• Re: Diana SKIPWITH, wife of Edward Dale

    From Claude Brickell@21:1/5 to chapm...@gmail.com on Sat Feb 5 00:55:17 2022
    On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 10:04:30 AM UTC-7, chapm...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, January 8, 2001 at 12:23:04 AM UTC-5, douglasr...@hotmail.com wrote:
    Dear Charles:

    Thank you for post below regarding the colonial immigrant, Diana
    Skipwith, wife of Major Edward Dale, of Lancaster Co., Virginia. I'd
    be glad to share my comments on this matter.

    As your recent article in TAG pointed out, Diana Skipwith is known to
    have appeared under her maiden name in records dated 1655, whereas her husband, Edward Dale's eldest daughter, Katherine (Dale) Carter, was evidently born about 1652. Under normal circumstances, one would
    conclude that if Diana witnessed under her maiden name after
    Katherine's birth, that Diana couldn't possibly by Katherine's mother. This would presumably be an open and shut case.

    However, there was a rare custom among high born Englishwomen of this period to use their maiden names after marriage. As the daughter of a knight and a English baronet, Diana Skipwith was one of the highest
    born English women ever to come to the New World. Due to her high
    station then, we should not be surprised to see her using her maiden
    name after marriage. As such, one must seek other evidence to prove or disprove whether or not Diana was Katherine's mother. In this case,
    there are no less than ten pieces of evidences which suggest that Diana was Katherine's mother.

    First, research indicates that Diana Skipwith was born in 1621, in England. If she was still single in 1655, as claimed, she would have contracted her marriage to Edward Dale after she had attained her 34th year. This is highly unlikely. The vast majority of Englishwomen in
    this period were married before their 30th birthday.

    Second, statements in print suggest that Diana Skipwith's husband,
    Edward Dale, and her brother, Sir Gray Skipwith, may have immigrated at the same time to Virginia following the death of King Charles I in
    1649. If so, it is entirely possible that Diana and Edward were
    married in England, prior to their appearance in Virginia.

    Third, Katherine (Dale) Carter had a large family which is well
    documented in a Carter family prayer book. Among her children, we find
    a child named Edward for her father, Diana for her mother, and Henry Skipwith for her mother's father. Unless Katherine (Dale) Carter was
    Diana Skipwith's daughter, it would be difficult to explain the
    appearance of the name Henry Skipwith Carter among her children.

    Fourth, the names of the godparents of Katherine (Dale) Carter's
    children are recorded in the Carter family prayer book. In colonial
    times, relatives were often employed to serve as godparents. In this
    case, we find that Diana Skipwith herself served as a godmother as did Diana's brother, Sir Gray Skipwith's widow, Anne Skipwith, of Middlesex Co., Virginia. It would be odd to find Dame Skipwith as a sponsor for Katherine (Dale) Carter's child, unless she had some connection to Katherine (Dale) Carter herself. If Diana Skipwith was Katherine
    (Dale) Carter's mother, then Dame Skipwith would have been Katherine (Dale) Carter's aunt by marriage.

    Fifth, there was an long epitaph of Edward Dale's life recorded in the Carter family prayer book. The epitaph states clearly that Edward Dale married Diana Skipwith "early in life" and presents her as his only
    wife. Presumably the term "early in life" is prior to his 30th
    birthday. If so, we must assume that Diana was also no more than 30
    years old herself when she married Edward Dale. This suggests a
    marriage in or before 1651.

    Sixth, the death records of Edward Dale and his widow, Diana, are also recorded in the same prayer book. No mention is made of any wife for Edward Dale except Diana Skipwith.

    Seventh, Edward Dale's will bequeathed his wife, Diana, a life interest
    in certain property and named his daughter, Katherine, and two Carter grandchildren as his executors. Had Diana been Katherine's step-
    mother, the usual protocol would be for Diana to hold the executorship
    to safeguard her interests against her step-children's rights. Since
    Diana was not named executrix, one must presume that either Diana was
    too ill to serve as executrix, or else that Diana was Katherine's own mother and that Diana did not need to have her interests safeguarded.

    Eighth, we find that Diana Skipwith joined her husband, Edward Dale, in conveyances to two of their married daughters, Katherine and
    Elizabeth. This shows that Diana had a strong interest in Katherine
    and Elizabeth's future, which one would expect if Diana was their blood mother.

    Ninth, in one of these conveyances, Diana Skipwith names her son-in-
    law, Daniel Harrison, who was evidently married to her daughter, Mary Dale. This reference would suggest that Diana had at least one child
    by Edward Dale. If so, under normal circumstances, we would normally suppose that she married Edward Dale before her 30th birthday which
    event took place in 1651. Inasmuch as Katherine Dale was born about
    1652, Katherine's birth would appear to fall after Diana was likely to have been married to Edward Dale.

    Tenth, the theory is presented in Mr. Ward's article that Edward Dale
    may have had an earlier wife before he married Diana Skipwith by whom
    he had his daughters, Katherine and Mary. It is further suggested that
    the unknown first wife may have been a relative of Vincent Stanford.
    This theory is based on the fact that Vincent Stanford left a sizeable bequest to Mary Dale in his will. However, it is doubtful that Vincent Stanford had any blood tie to Mary Dale at all, as in his will, he carefully referred to another legatee as his niece, whereas he made no claim to kinship to Mary Dale. Had Mary Dale been related to the
    testator, one would presume he would have stated that fact just as he
    did for the other legatee who he identified as his niece. Since
    Vincent Stanford did not refer to Mary Dale as his kinswoman, it is inappropriate to conclude that Mary Dale's father might have had
    earlier unknown first wife, or that the Dale and Stanford families were related by blood or marriage.

    Regarding the matter of women using their maiden names after marriage, I've located two contemporary examples of women who used their maiden names after marriage. One is widow Mary Kemp, of Gloucester Co.,
    Virginia who signed two powers of attorney about 1700, one as Mary Kemp and one as Mary Curtis. The editor of Virginia Magazine of History and Biography who reported these powers of attorney stated that Curtis
    was "doubtless" Mary's maiden name, suggesting that he was aware of the custom for women to use their maiden name's after marriage. The second example I've found is a Chancery suit dated about 1610 in England in
    which Anne Clere, widow, was sued by the executor of her late husband, William Gilbert's estate. Research shows that Clere was Anne's maiden name. A second chancery suit states she remained a widow for three
    years and then married (2nd) Okeover Crompton. Like Diana Skipwith,
    Anne Clere was the daughter of a knight and came from a family with
    high born relations. Anne (Clere) Gilbert is the maternal grandmother
    of the colonial immigrant, Elizabeth (Alsop) Baldwin, of Milford, Connecticut.

    In closing, I wish to state that should anyone know of any other
    examples of English women using their maiden names after marriage, I
    would appreciate it greatly if they would forward those examples to me
    for inclusion in an article I'm preparing on Diana Skipwith. Also, I
    wish to thank MichaelAnne Guido for her invaluable contribution to the history of the Skipwith and Dale families. When Ms. Guido learned of
    my interest in Diana (Skipwith) Dale, she generously shared her
    extensive research files with me. Her files clarified several points discussed above. I'm most grateful for her assistance. I also wish to thank Gary Boyd Roberts and Jerome Anderson, both of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, and my co-author, Dr. David Faris, with whom I consulted at length about the Diana Skipwith
    problem.

    Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

    E-mail: royala...@msn.com


    In article <20010103114758...@ng-cj1.aol.com>,
    cmw1...@aol.com (CMW12635) wrote:
    Diana Skipwith married Edward DALE, of Lancaster Co., VA. An
    article I
    composed which was published in the January, 2000 issue of TAG
    pointed out
    contemporary records which called into question whether Katherine
    Dale, Edward
    Dale's daughter, could have been a daughter born of his marriage to
    Diana
    Skipwith.

    I'm advised that Mr. Douglas Richardson has researched this topic and
    I would
    certainly be interested in his comments, etc.

    Charles Ward
    CMW1...@aol.com



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    Recently, I ran across some rather interesting and significant information: It concerns Margret Skipwith (Baroness Tailboys 1st marriage and 2nd marriage to Peter Askew). It shows the continual use of her first married name by the recorder. Please see
    below:

    Anent thi s Sir John Clifton, let us add a little bit of interesting
    family history,accidentally discovered in the Colyton church Register,
    as to his second marriage . We there read,dated 20 July,1579
    “ John Cleftown,of Barrenton,in the Countye of Som’
    sett,Knyghte,
    was wedded unto the Ryghte Honora ble the Ladye Margerette
    Taylboyes,of Collocombe,wydo.

    This was the Lady Margaret Tailboys
    ’ “ third venter.
    ” She had been married twice previously,but the cautious recording scribe in the
    Register must have had j ust ideas of precedency,forhe gives her the superior title of her first husband.
    She was the daughter of Sir Wm. Skipwith,Knight,and wife,first,
    to George (the second Lord Tailboys) ,who died in 1540,and,secondly,
    she wedded Sir Peter Carew, Knight, of Mohuns -Ottery, who died
    in 1575.


    Gale

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  • From Claude Brickell@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 5 01:50:34 2022
    I, too, have tried to research Katherine (Dale) Carter as I am her direct ancestor through my Carter line: grandmother Mollie Bratton (Carter) Brickell. And is why my first name is Carter. It appears to me that Katherine Dale had to have been born in
    England and was brought the Virginia by her parents Lady Diana (Skipwith) Dale and (Sir) Edward Dale when she was an infant. I have attempted to find marriage records of Edward Dale in Leicestershire County, England but have come up short. I have also
    attempted to fine birth records for Katherine Dale in the same county with no luck. Given that both parents were of prominent families, it is unlikely records for both marriage and birth would not turn up somewhere as no records exist in Virigina. It
    would also be worth mentioned that the two were from royalist families with connection to Charles I (beheaded by order of Oliver Cromwell) during the English Civil War. And I have read somewhere that Baronet William Henry Skipwith was forced to sell the
    Skipwith estate at a ridiculous depreciation to a Cromwell associate in London. Lady Diana's brother (3rd Baraonet of Skipwith), Edward Dale and the wife of his best friend Lady Diana, all left, together, for the Virginia Colony as many prominent
    royalists were doing during and after the Civil War. Critical to solving this genealogical mystery would be to find marriage and birth records for (Prestwould Manor) Coates, Leicestershire County, England and passenger lists for the ship they sailed on
    to the Colonies (which would give evidence to an among them on their journey to the New World.

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to Claude Brickell on Sat Jul 9 15:53:00 2022
    On Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 4:50:36 AM UTC-5, Claude Brickell wrote:
    I, too, have tried to research Katherine (Dale) Carter as I am her direct ancestor through my Carter line: grandmother Mollie Bratton (Carter) Brickell. And is why my first name is Carter. It appears to me that Katherine Dale had to have been born in
    England and was brought the Virginia by her parents Lady Diana (Skipwith) Dale and (Sir) Edward Dale when she was an infant. I have attempted to find marriage records of Edward Dale in Leicestershire County, England but have come up short. I have also
    attempted to fine birth records for Katherine Dale in the same county with no luck. Given that both parents were of prominent families, it is unlikely records for both marriage and birth would not turn up somewhere as no records exist in Virigina. It
    would also be worth mentioned that the two were from royalist families with connection to Charles I (beheaded by order of Oliver Cromwell) during the English Civil War. And I have read somewhere that Baronet William Henry Skipwith was forced to sell the
    Skipwith estate at a ridiculous depreciation to a Cromwell associate in London. Lady Diana's brother (3rd Baraonet of Skipwith), Edward Dale and the wife of his best friend Lady Diana, all left, together, for the Virginia Colony as many prominent
    royalists were doing during and after the Civil War. Critical to solving this genealogical mystery would be to find marriage and birth records for (Prestwould Manor) Coates, Leicestershire County, England and passenger lists for the ship they sailed on
    to the Colonies (which would give evidence to an among them on their journey to the New World.

    Can anyone provide examples of a woman in this time period who gave one of her sons the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    Maybe you all have already seen these sites, but if not, there's interesting information about the House of Skipwith that you'll find if you google the historyofparliament website. It traces the line down with a lot of info about descendants who served
    in Parliament. Once on the site, just search Skipwith and go back to the earliest one listed. Especially interesting to me was Diana's g-grandfather Henry Skipwith (d. 1588), who served Queen Elizabeth I and played a role in the Duke of Norfolk's
    imprisonment in the Tower during the Mary Queen of Scots intrigue.

    Also, you'll see a huge list of Diana's cousins (including Eleanor Roosevelt) if you google the website called "famous kin of diana skipwith." Lee Harvey Oswald was a direct descendant! If you click on any of the names, you'll see the path down to them
    and how they are related to her. It's a fun site and seems accurate.

    ~Cindy

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Jul 11 07:45:47 2022
    On Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 3:53:02 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 4:50:36 AM UTC-5, Claude Brickell wrote:
    I, too, have tried to research Katherine (Dale) Carter as I am her direct ancestor through my Carter line: grandmother Mollie Bratton (Carter) Brickell. And is why my first name is Carter. It appears to me that Katherine Dale had to have been born in
    England and was brought the Virginia by her parents Lady Diana (Skipwith) Dale and (Sir) Edward Dale when she was an infant. I have attempted to find marriage records of Edward Dale in Leicestershire County, England but have come up short. I have also
    attempted to fine birth records for Katherine Dale in the same county with no luck. Given that both parents were of prominent families, it is unlikely records for both marriage and birth would not turn up somewhere as no records exist in Virigina. It
    would also be worth mentioned that the two were from royalist families with connection to Charles I (beheaded by order of Oliver Cromwell) during the English Civil War. And I have read somewhere that Baronet William Henry Skipwith was forced to sell the
    Skipwith estate at a ridiculous depreciation to a Cromwell associate in London. Lady Diana's brother (3rd Baraonet of Skipwith), Edward Dale and the wife of his best friend Lady Diana, all left, together, for the Virginia Colony as many prominent
    royalists were doing during and after the Civil War. Critical to solving this genealogical mystery would be to find marriage and birth records for (Prestwould Manor) Coates, Leicestershire County, England and passenger lists for the ship they sailed on
    to the Colonies (which would give evidence to an among them on their journey to the New World.
    Can anyone provide examples of a woman in this time period who gave one of her sons the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    Maybe you all have already seen these sites, but if not, there's interesting information about the House of Skipwith that you'll find if you google the historyofparliament website. It traces the line down with a lot of info about descendants who served
    in Parliament. Once on the site, just search Skipwith and go back to the earliest one listed. Especially interesting to me was Diana's g-grandfather Henry Skipwith (d. 1588), who served Queen Elizabeth I and played a role in the Duke of Norfolk's
    imprisonment in the Tower during the Mary Queen of Scots intrigue.

    Also, you'll see a huge list of Diana's cousins (including Eleanor Roosevelt) if you google the website called "famous kin of diana skipwith." Lee Harvey Oswald was a direct descendant! If you click on any of the names, you'll see the path down to them
    and how they are related to her. It's a fun site and seems accurate.

    ~Cindy

    Instead of telling *us* the google the historyofparliament website, you should be providing the exact source citations. Stop being lazy. A website called "famous kin of diana skipwith" is probably not even worth mentioning. These sort of sites are the
    special projects of fanatics and usually don't cite useful sources either.

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Mon Jul 11 09:11:23 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 10:45:48 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 3:53:02 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 4:50:36 AM UTC-5, Claude Brickell wrote:
    I, too, have tried to research Katherine (Dale) Carter as I am her direct ancestor through my Carter line: grandmother Mollie Bratton (Carter) Brickell. And is why my first name is Carter. It appears to me that Katherine Dale had to have been born
    in England and was brought the Virginia by her parents Lady Diana (Skipwith) Dale and (Sir) Edward Dale when she was an infant. I have attempted to find marriage records of Edward Dale in Leicestershire County, England but have come up short. I have also
    attempted to fine birth records for Katherine Dale in the same county with no luck. Given that both parents were of prominent families, it is unlikely records for both marriage and birth would not turn up somewhere as no records exist in Virigina. It
    would also be worth mentioned that the two were from royalist families with connection to Charles I (beheaded by order of Oliver Cromwell) during the English Civil War. And I have read somewhere that Baronet William Henry Skipwith was forced to sell the
    Skipwith estate at a ridiculous depreciation to a Cromwell associate in London. Lady Diana's brother (3rd Baraonet of Skipwith), Edward Dale and the wife of his best friend Lady Diana, all left, together, for the Virginia Colony as many prominent
    royalists were doing during and after the Civil War. Critical to solving this genealogical mystery would be to find marriage and birth records for (Prestwould Manor) Coates, Leicestershire County, England and passenger lists for the ship they sailed on
    to the Colonies (which would give evidence to an among them on their journey to the New World.
    Can anyone provide examples of a woman in this time period who gave one of her sons the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    Maybe you all have already seen these sites, but if not, there's interesting information about the House of Skipwith that you'll find if you google the historyofparliament website. It traces the line down with a lot of info about descendants who
    served in Parliament. Once on the site, just search Skipwith and go back to the earliest one listed. Especially interesting to me was Diana's g-grandfather Henry Skipwith (d. 1588), who served Queen Elizabeth I and played a role in the Duke of Norfolk's
    imprisonment in the Tower during the Mary Queen of Scots intrigue.

    Also, you'll see a huge list of Diana's cousins (including Eleanor Roosevelt) if you google the website called "famous kin of diana skipwith." Lee Harvey Oswald was a direct descendant! If you click on any of the names, you'll see the path down to
    them and how they are related to her. It's a fun site and seems accurate.

    ~Cindy
    Instead of telling *us* the google the historyofparliament website, you should be providing the exact source citations. Stop being lazy. A website called "famous kin of diana skipwith" is probably not even worth mentioning. These sort of sites are the
    special projects of fanatics and usually don't cite useful sources either.

    Will, I'm not being lazy. I'm fairly new to genealogy and was not sure how to do what you ask. As I understood it, the historyofparliament website IS the source. I wasn't sure the link would work so didn't provide it, but I'll give it a try: https://
    www.historyofparliamentonline.org/ Just search Skipwith, and you'll see them. The website called "famous kin of Diana Skipwith" does cite sources, though you would likely not consider all of them "useful" sources. As I said, it's a "fun" site.

    Anyway, I recently had my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale confirmed by a professional genealogist, so now I'm even more interested in Katherine's maternity than before. I've been wondering where the name Katherine came from. As far as I
    can tell, and I could be wrong, you have to go back to Diana's g-grandmother Katherine FitzWilliam to find a candidate for the name. There's a blog at WordPress that has a purported line for Edward Dale showing a Katherine Legh/Leigh as Edward Dale's g-
    grandmother if that line is accurate. A long way back to a Katherine in either case. Another possibility: If Edward Dale did indeed have a first wife who was Katherine's mother, that wife might well have been named Katherine or have more recent
    Katherines in her line.

    For what it's worth, I read about common naming patterns at this time. Katherine was Edward Dale's eldest daughter, and the 1st daughter was often named after the mother, the mother's mother or the father's mother, so Edward and Diana didn't follow the
    customary pattern, though that purported line for Edward indicates the name of his mother is unknown. Middle names were exceedingly rate at this time and still unusual in the 18th century. It wasn't until the 19th century that they became common.

    ~Cindy

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Jul 11 09:50:38 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 12:11:24 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 10:45:48 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 3:53:02 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 4:50:36 AM UTC-5, Claude Brickell wrote:
    I, too, have tried to research Katherine (Dale) Carter as I am her direct ancestor through my Carter line: grandmother Mollie Bratton (Carter) Brickell. And is why my first name is Carter. It appears to me that Katherine Dale had to have been
    born in England and was brought the Virginia by her parents Lady Diana (Skipwith) Dale and (Sir) Edward Dale when she was an infant. I have attempted to find marriage records of Edward Dale in Leicestershire County, England but have come up short. I have
    also attempted to fine birth records for Katherine Dale in the same county with no luck. Given that both parents were of prominent families, it is unlikely records for both marriage and birth would not turn up somewhere as no records exist in Virigina.
    It would also be worth mentioned that the two were from royalist families with connection to Charles I (beheaded by order of Oliver Cromwell) during the English Civil War. And I have read somewhere that Baronet William Henry Skipwith was forced to sell
    the Skipwith estate at a ridiculous depreciation to a Cromwell associate in London. Lady Diana's brother (3rd Baraonet of Skipwith), Edward Dale and the wife of his best friend Lady Diana, all left, together, for the Virginia Colony as many prominent
    royalists were doing during and after the Civil War. Critical to solving this genealogical mystery would be to find marriage and birth records for (Prestwould Manor) Coates, Leicestershire County, England and passenger lists for the ship they sailed on
    to the Colonies (which would give evidence to an among them on their journey to the New World.
    Can anyone provide examples of a woman in this time period who gave one of her sons the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    Maybe you all have already seen these sites, but if not, there's interesting information about the House of Skipwith that you'll find if you google the historyofparliament website. It traces the line down with a lot of info about descendants who
    served in Parliament. Once on the site, just search Skipwith and go back to the earliest one listed. Especially interesting to me was Diana's g-grandfather Henry Skipwith (d. 1588), who served Queen Elizabeth I and played a role in the Duke of Norfolk's
    imprisonment in the Tower during the Mary Queen of Scots intrigue.

    Also, you'll see a huge list of Diana's cousins (including Eleanor Roosevelt) if you google the website called "famous kin of diana skipwith." Lee Harvey Oswald was a direct descendant! If you click on any of the names, you'll see the path down to
    them and how they are related to her. It's a fun site and seems accurate.

    ~Cindy
    Instead of telling *us* the google the historyofparliament website, you should be providing the exact source citations. Stop being lazy. A website called "famous kin of diana skipwith" is probably not even worth mentioning. These sort of sites are
    the special projects of fanatics and usually don't cite useful sources either.
    Will, I'm not being lazy. I'm fairly new to genealogy and was not sure how to do what you ask. As I understood it, the historyofparliament website IS the source. I wasn't sure the link would work so didn't provide it, but I'll give it a try: https://
    www.historyofparliamentonline.org/ Just search Skipwith, and you'll see them. The website called "famous kin of Diana Skipwith" does cite sources, though you would likely not consider all of them "useful" sources. As I said, it's a "fun" site.

    Anyway, I recently had my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale confirmed by a professional genealogist, so now I'm even more interested in Katherine's maternity than before. I've been wondering where the name Katherine came from. As far as I
    can tell, and I could be wrong, you have to go back to Diana's g-grandmother Katherine FitzWilliam to find a candidate for the name. There's a blog at WordPress that has a purported line for Edward Dale showing a Katherine Legh/Leigh as Edward Dale's g-
    grandmother if that line is accurate. A long way back to a Katherine in either case. Another possibility: If Edward Dale did indeed have a first wife who was Katherine's mother, that wife might well have been named Katherine or have more recent
    Katherines in her line.

    For what it's worth, I read about common naming patterns at this time. Katherine was Edward Dale's eldest daughter, and the 1st daughter was often named after the mother, the mother's mother or the father's mother, so Edward and Diana didn't follow the
    customary pattern, though that purported line for Edward indicates the name of his mother is unknown. Middle names were exceedingly rate at this time and still unusual in the 18th century. It wasn't until the 19th century that they became common.

    ~Cindy

    Here's the link for the famous kin of Diana Skipwith site: https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9760+diana+skipwith

    ~Cindy

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Jul 11 09:49:02 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 12:11:24 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 10:45:48 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 3:53:02 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 4:50:36 AM UTC-5, Claude Brickell wrote:
    I, too, have tried to research Katherine (Dale) Carter as I am her direct ancestor through my Carter line: grandmother Mollie Bratton (Carter) Brickell. And is why my first name is Carter. It appears to me that Katherine Dale had to have been
    born in England and was brought the Virginia by her parents Lady Diana (Skipwith) Dale and (Sir) Edward Dale when she was an infant. I have attempted to find marriage records of Edward Dale in Leicestershire County, England but have come up short. I have
    also attempted to fine birth records for Katherine Dale in the same county with no luck. Given that both parents were of prominent families, it is unlikely records for both marriage and birth would not turn up somewhere as no records exist in Virigina.
    It would also be worth mentioned that the two were from royalist families with connection to Charles I (beheaded by order of Oliver Cromwell) during the English Civil War. And I have read somewhere that Baronet William Henry Skipwith was forced to sell
    the Skipwith estate at a ridiculous depreciation to a Cromwell associate in London. Lady Diana's brother (3rd Baraonet of Skipwith), Edward Dale and the wife of his best friend Lady Diana, all left, together, for the Virginia Colony as many prominent
    royalists were doing during and after the Civil War. Critical to solving this genealogical mystery would be to find marriage and birth records for (Prestwould Manor) Coates, Leicestershire County, England and passenger lists for the ship they sailed on
    to the Colonies (which would give evidence to an among them on their journey to the New World.
    Can anyone provide examples of a woman in this time period who gave one of her sons the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    Maybe you all have already seen these sites, but if not, there's interesting information about the House of Skipwith that you'll find if you google the historyofparliament website. It traces the line down with a lot of info about descendants who
    served in Parliament. Once on the site, just search Skipwith and go back to the earliest one listed. Especially interesting to me was Diana's g-grandfather Henry Skipwith (d. 1588), who served Queen Elizabeth I and played a role in the Duke of Norfolk's
    imprisonment in the Tower during the Mary Queen of Scots intrigue.

    Also, you'll see a huge list of Diana's cousins (including Eleanor Roosevelt) if you google the website called "famous kin of diana skipwith." Lee Harvey Oswald was a direct descendant! If you click on any of the names, you'll see the path down to
    them and how they are related to her. It's a fun site and seems accurate.

    ~Cindy
    Instead of telling *us* the google the historyofparliament website, you should be providing the exact source citations. Stop being lazy. A website called "famous kin of diana skipwith" is probably not even worth mentioning. These sort of sites are
    the special projects of fanatics and usually don't cite useful sources either.
    Will, I'm not being lazy. I'm fairly new to genealogy and was not sure how to do what you ask. As I understood it, the historyofparliament website IS the source. I wasn't sure the link would work so didn't provide it, but I'll give it a try: https://
    www.historyofparliamentonline.org/ Just search Skipwith, and you'll see them. The website called "famous kin of Diana Skipwith" does cite sources, though you would likely not consider all of them "useful" sources. As I said, it's a "fun" site.

    Anyway, I recently had my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale confirmed by a professional genealogist, so now I'm even more interested in Katherine's maternity than before. I've been wondering where the name Katherine came from. As far as I
    can tell, and I could be wrong, you have to go back to Diana's g-grandmother Katherine FitzWilliam to find a candidate for the name. There's a blog at WordPress that has a purported line for Edward Dale showing a Katherine Legh/Leigh as Edward Dale's g-
    grandmother if that line is accurate. A long way back to a Katherine in either case. Another possibility: If Edward Dale did indeed have a first wife who was Katherine's mother, that wife might well have been named Katherine or have more recent
    Katherines in her line.

    For what it's worth, I read about common naming patterns at this time. Katherine was Edward Dale's eldest daughter, and the 1st daughter was often named after the mother, the mother's mother or the father's mother, so Edward and Diana didn't follow the
    customary pattern, though that purported line for Edward indicates the name of his mother is unknown. Middle names were exceedingly rate at this time and still unusual in the 18th century. It wasn't until the 19th century that they became common.

    ~Cindy

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Jul 11 11:44:42 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 9:11:24 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 10:45:48 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 3:53:02 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 4:50:36 AM UTC-5, Claude Brickell wrote:
    I, too, have tried to research Katherine (Dale) Carter as I am her direct ancestor through my Carter line: grandmother Mollie Bratton (Carter) Brickell. And is why my first name is Carter. It appears to me that Katherine Dale had to have been
    born in England and was brought the Virginia by her parents Lady Diana (Skipwith) Dale and (Sir) Edward Dale when she was an infant. I have attempted to find marriage records of Edward Dale in Leicestershire County, England but have come up short. I have
    also attempted to fine birth records for Katherine Dale in the same county with no luck. Given that both parents were of prominent families, it is unlikely records for both marriage and birth would not turn up somewhere as no records exist in Virigina.
    It would also be worth mentioned that the two were from royalist families with connection to Charles I (beheaded by order of Oliver Cromwell) during the English Civil War. And I have read somewhere that Baronet William Henry Skipwith was forced to sell
    the Skipwith estate at a ridiculous depreciation to a Cromwell associate in London. Lady Diana's brother (3rd Baraonet of Skipwith), Edward Dale and the wife of his best friend Lady Diana, all left, together, for the Virginia Colony as many prominent
    royalists were doing during and after the Civil War. Critical to solving this genealogical mystery would be to find marriage and birth records for (Prestwould Manor) Coates, Leicestershire County, England and passenger lists for the ship they sailed on
    to the Colonies (which would give evidence to an among them on their journey to the New World.
    Can anyone provide examples of a woman in this time period who gave one of her sons the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    Maybe you all have already seen these sites, but if not, there's interesting information about the House of Skipwith that you'll find if you google the historyofparliament website. It traces the line down with a lot of info about descendants who
    served in Parliament. Once on the site, just search Skipwith and go back to the earliest one listed. Especially interesting to me was Diana's g-grandfather Henry Skipwith (d. 1588), who served Queen Elizabeth I and played a role in the Duke of Norfolk's
    imprisonment in the Tower during the Mary Queen of Scots intrigue.

    Also, you'll see a huge list of Diana's cousins (including Eleanor Roosevelt) if you google the website called "famous kin of diana skipwith." Lee Harvey Oswald was a direct descendant! If you click on any of the names, you'll see the path down to
    them and how they are related to her. It's a fun site and seems accurate.

    ~Cindy
    Instead of telling *us* the google the historyofparliament website, you should be providing the exact source citations. Stop being lazy. A website called "famous kin of diana skipwith" is probably not even worth mentioning. These sort of sites are
    the special projects of fanatics and usually don't cite useful sources either.
    Will, I'm not being lazy. I'm fairly new to genealogy and was not sure how to do what you ask. As I understood it, the historyofparliament website IS the source. I wasn't sure the link would work so didn't provide it, but I'll give it a try: https://
    www.historyofparliamentonline.org/ Just search Skipwith, and you'll see them. The website called "famous kin of Diana Skipwith" does cite sources, though you would likely not consider all of them "useful" sources. As I said, it's a "fun" site.

    Anyway, I recently had my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale confirmed by a professional genealogist, so now I'm even more interested in Katherine's maternity than before. I've been wondering where the name Katherine came from. As far as I
    can tell, and I could be wrong, you have to go back to Diana's g-grandmother Katherine FitzWilliam to find a candidate for the name. There's a blog at WordPress that has a purported line for Edward Dale showing a Katherine Legh/Leigh as Edward Dale's g-
    grandmother if that line is accurate. A long way back to a Katherine in either case. Another possibility: If Edward Dale did indeed have a first wife who was Katherine's mother, that wife might well have been named Katherine or have more recent
    Katherines in her line.

    For what it's worth, I read about common naming patterns at this time. Katherine was Edward Dale's eldest daughter, and the 1st daughter was often named after the mother, the mother's mother or the father's mother, so Edward and Diana didn't follow the
    customary pattern, though that purported line for Edward indicates the name of his mother is unknown. Middle names were exceedingly rate at this time and still unusual in the 18th century. It wasn't until the 19th century that they became common.

    ~Cindy

    You yourself can do the search for the specific individuals you think make this connection
    and then post those exact URLs instead of asking us to do the search

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Mon Jul 11 11:48:22 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:46:12 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    ~Cindy
    Here's the link for the famous kin of Diana Skipwith site: https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9760+diana+skipwith

    ~Cindy
    The Famous Kin website, is the *personal* website of someone who is devoted to this task

    https://famouskin.com/about-me.php

    It is no more an expert site than the thousands of family trees that exist on hundreds of other sites
    I.E. it is not a reliable trustworthy site

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 11 11:46:11 2022
    ~Cindy
    Here's the link for the famous kin of Diana Skipwith site: https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9760+diana+skipwith

    ~Cindy

    The Famous Kin website, is the *personal* website of someone who is devoted to this task

    https://famouskin.com/about-me.php

    It is no more an expert site than the thousands of family trees that exist on hundreds of other sites
    I.E. it is not a reliable trustworthy site

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Jul 11 12:06:58 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 11:56:33 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:46:12 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    ~Cindy
    Here's the link for the famous kin of Diana Skipwith site: https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9760+diana+skipwith

    ~Cindy
    The Famous Kin website, is the *personal* website of someone who is devoted to this task

    https://famouskin.com/about-me.php

    It is no more an expert site than the thousands of family trees that exist on hundreds of other sites
    I.E. it is not a reliable trustworthy site
    Okay, Will, I take your point. Not everyone who posts here is an expert, but happily I'm learning a lot on this site. Hope you enjoyed the historyofparliament site.

    ~Cindy

    Since you don't want to provide exact URL's, I didn't look

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Mon Jul 11 11:56:32 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:46:12 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    ~Cindy
    Here's the link for the famous kin of Diana Skipwith site: https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9760+diana+skipwith

    ~Cindy
    The Famous Kin website, is the *personal* website of someone who is devoted to this task

    https://famouskin.com/about-me.php

    It is no more an expert site than the thousands of family trees that exist on hundreds of other sites
    I.E. it is not a reliable trustworthy site

    Okay, Will, I take your point. Not everyone who posts here is an expert, but happily I'm learning a lot on this site. Hope you enjoyed the historyofparliament site.

    ~Cindy

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Jul 11 12:20:54 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:16:52 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:07:00 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 11:56:33 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:46:12 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    ~Cindy
    Here's the link for the famous kin of Diana Skipwith site: https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9760+diana+skipwith

    ~Cindy
    The Famous Kin website, is the *personal* website of someone who is devoted to this task

    https://famouskin.com/about-me.php

    It is no more an expert site than the thousands of family trees that exist on hundreds of other sites
    I.E. it is not a reliable trustworthy site
    Okay, Will, I take your point. Not everyone who posts here is an expert, but happily I'm learning a lot on this site. Hope you enjoyed the historyofparliament site.

    ~Cindy
    Since you don't want to provide exact URL's, I didn't look
    It's not that I don't want to provide them. I just thought people would enjoy looking down the list of Skipwiths and clicking on those they wanted to learn more about. There are many to investigate. Here's the first one: https://www.
    historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/skipwith-john-1415

    ~Cindy

    Here's another I found interesting: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/skipwith-henry-1588

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Mon Jul 11 12:16:50 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:07:00 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 11:56:33 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:46:12 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    ~Cindy
    Here's the link for the famous kin of Diana Skipwith site: https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9760+diana+skipwith

    ~Cindy
    The Famous Kin website, is the *personal* website of someone who is devoted to this task

    https://famouskin.com/about-me.php

    It is no more an expert site than the thousands of family trees that exist on hundreds of other sites
    I.E. it is not a reliable trustworthy site
    Okay, Will, I take your point. Not everyone who posts here is an expert, but happily I'm learning a lot on this site. Hope you enjoyed the historyofparliament site.

    ~Cindy
    Since you don't want to provide exact URL's, I didn't look

    It's not that I don't want to provide them. I just thought people would enjoy looking down the list of Skipwiths and clicking on those they wanted to learn more about. There are many to investigate. Here's the first one: https://www.
    historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/skipwith-john-1415

    ~Cindy

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Jul 11 12:53:08 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 12:20:55 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:16:52 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:

    It's not that I don't want to provide them. I just thought people would enjoy looking down the list of Skipwiths and clicking on those they wanted to learn more about. There are many to investigate. Here's the first one: https://www.
    historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/skipwith-john-1415

    ~Cindy
    Here's another I found interesting: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/skipwith-henry-1588

    Do you know the expression teaching your grandmother to suck eggs?
    The members of this group are well acquainted with the HOP articles
    I thought you were trying to make a specific point about something you had found

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Mon Jul 11 14:38:00 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:53:09 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 12:20:55 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:16:52 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:

    It's not that I don't want to provide them. I just thought people would enjoy looking down the list of Skipwiths and clicking on those they wanted to learn more about. There are many to investigate. Here's the first one: https://www.
    historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/skipwith-john-1415

    ~Cindy
    Here's another I found interesting: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/skipwith-henry-1588
    Do you know the expression teaching your grandmother to suck eggs?
    The members of this group are well acquainted with the HOP articles
    I thought you were trying to make a specific point about something you had found

    Back to my original question: I'm wondering if anyone can provide an example of a woman in this time period who gave a son the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    ~Cindy

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Mon Jul 11 16:13:35 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 6:30:18 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:38:01 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:53:09 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 12:20:55 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:16:52 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:

    It's not that I don't want to provide them. I just thought people would enjoy looking down the list of Skipwiths and clicking on those they wanted to learn more about. There are many to investigate. Here's the first one: https://www.
    historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/skipwith-john-1415

    ~Cindy
    Here's another I found interesting: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/skipwith-henry-1588
    Do you know the expression teaching your grandmother to suck eggs?
    The members of this group are well acquainted with the HOP articles
    I thought you were trying to make a specific point about something you had found
    Back to my original question: I'm wondering if anyone can provide an example of a woman in this time period who gave a son the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    ~Cindy
    Cart...Horse.
    I think you need to find a *primary* document, where he signs his name in this exact fashion.
    To prove that this was indeed his name in the first place and not a modern invention

    Good point, Will, though I have no idea how I would find such a primary document. The professional genealogist with whom I worked sent me some pages from a book called "Known By the Company They Keep: An Analysis of the Thomas Carter Prayer Book
    Entries" by Robert D. Lumsden. It contains a photocopy of a loose page in the Thomas Carter Prayer Book (1662) listing in his handwriting the birth time and date, christening date, and names of the godparents "standing" for his children. The Prayer
    Book is now in the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. It clearly shows "Henry Skipwith" entered as the 4th son of Thomas and Katherine Carter. So if the middle name Skipwith is an invention, it was done by Thomas Carter, or by whoever made that
    entry, though the handwriting looks consistent throughout the list. In Thomas Carter's will, however, written August 16, 1700, he refers to "Henry Carter" without the middle name. I assume that anyone seeing that prayer book at the time, including
    Katherine Dale Carter, would have known if the name "Henry Skipwith" was an invention, something that would have prevented Thomas Carter from inventing it?

    ~Cindy

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Jul 11 15:30:16 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:38:01 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:53:09 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 12:20:55 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:16:52 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:

    It's not that I don't want to provide them. I just thought people would enjoy looking down the list of Skipwiths and clicking on those they wanted to learn more about. There are many to investigate. Here's the first one: https://www.
    historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/skipwith-john-1415

    ~Cindy
    Here's another I found interesting: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/skipwith-henry-1588
    Do you know the expression teaching your grandmother to suck eggs?
    The members of this group are well acquainted with the HOP articles
    I thought you were trying to make a specific point about something you had found
    Back to my original question: I'm wondering if anyone can provide an example of a woman in this time period who gave a son the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    ~Cindy

    Cart...Horse.
    I think you need to find a *primary* document, where he signs his name in this exact fashion.
    To prove that this was indeed his name in the first place and not a modern invention

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Jul 11 21:54:04 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 7:13:36 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 6:30:18 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:38:01 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:53:09 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 12:20:55 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:16:52 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:

    It's not that I don't want to provide them. I just thought people would enjoy looking down the list of Skipwiths and clicking on those they wanted to learn more about. There are many to investigate. Here's the first one: https://www.
    historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/skipwith-john-1415

    ~Cindy
    Here's another I found interesting: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/skipwith-henry-1588
    Do you know the expression teaching your grandmother to suck eggs?
    The members of this group are well acquainted with the HOP articles
    I thought you were trying to make a specific point about something you had found
    Back to my original question: I'm wondering if anyone can provide an example of a woman in this time period who gave a son the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    ~Cindy
    Cart...Horse.
    I think you need to find a *primary* document, where he signs his name in this exact fashion.
    To prove that this was indeed his name in the first place and not a modern invention
    Good point, Will, though I have no idea how I would find such a primary document. The professional genealogist with whom I worked sent me some pages from a book called "Known By the Company They Keep: An Analysis of the Thomas Carter Prayer Book
    Entries" by Robert D. Lumsden. It contains a photocopy of a loose page in the Thomas Carter Prayer Book (1662) listing in his handwriting the birth time and date, christening date, and names of the godparents "standing" for his children. The Prayer Book
    is now in the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. It clearly shows "Henry Skipwith" entered as the 4th son of Thomas and Katherine Carter. So if the middle name Skipwith is an invention, it was done by Thomas Carter, or by whoever made that entry,
    though the handwriting looks consistent throughout the list. In Thomas Carter's will, however, written August 16, 1700, he refers to "Henry Carter" without the middle name. I assume that anyone seeing that prayer book at the time, including Katherine
    Dale Carter, would have known if the name "Henry Skipwith" was an invention, something that would have prevented Thomas Carter from inventing it?

    ~Cindy

    Please excuse me if everyone in this group has already seen this, as seems likely since it is quite old. I'm posting it only because I found it an interesting follow up to my previous post and to Will's suggestion about finding a primary source showing
    that Henry signed his name as Henry Skipwith Carter. Charles Ward does seem to be implying that the name Henry "Skipwith" Carter may have been an invention. https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/dale/2164/ I guess in the future I should try
    and figure things out on my own unless I have something to post that others probably haven't seen or unless I have something original to contribute. But I'll continue to enjoy this site.

    ~Cindy

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Tue Jul 12 09:05:35 2022
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:54:05 AM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 7:13:36 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 6:30:18 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:38:01 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:53:09 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 12:20:55 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:16:52 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:

    It's not that I don't want to provide them. I just thought people would enjoy looking down the list of Skipwiths and clicking on those they wanted to learn more about. There are many to investigate. Here's the first one: https://www.
    historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/skipwith-john-1415

    ~Cindy
    Here's another I found interesting: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/skipwith-henry-1588
    Do you know the expression teaching your grandmother to suck eggs? The members of this group are well acquainted with the HOP articles I thought you were trying to make a specific point about something you had found
    Back to my original question: I'm wondering if anyone can provide an example of a woman in this time period who gave a son the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    ~Cindy
    Cart...Horse.
    I think you need to find a *primary* document, where he signs his name in this exact fashion.
    To prove that this was indeed his name in the first place and not a modern invention
    Good point, Will, though I have no idea how I would find such a primary document. The professional genealogist with whom I worked sent me some pages from a book called "Known By the Company They Keep: An Analysis of the Thomas Carter Prayer Book
    Entries" by Robert D. Lumsden. It contains a photocopy of a loose page in the Thomas Carter Prayer Book (1662) listing in his handwriting the birth time and date, christening date, and names of the godparents "standing" for his children. The Prayer Book
    is now in the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. It clearly shows "Henry Skipwith" entered as the 4th son of Thomas and Katherine Carter. So if the middle name Skipwith is an invention, it was done by Thomas Carter, or by whoever made that entry,
    though the handwriting looks consistent throughout the list. In Thomas Carter's will, however, written August 16, 1700, he refers to "Henry Carter" without the middle name. I assume that anyone seeing that prayer book at the time, including Katherine
    Dale Carter, would have known if the name "Henry Skipwith" was an invention, something that would have prevented Thomas Carter from inventing it?

    ~Cindy
    Please excuse me if everyone in this group has already seen this, as seems likely since it is quite old. I'm posting it only because I found it an interesting follow up to my previous post and to Will's suggestion about finding a primary source showing
    that Henry signed his name as Henry Skipwith Carter. Charles Ward does seem to be implying that the name Henry "Skipwith" Carter may have been an invention. https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/dale/2164/ I guess in the future I should try and
    figure things out on my own unless I have something to post that others probably haven't seen or unless I have something original to contribute. But I'll continue to enjoy this site.

    ~Cindy

    One more thought: I suppose it could be argued that records during his lifetime do not show the name Henry "Skipwith" Carter precisely because middle names were so rare at that time. People could have simply left out or even not known about the
    Skipwith part of his name. Even in his own will Henry referred to himself simply as "Henry Carter." Perhaps he thought it was pretentious to use a double name at that time in America since nobody else had one. Who knows. As for Diana being the mother
    of Katherine Dale, the professional genealogist said in her report that there were good arguments on both sides. I wonder why it is so difficult for human beings to live with uncertainty. Well, I guess it leads to research, which is a good thing. I
    hope that marriage and birth records may someday be discovered to clarify things.

    ~Cindy

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Tue Jul 12 10:39:29 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 4:13:36 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 6:30:18 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 2:38:01 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:53:09 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 12:20:55 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 3:16:52 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:

    It's not that I don't want to provide them. I just thought people would enjoy looking down the list of Skipwiths and clicking on those they wanted to learn more about. There are many to investigate. Here's the first one: https://www.
    historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/skipwith-john-1415

    ~Cindy
    Here's another I found interesting: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/skipwith-henry-1588
    Do you know the expression teaching your grandmother to suck eggs?
    The members of this group are well acquainted with the HOP articles
    I thought you were trying to make a specific point about something you had found
    Back to my original question: I'm wondering if anyone can provide an example of a woman in this time period who gave a son the FULL name of her STEP-mother's father?

    ~Cindy
    Cart...Horse.
    I think you need to find a *primary* document, where he signs his name in this exact fashion.
    To prove that this was indeed his name in the first place and not a modern invention
    Good point, Will, though I have no idea how I would find such a primary document. The professional genealogist with whom I worked sent me some pages from a book called "Known By the Company They Keep: An Analysis of the Thomas Carter Prayer Book
    Entries" by Robert D. Lumsden. It contains a photocopy of a loose page in the Thomas Carter Prayer Book (1662) listing in his handwriting the birth time and date, christening date, and names of the godparents "standing" for his children. The Prayer Book
    is now in the Virginia Historical Society in Richmond. It clearly shows "Henry Skipwith" entered as the 4th son of Thomas and Katherine Carter. So if the middle name Skipwith is an invention, it was done by Thomas Carter, or by whoever made that entry,
    though the handwriting looks consistent throughout the list. In Thomas Carter's will, however, written August 16, 1700, he refers to "Henry Carter" without the middle name. I assume that anyone seeing that prayer book at the time, including Katherine
    Dale Carter, would have known if the name "Henry Skipwith" was an invention, something that would have prevented Thomas Carter from inventing it?

    ~Cindy


    An extract from this prayer book is online

    http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/lancaster/bibles/carter1.txt

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Leslie Mahler on Tue Jul 12 10:59:43 2022
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 10:42:47 AM UTC-7, Leslie Mahler wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 11:46:12 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    ~Cindy
    Here's the link for the famous kin of Diana Skipwith site: https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9760+diana+skipwith

    ~Cindy
    The Famous Kin website, is the *personal* website of someone who is devoted to this task

    https://famouskin.com/about-me.php

    It is no more an expert site than the thousands of family trees that exist on hundreds of other sites
    I.E. it is not a reliable trustworthy site
    Just as reliable as this website: http://www.countyhistorian.com/knol/4hmquk6fx4gu-1-will-johnson.html

    The difference is that Rich Hall is an author, whose edited and published material
    can be found in libraries across the country. The same cannot be said for Will Johnson.

    Leslie

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either

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  • From Leslie Mahler@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Tue Jul 12 10:42:45 2022
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 11:46:12 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    ~Cindy
    Here's the link for the famous kin of Diana Skipwith site: https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9760+diana+skipwith

    ~Cindy
    The Famous Kin website, is the *personal* website of someone who is devoted to this task

    https://famouskin.com/about-me.php

    It is no more an expert site than the thousands of family trees that exist on hundreds of other sites
    I.E. it is not a reliable trustworthy site


    Just as reliable as this website: http://www.countyhistorian.com/knol/4hmquk6fx4gu-1-will-johnson.html

    The difference is that Rich Hall is an author, whose edited and published material
    can be found in libraries across the country. The same cannot be said for Will Johnson.

    Leslie

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Tue Jul 12 12:56:47 2022
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 10:42:47 AM UTC-7, Leslie Mahler wrote:
    On Monday, July 11, 2022 at 11:46:12 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    ~Cindy
    Here's the link for the famous kin of Diana Skipwith site: https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=9760+diana+skipwith

    ~Cindy
    The Famous Kin website, is the *personal* website of someone who is devoted to this task

    https://famouskin.com/about-me.php

    It is no more an expert site than the thousands of family trees that exist on hundreds of other sites
    I.E. it is not a reliable trustworthy site
    Just as reliable as this website: http://www.countyhistorian.com/knol/4hmquk6fx4gu-1-will-johnson.html

    The difference is that Rich Hall is an author, whose edited and published material
    can be found in libraries across the country. The same cannot be said for Will Johnson.

    Leslie
    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either

    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should also not be
    the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So far, I'm not finding mistakes on Rich Hall's famous cousins site. I'm finding it very interesting. The lines I've looked at concur with those
    on other sites, though I'm aware that mistakes can be copied from one site to another. That's why I like checking back here to look at posts about some of the ancestors to see if any new info has been found or corrections made. This famous cousins site
    would definitely never be the only site I consulted--and some experts here may indeed spot some errors--but so far, so good!

    My brother said he wasn't fazed in the least by the Charles Ward piece I sent last night. He noted that he never signs documents using his middle name. In fact, very few people, primarily family members, even know his middle name. The same goes for me.
    The same may go for Henry Skipwith Carter. My brother's position is that we descend from Diana Skipwith unless primary sources are discovered that prove otherwise. I wonder if such sources will ever be found; given the turmoil of the Cromwell years,
    they may no longer exist.
    ~Cindy

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Tue Jul 12 14:41:28 2022
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should also not be the
    only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So

    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Thu Jul 14 11:28:01 2022
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source. None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should also not be
    the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.

    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I would have
    expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Thu Jul 14 12:34:13 2022
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source. None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should also not be
    the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I would have
    expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy

    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (ancestor of President
    Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Thu Jul 14 15:59:06 2022
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source. None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should also not
    be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I would have
    expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (ancestor of
    President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy

    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Thu Jul 14 17:43:44 2022
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should also
    not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I would
    have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (ancestor of
    President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.

    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf

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  • From Paulo Ricardo Canedo@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 23 05:17:03 2022
    A quinta-feira, 14 de julho de 2022 à(s) 19:28:03 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source. None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should also not be
    the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I would have
    expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Note, however, that neither Mary Dale Harrison Jones or Elizabeth Dale Rogers, the other two of Diana Skipwith Dale's daughters named any daughter Diana let alone any son Henry Skipwith.

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to Paulo Ricardo Canedo on Sat Jul 23 08:42:26 2022
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 8:17:05 AM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A quinta-feira, 14 de julho de 2022 à(s) 19:28:03 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source. None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should also not
    be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I would have
    expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Note, however, that neither Mary Dale Harrison Jones or Elizabeth Dale Rogers, the other two of Diana Skipwith Dale's daughters named any daughter Diana let alone any son Henry Skipwith.

    Paulo, you make a good point! Maybe someday there will be a DNA study which will clear up Katherine Dale's maternity for good. I'm surprised there haven't already been some studies using DNA from Katherine's descendants and Skipwith descendants in
    order to see if they are related.

    ~Cindy

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  • From Paulo Ricardo Canedo@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 23 09:47:49 2022
    A sábado, 23 de julho de 2022 à(s) 16:42:27 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 8:17:05 AM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A quinta-feira, 14 de julho de 2022 à(s) 19:28:03 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should also
    not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I would
    have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Note, however, that neither Mary Dale Harrison Jones or Elizabeth Dale Rogers, the other two of Diana Skipwith Dale's daughters named any daughter Diana let alone any son Henry Skipwith.
    Paulo, you make a good point! Maybe someday there will be a DNA study which will clear up Katherine Dale's maternity for good. I'm surprised there haven't already been some studies using DNA from Katherine's descendants and Skipwith descendants in
    order to see if they are related.

    ~Cindy
    AFAIK, this is too far removed in time for DNA to be helpful. For now, I assume Katherine Dale Carter is Diana Skipwith Dale's daughter. The only evidence against it is that Diana used her maiden name in two documents after Katherine Dale was born. Note
    one of those documents was not actually signed by Diana, it was just a court record mentioning her. The writer may simply have used her maiden name because he knew she ws the sister of Grey Skipwith. What was the other document? Anyways, note both
    documents were before the death of her father Baronet Henry Skipwith.

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to Paulo Ricardo Canedo on Sat Jul 23 10:34:34 2022
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 12:47:51 PM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A sábado, 23 de julho de 2022 à(s) 16:42:27 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 8:17:05 AM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A quinta-feira, 14 de julho de 2022 à(s) 19:28:03 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should also
    not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I would
    have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Note, however, that neither Mary Dale Harrison Jones or Elizabeth Dale Rogers, the other two of Diana Skipwith Dale's daughters named any daughter Diana let alone any son Henry Skipwith.
    Paulo, you make a good point! Maybe someday there will be a DNA study which will clear up Katherine Dale's maternity for good. I'm surprised there haven't already been some studies using DNA from Katherine's descendants and Skipwith descendants in
    order to see if they are related.

    ~Cindy
    AFAIK, this is too far removed in time for DNA to be helpful. For now, I assume Katherine Dale Carter is Diana Skipwith Dale's daughter. The only evidence against it is that Diana used her maiden name in two documents after Katherine Dale was born.
    Note one of those documents was not actually signed by Diana, it was just a court record mentioning her. The writer may simply have used her maiden name because he knew she ws the sister of Grey Skipwith. What was the other document? Anyways, note both
    documents were before the death of her father Baronet Henry Skipwith.


    Paulo, I don't know how accurate this site is, but here is what it says about how far back in time DNA can be helpful: https://whoareyoumadeof.com/blog/how-far-back-can-you-go-with-dna/

    What is the significance of both documents being signed before the death of her father Baronet Henry Skipwith? Does that make it more likely that she would have used her maiden name even after she was married?

    ~Cindy

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  • From Paulo Ricardo Canedo@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 23 16:21:27 2022
    A sábado, 23 de julho de 2022 à(s) 18:34:35 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 12:47:51 PM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A sábado, 23 de julho de 2022 à(s) 16:42:27 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 8:17:05 AM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A quinta-feira, 14 de julho de 2022 à(s) 19:28:03 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should
    also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I
    would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Note, however, that neither Mary Dale Harrison Jones or Elizabeth Dale Rogers, the other two of Diana Skipwith Dale's daughters named any daughter Diana let alone any son Henry Skipwith.
    Paulo, you make a good point! Maybe someday there will be a DNA study which will clear up Katherine Dale's maternity for good. I'm surprised there haven't already been some studies using DNA from Katherine's descendants and Skipwith descendants in
    order to see if they are related.

    ~Cindy
    AFAIK, this is too far removed in time for DNA to be helpful. For now, I assume Katherine Dale Carter is Diana Skipwith Dale's daughter. The only evidence against it is that Diana used her maiden name in two documents after Katherine Dale was born.
    Note one of those documents was not actually signed by Diana, it was just a court record mentioning her. The writer may simply have used her maiden name because he knew she ws the sister of Grey Skipwith. What was the other document? Anyways, note both
    documents were before the death of her father Baronet Henry Skipwith.
    Paulo, I don't know how accurate this site is, but here is what it says about how far back in time DNA can be helpful: https://whoareyoumadeof.com/blog/how-far-back-can-you-go-with-dna/

    What is the significance of both documents being signed before the death of her father Baronet Henry Skipwith? Does that make it more likely that she would have used her maiden name even after she was married?

    ~Cindy
    Yes, I think it does.

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to Paulo Ricardo Canedo on Mon Jul 25 07:32:52 2022
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 7:21:29 PM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A sábado, 23 de julho de 2022 à(s) 18:34:35 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 12:47:51 PM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A sábado, 23 de julho de 2022 à(s) 16:42:27 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 8:17:05 AM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A quinta-feira, 14 de julho de 2022 à(s) 19:28:03 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should
    also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I
    would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Note, however, that neither Mary Dale Harrison Jones or Elizabeth Dale Rogers, the other two of Diana Skipwith Dale's daughters named any daughter Diana let alone any son Henry Skipwith.
    Paulo, you make a good point! Maybe someday there will be a DNA study which will clear up Katherine Dale's maternity for good. I'm surprised there haven't already been some studies using DNA from Katherine's descendants and Skipwith descendants
    in order to see if they are related.

    ~Cindy
    AFAIK, this is too far removed in time for DNA to be helpful. For now, I assume Katherine Dale Carter is Diana Skipwith Dale's daughter. The only evidence against it is that Diana used her maiden name in two documents after Katherine Dale was born.
    Note one of those documents was not actually signed by Diana, it was just a court record mentioning her. The writer may simply have used her maiden name because he knew she ws the sister of Grey Skipwith. What was the other document? Anyways, note both
    documents were before the death of her father Baronet Henry Skipwith.
    Paulo, I don't know how accurate this site is, but here is what it says about how far back in time DNA can be helpful: https://whoareyoumadeof.com/blog/how-far-back-can-you-go-with-dna/

    What is the significance of both documents being signed before the death of her father Baronet Henry Skipwith? Does that make it more likely that she would have used her maiden name even after she was married?

    ~Cindy
    Yes, I think it does.


    Here is a very interesting article about Edward Dale, husband of Diana Skipwith: https://collation.folger.edu/2016/07/earliest-recorded-shakespeare-america/

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  • From Johnny Brananas@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Jul 25 09:35:09 2022
    On Monday, July 25, 2022 at 10:32:54 AM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 7:21:29 PM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A sábado, 23 de julho de 2022 à(s) 18:34:35 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 12:47:51 PM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A sábado, 23 de julho de 2022 à(s) 16:42:27 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 8:17:05 AM UTC-4, Paulo Ricardo Canedo wrote:
    A quinta-feira, 14 de julho de 2022 à(s) 19:28:03 UTC+1, Cindy H. escreveu:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should
    also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I
    would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Note, however, that neither Mary Dale Harrison Jones or Elizabeth Dale Rogers, the other two of Diana Skipwith Dale's daughters named any daughter Diana let alone any son Henry Skipwith.
    Paulo, you make a good point! Maybe someday there will be a DNA study which will clear up Katherine Dale's maternity for good. I'm surprised there haven't already been some studies using DNA from Katherine's descendants and Skipwith descendants
    in order to see if they are related.

    ~Cindy
    AFAIK, this is too far removed in time for DNA to be helpful. For now, I assume Katherine Dale Carter is Diana Skipwith Dale's daughter. The only evidence against it is that Diana used her maiden name in two documents after Katherine Dale was
    born. Note one of those documents was not actually signed by Diana, it was just a court record mentioning her. The writer may simply have used her maiden name because he knew she ws the sister of Grey Skipwith. What was the other document? Anyways, note
    both documents were before the death of her father Baronet Henry Skipwith.
    Paulo, I don't know how accurate this site is, but here is what it says about how far back in time DNA can be helpful: https://whoareyoumadeof.com/blog/how-far-back-can-you-go-with-dna/

    What is the significance of both documents being signed before the death of her father Baronet Henry Skipwith? Does that make it more likely that she would have used her maiden name even after she was married?

    ~Cindy
    Yes, I think it does.
    Here is a very interesting article about Edward Dale, husband of Diana Skipwith: https://collation.folger.edu/2016/07/earliest-recorded-shakespeare-america/

    Note the book's interesting flyleaf dedication, "Sir William Skipwith to Major Edw: Dale Sept:16: 1686."

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Thu Jul 28 14:53:38 2022
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should also
    not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I would
    have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (ancestor of
    President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf


    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Thu Jul 28 19:02:51 2022
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should
    also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I
    would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (ancestor of
    President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.


    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the DNA of descendants of
    Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Fri Jul 29 07:13:18 2022
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should
    also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I
    would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (ancestor of
    President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the DNA of descendants
    of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.


    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines.
    This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly

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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Fri Jul 29 08:41:37 2022
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It should
    also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down. I
    would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (ancestor
    of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee Harvey Oswald!


    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within genealogical
    time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the DNA of descendants
    of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines.
    This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly


    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're back to differing
    opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Fri Jul 29 09:42:20 2022
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It
    should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down.
    I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (ancestor
    of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee Harvey
    Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within genealogical
    time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the DNA of
    descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines.
    This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're back to differing
    opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.

    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Fri Jul 29 09:59:47 2022
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It
    should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed down.
    I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (
    ancestor of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee Harvey
    Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within genealogical
    time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the DNA of
    descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines.
    This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're back to
    differing opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.
    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA

    A possibility, though a professional genealogist in Virginia recently traced my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Aug 1 04:36:42 2022
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 9:59:48 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors. It
    should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed
    down. I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (
    ancestor of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee Harvey
    Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within
    genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the DNA of
    descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines.
    This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're back to
    differing opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.
    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA
    A possibility, though a professional genealogist in Virginia recently traced my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.

    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Mon Aug 1 07:37:18 2022
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 7:36:43 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 9:59:48 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors.
    It should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed
    down. I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (
    ancestor of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee
    Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within
    genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the DNA of
    descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines.
    This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're back to
    differing opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.
    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA
    A possibility, though a professional genealogist in Virginia recently traced my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line


    I do remember reading about DNA tests done on the skeleton of king Richard III after it was discovered. They showed a false paternity event, which raised questions about almost all the Plantagenets. However, I don't think researchers have identified
    exactly when the adulterous affair broke the paternal line. Apparently, it occurred somewhere between King Edward III and his descendants. I read that if John of Gaunt or his son Henry IV was illegitimate, then the royal line was lost. To discover
    when it occurred, researchers would have to exhume a lot of skeletons and do DNA tests on them. It seems that will not happen.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From pj.evans88@gmail.com@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Mon Aug 1 08:29:10 2022
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:36:43 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 9:59:48 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors.
    It should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were passed
    down. I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (
    ancestor of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee
    Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within
    genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the DNA of
    descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines.
    This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're back to
    differing opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.
    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA
    A possibility, though a professional genealogist in Virginia recently traced my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line


    Will, you're being an a-hole. You know damned well that genealogy is not based on DNA.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Johnny Brananas@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Mon Aug 1 14:11:12 2022
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:35:04 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11:29:12 AM UTC-4, pj.ev...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:36:43 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 9:59:48 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains
    errors. It should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were
    passed down. I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter
    (ancestor of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee
    Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within
    genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the DNA of
    descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines. This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're back to
    differing opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.
    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA
    A possibility, though a professional genealogist in Virginia recently traced my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line
    Will, you're being an a-hole. You know damned well that genealogy is not based on DNA.
    Here's a very interesting article about the DNA test involving Richard III: http://www.citigen.org/2017/03/17/could-a-dna-test-unthrone-the-british-royalty/

    The Plantagenet male-line descent as a basis for the "legitimacy of British royal lineages" was overthrown with the Tudor conquest or "seizure" of the throne in 1485. So it's a little late to wonder about this.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to pj.ev...@gmail.com on Mon Aug 1 13:35:02 2022
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11:29:12 AM UTC-4, pj.ev...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:36:43 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 9:59:48 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains errors.
    It should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were
    passed down. I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas Carter (
    ancestor of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee
    Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within
    genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the DNA of
    descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines. This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're back to
    differing opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.
    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA
    A possibility, though a professional genealogist in Virginia recently traced my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line
    Will, you're being an a-hole. You know damned well that genealogy is not based on DNA.


    Here's a very interesting article about the DNA test involving Richard III: http://www.citigen.org/2017/03/17/could-a-dna-test-unthrone-the-british-royalty/

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to ravinma...@yahoo.com on Mon Aug 1 15:08:57 2022
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 5:11:13 PM UTC-4, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:35:04 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11:29:12 AM UTC-4, pj.ev...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:36:43 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 9:59:48 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains
    errors. It should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were
    passed down. I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas
    Carter (ancestor of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than Lee
    Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within
    genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the DNA
    of descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines. This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're back
    to differing opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.
    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA
    A possibility, though a professional genealogist in Virginia recently traced my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line
    Will, you're being an a-hole. You know damned well that genealogy is not based on DNA.
    Here's a very interesting article about the DNA test involving Richard III: http://www.citigen.org/2017/03/17/could-a-dna-test-unthrone-the-british-royalty/
    The Plantagenet male-line descent as a basis for the "legitimacy of British royal lineages" was overthrown with the Tudor conquest or "seizure" of the throne in 1485. So it's a little late to wonder about this.


    It's true that Henry VII declared himself king by the judgment of God and right of conquest when he won the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. However, in order to be secure, he had to convince the Yorkists of his claim. He descended from John of Gaunt (Duke
    of Lancaster and son of Edward III) in the Beaufort line. Having John of Gaunt as an ancestor solidified his claim, as did his marriage to Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, which united the two houses, the red rose of Lancaster and the white
    rose of York. So the fact that both Henry VII and Elizabeth of York descended from Edward III was important to establish Henry's legitimacy as the first Tudor king.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Johnny Brananas@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Tue Aug 2 06:54:01 2022
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 6:08:59 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 5:11:13 PM UTC-4, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:35:04 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11:29:12 AM UTC-4, pj.ev...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:36:43 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 9:59:48 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains
    errors. It should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine were
    passed down. I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas
    Carter (ancestor of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than
    Lee Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two, within
    genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the
    DNA of descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines.
    This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're back
    to differing opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.
    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA
    A possibility, though a professional genealogist in Virginia recently traced my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line
    Will, you're being an a-hole. You know damned well that genealogy is not based on DNA.
    Here's a very interesting article about the DNA test involving Richard III: http://www.citigen.org/2017/03/17/could-a-dna-test-unthrone-the-british-royalty/
    The Plantagenet male-line descent as a basis for the "legitimacy of British royal lineages" was overthrown with the Tudor conquest or "seizure" of the throne in 1485. So it's a little late to wonder about this.
    It's true that Henry VII declared himself king by the judgment of God and right of conquest when he won the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. However, in order to be secure, he had to convince the Yorkists of his claim. He descended from John of Gaunt (Duke
    of Lancaster and son of Edward III) in the Beaufort line. Having John of Gaunt as an ancestor solidified his claim, as did his marriage to Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, which united the two houses, the red rose of Lancaster and the white rose
    of York. So the fact that both Henry VII and Elizabeth of York descended from Edward III was important to establish Henry's legitimacy as the first Tudor king.

    I was referring specifically to the message embedded in the URL: "could-a-dna-test-unthrone-the-british-royalty".

    Right, the perceived kingly claims of Henry VII were rather bolstered by his and wife's several descents from Edward III, but Henry and Elizabeth were both descended only through a mix of males and females, not in a strict male-line descent. The non-
    paternity event which caused the difference between Richard III and other royal scions or possible heirs would have been moot after a few years of successful Tudor rule, let alone sixty or seventy.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Cindy H.@21:1/5 to ravinma...@yahoo.com on Tue Aug 2 09:11:27 2022
    On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 9:54:03 AM UTC-4, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 6:08:59 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 5:11:13 PM UTC-4, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:35:04 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11:29:12 AM UTC-4, pj.ev...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:36:43 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 9:59:48 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it contains
    errors. It should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable state.


    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine
    were passed down. I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and Thomas
    Carter (ancestor of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin than
    Lee Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two,
    within genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with the
    DNA of descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines.
    This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're
    back to differing opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.
    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA
    A possibility, though a professional genealogist in Virginia recently traced my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line
    Will, you're being an a-hole. You know damned well that genealogy is not based on DNA.
    Here's a very interesting article about the DNA test involving Richard III: http://www.citigen.org/2017/03/17/could-a-dna-test-unthrone-the-british-royalty/
    The Plantagenet male-line descent as a basis for the "legitimacy of British royal lineages" was overthrown with the Tudor conquest or "seizure" of the throne in 1485. So it's a little late to wonder about this.
    It's true that Henry VII declared himself king by the judgment of God and right of conquest when he won the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. However, in order to be secure, he had to convince the Yorkists of his claim. He descended from John of Gaunt (
    Duke of Lancaster and son of Edward III) in the Beaufort line. Having John of Gaunt as an ancestor solidified his claim, as did his marriage to Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, which united the two houses, the red rose of Lancaster and the white
    rose of York. So the fact that both Henry VII and Elizabeth of York descended from Edward III was important to establish Henry's legitimacy as the first Tudor king.
    I was referring specifically to the message embedded in the URL: "could-a-dna-test-unthrone-the-british-royalty".

    Right, the perceived kingly claims of Henry VII were rather bolstered by his and wife's several descents from Edward III, but Henry and Elizabeth were both descended only through a mix of males and females, not in a strict male-line descent. The non-
    paternity event which caused the difference between Richard III and other royal scions or possible heirs would have been moot after a few years of successful Tudor rule, let alone sixty or seventy.

    Henry VII's ancestry helped him deal with some Yorkist pretenders during his reign, and his ancestry ensured that the right to the throne of his descendants could not be challenged. William the Conqueror spent years subduing his opponents and had to
    harrow the North and starve the inhabitants there in order to cement his right to rule by conquest alone. Thankfully, Henry VII was able to avoid that scenario. You are probably right about any non-paternity event becoming moot after successful Tudor
    rule and the years following. I don't think the current royal family is worried about their royal line! Life goes on as usual! I was interested in the rebuttal that followed the non-paternity event article in that link I sent which showed ways kinship
    was defined before scientific testing was possible. Anyway, worrying about possible non-paternity events in various lines down from Charlemagne and Alfred the Great isn't going to lead anywhere since there's no way to prove any DNA breaks in the various
    lines without digging up hundreds of skeletons, and such breaks may not even exist. We just have to go along doing research as usual and trying to be as accurate as possible! I do hope that someday the maternity of Katherine Dale is definitively proved
    by a primary source.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From lancaster.boon@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Cindy H. on Tue Aug 2 11:29:30 2022
    On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 6:11:29 PM UTC+2, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 9:54:03 AM UTC-4, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 6:08:59 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 5:11:13 PM UTC-4, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:35:04 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11:29:12 AM UTC-4, pj.ev...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:36:43 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 9:59:48 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it
    contains errors. It should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable
    state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and Katherine
    were passed down. I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and
    Thomas Carter (ancestor of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin
    than Lee Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two,
    within genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with
    the DNA of descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's
    maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines.
    This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we're
    back to differing opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.
    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA
    A possibility, though a professional genealogist in Virginia recently traced my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line
    Will, you're being an a-hole. You know damned well that genealogy is not based on DNA.
    Here's a very interesting article about the DNA test involving Richard III: http://www.citigen.org/2017/03/17/could-a-dna-test-unthrone-the-british-royalty/
    The Plantagenet male-line descent as a basis for the "legitimacy of British royal lineages" was overthrown with the Tudor conquest or "seizure" of the throne in 1485. So it's a little late to wonder about this.
    It's true that Henry VII declared himself king by the judgment of God and right of conquest when he won the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. However, in order to be secure, he had to convince the Yorkists of his claim. He descended from John of Gaunt (
    Duke of Lancaster and son of Edward III) in the Beaufort line. Having John of Gaunt as an ancestor solidified his claim, as did his marriage to Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, which united the two houses, the red rose of Lancaster and the white
    rose of York. So the fact that both Henry VII and Elizabeth of York descended from Edward III was important to establish Henry's legitimacy as the first Tudor king.
    I was referring specifically to the message embedded in the URL: "could-a-dna-test-unthrone-the-british-royalty".

    Right, the perceived kingly claims of Henry VII were rather bolstered by his and wife's several descents from Edward III, but Henry and Elizabeth were both descended only through a mix of males and females, not in a strict male-line descent. The non-
    paternity event which caused the difference between Richard III and other royal scions or possible heirs would have been moot after a few years of successful Tudor rule, let alone sixty or seventy.
    Henry VII's ancestry helped him deal with some Yorkist pretenders during his reign, and his ancestry ensured that the right to the throne of his descendants could not be challenged. William the Conqueror spent years subduing his opponents and had to
    harrow the North and starve the inhabitants there in order to cement his right to rule by conquest alone. Thankfully, Henry VII was able to avoid that scenario. You are probably right about any non-paternity event becoming moot after successful Tudor
    rule and the years following. I don't think the current royal family is worried about their royal line! Life goes on as usual! I was interested in the rebuttal that followed the non-paternity event article in that link I sent which showed ways kinship
    was defined before scientific testing was possible. Anyway, worrying about possible non-paternity events in various lines down from Charlemagne and Alfred the Great isn't going to lead anywhere since there's no way to prove any DNA breaks in the various
    lines without digging up hundreds of skeletons, and such breaks may not even exist. We just have to go along doing research as usual and trying to be as accurate as possible! I do hope that someday the maternity of Katherine Dale is definitively proved
    by a primary source.

    Last I checked no "non paternity event" has been proven? The modern family which was compared is far more likely to be the weak link?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Johnny Brananas@21:1/5 to lancast...@gmail.com on Tue Aug 2 12:23:42 2022
    On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 2:29:32 PM UTC-4, lancast...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 6:11:29 PM UTC+2, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 9:54:03 AM UTC-4, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 6:08:59 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 5:11:13 PM UTC-4, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:35:04 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11:29:12 AM UTC-4, pj.ev...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:36:43 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 9:59:48 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 8:41:39 AM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Friday, July 29, 2022 at 10:13:19 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:02:52 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 5:53:40 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 5:43:46 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 6:59:07 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 12:34:15 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 2:28:03 PM UTC-4, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 5:41:30 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:56:50 PM UTC-7, Cindy H. wrote:
    On Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 1:59:44 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:

    I have never suggested that anyone should use my website as an authoritative guide
    This was the point I was making.
    NO website, by a single author, can be considered a reliable source.
    None. Not one.

    Unless it's their own biography. And then maybe not either
    Thanks, Will, for sending the Carter Prayer Book extract. However, isn't it a bit unfair to call a site unreliable without even examining some of the info it contains? In my opinion, a site is unreliable if it
    contains errors. It should also not be the only site consulted but one of many, many, so that comparisons can be made and discrepancies spotted. So
    Saying a website is unreliable is not tantamount to saying "this person is full of shit"
    It is tantamount to saying "Vitamin D *may* help with acne but there have been on peer-reviewed studies to show that". I.E. it's a unreliable claim.

    When a single editor/author has full control over what is stated, that is an unreliable publication. It is *solely* through discussion, criticism, harassment, argument.... that a claim can come to a usable reliable
    state.

    That is true of all claims, scientific, genealogical, other.
    I find it a bit strange that none of the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale seem to have named their own children Diana or Skipwith, not even Henry Skipwith Carter, though the names Edward, Dale, and
    Katherine were passed down. I would have expected some of those children to have been named after their grandmother if Diana Skipwith was indeed their grandmother. Unless the children of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale simply hadn't liked Diana.

    ~Cindy
    Oops! Diana would have been their g-grandmother.

    I sent a message to Rich Hall, drawing his attention to a DNA test which has proved that Thomas Carter (husband of Katherine Dale)) of Lancaster Co., John Carter (father of Robert "King" Carter) of Lancaster Co., and
    Thomas Carter (ancestor of President Jimmy Carter) of Isle of Wight Co. are not related to each other, so he can make changes in the cousins he lists.

    I also let him know that June Carter (member of the famous singing Carter family and wife of country singer Johnny Cash) is a direct descendant of Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale, so he can add her. A much nicer cousin
    than Lee Harvey Oswald!

    ~Cindy
    One DNA test?
    One DNA test cannot confirm that two lines are not related to each other.
    Here is the study: https://christchurch1735.org/images/Research-and-Discover/Lumsden_DNA.pdf
    I've just read this report and find it sound.
    Not only did they have many Y-DNA kits, but they did show that the three clusters are both, within each cluster related to each other in genealogical time, *and* that none of the three clusters, are related to the other two,
    within genealogical time.

    To me, this is conclusive proof that the three clusters are not closely related during the Colonial period in question.
    That report goes back in time to John Carter b. 1613, so it seems to me that it would be possible to have a DNA study that compared the DNA of descendants of Sir William Skipwith (son of Sir Grey Skipwith, Diana's brother) with
    the DNA of descendants of Mary Dale Humphrey, Elizabeth Dale Rogers, and Katherine Dale Carter to see what kind of relationship may exist. If well done, such a study might be the best/only way to definitively prove/disprove Katherine Dale Carter's
    maternity.

    It might also be interesting to have a handwriting expert compare the handwriting of Thomas Carter and Edward Carter shown on that list of books in Edward Dale's library with the various handwritings in Thomas Carter's
    Prayerbook.
    It is much more problematic to compare DNA off daughter lines.
    This is because you would have to use autosomal DNA at lest for part of the line, not proved or disproved by Y-DNA
    You can show that chunks of autosomal DNA as large as 50cms can descend from the 1700s, but it takes an awful lot of work to establish that proof, and dozens if not a hundred DNA kits to establish the lines clearly
    Thanks, Will. I thought it might be possible to get around that problem by comparing DNA from Sir Grey Skipwith's line to the DNA from a male descendant of Katherine Dale Carter, but I guess that wouldn't work. So it looks like we'
    re back to differing opinions about Katherine's maternity unless/until someone discovers a document proving that Edward Dale had been married to someone before he married Diana Skipwith.
    Well I would suggest before you go any further, that you confirm your own line using Autosomal DNA
    A possibility, though a professional genealogist in Virginia recently traced my line back to Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line
    Will, you're being an a-hole. You know damned well that genealogy is not based on DNA.
    Here's a very interesting article about the DNA test involving Richard III: http://www.citigen.org/2017/03/17/could-a-dna-test-unthrone-the-british-royalty/
    The Plantagenet male-line descent as a basis for the "legitimacy of British royal lineages" was overthrown with the Tudor conquest or "seizure" of the throne in 1485. So it's a little late to wonder about this.
    It's true that Henry VII declared himself king by the judgment of God and right of conquest when he won the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. However, in order to be secure, he had to convince the Yorkists of his claim. He descended from John of Gaunt (
    Duke of Lancaster and son of Edward III) in the Beaufort line. Having John of Gaunt as an ancestor solidified his claim, as did his marriage to Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV, which united the two houses, the red rose of Lancaster and the white
    rose of York. So the fact that both Henry VII and Elizabeth of York descended from Edward III was important to establish Henry's legitimacy as the first Tudor king.
    I was referring specifically to the message embedded in the URL: "could-a-dna-test-unthrone-the-british-royalty".

    Right, the perceived kingly claims of Henry VII were rather bolstered by his and wife's several descents from Edward III, but Henry and Elizabeth were both descended only through a mix of males and females, not in a strict male-line descent. The
    non-paternity event which caused the difference between Richard III and other royal scions or possible heirs would have been moot after a few years of successful Tudor rule, let alone sixty or seventy.
    Henry VII's ancestry helped him deal with some Yorkist pretenders during his reign, and his ancestry ensured that the right to the throne of his descendants could not be challenged. William the Conqueror spent years subduing his opponents and had to
    harrow the North and starve the inhabitants there in order to cement his right to rule by conquest alone. Thankfully, Henry VII was able to avoid that scenario. You are probably right about any non-paternity event becoming moot after successful Tudor
    rule and the years following. I don't think the current royal family is worried about their royal line! Life goes on as usual! I was interested in the rebuttal that followed the non-paternity event article in that link I sent which showed ways kinship
    was defined before scientific testing was possible. Anyway, worrying about possible non-paternity events in various lines down from Charlemagne and Alfred the Great isn't going to lead anywhere since there's no way to prove any DNA breaks in the various
    lines without digging up hundreds of skeletons, and such breaks may not even exist. We just have to go along doing research as usual and trying to be as accurate as possible! I do hope that someday the maternity of Katherine Dale is definitively proved
    by a primary source.
    Last I checked no "non paternity event" has been proven? The modern family which was compared is far more likely to be the weak link?

    Yes, you may be right about that (I've gotten a bit fuzzy on the exact details). Isn't it something to do with the Somerset family, illegitimate descendants of the Plantagenet kings (supposedly direct male-line, but who knows).

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to pj.ev...@gmail.com on Wed Aug 3 13:21:59 2022
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 8:29:12 AM UTC-7, pj.ev...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 4:36:43 AM UTC-7, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line
    Will, you're being an a-hole. You know damned well that genealogy is not based on DNA.

    I never said that genealogy is *based* on DNA

    My implication was, that if you yourself have not proven your own lines autosomally with your own DNA (and your cousins, etc), that all of this work on "your" line is really just based on the misplaced belief that your own ancestors didn't dilly about.
    And yet they did.

    Every day it seems I encounter people who have done "thirty years of research" before they realized their father wasn't their father, their grandfather wasn't their grandfather, and so on. From DNA.

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  • From joseph cook@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 3 14:19:11 2022
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line

    SHE WOULD NEVER AND YOU TAKE THAT BACK. ABIGAIL WAS HONEST AND CHASTE.

    --Joe C
    P.S. for what it is worth, this statement doesn't make any sense. paper lines can have errors and so can dna tests; it doesn't mean they are worthless. And whether or not the biological line is sound doens't mean that the paper parents didn't raise
    their non-biological children, pass down inheritnaces, and have family dynamics that are just as interesting as the dna doner.

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to joe...@gmail.com on Thu Aug 4 07:43:40 2022
    On Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 2:19:13 PM UTC-7, joe...@gmail.com wrote:
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line
    SHE WOULD NEVER AND YOU TAKE THAT BACK. ABIGAIL WAS HONEST AND CHASTE.

    --Joe C
    P.S. for what it is worth, this statement doesn't make any sense. paper lines can have errors and so can dna tests; it doesn't mean they are worthless. And whether or not the biological line is sound doens't mean that the paper parents didn't raise
    their non-biological children, pass down inheritnaces, and have family dynamics that are just as interesting as the dna doner.

    Ahhhhh ha ha ha ha ha.
    But my implication is that an NPE can occur at *any* generation.
    It doesn't have to have occurred four hundred years ago.
    It might have occurred 80 years ago as well

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  • From Johnny Brananas@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Thu Aug 4 08:58:15 2022
    On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 10:43:41 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 2:19:13 PM UTC-7, joe...@gmail.com wrote:
    Tracing a line through paper, is not worth anything, if you don't have the DNA evidence for yourself.
    For all you know your 8th great-grandmother lied, and had sex with the neighbor and that's your real line
    SHE WOULD NEVER AND YOU TAKE THAT BACK. ABIGAIL WAS HONEST AND CHASTE.

    --Joe C
    P.S. for what it is worth, this statement doesn't make any sense. paper lines can have errors and so can dna tests; it doesn't mean they are worthless. And whether or not the biological line is sound doens't mean that the paper parents didn't raise
    their non-biological children, pass down inheritnaces, and have family dynamics that are just as interesting as the dna doner.
    Ahhhhh ha ha ha ha ha.
    But my implication is that an NPE can occur at *any* generation.
    It doesn't have to have occurred four hundred years ago.
    It might have occurred 80 years ago as well

    Can an NPE with a closely-related male-line (agnate) cousin of the claimed/ believed father be detected by DNA methods?

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to ravinma...@yahoo.com on Thu Aug 4 13:42:47 2022
    On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 8:58:16 AM UTC-7, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    Can an NPE with a closely-related male-line (agnate) cousin of the claimed/ believed father be detected by DNA methods?

    My own personal method does not need males, since I rely on the autosomal DNA results.
    What I do is plot out how each match is supposed to be related (by tree) and confirm whether or not that makes sense by the size of the centimorgan match.

    If a person is supposed to be a first cousin, and only matches 30 cms (or does not match at all), then they are not a first cousin at all. Then you have to figure out whose tree has the NPE by using a third match that matches one but not both. Rinse
    and repeat.

    It's a long process, but you *can* rebuild the correct tree using these methods.
    Even to the point of determining who the missing line must be. That is, which family, has provided the missing biological piece. And thus, which family in the tree, is not biologically related.

    You just need at least two tests, administered, and then the hundreds of matches they each generate, and their trees.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Jinny Wallerstedt/Girl 57@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Sun Aug 7 10:15:49 2022
    On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 4:42:48 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 8:58:16 AM UTC-7, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    Can an NPE with a closely-related male-line (agnate) cousin of the claimed/ believed father be detected by DNA methods?
    My own personal method does not need males, since I rely on the autosomal DNA results.
    What I do is plot out how each match is supposed to be related (by tree) and confirm whether or not that makes sense by the size of the centimorgan match.

    If a person is supposed to be a first cousin, and only matches 30 cms (or does not match at all), then they are not a first cousin at all. Then you have to figure out whose tree has the NPE by using a third match that matches one but not both. Rinse
    and repeat.

    It's a long process, but you *can* rebuild the correct tree using these methods.
    Even to the point of determining who the missing line must be. That is, which family, has provided the missing biological piece. And thus, which family in the tree, is not biologically related.

    You just need at least two tests, administered, and then the hundreds of matches they each generate, and their trees.
    Will, I find the two tests and hundreds of matches easy, but the "...and their trees" part maddening. So many folks out there who don't have or don't share tree information. I've spent hours and hours constructing trees for exact mtDNA matches -- using
    the tiny bit of info they do have -- in the (vain LOL) hope I can find our common motherline ancestor. No luck yet, but lots of exploration and fun, and have made the acquaintance of many Virginia and Kentucky families with very scant paper trails. Also,
    have been fortunate to help build some trees, using autosomal data, for distant African American cousins descended from a shared white ancestor. Lots of deep Virginia roots.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 8 08:29:56 2022
    On Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 10:15:50 AM UTC-7, Jinny Wallerstedt/Girl 57 wrote:
    On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 4:42:48 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 8:58:16 AM UTC-7, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    Can an NPE with a closely-related male-line (agnate) cousin of the claimed/ believed father be detected by DNA methods?
    My own personal method does not need males, since I rely on the autosomal DNA results.
    What I do is plot out how each match is supposed to be related (by tree) and confirm whether or not that makes sense by the size of the centimorgan match.

    If a person is supposed to be a first cousin, and only matches 30 cms (or does not match at all), then they are not a first cousin at all. Then you have to figure out whose tree has the NPE by using a third match that matches one but not both. Rinse
    and repeat.

    It's a long process, but you *can* rebuild the correct tree using these methods.
    Even to the point of determining who the missing line must be. That is, which family, has provided the missing biological piece. And thus, which family in the tree, is not biologically related.

    You just need at least two tests, administered, and then the hundreds of matches they each generate, and their trees.
    Will, I find the two tests and hundreds of matches easy, but the "...and their trees" part maddening. So many folks out there who don't have or don't share tree information. I've spent hours and hours constructing trees for exact mtDNA matches -- using
    the tiny bit of info they do have -- in the (vain LOL) hope I can find our common motherline ancestor. No luck yet, but lots of exploration and fun, and have made the acquaintance of many Virginia and Kentucky families with very scant paper trails. Also,
    have been fortunate to help build some trees, using autosomal data, for distant African American cousins descended from a shared white ancestor. Lots of deep Virginia roots.

    mtDNA is not a very useful genealogical tool
    I hope that you and your matches have also taken Autosomal DNA tests so you can at least figure out if you're related within twenty generations.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Jinny Wallerstedt/Girl 57@21:1/5 to wjhons...@gmail.com on Tue Aug 9 07:12:07 2022
    On Monday, August 8, 2022 at 11:29:57 AM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Sunday, August 7, 2022 at 10:15:50 AM UTC-7, Jinny Wallerstedt/Girl 57 wrote:
    On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 4:42:48 PM UTC-4, wjhons...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 8:58:16 AM UTC-7, ravinma...@yahoo.com wrote:
    Can an NPE with a closely-related male-line (agnate) cousin of the claimed/ believed father be detected by DNA methods?
    My own personal method does not need males, since I rely on the autosomal DNA results.
    What I do is plot out how each match is supposed to be related (by tree) and confirm whether or not that makes sense by the size of the centimorgan match.

    If a person is supposed to be a first cousin, and only matches 30 cms (or does not match at all), then they are not a first cousin at all. Then you have to figure out whose tree has the NPE by using a third match that matches one but not both.
    Rinse and repeat.

    It's a long process, but you *can* rebuild the correct tree using these methods.
    Even to the point of determining who the missing line must be. That is, which family, has provided the missing biological piece. And thus, which family in the tree, is not biologically related.

    You just need at least two tests, administered, and then the hundreds of matches they each generate, and their trees.
    Will, I find the two tests and hundreds of matches easy, but the "...and their trees" part maddening. So many folks out there who don't have or don't share tree information. I've spent hours and hours constructing trees for exact mtDNA matches --
    using the tiny bit of info they do have -- in the (vain LOL) hope I can find our common motherline ancestor. No luck yet, but lots of exploration and fun, and have made the acquaintance of many Virginia and Kentucky families with very scant paper trails.
    Also, have been fortunate to help build some trees, using autosomal data, for distant African American cousins descended from a shared white ancestor. Lots of deep Virginia roots.
    mtDNA is not a very useful genealogical tool
    I hope that you and your matches have also taken Autosomal DNA tests so you can at least figure out if you're related within twenty generations.
    Yes, autosomal tests taken and used, as of course mtDNA on its own is not useful. It is useful, though, to make connections with others...Never can tell what might emerge. And I'm in it for the long haul.

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  • From Will Johnson@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 9 11:35:55 2022
    On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 7:12:08 AM UTC-7, Jinny Wallerstedt/Girl 57 wrote:

    Yes, autosomal tests taken and used, as of course mtDNA on its own is not useful. It is useful, though, to make connections with others...Never can tell what might emerge. And I'm in it for the long haul.

    So what have you found using mtDNA that the Autosomal test did not tell you?

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