Genealogical Craziness

Richard Austin Of Titchfield

This may be of more interest to family members than others, but here goes.

My first name, David, is after my father, who is also a David.

My middle name is Stephen, as in Stephen Fuller Austin, one of the founding fathers of Texas for whom the state capital is named.  The family legend was that he was my great, great… uncle. However, no hard evidence had ever been presented for this relationship, and years ago I chalked it up to family mythology.

During his retirement my father starting doing genealogy, not only on his side of the family, but also on my mother’s.  Turns out there is Continue reading “Genealogical Craziness”

Genealogical Conundrum

For reasons unclear to me I had my y-chromosome and mtDNA tested, reckon I found some money laying in the street.  I had had my autosomal tested a while back which was interesting, but did not tell me a lot.  Given that my immediate and personal DNA dies with me – my DNA is nothing special, so no big loss to humanity- I am not quite sure why I am so interested in the genealogy. Probably the history fascinates me.

The autosomal DNA is just general DNA.  Y-chromosome is specific for the paternal line. mtDNA is specific for maternal line.   For me, the y-chromosome shows mostly British isles  followed by Germany and Italy.

Almost immediately after they ran  and posted Continue reading “Genealogical Conundrum”