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His name was probably more in the spirit of "Happy Herdsman" than "Homosexual Sissy"
The word coward and the name Coward have different etymologies.
> the word coward comes from the Latin coda meaning tail and the old French coart.
> The suffix -ard (or -art) also comes from Old French and is typically pejorative or derogatory, as seen in the words braggart, drunkard, buzzard, and bastard
The surname Coward comes from Old English cowherde which meant "herdsman". Source
The problem is that you're mixing politics and science. The very word "race" has become so politicized that it is of diminished value as a word.
Biologically speaking, everyone has two parents that contributed to their genome. Each of those parents has two parents of their own, and so forth. For most of human history, however, few people traveled further than 50 miles from their place of birth. Therefore, because of gene drift, every geographical location on Earth developed its own unique gene sequences.
On the Internet you can find DNA tests that will yield a result of "you're 30% Irish, 28% German, 18% Russian, 16% Chinese, 5% Native American, and 3% Other." The way they're doing that is by looking for those geographically unique gene sequences. Which is exactly what a Forensic scientist does for a court case. If a person has 83% Nigerian and 17% Cameroon DNA then they're black. The person with the Irish/German/Russian etc. DNA would be judged Caucasian.
It's true that they change alot, but looking back when my son was born and now 3 years later, he always looked like himself. Some things doesn't change and are genetic traits like cleft chin.
The Inheritance of a Cleft Chin
The genetics behind cleft chins used to be thought of as simple. Cleft chins were believed to be a dominant trait: if two parents had cleft chins, their kids could have a cleft or might not. And if two parents had smooth chins, their kids would always have smooth chins. It's still more likely than not that if your parents both have cleft chins, you’ll have one. And if both have smooth chins, you will too.
Source: https://www.ancestry.com/lp/traits/cleft-chin
So just with that trait I would as well get a paternity test as it's just more likely the kid would have a smooth chin like me and his mom.
But the main thing is that op had the feeling for a while and had a realisation when he got to hold his baby. He has to act on that feeling.
Here’s a 23&Me scientist explaing the result to some geneticists in Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jennifurret/status/1086395534527459328?s=21
And here’s ancestry DNA’s white paper on their method:
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/resource/whitePaper/AncestryDNA-Ethnicity-White-Paper
There's this genetic variation where some people taste astringent flavors 100x stronger than what is considered "normal".
GHW Bush had it and my dad has it. He can't stand broccoli as well as green & sweet peppers because they overwhelm the taste of whatever it is they're used in.
I guess it's no surprise that Bush hated Japanese food, they tend to embrace astringency and even children are taught to enjoy it from a very young age.
https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2017/05/21/setting-the-record-straight-ancestry-and-your-dna/
"If you provide us a sample of your saliva, we’ll analyze it to tell you more about where you come from. The sample, and the resulting data, are yours. You have the ability to download it at any time. You can request that we delete your data and destroy your physical sample at any time and we will do so."
"We’ve recently received a number of questions that stem from an article describing what Ancestry can do with your genetic information that has significant inaccuracies and fundamental errors in it. When I read the article, it became immediately obvious why consumers would have concerns: The article is inflammatory and inaccurate, and contains wild scenarios of the “did you know [insert scary hypothetical]” variety."
According to Ancestry.com, Audrey lived to be 81, Ellen lived to be 80, and Mildred lived to be 91, but Everett died at age 10 in 1907.
On the bright side, only 2 of their 13 children died young (the other being a girl named Blanche who died at 17 in 1919). One of their younger daughters even lived until 2008.
I already spent so much time typing this on mobile to someone whose comment got deleted so...
It’s not super common, but police have started to use it for cold cases. It’s by no means a broad conspiracy, nor is it being done secretly.
They even mention it on their own website
Ancestry.com Guide for Law Enforcement “Ancestry requires valid legal process in order to produce information about our users. We comply with legitimate requests in accordance with applicable law and our Privacy Statements.”
23andMe.com Requests for 23andMe User Information “23andMe may be required by law to comply with a valid court order, subpoena, or search warrant for genetic or personal information.”
Based on the SSN given on the first page, this site says it would have been issued in Massachusetts with the person's estimated age between 61-73.
I found a Ralph W Paulson (born 1946), who passed away in 1983 in Easton, Massachusetts. So he would have been 75 today.
If it's the same guy, he wrote a number of letters to The Boston Globe between 1974 and 1979 on a variety of political topics, signing "Ralph Paulson, Brockton" which is right next to Easton. I only scanned them, and they're not wildly crazy but they probably qualify as odd.
I'm guessing this is him, but I only spent a few minutes poking around.
Wikipedia notes that the name Jawed, or Javid, began as a pseudonym and means "eternal." Another baby naming site defines it as "living." Ancestry.com claims the name Iqbal means "prosperity."
A sloppy, armchair translation of the name Javid Iqbal is "eternal/living in prosperity." Live long and prosper!
>Joseph Salvaggio, Chief of Police of Leon Valley
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=salvaggio
>Italian: nickname for a wild or uncouth person, an older form of Selvaggio.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/selvaggio
> savage, primitive (people)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/primitive
>A simple-minded person.
His last name literally means "retard".
Do you have sources for this claim? I did some quick research and this seem to not be the case.
23andme has never given user data to law enforcement [source]
Ancestry.com complied with 1 request for a genetic match in 2014 [source]
note: Ancestry.com has complied with at least 52 orders for non-genetic or health information, apparently this is always in regards to credit card fraud.
Het is niet fonetisch afgelezen hoor.
Het meisje, Marlene Lyden, was de dochter van Maria Lyden, een Nederlandse vrouw getrouwd met een Amerikaanse man.
Marlene woonde samen met haar ouders en Nederlandse grootouders (Marinus en Mynsje Leenera) in een huis in Los Angeles. Ze heeft dus in Amerika Nederlands geleerd van haar moeder en grootouders. Vandaar het stevige accent.
Looks like Mary Cleave.
A little googling.. https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/California/Mary-Cleave_2grv79
Looks like she lived 15 minutes from the Disney studios and would’ve been about 26 at the time of this letter.
I have about 10 tabs open trying to follow this rabbit hole.
So I had time to waste and I like pointless trivia that don't mean much, so be nice, but here's what I got.
As per these guys, the name Thorburn is Scottish: from a northern Middle English personal name, Old Norse þórbjörn, composed of the elements þórr (see Thor) + björn ‘bear’, ‘warrior’.
When the Habs flipped that 2nd to LA for a 3rd and a 5th, they picked Norlinder with the 3rd, and with the 5th they took a guy called Jacob LeGuerrier. Literally French for "the warrior".
Also apparently Enstrom is made of en (juniper) and strøm (river). That's just the basis for a shitton of gin, isn't it ? I'm sure this deal made someone drink though.
OPs description of the privacy changes is not accurate. https://www.ancestry.com/cs/legal/privacystatement
The privacy policy that became effective August 3rd talks about what data they collect from you and with whom they share data. It has nothing to do with the trees being public or private or with living people set to public. Trees by default have always been set to publicly searchable unless you specifically change it to private. Living people are still set to private even in public trees.
Law enforcement did not not submit his DNA to one of those services. In the GSK case, the suspect's DNA was independently analyzed and the sequence was formatted in a way that could be submitted to a third-party site, GEDMatch. They're a genealogy site where people can submit their test results (usually from 23&me or Ancestry) to use some additional tools and find familial matches that tested with other services.
23&Me's transparency report shows that they have not provided any information to LE despite 5 requests. Furthermore, their guide for law enforcement states that "23andMe chooses to use all practical legal and administrative resources to resist requests from law enforcement," though they admit they could be compelled to release it.
Ancestry's latest transparency report says they complied with 31 requests for user information related to credit card fraud, but received no requests for DNA data.
That's not to say privacy concerns are unwarranted, but neither of the bigger services wants to let law enforcement access samples.
If ano means anus and Nymous is a surname found in Britain and Ireland, does the word anonymous simply means butthole of the Nymous family ?
> Ancestry has released updated Terms and Conditions. These changes apply to all AncestryDNA customers,
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Lol it has happened
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https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/setting-the-record-straight-ancestry-and-your-dna
Except 23andme has it in writing that they can sell the aggregate data to 3rd parties while Ancestry seems to only share aggregate data with researchers.
> We received no requests for information related to genetic information of any Ancestry member, and we did not disclose any such information to law enforcement. https://www.ancestry.com/cs/transparency
according to ancestry, it does
>Kojima Name Meaning
>Japanese: ‘small island’; mostly found along the coast between Tokyo and Kyoto and in the Ryukyu Islands; an alternate reading found farther east is Ojima. Another Kojima with a different first character but similar meaning is found in western Japan.
i don't have a dog in this fight, i'm just saying this is probably where this came from
Pink tags were half off yesterday. :) For an original, professionally matted painting... I'm thrilled! A great addition to my gallery wall.
George Sperl is a self-taught artist who ended up in Indiana. I found out a little more information about him in this thread on Ancestry... George did apparently pass away in 2014 at the ripe old age of 95. From his obituary:
>A self-taught watercolor artist, George was happiest in his art studio, painting Indiana Dunes and farm scenes reminiscent of days gone by, airplanes, and steam trains that continue to be admired nationally and far beyond.
DNA testing. My father had it done and mapped out branches of the family tree he never knew existed. Connected with and met a number of relatives we never knew we had.
Ordering tests for myself and my wife is on my shortlist of gift ideas for the near future.
Yeah this is not to excuse how terrible it is, but I was always a little confused by how big this thing blew up and/or how shocked people are by her claim. Look at any state with a substantial Native population/history and claiming dubious Native heritage is super common. Again, not to excuse anyone who does it, but it's a really common thing that just gets passed on down the line in families.
> English people have significantly less Irish ancestry (just 20% of their genetic make-up) on average compared to people living in Scotland (43.84%), Wales (31.99%) and Northern Ireland (48.49%). English residents do however have the highest amount of Scandinavian (9.39%) and Western European (French/German) (20.45%) ancestry.
Hmm. But English have higher %s of Scandinavian DNA than Scotland.
Scottish DNA: > Irish (43.84%), British (26.18%), Europe West (13.05%), Scandinavia (7.19%), Iberian Peninsula (2.30%), Eastern Europe (1.68%), Italy/Greece (1.63%), Finland/Northwest Russia (1.31%)
Pretty sure 26.18% > 7.19% ?
He's gotta try to distance his ideology from Modi now that it turns out his reforms are causing the worst unemployment in India in 45 years.
Also fun fact, he talks about how he saw "government failure" that caused his free market ideology, his surname comes from the highest Brahmin caste in Northern India, went to an elite college in India, and of course worked for one of the biggest banks in the world. This guy is a blue blood elitist trying to distance his failed ideology from the impending economic disaster it's going to cause in his home country just like this type always does when their neoliberal prescriptions fail.
I say Karr.
Evidence 1: I think Kerr is an old family name from NC. In this video we can hear former governor Kerr Scott refer to himself as "Car"
Evidence 2: there's a business called the Kerr Wash.
Edit: looked the name up on ancestry, and the word comes from the Norse "Kjarr." The Irish version of the name is "Carr" https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=kerr
I have seen so much about this on Reddit in particular, and it made me do some research! So here’s what I’ve learned for anyone else who may be going “omg! I don’t want the cops to use my DNA!”
- I (and a large portion of my family!) has DNA on 23andMe. They do not supply DNA to anyone unless there’s a valid search warrant, and they say they will fight even a valid search warrant in court before they hand over your info. Their policy is here .
The ancestry.com information (here ) is a little less adversarial to LE, but still requires a warrant. They can’t just go through DNA trawling for connections.
- GEDMatch (which was used in this case) requires YOU to upload YOUR OWN DNA information. Then, apparently, it’s accessible to anyone who wants to have a look. More information is here .
In many ways I totally understand the scare of the idea that LE used DNA from an online service to find this guy. Seriously, it doesn’t sit well with me for privacy reasons. However, I don’t think the large majority of us that have used these services have much to be afraid of. But then I’m sure many think that I’m just foolish. :)
Not much but she was Born on the Steamer Ajax on the Columbia in 1877, born Ocean Pearl Tice. Died Feb 21, 1940 and was survived by her husband, two sisters and a brother. A bit of slightly random information that somewhat pairs and somewhat conflicts with the obit info on Ancestry. A census from 1920 lets us know that she and the husband can read and write and that he was a machinist by trade. Without putting more than a couple minutes into it I don't see any sign that she or her siblings had any kids.
Take it with a grain of salt. She can be happily incorrect. You never know where people are on their genealogy journey. Maybe she's just learning the ropes.
I found the Michael Gaffney she's referring to on https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/166179002/person/342161268687/facts and clearly this one has some mistakes. The 1870 census shows 2 daughters, Mary and Margaret. Michael Jr would have been born when his father was 13 and 4-5 years before their marriage.
The solution here is not to trust your "important documents" to a a glorified spell-checker if you literally don't know how to conjugate verbs or that "don't" needs an apostrophe.
And FWIW at least a few people have had the name "Dont".
Yes you can. I’m on my phone using the mobile browser, and this is how I found it:
1) Go to your tree 2) Click “Tree Settings” 3) Go down to “Hint Preferences” and click on “site preferences” 4) You will see “Potential Ancestor Hints” with the option to turn it off
Or:
I read an article that said the first 43 presidents all had royal bloodlines. In many cases, their opponents had royal lineage also. In every election, the candidate with the most direct bloodline won. Strange coincidence. https://www.ancestry.com/boards/topics.royalty.links/212/mb.ashx.
In case anyone wants to check if the new results are up (currently they aren't):
>https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/{INSERT ID HERE}/ethnicity?version=2020
Change 2020 to 2021 an copy and paste the string of numbers and letters in your DNA profile link where it says INSERT ID HERE and remove the brackets.
According to this link Gale Martin became Gale Martin Waddell. Further googling shows she passed away in 2019. Gale was married to a Richard Waddell and had a son Robert Waddell and a daughter Donna Waddell.
Hope this helps!
Right now ancestry dna is doing a sale.Usually their dna kits are $99 but right now they are only $59. This is great for those wanting to add their dna information to geomatch. Who knows, maybe your genetic information can help give someone back their name.
Yes, it's called Ancestry Institution, there's a K-12 program: https://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/institution#k-12
However, I also want to point out that FamilySearch have a lot more records than just what is indexed. If you use their catalog, you'll find a lot more. Additionally, Ancestry's non-European/American records can be limited as well. Honestly, most online genealogy research is geared towards Europeans or people of European descent, especially western Europe because they use the same alphabet as English.
"Biba" doesn't seem to be a particularly Jewish surname (Ancestry.com says it's "Czech and Slovak: unflattering nickname for a drunkard, from Latin bibere ‘to drink’").
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=biba
Of course "Erin" isn't obviously Jewish, either.
Yet here she is, talking about Black Jews as "members of my tribe."
This is a good reminder that in addition to the obvious Jewish overrepresentation in mass media, there's also quite a bit of not-so-obvious Jewish overrepresentation, where you wouldn't necessarily guess it based on the names involved.
They "estimate" your ancestry by comparison to a reference dataset. They created the reference dataset of DNA from people that have evidence to support a claim that their families lived in a region for a very long time. Its very neatly explained on their website https://www.ancestry.com/cs/dna-help/ethnicity/reference-panel
I believe i am one of their descendants from the Dreyfus family, whose a family of farmers from France.My cousin who is currently in SF now met and interviewed them in USA and in PH, most of them went back to America, some in France after the war, but some very few stayed somewhere in Nueva Ecijia; these are the Honrado's which are obviously not pure blooded anymore.
EDIT: (i got so many things wrong,forgive me) So they're actually Diamond Merchants, who happens to be related to this man accused of being a german spy, after that the family vanished. We have no Idea how they ended up in our shores but maybe this explains how they were able to afford a boat trip to the other side of the world.
Some relevant links https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.dreyfus/19.6/mb.ashx
And also I learned that 'There was a guy that converted to Orthodox Judaism that told me that the state of Israel will pay for any person with a drop of Jewish blood to learn the language. Not sure how and where'
Go to your Ancestry DNA story. There’s a long URL up top, at the end of which theyre a long number (it’ll look something like CA7827294-WXHSHC717428 blah blah). Copy paste that number.
Then, insert that number into the following link: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERT-TEST-NUMBER-HERE/ethnicity?version=2021
Click and you should be able to see what everyone else is seeing now! :)
Ancestry releases an annual transparency report:
2016
- Ancestry received 9 valid law enforcement requests concerning users of Ancestry.com and Archives.com in 2016. We provided information in response to 8 of those 9 requests.
- All of the requests were related to investigations involving credit card misuse and identity theft.
- We received numerous inquiries that were refused because the requestor did not provide the appropriate legal process.
- We received no requests for information related to the health or genetic information of any Ancestry member, and we did not disclose any such information to law enforcement in 2016.
https://www.ancestry.com/cs/transparency-2016
emphasis mine.
They also state in their privacy policy that they will do their best to warn users who are the subject of requests from law enforcement unless the law prohibits them from doing so. (Keep in mind if law enforcement can get a subpoena for Ancestry.com info, they can probably just get one to swab your cheek themselves.)
Something else to understand, Ancestry, 23andMe, etc all store single nucleotide polymorphism markers whereas databases like CODIS use short tandem repeat markers. The data is not compatible.
I agree with the commenters who suggest filing a complaint. Regardless of whether it achieves the result you want, it provides a record of what happened. I would draft a letter and attach a copy of your American Express statement showing the charge and summarize your contacts with Ancestry support. Then I would cc: everyone I could think of - more for the optics than anything else: BBB, the consumer protection agency in your state if there is one, and so on. And I would send it registered mail (or certified, I always forget which) so that someone has to sign for it showing it was received.
All of this may be futile, but the alternative is to remain silent when you have a legitimate reason to raise hell. There might also be some things you could do to put your complaint in the spotlight like posting it to Ancestry's community support forums; finding a genealogy blogger who might be willing to spotlight the problem; tweeting about it with a link to the blog or to an imgur image of your letter (redacted to protect your privacy) or having a friend do it for you if you don't have a Twitter account. As someone pointed out below, they may not give a rip about you, the customer, but they do care about damage control and it might get their attention if they know you will not be going silently into that good night.
My first suggestion: scan them. All of them. Yes, this is tedious as you’re not related. But it can mean a ton to the people who are.
Second: Post the scans somewhere. Ancestry.com, maybe, or Wikitree.com, or the most time-efficient option (with little research on your part) is to just upload them to imgur and send them off here in a reddit post. We can all transcribe them and do that work for you.
Third: family trees. If someone has these people in their family trees they likely are related and would probably love to see that stuff! I can do a more detailed search in the morning if you need.
Fourth: Contact the local historical society of those places. If the family is nowhere to be found, (perhaps they’ve died out or we can’t find Them for some reason) they would probably love the donation and would know how to preserve these precious documents.
However: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SCAN THEM. Even though you’re not related this is preserving it for everyone who is, just in case someone comes across this thread in 10 years and is begging for a hint or a copy of these letters. They could just search your post history for them.
ETA: Definitely scan them. There are still descendants floating around here, at least in 1999 and 2000: https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?mv=tree&m=25&p=surnames.leach https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/mccann/1083/
Cordell is ~~the real~~ also a name of rope makers.
Added correction
Also should have used more keywords because googling raper only gave me a list of rappers and rapists.
Ancestry is pretty clear about their guidelines for law enforcement. None of the commercial DNA sites just let LE show up with a subpoena and submit a sample to compare without a specific, limited-scope problem in mind. I saw something on /r/genealogy in the last few weeks about Ancestry receiving about a dozen "valid" subpoenas last year, not all of which resulted in user data being handed over. My assumption is that 23andMe operates similarly.
GEDMatch's services might be a different thing, though. That's how Buckskin Girl's ID was solidified.
If they used familial DNA, it was only after winnowing in on DeAngelo already.
Honestly don't see why people have to go on the board and tell them it isn't a real name. Its not as if she is false advertising or click baiting, she has the name right in the title.
Oh an if anyone bothered to go to Ancestry.com Herietta is a real name. Pfft.
Do they require consent for receiving information about your relatives through Ancestry?
TBH, I'd be pissed if someone contacted me through a service like that if I'd not explicitly given prior consent.
Edit: Found the info myself. No way in hell would I ever submit my genetic info to a company like Ancestry (or 23andme or any of the others). The privacy protection laws are severely lacking and out-of-date for these types of technologies and I do not trust any of them.
LAMOOOO
ARSON HAS BEEN A REAL NAME LOOONG BEFORE NOW!
https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/35/?name=Arson
I found records of Arson as a first name as early as the 1800’s.
Let them argue that!
I am not sure if it was mentioned here but there was another woman teacher from the same area named as missing in the comments of the Ancestry Sisters article.
1930’s – Lucille Harbold – Lexington picture
Her picture seems to fit more for me, not too much to go on though.
It's from Mills Junior High School in Rancho Cordova. He's in the "graduates" section--I'd assume that's 8th grade, but wouldn't he be too old for that? Were middle schools and high schools separated at different years back then?
The yearbook is available on ancestry if anyone is interested in tracking it down.
Ancestry.com's 1880 census index shows 2,023 individuals living in Mississippi (where James and Vina married) whose marital status was "Divorced." That doesn't include those people who had remarried or misled the census taker. A table here purports to show the "ratio of estimated existing married couples to one divorce in 1880." Mississippi is near the middle of the pack: one divorce for every 498 married couples.
The gunsmith shop looks to be owned by RL Dalton. A quick google search brought up this guy from Virginia who lived in the time period the game is set.
I realize Virginia is not in the West, but thought it was interesting. Can’t find anything else relevant with that name.
https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Virginia/R-L-Dalton_kq2pd
If we're to assume that the last name DeMayo is based off of the last name of the animation director of the episode (listed in the both the credits and IMDB as Nick DeMayo), then yes it is indeed an Italian name.
The only way it could be Portugese or Spanish is if it were spelled de Mayo, which it clearly isn't.
Frankfurt civil registers are online up to a certain point on Ancestry. City directories are online, too (although you’ll have to go through them page by page - select Deutschland and then Frankfurt a. M. or Frankfurt am Main to see the available years).
If you are certain that he lived in Frankfurt at a certain point, I would suggest finding him in the city directories and then using the address(es) given there to get his residence registration info from the Einwohnermeldeamt in Frankfurt. This should include his place and date of birth.
It could be a maker’s mark, but I have suspicions that that’s not what this is since it’s engraved and not stamped and doesn’t look like a particularly skilled engraving or one that’s been practiced much which would be expected if this is how the jewelry does their mark.
Because it’s engraved I’d lean more towards the year it was given, initials of OP’s great grandmother or who she got it from (or who it was passed to her from, if it wasn’t purchased for/by her), possibly even the year she died. It could also be a birthstone ring and the mark is either the year of birth or initials of the child; I have seen someone do a birthstone ring and initials for a child that died shortly after birth, though that may be difficult to find.
u/Hbj0002 I’d look through your family history and see if there’s any significance to 56 or SG. For 56 check years born, engaged, married, or died. If you don’t find anything tied to your great grandmother, try a couple generations before her, if possible. If you’re in the US you can check state and federal records here and ancestry.com has some free records here and also does a free trial if you can’t find what you need with the free resources. You may also be able to get something from local or county historical societies. This may prove fruitless, but it’s a good way to know more about your ancestors!
There is a marriage cert for Irene and Frank. She lists the death of her former husband as May 30, 1907. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61381/TH-1951-21140-8710-96?pid=904041162&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=rTM9&_phstart=successSource
>Iselin
I was going to say it reminded me of a town here in NJ (Iselin) and I came to the comments to see if any New Jerseyans also had the same idea, but I was surprised to see it was mentioned for a different, albeit interesting, reason.
I had no idea about the origins of the town's name, so I looked it up and it was named after Adrian Georg Iselin. He was born in Scotland, so, thinking of your comment, I thought maybe his last name was Gaelic in origin, but then I read his father is from Switzerland. After googling Iselin as a surname, it looks like it is German and Swiss German and is a variant of Eisele.
His arrival card at El Paso in 1922 with his wife and daughter says he was born in San Julián, Jalisco (which is also where his wife was born), and that was also his last residence:
- Record: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1082/images/IMUSA1903_082391-1592
- Image: https://i.imgur.com/GZsquVq.jpg
It also indicates he previously lived in Los Angeles from about 1912 to 1921.
I’m like u/Sarah_smiles_twice, I’ve never seen this before either. Great find, OP!
Observation: the reporter is Stephanie Ramos, the surname has Spanish or Portuguese heritage . Her bio says she’s Hispanic/Latina, but some other trashy bio sites (you know the kind that are all faked up guesses) say she’s Philipino or even White, not worth even linking really. All bios say clearly that she was born in America (NY), even served in the US military and went to an American university. She’s nearly the same age as Hillary, she’s 39. I’ve noticed that TV news often matches the reporter’s ethnicity to stories about ethnicity if they’ve got them on staff. I think this is why Stephanie was chosen for this piece.
My favorite part about all of this is that she pronounces Mallorca with a clear Spanish accent, which is something I always see Spanish bilingual news people do when they speak a Spanish word that’s in an English sentence. They have extensive broadcast journalism training to speak their English in an American accent, but it’s widely acceptable and common for the Spanish words for names and places to be spoken in the Spanish pronunciation. I see this all the time from Hispanic broadcast journalists. With all this in mind, she refused to pronounce the name EE-laria, and kept saying the first syllable as Hill with a breathy audible H and in a flat American accent. I just love that subtle shade and dismissal of the name that Hillary has instructed so many people on how to pronounce. You know the spiel: “the H is silent, like in Hola…”. I have a hunch that Stephanie has seen that eye rolling pronunciation tutorial before. I love Stephanie for blowing it off, but making sure to pronounce Mallorca the way she did.
note: it gives an error bc it's too early but it may work soon
Use this link: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERT ACCOUNT ID HERE/ethnicity?version=2021 (you can change 2021 into 2020 or previous years for older results)
To get account ur ID go to https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/
It's the number/letter combination after "insights/" in the link
The damned fewl!!
He's put down that he's a freelancer.
That means that he's probably married.
Which means that he's instantly cut his potential pool of hapless customers down by at least 108%!
I mean seriously, who the hell is going to try and have the poor chap's halfing babies if they have to go through the hassle of trying to prise him away from an existing wife, and risk being sued for sexual disruption and loss of knickers?
Also, "Chad" is clearly a pseudonym. Nobody's really called "Chad."
Well, except maybe for The Republic of Chad. A landlocked nation on the continent of Africa.
He should have concocted a more plausible name, such as "Cletus", or "Poof."
It depends.
[Rana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_(name\)) can be of Arabic origin too. In Indian context, Rana was a title of the Rajputs which denoted a King, though in general it refers to Aristocracy.
Also, Rani means Queen, not Rana.
In some states of India, farmers or labourers may have the surname Rana too. I know a Rana from Maharashtra and he isn't royalty.
If you're American, this may interest you.
Considering she is obviously a motivated ambitious person, she probably didn’t change her name to Outlaw for fun
She probably married someone with that name
I mean, it's not like Anglophones haven't named their children similarly interesting names. On my own family tree, there are two brothers (my cousins several times removed, born in the 1880s) who had 'Coffee' and 'Tea' as their respective middle names (no, I'm not making that up. Older one was [First Name] Coffee, younger was [First Name] Tea. Their siblings had 'normal' middle names, though).
And if you search for the exact word "Goose" as a first name over on Ancestry - well, you can see several men who did have it as their first name too. Goose Tobiands, Goose Cheek, Goose Kneerum, Goose Gillick, Goose Hicks, Goose Egan...and that's only a few of them.
Not so unusual after all, it seems!
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https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/60527/?name=don_Zavitz
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208953255/donald-g.-zavitz
Good luck. He could be the Richmond Hill Donald Zavits who passed away 2 decades ago.
23andme is generally considered the more accurate of the two, but in this case you have a pretty simple explanation: Ancestry's England and NW Euro category includes some French and German results.
Got curious and looked up where the name Amendola comes from
Southern Italian: habitational name from any of several places in southern Italy named Amendola or Mendola, named with the dialect word amendola ‘almond’, ‘almond tree’ (from Greek amygdalea), or a topographic name for someone who lived by an almond tree or trees.
note: currently it gives an error...
this link: https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/secure/tests/INSERT ACCOUNT ID HERE/ethnicity?version=2021 (you can change 2021 into 2020/ 2019 to see your old/current results)
To get account ID go to https://www.ancestry.com/dna/insights/
It's the number/letter combination after "insights/" in the URL.
It's completely true
Genetically
While culturally we're a bit of a mess, mostly because our culture was wiped out on at least two occasions.
Not sure why you think otherwise
Would you be able to provide pictures of the name and serial number?
This is a good way to search for WWII soldiers but I couldn't find anything definitive. There were 56 people named "Greek" that came up, but no one under either of the serial numbers.
This site has some information about how to interpret the number. I can't speak to its accuracy, but if it's correct, this man was drafted from one of the following states: MO, KS, NB, CO, IA, MN, ND, SD, WY.
When I looked for people with these parameters (and assuming first name starts with W and last name ends with "-reek") on FamilySearch in the WWII draft registration card collection and WWII Army enlistment collection, I found the following people:
Raleigh Wilson Creek, born 1894, of Batavia IA
Will Abe Creek, born 1888, of Pueblo CO
Edward Wilby Creek, born 1879, of Ouray CO
This only includes the "Old Man's Draft" of 1942. The other draft registration cards are on Ancestry but my subscription expired recently so I'll have to ask someone else to search with the same parameters there.
Ted died in the crash of this aircraft.
This would be his widow, I think.
Based on some cursory work, it seems he was from Mesa (maybe Hawaii), I can't find anything more about his parents and whether Ted had any siblings just right now.
I'd recommend going through the New York state birth index for 1924. It's sorted by surname, so look for your great-grandparents' surname.
You can also search this collection on Ancestry:
There is no DNA site that won't comply with a subpoena. However, so far it doesn't seem like any of them have been officially subpoena'd. As of December 2017, 23andme has not turned over any data to law enforcement, but Ancestry.com has done so for credit card/identity theft issues. In the Golden State case, they didn't get the data from either of those services; they had their information publicly available on a site called GEDMatch, so literally anyone could view and download it (obviously including the police).
Here's a short snippet on Crook as a family name, though I could also conceivably see it coming from a shepherd's crook.
Crooks could be a patronymic variation of Crook, or it could be a bastardization of Croix, meaning cross. I would guess that you might be able to whittle it down based on whether your ancestors were French (which would suggest the Croix theory), or Norse/English, which would suggest the background from the first link.
The tests can actually give you a pretty good idea of where your ancestors originated from, but they are subject to a few confounding factors. If your heritage is particularly mixed, the rest will be able to tell you so but won’t give you much precise information. This could also be the case if your family lived in the US for a long time, as genetic shift/drift hasn’t really had time to take place here so it will show up as a hodgepodge of European ancestry. They rely on genetic polymorphisms that arise over thousands of years, and are only found in people descended from the people in which they originally occurred. These polymorphisms can be used to track the movements and migrations of humans as we spread out across the planet, as well as give a general idea of genetic ancestry. For example, my family came to the US from Ireland about 100 years ago. My AncestryDNA results indicated a lot of Irish heritage, which means I had lots of genetic polymorphisms that are commonly found in the same combinations in natives of Ireland. That being said, it was still diluted with scattered European ancestries due to the melting pot that is the US. You can read more about AncestryDNA here in their FAQ.
This is really interesting (and sad). Mysteries like this keep me going with my hobby! I found info on Harrison Benjamin Worrell b1895 in Virginia and married to Myrtle quite easily on Ancestry. It seems like she's looking more for information on the disappearance...perhaps someone with a Newspapers.com account wants to take up the task!
Edit: Here is the public tree created by Terry Barbera: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/83719728/person/46494138573/facts
There is no such thing as an English or Scottish 'ethnicity' in any case.
People from Great Britain are a mishmash of Celtic, West Germanic, North Germanic, and Southwestern European genetic markers
There is a table halfway through this article that gives a good overview-
Keep in mind that here 'British' doesn't refer to the Celtic Britons, but to Anglo-Saxons -a mix of Germanic peoples that migrated to the isle in the 5th, 6th, and 7th century.
There is a card catalog there. https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/catalog/ Looks like the catalog is viewable even if you don't have an account.
I know you're getting downvoted for this but you're not wrong. I decided to google because I have nothing better to do with my life and found this. Doesn't mean it's their given name still, but it could be.
I agree about reaching out to the VA.
(Using my cheapo free library version of Ancestry, I found a death certificate that appears to be for the same individual. The birth date isn't the same, but the death date is, and the "informant" on the death certificate is definitely the same individual who applied for the gravestone.)
With the exception of very remote areas (such as Orkney and Western Ireland) there is very little difference between British and Irish people due to millennia of inter-breeding and movement of people, especially in Scotland (we are almost as Ginger as the Irish).
Hell, one of the reasons the Irish famine was so bad is that a huge amount of Scottish people had moved to Ireland due to an earlier potato famine in Scotland, making it even harder to feed everyone.
It is interesting that, according to this Ancestry.com study, the average Scot is almost as genetically Irish (43.84%) as an average Northern Irish person (48.98%).
In case someone sees this and not your other post with the link it is here!
On the 1880 Census Don (8) says his father was born in NY, while James Sr says he was born in PA. So either James Sr isn't Don's father, or the Census taker got the details for Don (8) and James Jr (16) confused. That complicates things.
I may have found James and Emma in the 1900 Census in Lost Creek, Vigo, IN: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4118673\_00854?usePUB=true&\_phsrc=UAF942&\_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=13918156
I tried searching St Clair County newspapers but unfortunately the Belleville News-Democrat archives are only available in News Bank, which I don't have access to.
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Loingsigh ‘descendant of Loingseach’, a personal name meaning ‘mariner’ (from long ‘ship’). This is now a common surname in Ireland but of different local origins, for example chieftain families in counties Antrim and Tipperary, while in Ulster and Connacht there were families called Ó Loingseacháin who later shortened their name to Ó Loingsigh and also Anglicized it as Lynch. Irish (Anglo-Norman): Anglicized form of Gaelic Linseach, itself a Gaelicized form of Anglo-Norman French de Lench, the version found in old records. This seems to be a local name, but its origin is unknown. One family of bearers of this name was of Norman origin, but became one of the most important tribes of Galway. English: topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or hillside, Old English hlinc, or perhaps a habitational name from Lynch in Dorset or Somerset or Linch in Sussex, all named with this word.
I found him in Helena, Montana in 1942, working for a mining company, listed under the name John George Drew https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/17372593:1002
Here's one that's okay: https://www.ancestry.com/cs/biden-in-ireland
If you've seen photos of Biden from the same era, it's definitely him.
Edit: weird, they definitely have that photo of Biden labelled as such here: https://www.ancestrycdn.com/mars/landing/joe-biden/images/us-1892-biden-trip-records-11.jpg -- but I can't actually navigate to it on that page.
Well, I think the new update is coming soon^TM with the addition of the two new features DnaStoryCommunityUpdate and showUpdatedBadge in config-settings.
This person created references on ancestry.com to books and databases that don’t exist.
The book referred to on that message board, "Our Pioneers: Families of Early Oakland County, Michigan" by Martha Baldwin, was never written, doesn’t exist, has never existed. I’m a volunteer researcher at the oldest local historical society in Michigan, which as it happens, is in Oakland County. If this book existed, we’d have it, or record of it, and we don’t and never have.
We used to get regular calls about this fictional book until ancestry at some point pulled the references from their search index.
Apparently this person did this across several states, all referencing sources that weren’t real. I can’t understand why they would do this, but they did.
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