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My earliest known paternal ancestor (of surname) was born in 1797 in a small village now part of a well known city in Ireland. The only reason we found this out was a brother converted to LDS (Mormon) and after teaching family history, went to Utah and a high ranking official took him into the vault and let him copy that man's data.
The man had allegedly 7 kids, who all came to Brooklyn, NYC, but perhaps not at the same time, we are not sure.
my father was told by his dad that two of the 7 went on to Australia, two moved to the same county in the Midwest, and one, well, no idea at all. There were 5 boys and 2 girls. No clues on the girls. But, some days ago, I got a hit on the database of FTDNA (Family Tree DNA) board for a woman, not a young one, in a small town in Massachusetts. She was listed as 2nd to 4th cousin, but I think actually 5trh cousin.
Someone knew her ancestors back one short of the man I mentioned above, b. 1797. So, I am confident we found another of the 5 brothers. Turns out I have corresponded over many years with her 88 year old dad, with no idea we were directly related. I told her the missing ancestor's name.
I did get a hit a long time ago on a 5th cousin in Australia, which pretty much had to be one of the two who went on to Australia. Alas, at the time I was heavy into a battle with near lethal SIBO and didn't pay much attention. That e-mail is in a file of 30,000 mails. If I survive the panic on Covid, I expect to dig through those mails and tell him all about his family.
I also paid for 23andme to see if I can find other ancestral clues. My wife asked me to send in her saliva sample. I am not sure why, because genealogical records show her ancestry among Aztec royalty long before Cortes entered Mexico. Her great-grandma was a Moctezuma But, yes, dear...
The man had allegedly 7 kids, who all came to Brooklyn, NYC, but perhaps not at the same time, we are not sure.
my father was told by his dad that two of the 7 went on to Australia, two moved to the same county in the Midwest, and one, well, no idea at all. There were 5 boys and 2 girls. No clues on the girls. But, some days ago, I got a hit on the database of FTDNA (Family Tree DNA) board for a woman, not a young one, in a small town in Massachusetts. She was listed as 2nd to 4th cousin, but I think actually 5trh cousin.
Someone knew her ancestors back one short of the man I mentioned above, b. 1797. So, I am confident we found another of the 5 brothers. Turns out I have corresponded over many years with her 88 year old dad, with no idea we were directly related. I told her the missing ancestor's name.
I did get a hit a long time ago on a 5th cousin in Australia, which pretty much had to be one of the two who went on to Australia. Alas, at the time I was heavy into a battle with near lethal SIBO and didn't pay much attention. That e-mail is in a file of 30,000 mails. If I survive the panic on Covid, I expect to dig through those mails and tell him all about his family.
I also paid for 23andme to see if I can find other ancestral clues. My wife asked me to send in her saliva sample. I am not sure why, because genealogical records show her ancestry among Aztec royalty long before Cortes entered Mexico. Her great-grandma was a Moctezuma But, yes, dear...
