So I got my ancestry dna results back with some expected and a couple unexpected finds. Expected results was I matched my first cousin as first cousin Deborah Kinney and I matched Jeanne in TN who we already had Y-DNA testing on.
The big surprise was matching 3 people who descend from Levi Leming b1805, who did not match Y-DNA of the other Leming men. What this means is that his mother was a Leming and he took her name. This is a huge breakthrough for the family. He was in the 1830 Monroe county census living near Jesse Leming who I think was his uncle. I believe now that Levi's mother was a sister of my Levi, and daughter of Thomas Leming b1760 and Mary Carter. In that same census, 2 pages from Levi and Jesse is a woman named Catherine Lemmons born 1780-90 who I have never been able to place in the tree and now I am wondering if she is the mother???
I also matched someone who descends from Daniel's son Samuel which is the first DNA connection to that son, and a couple people who descend from the immigrants 1st son John Limging II. I also had many connections to my womens lines in my tree, Maxey, Tubbs, Thacker, Blackwell, Holloway, Grigg, Fine. Then I had many on my maternal lines as well.
I'm glad I did the test at ancestry. I did upload to gedmatch with my FTDNA test so both are there. It will be interesting to see if the matches there are different between the 2 tests since they are supposed to be the same test.
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Showing posts with label Lemon DNA Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lemon DNA Project. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Sunday, August 2, 2015
John Liming Society live
Announcing the new family association called the "John Liming Society". The John Liming Society is a family association that seeks to preserve the history, genealogy and artifacts of the family. http://john-liming-society.org
The society has been set up as a division of Lemons Publishing, a sole proprietorship owned by Kari Lemons. The Society will be Free to join, no dues or membership fees. There will be 2 classifications; Members are direct descendants of John Liming and Friends are spouses, and people connected through side branches or anyone interested in the family.
The society will be project based and use crowdfunding to pay for projects submitted by the society members. If gravestones are missing or damaged a member can submit a project to the membership to get a new one or repair. If a person is found that would be key to the DNA project, a project can be submitted to fund the cost of the test. If there is a person/family in the tree that is a brick wall, a project can be made to hire a certified genealogist to assist in locating proof and sources.
The property of the Society that has the most value is the genealogy content and data that is contained in the Society Master Tree. In order for the society to maintain its websites, add new features to the website, pay for marketing tools and social media advertising, there needs to be a monthly revenue stream to pay for costs. To cover these costs the Master Trees will require a subscription to access. Each new member to the free main website can choose to subscribe to get access to the Master Trees. There will be 1month, 3months, 6month and annual subscriptions. With each subscription you will get certain number of free access days included. The free access days can be used to compare your tree to the master tree and verify that you have correct information. During a member's subscription period, they can submit new data and source materials to the society to add to the tree. Subscription Prices will be kept reasonable
There are several people and families in the Master Tree that are not proven, have had many variations of data and been argued over for decades. These People and Family groups will be marked as "Need Additional Proof". Each of these marked, will provide places where members can focus attention, or even submit a project to hire a certified genealogist to figure it out. The goal is to strive for at least parent/child proof for each person in the tree, DNA testing from each branch of the tree is the best way to provide this proof.
Later, as more members contribute their branch information, photo's, bibles, obituaries, and other sources, Lemons Publishing will offer custom books for purchase. Select the people and family story pages you want included and how many copies you want then order. The cost is based on how many total pages in the book.
If at some point in the future there is a reason or need to accept a large donation to the society like family land, or end of life donation, a 501c3 non-profit tax status can be set up at that time.
If members wishes to protect and plan for what happens to their research, documents, artifacts, and books, they may identify the John Liming Society in their will to receive these items. It is the hope that at some point in the future, the Society could own and run a museum located on family land where all the collections would be housed.
So please come to the Society website and register. Then click on the Forum button and read the newby section for instructions on how to use the site. http://john-liming-society.org
The society has been set up as a division of Lemons Publishing, a sole proprietorship owned by Kari Lemons. The Society will be Free to join, no dues or membership fees. There will be 2 classifications; Members are direct descendants of John Liming and Friends are spouses, and people connected through side branches or anyone interested in the family.
The society will be project based and use crowdfunding to pay for projects submitted by the society members. If gravestones are missing or damaged a member can submit a project to the membership to get a new one or repair. If a person is found that would be key to the DNA project, a project can be submitted to fund the cost of the test. If there is a person/family in the tree that is a brick wall, a project can be made to hire a certified genealogist to assist in locating proof and sources.
The property of the Society that has the most value is the genealogy content and data that is contained in the Society Master Tree. In order for the society to maintain its websites, add new features to the website, pay for marketing tools and social media advertising, there needs to be a monthly revenue stream to pay for costs. To cover these costs the Master Trees will require a subscription to access. Each new member to the free main website can choose to subscribe to get access to the Master Trees. There will be 1month, 3months, 6month and annual subscriptions. With each subscription you will get certain number of free access days included. The free access days can be used to compare your tree to the master tree and verify that you have correct information. During a member's subscription period, they can submit new data and source materials to the society to add to the tree. Subscription Prices will be kept reasonable
There are several people and families in the Master Tree that are not proven, have had many variations of data and been argued over for decades. These People and Family groups will be marked as "Need Additional Proof". Each of these marked, will provide places where members can focus attention, or even submit a project to hire a certified genealogist to figure it out. The goal is to strive for at least parent/child proof for each person in the tree, DNA testing from each branch of the tree is the best way to provide this proof.
Later, as more members contribute their branch information, photo's, bibles, obituaries, and other sources, Lemons Publishing will offer custom books for purchase. Select the people and family story pages you want included and how many copies you want then order. The cost is based on how many total pages in the book.
If at some point in the future there is a reason or need to accept a large donation to the society like family land, or end of life donation, a 501c3 non-profit tax status can be set up at that time.
If members wishes to protect and plan for what happens to their research, documents, artifacts, and books, they may identify the John Liming Society in their will to receive these items. It is the hope that at some point in the future, the Society could own and run a museum located on family land where all the collections would be housed.
So please come to the Society website and register. Then click on the Forum button and read the newby section for instructions on how to use the site. http://john-liming-society.org
Thursday, April 16, 2015
My Quest
My Quest for the last couple of years has been to find all the living descendants of John Liming. I have been searching on ancestry.com and added the 400th username this week. I have created an excel file and added each person's username, name of connecting Liming ancestor, which of John's sons branches, John II or William, and emails if I can get them. I ask for their name and birthdate/location so that I can add them to my master Liming tree. Lastly I ask if they have taken or will consider taking a DNA test and join the Lemon DNA project at Family Tree DNA.
Why am I on this quest? I have wanted for many years to start an official Liming Family Society. All the people I find are potential members if the organization gets started.
So if you are a descendant, follow this blog, leave a comment, contact me. Who is your connecting Liming/Leming/Lemmons/Lemons ancestor?
In the first post I made to the blog yesterday, I posted a profile of my immigrant ancestor John Liming/Lyming. To make the profile I used a combination of my records and sources and a new website called historylines.com. History Lines works by generating contextual historical paragraphs based on the dates that are entered for each person's facts in a tree and the sources used. It makes creating profiles like this pretty easy to do.
I have tried a couple of other genealogy story generating software before, but I like this one alot. With the promo code SHARE40 get one year for $35 instead of the $59 regular annual subscription. The code is good till the 19th.
Why am I on this quest? I have wanted for many years to start an official Liming Family Society. All the people I find are potential members if the organization gets started.
So if you are a descendant, follow this blog, leave a comment, contact me. Who is your connecting Liming/Leming/Lemmons/Lemons ancestor?
In the first post I made to the blog yesterday, I posted a profile of my immigrant ancestor John Liming/Lyming. To make the profile I used a combination of my records and sources and a new website called historylines.com. History Lines works by generating contextual historical paragraphs based on the dates that are entered for each person's facts in a tree and the sources used. It makes creating profiles like this pretty easy to do.
I have tried a couple of other genealogy story generating software before, but I like this one alot. With the promo code SHARE40 get one year for $35 instead of the $59 regular annual subscription. The code is good till the 19th.
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