New in GenTales – Children of Wagonmaker John Marker
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Category Archives: GenTales
Read now – A Beginner’s Guide to Given Family Names
New in GenTales on Medium – Surnames Vary by Region
There are many factors to consider when attempting to follow a lineage via surname. There are also many types of surnames depending on which region you’re working in.
When tracing surnames, it may be a simple process of following the name through the generations. But if you hit a wall, consider where and who you’re investigating, as it may require a bit of detective work to uncover a name change either between generations or for the person of interest themself.
New in GenTales – The children of Thomas Rownes
New in GenTales – Let’s talk terminology
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New on Substack – Limitations of Genetic Ethnicity Estimates
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.
New on Ko-Fi – Genealogy
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.
New GenTales on Substack – Lost Records of WWI Germans
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New GenTales on Substack – Kettenring to Catron
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Four Hundred Years of Praters – Lineage Book
Coming soon to ebook services, including subscription and library rentals, Cousins of Nunney Castle: Four Hundred Years of Praters from England to Indiana. It’s an extension to the Prater lineage in My Lineage from the Roots Up, vol. 2.
Watch for its availability here.
It is also available as a PDF at Ko-Fi.
The children of Elias Prater and Zilpha Adams available on Ko-Fi
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.