As I talked about in three balls in the air and my Y breakdown post. I have been waiting for an autosomal match with my Indiana Thompsons trying to identify if we can find Ida Williamson in our shared DNA. I have a lot of autosomal matches that seem to float around the same locations …
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For reference here is a nice visual from ancestry.com of my paternal tree. This constitutes my “Thompson family” really starting with my grandparents Charles and Elizabeth Thompson. I like this view because it shows the two “halves” of my dad’s family and gives you the idea of what we’re talking about with the two halves …
For reference here is my paternal line with wives: Albert Thompson & Ida Williamson -> Ray Thompson & Ina Finks -> Charles Thompson & Elizabeth Seelye -> my dad -> me. Although I have a few genetic relatives I believe are related to my Williamson family I haven’t had anyone that actually contained my Williamsons …
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I hate to mention this, but it’s better to put all the weird theories out there I suppose. I’ve mentioned the Ritchie family in the last post. They are part of a group of families in Kentucky that I think might be related to my Williamson family and therefore I have one theory that although …
One of the mysteries about Henry Williamson for me (besides the identities of his parents) is why, when he was no longer bound to the Beale family, did he go to Iowa to serve in the Civil War? I haven’t ordered his military records yet as I did with Levi Thompson, but I do have …
I had a small victory in getting the death record for 3rd Great Grandfather Henry Williamson. I could not get my hands on the death record for Rosa Blades unfortunately. The state of Indiana performed the search but came up with nothing. For reference here is my path to Henry Williamson through Ida Williamson Thompson …
I was printing off my forms for death records for Rosa Blades and Henry Williamson (see task list) when it struck me that there was more I could do at the Anderson public library. In the past I ordered obituaries for Rosa Thompson and for Thompsons I thought might be related to Levi. This time around …
I think since I’ve moved my Y DNA results to FTDNA, I’ve been able to take advantage of a lot of good testing and research within the FTDNA groups and also take better advantage of what I got from Ancestry.com. Last year, I thought my Y was a pretty obvious dud. Now I have what …
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One of our family stories is that we’re British. The next family story is that we’re in some way Native American (Cherokee) and the third part of the story is that we’re related to the British Royal family in some way. Possibly through Mary Queen of Scots. It’s not really important for me to follow …