DNA study

I decided to extract the mitosearch entries for T haplogroup and that ended up being nearly 2000 entries. I extracted them by subgroups T1, T2, T3, T4, T5 and as I write this I realized that I missed T and T* so will have to go back and collect them as well. I decided to do that and then come back and continue with my blog. There were another 700 entries which should prove very interesting. I will match them up with the mutations and see if I can add their knowledge of geographic location to the database effectively.

Needless to say my transcriptions are being set aside. I think perhaps I must have needed a rest from them. I shall get back to them soon though as I am very interested in the Andover registers in this time period.

I spent a little more time on my presentation as I have to do a short write up for the syllabus and also speak with one of the other speakers. I shall email her tomorrow since I am more or less ready with all my thoughts in place :)

One of the Mead researchers wrote to me today to ask about my talk and I explained that I wasn't doing anything with the Mead in this talk and it was mostly my own family lines (my husband is the Mead descendant). I do not have any American ancestry actually. With three grandparents born and raised in England and my father also born in England (he and his parents came to Canada in 1913), the chances of having American ancestry are quite slight.

I also learned a little more about the Sherwood family. The reputed father of my grandmother Blake was the grandson of John Sherwood. It might be interesting to discover if he actually was her father (George Cotterill).

Tomorrow will be another busy day and we have been having rain most days this week. It leaves me free to work away on my genealogy.

Results of Research at Salt Lake City - 12 Dec 2008

Three images of the 40 for Chittlehampton left to complete today. Over 1100 entries to give me a birds eye view of Chittlehampton in the 17th century with respect to the Pincombe family. Their occupation was woolcomber which was unexpected from the charts that I was given which implied that this family was yeoman class in this time period at Chittlehampton (similar to members at South Molton/North Molton and Bishops Nympton). I had hoped to learn more about the Pincombe family when I was in Salt Lake City and did find a number of films and books that gave me a visual of this family's spread during the 1500s and 1600s since they are known to have arrived in the North Molton area in 1485. DNA testing on two samples now shows the line at Bishops Nympton may be related to the line at Barnstaple but further testing and more testers is needed to really make any conclusions in that regard. However, the line is the anticipated R1b1b12a which marks them as West Atlantic Modal Group. Early records appear to indicate that this family had lived at Pencombe Herefordshire prior to 1485. Why they moved to the North Molton area with Lord de la Zouch could perhaps be explained by historical events. Richard III was defeated at Bosworth Field and Henry VII became King of England. In 1598, John Pincombe became Sheriff of South Molton (appointed by Queen Elizabeth I).

The next set of documents to look at transcribing will be the Manor Books for Upper Clatford. These are in Secretary hand and may yet wait until later but I will spend a little time on them today as I am keen on having them transcribed. I would also like to do the Protestation Returns for Wiltshire that I photographed as they will be quite helpful in tracing back on the Rawlings and perhaps even Blake line.

Watched the movie "The Black Knight" and it is quite a change from the Batman movies of the 1950s. It is the first modern Batman movie that I have seen. We rented four movies in total for this weekend. We are movie watchers having purchased about 1000 VCRs when they were so popular (and fortunately we still have machines to play them on!). We have purchased DVDs but not in nearly so great a quantity. I had planned to watch a movie a day when I retired which was why I purchased so many. I was watching a movie a day but this last year I have been totally distracted by genealogy. I think though that I will start to set aside a couple of hours every afternoon for a movie.