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DNA, Early Colonial New England, NEWTON, Williams, Wright, Y-DNA

The Invisible Hand 

Is there an invisible hand directing us to find our ancestors, who they are, where they lived, and prompting us to learn more about them? A silent guide urging us to rediscover and document ancestral contributions to a developing new land, before the passing years obscure such memories?  Historic ancestral information can be obscured by the passage of time, misinterpreted, or twisted to fit a … Continue reading The Invisible Hand 

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Early Colonial New England, Wright, Y-DNA

Y-DNA Solves a 350 Year Old Line of Descent Conundrum

The Question Genealogists and family historians sometimes rely on family and town histories written many years ago. Those histories can contain errors that may or may not be unraveled as time goes by. Y-DNA can sometimes assist in detecting discrepancies in those written histories such as errors and nonpaternal events. Can Y-DNA assist in determining a 350 year old line of descent in an English … Continue reading Y-DNA Solves a 350 Year Old Line of Descent Conundrum

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