts-Genetic-Britain/dp/0393330753?ie=UTF8&tag=joyandharmony&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0393330753&tag=joyandharmony" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=joyandharmony&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0393330753" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span>Members of the Taylor Project have almost all participated by means of y-DNA testing. You submitted a sample, provided a basic pedigree and the name of your earliest know Taylor ancestor and now (ideally) you are matched with a group of Taylors. Your group descends from a single line and the other group members are your cousins.<br />
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In an ideal world, you know your exact relationship with each member of your Taylor group. Knowing this relationship, each of you can now claim your combined paper trail of lineage. <br />
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Isn’t that why you have participated in DNA testing?<br />
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Well, it doesn’t always work out like that. And you, dear reader, may be one of the people who is an exception to the ideal portrayed above. This is where the Family Finder test can be of great benefit. The Family Finder test looks at autosomal DNA, which is inherited from all of your lines of descent, not just the male-to-male lineage of y-DNA or the female-to-female lineage of mitochondrial DNA. It is a way to investigate all your lines.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">I’m writing this because there is a price reduction on this test for current FTDNA members. Take advantage of a major price reduction through June 22nd.</span><br />
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What can the Family Finder test contribute? Let’s look at several situations.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">First</span>, you are a male Taylor, you have a fairly close match with other Taylor project members, enough to form a group, but you don’t know your exact relationship. If you and others in your group do the Family Finder test (henceforth FF), you can close in on your relationship. For example, if your y-DNA suggests a 50% likelihood of a common ancestor within 6 generations, doing the FF will indicate if your common ancestor is within seven generations (the equivalent of 5th cousins) and suggest the number of generations between you. This should focus on exactly where to look for the paper trail indicating a common ancestor. It also may help identify a relative who has not yet tested who would be “the missing link.”<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Second</span> instance, you are a female Taylor. You don’t have any y-DNA, and you don’t know any living male Taylors of your line. Doing the FF test will allow you to match with Taylor males currently unknown to you. You can then use their Taylor group, from their y-DNA results, to work towards your earliest Taylor ancestor.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Third </span>instance, you are a male Taylor. Your y-DNA did not match any Taylor line, but did match another surname project. The evidence is pretty conclusive that one of your male ancestors carried the name Taylor, but was not biologically a Taylor. However, you do not know when that NPE (non-parental event) occurred. Was it in your generation? Five generations? More? With the FF test, you can compare your results with other known Taylor relatives, second cousins, great aunts and uncles. If you match them, the likelihood is that the NPE occurred prior to the births of all those tested, and that a common ancestor of all of yours came subsequent to the NPE. (However this inference cannot extend beyond seven generations due to limitations of the testing, nor can it extend beyond the parameters of your individuals sampled.)<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Fourth</span> instance, you are a male with a non-Taylor surname. Your y-DNA matched the Taylor line in multiple close matches. You don’t know when the NPE occurred. You do the FF test. If you match a Taylor group with the FF in addition to y-DNA, this suggests the NPE occurred within the last seven generations. It may be fewer generations depending upon the FF results. At least you can begin to discover your roots.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Finally</span>, what about the unique individual who has tested 67 y-DNA markers and mt-DNA and has no matches? I know one of these people. We hope with the FF test to finally find someone who matches!<br />
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I look forward to us all finding out our ancestry.<br />
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LaliaWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-47687902967108560142011-06-05T12:17:00.000-07:002011-06-05T12:17:10.682-07:00Jefferson Taylor, Police Officer Killed by Lightening at Joplin Tornado SceneFrom Police One.com:<br />
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Officer Jefferson “Jeff” Taylor of the Riverside (Mo.) Police Department, who was struck by lightning while aiding in relief efforts in the wake of the Joplin tornado, passed away at in Springfield (Mo.) today. Family members were at his side at St. John’s Hospital — where he had undergone successful skin graft surgery and was being treated for other complications related to injuries he suffered in that incident on Monday, May 23 — when he died. Taylor is the first officer in the history of Riverside Police Department to die in the line of duty. <br />
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Master Patrolman Jeff Taylor succumbed to injuries sustained on May 23, 2011, while assisting with tornado disaster response efforts in Joplin, Missouri.<br />
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Patrolman Taylor had just returned to a command post on a department ATV to drop off another first responder when a bolt of lightning struck next to where he was standing. Other public safety officers on the scene immediately began CPR and stabilized him for transport to the hospital.<br />
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He was transferred to St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, where he remained until succumbing to his injuries on June 3, 2011.<br />
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Let me know if he is a member of your Taylor family. He is one of many who have given their lives in the service of others. May he rest in peace.<br />
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Lalia Wilson for the Taylor Surname ProjectWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-26119889455249163972011-05-15T07:04:00.000-07:002011-05-15T07:04:13.491-07:00Collaboration is the Name of the Game<span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Group-Genius-Creative-Power-Collaboration/dp/B001E95J7A?ie=UTF8&tag=joyandharmony&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B001E95J7A&tag=joyandharmony" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=joyandharmony&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001E95J7A" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span><br />
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A lot of work goes on behind the scenes of this Taylor DNA project. Among what happens is that the administrators are actively working with project members to facilitate a win-win experience for all. One of the principal parts to making your experience with the project a success is offering as much information as you can about your family lines—excluding personal information on living persons.<br />
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<div> </div>On your personal page at www.familytreedna.com, you have ways to input data about your father’s line, your mother’s line and all family lines. These can be input as a gedcom or individually. <br />
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When you post this information, it allows near-matches to begin to see where their line connects with your line. For best results, all project members should be forthcoming with family pedigrees.<br />
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But your job is not over! A next part is to actively collaborate with people who ask you for information. This means responding in a timely manner to project members who inquire about possible connections. It means responding thoughtfully. It means being responsible for your own safety and protection as well—don’t share mother’s maiden names or birthdates or social security numbers for living people!<br />
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It may be that you get a lot of e-mail; I do. If you are busy, give a quick response. “I got your message. I may have some information on your question. I cannot get to it until after the 20th. Please contact me again if I don’t get back to you.”<br />
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<div> </div>I have been in many conversations with project members and other genetic genealogists about how to best work collaboratively. Here are some thoughts from our member Richard A. Taylor:<br />
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<div> </div><blockquote>I don't understand why so many folks spend all their money and time testing with FTDNA or some other DNA testing company, joining the Family Finder group and/or signing up for any of the many groups, projects or blogs and then DO NOT SUBMIT FAMILY TREES, GEDCOMS, MULTIPLE SURNAMES OR NOTES ABOUT THEIR FAMILY ORIGINS AND WORST OF ALL - DO NOT REPLY TO A CONTACT E-MAIL MESSAGE OFFERING TO SHARE/COMPARE INFORMATION!!!<br />
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<div> </div>I've sent out e-mails to three people listed as possible matches, 2 for my line and 1 for a friend’s Taylor line, without any reply or acknowledgement. Reckon this is sort of analogous to "leading a horse to water but you can't make him drink."<br />
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<div> </div>Why go to all this trouble if you're not going to respond or share any info?</blockquote>I know that Dick’s a bit annoyed in his tone above, but he is simply repeating some of the frustration that all of us face as we start working through our matches in the Taylor project (and with our other related lines).<br />
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<div> </div>To the extent we can, we should work to make our own experience and that of our related lines as pleasant as possible. We can do this by submitted your family pedigree, or gedcom. <br />
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<ul><li>Did you post your earliest known ancestor (of your male Taylor line)? </li>
<li>Have you posted your earliest know female ancestor on your female-to-female line? </li>
<li>Finally, if you are doing the Family Finder test, have you posted all the known surnames for all your lines in the last seven generations?</li>
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<div>By completing these details, which are about people who are usually many years deceased, you improve your chances of determining how you link to anyone whose DNA you match. You also improve the ability of those you match to find their link with you. <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">(This is because the person you match may have more family information than you have, which is a blessing in that it adds important family information you may not have known about.)</span></div><br />
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<div> </div><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;">Always happy to share Taylor or any other info I possess. My wife (surname Ford/Foard from MD to NC to TN to VA) and I have been researching since about 30 years or more.</span><br />
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<div><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"> Richard (Dick) A. Taylor</span></div><br />
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<div> </div>WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-65125514160887006642011-03-07T14:34:00.000-08:002011-03-07T14:34:04.301-08:00Working Together to Assist All Genealogists<span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Graveyard-Book-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0060530944?ie=UTF8&tag=joyandharmony&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="The Graveyard Book" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0060530944&tag=joyandharmony" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=joyandharmony&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0060530944" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span>Our Taylor DNA project is just one of the many ways those who love family history can help themselves directly and indirectly by helping preserve genealogical information. <br />
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A perennial problem is the neglect and abandonment of buildings and graveyards. To highlight just the graveyards, today's Knoxville News-Sentinel calls on those of a mind to help, to join the efforts to protect graveyards in East Tennessee. (This is certainly a problem in almost every locale, I'm just highlighting the local problem in my backyard.) I'm placing a photo here from the article, showing a graveyard in a neighboring county. I urge you to do what you can to advocate for preserving information about all the departed, and for either restoring these cemeteries, or relocating them to places of dignity.<br />
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Finding out the story of our ancestors, who they were and something of their personal history, involves a combination of genealogy research techniques, serendipity, and the science of genetics. Serendipity, the accidental discovery of something fortunate, is unplanned and cannot be anticipated. While it is always nice to have, serendipity cannot be your entire family history strategy.<br />
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This leaves us with family stories, census data and other sources of records for our ancestors. Sometimes these contradict one another. Should that happen, there are ways to evaluate and settle on the most likely answer. However, the final way to compare family history to current reality is DNA. Should DNA results contradict the family history, no matter how well researched, the DNA (as measured in a member of the family line being studied) is incontrovertible! <br />
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This is best understood by examples. I am going to use a fictitious Taylor ancestor and demonstrate what various DNA results will tell us. Let us begin with an imaginary ancestor, John Q. Taylor, born in 1824 in Belmont, Ohio, USA. As were all years, 1824 has its distinctions, on November 5th – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (the first technological university in the English-speaking world) was founded in Troy, New York, the Florida State capital moved to Tallahassee, where it remains, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony premiered on May 7th. This ancestor (for our example we will assume he is our earliest known ancestor) grew up, married and produced four sons: Abe Taylor, Bryon Taylor, Charlie Taylor and Daniel Taylor. All four sons were born in Ohio in the period 1845-1860 and you have records of them and their marriages. Each produced at least one son who was named after him, Abe Taylor II, Byron Taylor II and so forth.<br />
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Skip ahead to the current day. You are Daniel Taylor IV born in 1950 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Or his close female kin.) You have records and a pedigree showing your descent from your great-great-grandfather, John Q. Taylor. You submit a sample and join the Taylor project. <br />
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Luckily, it turns out that there are existing samples in the Taylor project for three others of your third cousins, direct descendants of Abe Taylor, Byron Taylor and Charlie Taylor. Let us look at what the results might mean.<br />
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In our first case, let us assume each of these Taylor cousins does a 12 marker y-DNA test. In our example, all four match. Does this prove the family history? No! (Nor does it disprove the family history.) All a 12-marker match tells us is that these four men share a common ancestor sometime before 1200 AD, which predates the use of surnames. It does not tell us that they are third cousins, or that they are not.<br />
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What if you each tested 25 markers and had a perfect match? A perfect 25/25: The chances are 90% that your most recent common ancestor is within the past 28 generations, roughly since 1300 AD.<br />
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What if you tested 37 markers and had a perfect match? A perfect 37/37: The chances are 90% that your family lines are connected within 19 generations, most likely since 1530 AD.<br />
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If you find a perfect 67/67: The 90% probability level is a common ancestor no earlier than 1735 AD, with a 50% probability that your common ancestor is your great-great-grandfather. <br />
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These, however, are the easy cases.<br />
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What if, of the four descendants of John Q. Taylor in the Taylor project, yourself and three different third cousins, representing three different lines, three of you match 67-67 and one matches 65/67? While it is unlikely that there would be two random mutations in the same line over so few transmission events , it is within possibility that the four lines are connected as the paper trail indicates. <br />
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But let’s make this more complex. Three lines connect at 67/67, and the fourth line, which has an equally compelling paper trail, connects at 62/67. From mathematics, we know that the fourth line, with only a 62/67 connection, is not a recent cousin of the other three lines. Their genetic connection is before surnames came into common use in the English speaking world. <br />
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What can we conclude about these four lines? Most likely, three of the lines are the direct descendants of John Q. Taylor, and the fourth line is of similar ancestral stock, but not a direct descendant of John Q. However, there is also a possibility that the one individual is the sole true descendant, and the other three lines represent similar ancestral stock. And there is always a remote possibility that none of the samples is a direct descendant. <br />
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How do you proceed to understand more about these lines? There are several ways to proceed. One is to compare the 67 marker matches to all surnames at the Family Tree DNA project. If that line ends up having 15 perfect matches to individuals with the surname Miller, then there is a likelihood that somewhere between 1824 and 1950 either an adoption or a “non-paternal event” occurred that introduced the Miller genes into the Taylor family. <br />
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In addition to following the genetic science, you also want to further explore the family history. Was there a time that rumors spread about an affair? When husband and wife were separated? Follow that thread to find out more…<br />
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Lalia Wilson for the Taylor DNA ProjectWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-37013066692391593112010-11-25T03:42:00.000-08:002010-11-25T03:42:40.479-08:00Navy Hero, Captain Edwin Taylor PollockToday's Wikipedia features a front page story of Captain Edwin Taylor Pollock, USN, who became the 1st Governor of the U. S. Virgin Islands and the 8th Governor of American Samoa. Pollock's mother was Olive Orlinda Taylor. Her father was Edmond Taylor, born 27 August 1789 in Buckland, Massachusetts. Edmond's father was Enos Taylor (also born in Massachusetts), 1751-1836.<br />
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Are any of you related to this Taylor descendant?<br />
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LaliaWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-56544706651563634232010-09-03T13:20:00.000-07:002010-09-03T13:20:55.141-07:00Searching Taylor Family Trees in the Taylor Surname Project<span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Abstracts-Belmont-County-Vols-1810-1827/dp/1585495859?ie=UTF8&tag=joyandharmony&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Will Abstracts, Belmont County, Ohio, Vols. A, B, and C (1810-1827)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=1585495859&tag=joyandharmony" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=joyandharmony&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1585495859" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span><br />
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Participants in the Surname Project have the opportunity to submit family trees. In fact, they are strongly encouraged to do so, as well as to send in updated information if they discover changes. However with almost 400 participants, it was hard to find information across the membership. Now, with the single link below, you can search for given names, locations, migration patterns... <br />
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I've just spent a pleasant hour searching around looking for a collatoral Taylor line. Like many of you, I descend from two Taylor lines, and the "other" one I don't have a direct male descendant to test. So I was looking to see if that line is already in the database. It appears not to be, but more searching or a different approach may help me find the right line. <br />
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In the meantime I have a couple of Taylor groups that were in the right locations at the right time in US history to be possible contenders.<br />
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<a href="http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~taylorydna/fam-trees/all_trees.shtml">http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~taylorydna/fam-trees/all_trees.shtml</a><br />
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Best wishes for your successful ancestoral search!<br />
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LaliaWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-65373756984199906552010-08-23T10:50:00.000-07:002010-08-23T10:57:52.254-07:00Beginning Steps to using Family Finder or Autosomal DNA Tests<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We are getting queries and getting results with the new Family Finder test available from Family Tree DNA. There are many benefits to using Family Finder. One is to confirm how collatoral branches of families link together. This will become quite useful to the Taylor project over time. Even today we have "matches" where we can confirm that two or more individuals with different pedigrees have "related" DNA, but we do not know from the y-DNA or the paper trail exactly where the lines converge into a common ancestor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">With Family Finder we should be able to see where two (or more) lines converge<strong> if</strong> it is within the last seven generations. This is because Family Finder works best with relationships at the 5th cousin or closer range. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One of the steps in using Family Finder, other than submitting a sample, is to provide a list of surnames in your family line. I have done this for my direct line and will include it below as an example. Since the test goes out to fifth cousins, ideally you will go out to your seventh generation in lineage. I have a couple of gaps, but most of my other 5 times great-grandparents are included. Some of the surnames are duplicated, so that reduces the number and for some I give alternate spellings.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Augustus</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Barteaux/Berteaux</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Beall/Bell</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Bright/Brecht</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Cassell</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Crockwell</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dickerson</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Foster</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Gaston</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Glover</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Harbaugh</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hinton</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hutt</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Jackson</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Johnson</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Leonard</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Madden</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">McDonald</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Mead(e)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Moore</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Perry</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pope</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pulliam</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Rice</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ritchie</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Robinson </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Scott</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Simon</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Smith</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Spence</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Springer</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Starratt</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Stone</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></li>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div>WiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-5644338227942860382010-08-20T12:42:00.000-07:002010-08-20T12:42:11.251-07:00Taylor Project is Increasing and Getting Better<span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Albions-Seed-British-Folkways-Cultural/dp/0195069056?ie=UTF8&tag=joyandharmony&link_code=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img alt="Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History)" src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=0195069056&tag=joyandharmony" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=joyandharmony&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=0195069056" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" width="1" /></span><br />
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I've been less communicative in this blog lately, but Taylor work is proceeding. The project as a whole is now over 380 members. We've established goals and metrics to make sure we are progressing. And we have been having busy "conversations" behind the scenes with the five active and two "retired" administrators.<br />
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In addition to the metrics, we've been struggling with making the project useful for all Taylors. A major roadblock is that 85% of our members are of Western European haplotypes, yet we have a dearth of UK Taylors for comparison. Taylor is one of the most common surnames among English speakers, which is exactly why so many Taylors become keenly interested in genetic genealogy. There is no other way, sometimes, to distinguish us!<br />
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Consider these map suggestions from Alasdair MacDonald : "I had a wee look at several sites to get a handle of the distribution of the Taylor surname in the UK and in particular Scotland. You may already be familiar with them; they are helpful for initial general analysis:<br />
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"By clinking on the maps it shows the most prolific counties for the Taylor surname – the north east of Scotland is a stronghold: <a href="http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx?country_code=GB">http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx?country_code=GB</a><br />
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"Similar information here: <a href="http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Surnames.aspx">http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/Surnames.aspx</a>"<br />
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We thank Mr. MacDonald, a Scottish advocate of genetic genealogy, for this information. If you look at the maps you will notice a strong convergence of Taylors in one region of Scotland. Is any project member planning a trip there? Take along information about Family Tree DNA, and plan to proselytize along the way!<br />
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Lalia for the Taylor Surname ProjectWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-51338428621323053442010-06-08T11:12:00.000-07:002010-06-08T11:12:23.854-07:00Jeff Taylor's Genetic and Paper Genealogical DiscoveriesHi,<br />
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Jeff Taylor is a member of the Taylor project. He is part of family group 15. Here is his story:<br />
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"Prior to submitting my DNA I was at a dead end. The only information regarding my most distant Taylor ancestor was found in the publication 'History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 693.' [The picture below is a modern photo of the Nicholas County jail and jailer's residence, built from 1820-23. This is one of the historical sites of Nicholas County.]<br />
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"...His father, Jacob Taylor, came to Kentucky from Ohio, and died in Harrison County in 1818, aged about thirty-five;..."<br />
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"Based on this information the only clue I had was that my 3g-grandfather Jacob Taylor was born about 1783, had moved to Kentucky from Ohio, and died in 1818 in Harrison County, Kentucky, "about" 35 years of age.<br />
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"My 67 marker test resulted in one match with a genetic distance of -3. I contacted Mark Edwards and he kindly provided me with the name of Clara Sesler Genther who had authored a book entitled, "Ancestors and descendants of Taylor and Hager families of Madison and Union Counties, Ohio ..." Upon contacting Mrs. Genther I learned she still had a few copies available and ordered a copy from her. Interestingly, on page 42 there was a single notation for Jacob Taylor which stated "6. Jacob - came to Ohio but returned to Kentucky?" Based on the ages of his brothers Jacob would have been born about 1780.<br />
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"Based on DNA and the paper trail it appears that DNA has helped me make a connection to my Taylor family based on two sentences about Jacob Taylor which were published 100 years apart; and, thanks to Mrs. Genther's research, helped me trace my Taylor ancestry to Christopher Taylor who died in 1644 near Skipton, Yorkshire, England."<br />
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[Wikipedia states: The small town of Skipton in North Yorkshire, England has been around as far back as 1085, is listed in the Domesday Book, and has roles in history during the English Civil War and as the site of a prisoner-of-war camp during both World War I and World War II. During the English Civil War, a Royalist garrison was situated at Skipton Castle, under the command of Sir John Mallory. It was the last remaining Royalist stronghold in North England until its honourable surrender on 20 December 1645 after a three-year siege. Lalia's note: Christopher Taylor died a year before the end of the English Civil War.]<br />
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Jeff TaylorWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-48013649361647987322010-05-25T03:54:00.000-07:002010-05-25T03:54:58.251-07:00Some new information about predicting appearance from DNAHi,<br />
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As fans of genetic genealogy, we are always interested in new applications. Here are a couple of articles about predicting appearance from a DNA sample:<br />
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<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=portrait-in-dna">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=portrait-in-dna</a><br />
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Both of these articles feature a recent study that identified characteristics of a man who lived over 4,000 years ago. His blood type was A+, he had indicators for male-pattern baldness, dark skin, and was likely stout or square of build.<br />
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It may be that within years there will be genealogical applications for this. Could the future bring a DNA test that allows us to "see" some of our ancestors?<br />
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Lalia Wilson for the Taylor DNA ProjectWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6204589430385980466.post-11797281515065543572010-05-10T09:59:00.000-07:002010-05-10T09:59:51.129-07:00Taylors and HumankindGreetings Taylors and Fans,<br /><br />I've got a bunch of forthcoming articles about general Taylor topics. I'll give some hints here, and then send you to a very interesting site at BBC with information about human origins.<br /><br />So, we now have over 350 members, and our project is growing every day. We have most information focused on the y-DNA project, but Taylors are also participating in mtDNA and autosomal DNA studies. (The Family Finder test is an autosomal DNA test.) Expect to hear more about all of these in future blogs.<br /><br />First to come along, though, will be some information from project member Jeff Taylor who found cousins and his immigrant ancestor through our project. I'll have that information on the blog soon!<br /><br />In the meantime, ever wondered about "Cave Man?" Are we related to the Neanderthals? Well, according to a recent article in the well-regarded and peer-reviewed journal Science, we are. See more at: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8660940.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8660940.stm</a>.<br /><br />Lalia Wilson<br />for the Taylor DNA projectWiseLaliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942050182609017654noreply@blogger.com0