Memorial Day Rememberence

[JJ_BPK]

French and Indian War ( 1754-1743)

A short story about a soldier of the French & Indian War that was present when his battle buddy died and then visited his friend's widow with personal items and his death message.

He marries the widow and goes on to serve in the American army of the revolution.

As most know, I have been doing family linage research on my clan. It has spread to encompass family laterally as well as vertically. I also had two DNA tests from different providers. They are pretty much the same but with slightly different suggested global parentage.

The suggested net is that I am of approx 40+% Irish and 20+% Scottish. The family tree research upholds the numbers.

Yesterday, I found the first Scottish link by marriage. Not a blood link but a start.

Mehatible (Mabel) Johnson's (1742-1827) first husband Richard BLAKE (1738–1762) died in the French-Indian war. She would marry Martin McNary (1724–1809), the man that served with Richard and delivered his personal effects and a death message.

Martin was born in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland to David William McNary and Mary Esther McNary Cowden Warrick. In the story, you will see that Martin and his family used different last names, I do not know why??

Attached is a page from Rev William Pollock McNary (1839-1927) with the story of Mabel and Martin. The last line in the store "the whole family is said to be of a mechanical mind" Love it

[PSM]

Good stuff! I started searching my family linage and our son has kind of picked up on it and is digging deeper. I got headaches from all the name spelling changes, names remembered or documented in bibles or letters vs. names on birth certificates, etc. My mother's paternal line stretches to King Edward I Plantagenet (Longshanks) born 1239. He's my 22nd great-grandfather. Son did the DNA test and it really opened up a wellspring of information.

ETA: How hard will it be 100 years from now when researchers have to dig through 57 genders and tranny grannies?

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by PSM

ETA: How hard will it be 100 years from now when researchers have to dig through 57 genders and tranny grannies?

Mite the question be: When will researchers complete the DNA test on all known graves and make an ancestry search a One-Button Stop??

When my uncle was recovered on Tarawa, he had been buried at the edge of a dock area at low tide. His remains sat for 72 years in a saltwater bath, there was very little remaining, but enough to do the DNA tests.

Immaterial as to what you say you are, your DNA is a fact..

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by JJ_BPK

In the story, you will see that Martin and his family used different last names, I do not know why??

I've run into the same thing on the long deep-diving Mother's side done by a cousin years back. Sometimes it seems just the spelling got corrupted on a document and, from then on, that's just how it was. U.S. Grant wasn't U.S. Grant until an endorsement for the Academy written by a Senator that knew the family hosed it up. That's who he reported as, and that's who he was from then on. Adios, "Simpson" family line.

Mom's lineage changed from 'Hynton' to 'Hinson' sometime during the vamoose out of Ireland (after vamoosing Scotland) and, ahem, hastening themselves out of England to the Colonies to seek their fortune. Stuff just happens for a variety of reasons it seems.

What a cool classic tale you share, though.

[PSM]

Originally Posted by JJ_BPK

Mite the question be: When will researchers complete the DNA test on all known graves and make an ancestry search a One-Button Stop??

When my uncle was recovered on Tarawa, he had been buried at the edge of a dock area at low tide. His remains sat for 72 years in a saltwater bath, there was very little remaining, but enough to do the DNA tests.

Immaterial as to what you say you are, your DNA is a fact..

Good point. My son's search experience shows that to be true.