Hacienda Circle: My 1st post

10 October 2009

My 1st post

Welcome,
to Hacienda Circle, built in 1949, the home of a motley crew with DNA from England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Africa, Germany and Holland. By boat, wagon, and RR they came west -- speaking English, Gaelic, French, German, and Dutch. Some were slaves, some owned slaves. Black, white and both, Catholic and Protestant, they settled in then left cities -- Savannah, Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, New Orleans, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Alameda, Berkeley. They left farms in Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. And after all this, we ended up at Hacienda Circle. I am very grateful.

6 comments:

Craig SiulinskiOctober 10, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Nice start Vinny~!
ReplyDelete
Replies
Kathryn DoyleOctober 11, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Lavinia,
Congratulations on entering the wonderful world of blogging!
ReplyDelete
Replies
my Heritage HappensOctober 14, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Congratulations on starting your blog!
ReplyDelete
Replies
Renate Yarborough SandersOctober 17, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Hi, and welcome to the blogosphere! I enjoyed reading your first couple of posts, and I'm intriqued by the richness and varied ethnicities of your ancestry. I look forward to reading more!
ReplyDelete
Replies
GiniOctober 17, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Welcome and I look forward to more of your wonderful posts.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Lavinia Grace Gilbert SchwarzOctober 21, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Hi Craig, Kathryn, Cheryl, Nadasue and Gini,

I'm so new at this I'm not even sure how to comment to commenters! Much to learn from you all. But I'm delighted to be welcomed into your community.

Thanks!
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

I am not responsible for any comments made by contributors in the Comments section. However I will exercise my right to moderate and edit comments which are deemed to be offensive, childish or just plain outstandingly dumb.

Note to Gilberts

All the ancestors posted on this blog belong to us all. Hacienda Circle lives. It is a place of our present with Jack & Roxanne there now, and it is a window into our past.

We are true American mutts -- a mixture from England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, and Germany.

Our DNA will, no doubt, reveal more counties of origin. I'll be adding information about this as I gather and understand it. but we already have two 37 marker matches (one with a Frank M. Cresap -- no surprise there!).

1. Thank you, Jack, for doing our Gilbert DNA.

2. Thank you, Karen (Cresap) Bach, for having your late father, Andrew Bruce Cresap, Jr., do our Cresap DNA.

3. Thank you, Maurice Walton, for doing our Walton DNA (via Granwilla's maternal grandfather, James Walton's line).

4. I did our mitochondrial DNA back through Mom, Pi, and our direct female line back. This line is also included in a family finder project at https://www.familytreedna.com/. This works by comparing our autosomal DNA to that of other people who have taken the test through FamilyTree. Our relationship with a match is calculated based on sharing linked segments of DNA. Although any two people from the same population may have some of their DNA in common, as a matching segment of DNA becomes longer and we share more segments, it becomes more likely that the sharing is due to a recent common ancestor than a chance match. Thus far we have five people who we are probably 4th cousins with, but we haven't figured out the exact connection.

Happy ancestoring!