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- Wed Nov 08, 2017 11:10 am
- Forum: African
- Topic: African trade routes
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7472
African trade routes
That’s not surprising. Africa has truly ancient trade routes. And where there are trade routes, there are people. Where there are people, DNA gets exchanged and admixtures arise. The following scientific paper, suggested by Charlie, made for some insightful reading into this specific subject: Sacko,...
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 11:01 am
- Forum: African
- Topic: Bantu Expansion
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7788
Bantu Expansion
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05130.x/abstract;jsessionid=9BA53288D51A747BE8CE17F494C22A3B.f03t04 The Bantu expansion revisited: a new analysis of Y chromosome variation in Central Western Africa Abstract The current distribution of Bantu languages is commonly considere...
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 10:50 am
- Forum: African
- Topic: West Africa results ?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7716
West Africa results ?
Another blog that has African maps and discussion on how these result aren't classified and refined deeper.
https://genealogyadventures.wordpress.c ... ification/
https://genealogyadventures.wordpress.c ... ification/
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 9:33 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Possible Descent from Pocahontas {Advice?}
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14940
Re: Possible Descent from Pocahontas {Advice?}
Family Tree Chart of Kocum and Pocahontas daughter to Mary Martin https://genealogyadventures.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/pocahontas.jpg Also this is a very interesting website explaining Iberian DNA in the Welsh, Triangulation of automas DNA in family I found it interesting https://genealogyadventu...
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:26 pm
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: 1785 Treaty of Hopewell subsequent Pioneers SC
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5377
1785 Treaty of Hopewell subsequent Pioneers SC
http://files.usgwarchives.net/sc/oconee/cemeteries/c149.txt Read the whole section background history Early SC counties It is estimated by Ramsay in his history of South Carolina (1808) that in 1755, there were not even 23 families settled between the Waxhaws on the Catawba River and Augusta on the ...
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 1:07 pm
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: John Donelson pioneer TN
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7031
Re: John Donelson pioneer TN
http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/TNMAURY/2004-04/1081911613 From: "Viginia L. \"Ginny\" Keefer" <ginnykeefer@comcast.net> Subject: Founding Families in Nashville, 1779-80 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:04:27 -0400 Founding Families in Nashville, Tennessee, 1779-80 Probably lit...
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:50 pm
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: John Donelson pioneer TN
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7031
John Donelson pioneer TN
Genealogy
http://heritagelib.org/Surname%20Files/ ... 20John.pdf
Excepts from diary journey to what became Nashvilke
http://heritagelib.org/Surname%20Files/ ... 20John.pdf
Excepts from diary journey to what became Nashvilke
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:46 pm
- Forum: Melungeon
- Topic: CARNEY DNA Project
- Replies: 30
- Views: 106566
Re: CARNEY DNA Project
June Pollard said her TN Carneyscame to TN "The southern way by i Carr to avoid the Mountains that would have been with John Donelson who's daughter Rachel Marrued Andrew Jackso. The Heirs of Arthur Carney sold land to Donelson Land Bordered Carney Land thereafter http://heritagelib.org/Surname...
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 12:16 pm
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Traders
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5197
Re: Traders
http://www.tngenweb.org/tnfirst/traders.html
Traders List from First People of TN list
Aug 13, 2015 · Licensed Traders to the Cherokee from Carolina ... Hatton John Hook Bernard Hughs Bob and John Kelly Anthony L'Antignac John McCord David ...
Traders List from First People of TN list
Aug 13, 2015 · Licensed Traders to the Cherokee from Carolina ... Hatton John Hook Bernard Hughs Bob and John Kelly Anthony L'Antignac John McCord David ...
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 11:52 am
- Forum: Native American
- Topic: Traders
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5197
Traders
Carolina Traders All along the coast from Maine to Georgia the Indian trade opened up the river courses. Steadily the English traders passed westward, utilizing the older lines of French trade. The Ohio, the Great Lakes, the Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Platte, the lines of western advance, we...