Hacienda Circle: Monday Map

01 November 2009

Monday Map

After just saying I don't go across the pond, I must amend. I do go across the sea to Haiti, formerly known as Saint Domingue. We have creole kin from there, and other kin I'm seeking who I suspect to be creole. One branch is on my mother's Cresap side, the other on my father's Gilbert side. Have I told you how much I love being a mutt? Well, I do!

This map from the Library of Congress online collection shows our LaClote and Cassou plantations right next door to each other. The map is titled

Plan du canton de Plimouth et partie des Baradéres. Par Fregnel

Though I found these families in New Orleans, this map shows where they lived before that. Long live creoles! Thank you Maurice in St. Louis for finding this and so much more.

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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!