Now available: A partial index for My Lineage from the Roots Up, vol. 1
It’s posted as a coded list at Substack and is best readable on a desktop browser via the Substack website. A full PDF fill be up once the index is complete – subscribe to the GenTales Substack to keep apprised of the progress.
I’ve written before about lowering expectations for genetic genealogy, particularly in the context of ethnicity estimates. In the Lineage Research space at Quora, a lot of questions are asked about why certain ‘known’ ancestries don’t show up in DNA test results. Amidst this confusion, I feel that this topic certainly hasn’t yet been exhausted and compelled to address it once again.
Read about the limitations of genetic genealogy on Substack.
This month’s subscriber-only post in GenTales on Substack provides info on one pairing that causes pedigree collapse in My Lineage from the Roots Up, vol. 2. William Musick Prater was born about 1787 in Russell Co., Virginia, to Jonathan Prater and Sarah Elizabeth (Musick) Prater. Obedience “Biddy” Prater was born about 1790-1794 in Virginia to Elizabeth Fugate and another William Prater who was thought to be Jonathan Prater’s brother. Below the cut on Substack or available for download on Ko-Fi are their children and siblings.
The recent subscriber-only Substack newsletter is a listing of the nine children of Elias Prater and their children, his grandchildren, as they are known from the available records. It ends up being a 10-page PDF, and it’s also now available on Ko-Fi.
Get the PDF here, or subscribe to GenTales at Substack to read it.
I was asked an interesting question on the Gen Tales Quora Space about whether Jim Bowie (of Alamo fame) has any living descendants. He doesn’t, as far as anyone knows, but I do share ancestors with him. Read more about it in the Substack newsletter
