Genealogy Research & Assistance

03/14/2026

Mayflower DNA Project utilizes Y-DNA and mtDNA. It does NOT utilize autosomal DNA (such as 23andMe and Ancestry DNA).

I personally have taken 3 DNA Tests 2 of which were Autosomal and a YDNA

*AncestryDNA Autosomal (16Dec2016)
*CRI Genetics Kit No. WH904440 (25Jun2021) Cellular Research Institute
and FamilyTreeDNA *FTDNA Y-DNA Kit No. 892549 (24Dec2018)

This wiki traces the Y-DNA and mtDNA of Mayflower passengers, their spouses, and the spouses of their children and grandchildren. It does NOT work with autosomal DNA tests (such as AncestryDNA, 23andMe, etc.). Because we inherit autosomal DNA from both of our parents (who in turn inherited their DNA...

03/10/2026

Ancestry's QI Beta
https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/ancestry-brings-family-history-to-life-with-new-ai-powered-stori

03/09/2026

My first ancestry DNA test was December 2016, here are the facts in the cost of that DNA test in December 2016.

In 2016, an AncestryDNA test kit generally cost $99 in the United States, often featuring in sales for lower prices around events like DNA Day.

This price covered the autosomal DNA test, which analyzed over 700,000 locations in the genome to predict ethnic origins and connect with relatives.

The AncestryDNA test, which costs as little as $99 or Euro135, uses microarray-based autosomal DNA testing, which tests a person's genome at more than 700,000 locations via a small saliva sample.

Analysis of the DNA data provides a prediction of an individual's ethnic origins from 26 separate world-wide populations including Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, Middle East and nine regions in Africa.

About Ancestry

Ancestry, the leader in family history and consumer genomics, harnesses the information found in family trees, historical records and DNA to help people gain a new level of understanding about their lives.

Ancestry has more than 2.2 million paying subscribers across its core Ancestry websites and more than 1.5 million DNA samples in the AncestryDNA database.

Since 1996, more than 17 billion records have been added, and users have created more than 70 million family trees on the Ancestry flagship site and its affiliated international websites.

Ancestry offers a suite of family history products including Archives, Fold3, Newspapers.com and AncestryDNA sold by its subsidiary, Ancestry.com DNA, LLC, and the AncestryHealth product, offered by its subsidiary AncestryHealth.com, LLC.

For more information visit www.ancestrydna.com.

The largest online newspaper archive. Used by millions every month for historical research, family history, crime investigations, journalism, and more.

03/02/2026

Will YOUR DNA help solve a mystery? DNA Justice
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3 easy steps to begin assisting law enforcement

By uploading your DNA test results, you can help: catch killers, lock up rapists, and identify the nameless.

I D.R. "Doc" Young Sr. Author of Genealogy Research Assistance suggest to learn more about sharing your DNA with Law Enforcement Agencies at any Level. Your Personal Ethics aka moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity, as Your DNA could connect with Someone in Your DNA Tree to a Cold Case or Active Working Crime Investigation.

If already taken a DNA Test, check whether to Opt In or Out of Sharing With Law Enforcement at any Level/Agency. You may wish to consider the possible Outcome, Possible Retribution(s) of severe, deserved punishment or vengeance for wrongdoing, often described as "paying back" someone for a bad deed, like an "eye for an eye". It's a formal word for punishment.

Discuss with Your Family.

DNA Justice | 807 followers on LinkedIn. Helping law enforcement agencies solve their most intractable cases & providing answers to victim's families.

02/16/2026

Ancestry member since 13 May 2004. My DNA shared Tree has 18,100+ individuals.

A few of my direct lineages are back to 9th-12th Generations. A result of 33 years of Genealogy Research.

This image is of my Paternal Grandparents. I descend from "Francis Eaton" of the "Mayflower" my 9,th Gr-Grandfather.

02/15/2026

How I am Using AI (artifical intelligence) in many areas that I research daily, more so now with my Genealogy Research of 33 yrs to date. AI is becoming more Awesome Daily to use in many other areas of interest.

Which this AI Search did not reveal what I was hoping to find,

However interesting are results...since I have been Online since 1983, before the Web came to the forefont of the existing Internet (FYI before the World Wide Web became the dominant interface of the internet in the early-to-mid 1990s, the network was primarily a text-based environment used by researchers, academics, and military personnel.)

I also began Web Authoring in 1995 via Prodigy first to offer on Social Media HTML making your own Home page (FYI In June 1995, Prodigy became the first major online service to allow its members to create and host their own personal web pages using HTML.)

Is when I became a "Web Access Pioneer" I may receive a little flack from the post of said names.

01/27/2026

San Francisco has a population of over 883,000 residents, but it only has two cemeteries for the entire city. However Neither of them perform active burials. So why are bodies showing up under the city?

San Francisco has a population of over 883,000 residents, but it only has two cemeteries for the entire city. But neither of them perform active burials. So ...

01/27/2026

FTDNA Donald Young - Kit No. 892549 - Haplogroup R-M269 Story
https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/R-M269/story

01/25/2026

Cemeteries and 2025 Year in Review https://news.findagrave.com/2026/01/21/cemeteries-and-2025-year-in-review/?utm_source=Internal&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Newsletter_Jan-2026

01/23/2026

A Head of the Times...check your DNA

The oldest known remains of our species, Homo sapiens, are from the "Jebel Irhoud, Morocco", dating back approximately 300,000 to 315,000 years, challenging earlier theories that modern humans originated in East Africa around 200,000 years ago.

Accidental Finding: In 1961, a miner working in the barite mine accidentally uncovered a fossilized human skull in the wall of a cave.

Handover to Scientists: The miner extracted the skull and gave it to an engineer, who kept it as a souvenir for a time. It was eventually handed over to the University of Rabat.

Initial Excavations: Recognizing the potential significance, the university organized a joint French-Moroccan expedition, led by anthropologist Émile Ennouchi. This team conducted the first official excavations in 1961 and 1962, during which more bones (including another skull and a jawbone) and stone tools were found.

Early Misinterpretation: The fossils were initially thought to be around 40,000 years old and were attributed to Neanderthals due to some primitive skull features and the associated stone tools, which resembled Neanderthal tool industries found in Europe.

The site was originally a cave but was largely exposed during barite mining operations that began in the 1960s. It is world-renowned for being the source of the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils, which were dated in 2017 to approximately 315,000 years ago

Proximity to Cities: It is situated approximately 50 km (30 mi) southeast of Safi and about 100 km (62 mi) west of Marrakesh.

Nearby Town: The site lies just north of the village of Tlet Ighoud.
Coordinates: 31°51′18″N 8°52′21″W.

Topography: It is located on the eastern side of a limestone massif at an elevation of roughly 562 to 592 meters above sea level.

Experts have long agreed that H. sapiens got its start in Africa. Up to this point, the oldest commonly accepted traces of our species were 195,000-year-old remains from the site of Omo Kibish and 160,000-year-old fossils from Herto, both in Ethiopia. Yet DNA evidence and some enigmatic fossils hinted that our species might have deeper roots.

In their recent work, Hublin and his colleagues unearthed fossils of several other individuals from a part of the Jebel Irhoud site that the miners left undisturbed. The team's finds include skull and lower jaw bones, as well as stone tools and the remains of animals the humans hunted. Multiple techniques date the rock layer containing the fossils and artifacts to between 350,000 and 280,000 years ago.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-fossils-from-morocco-mess-up-modern-human-origins/

01/16/2026

I now have 19 DNA Ancestry Ethnicity Group Regions World Wide as of Oct 2025

01/10/2026

HISTORY OF THE EATON FAMILIES

The historical trail of the surname de Eyton has emerged from the mists of time from research of ancient documents which record the first mention of the name de Eyton in Shropshire, England, otherwise known as Salop, where they were seated as Lords of the Manor.

The first to hold this noted name was Robert de Eyton of Shrewsbury who lived in county Salop circa 1154. Robert de Eyton was seated as Lord of the Manor of Eyton-on-the-Wildmoors.

His exact date of birth and parental line has yet to be determined, but records indicate he was the progenitor of a great line as branches of the Eyton family acquired other estates and manors throughout England and Wales.

De Eytons were anciently seated at Eyton, Diddlestone, and Marshe.

They also branched to many locations in Denbighshire including Eyton, Erddlis, Bersham and Rhiwabon. Of this branch, Sir John distinguished himself on Bosworth Field

Brief Life History of Thomas Henry Eaton

When Thomas Henry Eaton was born in 1483, in Dover, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Louis Lodovicus Eyton, Esq, was 37 and his mother, Ann Savage, was 28. He married Jane Cresset about 1511, in England. They were the parents of at least 13 sons. Thomas died in 1590, in his hometown, at the age of 107, and was buried in Dover, Kent, England, United Kingdom.