Pincombe newsletter will be late

This has been a very busy summer and I am somewhat slow getting going on the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter. It will be mid September before it appears unfortunately. I have a few thoughts to pursue and a couple of items that I have neglected to follow up on.

My DNA study on the Pincombe family has actually been quite significant. Over time I have collected DNA matches on nearly every chromosome between my siblings and myself. The yDNA for the John Pincombe line has been well established. John Pincombe was baptized 13 Feb 1728 at Bishops Nympton son of John Pincombe and Grace Manning (they married 20 Mar 1725 at Bishops Nympton). He married Mary Charlie/Charley 8 Nov 1767 at Bishops Nympton and they had six children with yDNA results from two different sons being available to look at (a descendant of son William and a descendant of son Robert). I do not tend to look at the mitochondrial line as the surname changes each generation and not a lot of information can be gleaned on the Pincombe family itself from such a survey of results.

Wiki Tree

Another short conference and a speaker on Wiki Tree. I decided to become a contributing member of Wiki Tree as yet another place to add my research. I will enter in each individual singly and not upload a gedcom. I found Charles Butt listed by another member and have now added his date of burial to his profile. I can add my tree in at this point and that will let me see if anyone else has added material on any of my other ancestors. As the only grandchildren of our four grandparents (my siblings and I) I am back to great grandparent's children before I start to meet potential cousins with the most recent common ancestors those eight great grandparents. It has made it much more difficult to work with DNA but easier to align my families back into the 1800s as all of my grandparents were born between 1872 and 1886 and all their dates of births, marriages and deaths are known to me with accurate registrations. Having my starting point in the 1800s has made the task of researching my lines considerably easier although I can say that I do have brickwalls and these are not yet positively broken down with two of my great grandparents. The work that I have done looks good but the DNA matches proving these suppositions would be such a great addition,.