Confirming Paper Research with DNA

In a post or two, I will link a few pieces on how to properly use DNA matches to map chromosomes and confirm paper research, and I'm not promising that my rough run-down here meets those standards in every case.  I'll come back to that. But I did want to create a quick record of …

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K2b mtDNA

I will summarize here what I've discovered about the K2b mtDNA haplogroups, which as mentioned above seem to be somewhat rare, especially K2b2. (As discussed in a later post, my matrilineal line is one of my brick walls, and I do have an intriguing mtDNA match who is also a general autosomal match). Two sources …

Genetic Genealogy

Long time since I checked in, so more catching up later.  I've had a lot (non family history related) going on, but I also have finally started learning more about DNA and how to use it in family history. One thing I've done is test my mtDNA, and my dad's Y-DNA and mtDNA.  Surprisingly, my …

My Family and Immigration in the First Half of the 19th Century

This post is a summary of what's to come. As discussed when I started this blog, one of my goals is to identify when all of my ancestors came to the US (or North America) and from where. This turned out to be a big task, and I may never finish, and the hardest people …

Canadian Reeves, Part 2: Thomas Houston Reeve and Family

William Beckwith Reeve's older brother Thomas Houston Reeve also moved to Ontario (then Upper Canada). In the 1901 Census, Thomas's daughter Fanny identified the family's immigration date as 1834. Although this is not the ideal source (coming nearly 70 years later when Fanny was 86 and the other siblings no longer alive), it is consistent …

Jan Guess Jones (13 Sept 1942 to 14 Dec 2017)

As mentioned in the prior post, my mom was labeling and organizing a lot of family photos in the 2016 and 2017, and was excited to show me what she had done during the holidays at the end of 2016. Some of the ones of her were ones I had been long familiar with, some …

Returning to the Blog: What’s Been Going On

I started this blog a bit more than a year ago, and for a variety of reasons have not been posting for a while. Life has been crazy and stressful (not all bad, but I have not been good about keeping up with my training plans and moved almost all my big race plans into …

Canadian Reeves, Part 1

It's taken me a while to get back to this, since doing any research in Canada is new to me, and I've been a little frustrated by the lack of records for the period I am currently interested in. As noted below more specifically, at least it's allowed me to identify a reason to go …

Samuel Houston Reeve’s Siblings and Their Families

Samuel Houston Reeve was the second youngest of 13 children, 12 who lived to adulthood. Learning more about his siblings and their families is likely to explain more about his own life and uncover any relationships that they may have had with Samuel's children after he died at only 31. It also may show more …

Non-Conformists/Dissenters and Marriage in the 18th and Early 19th Century

Before carrying on with the Reeve and Houston families, here's a quick and simplistic detour into English marriage law, with a plan to elaborate on the legal stuff and non-conformists later. As noted in the prior posts, the Reeve family seem to have been longtime Non-Conformists, or Christians who were not part of the Church …