My Ancestry by Rhoads, Thomas L., Reading, PA 1938Genealogy, History and Traditions of Thomas Rhodes (1695-1761) and his Descendants By Thomas Willett RhodesA Short History and Genealogy of the English Family Rodes, in New Kent County, Virginia, by Shelly Rodes PattersonTHE RHODES FAMILY IN AMERICA, Compiled by Howard J. Rhodes
This is part 3 of our special series on Human Ancestry! Watch the entire series at The Human Story
The genome of Cheddar Man, who lived 10,000 years ago, suggests that he had blue eyes, dark skin and dark curly hair
Follow this link to read the entire post: www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/first-modern-britons-dark-black-skin-cheddar-man-dna-analysis-reveals
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There are few things more frustrating or discouraging than spending days, weeks or even years looking for a specific detail about an ancestor and coming up with nothing. The following link gives you some great search tips finding your missing person!
Source: familyhistorydaily.com/tips-and-tricks/6-tips-for-more-effective-genealogy-searches/
Thanks to Sharon Jeanne Smith/Logan of Hawkins, TX’s detective work in discovering Frances wife of Richard Breeden real maiden name. In Sharon’s own words: “Frances’ maiden name is not Fairchild as family tradition states (I was led to believe the same thing). Her maiden name was Chiles. I can prove this through the will of Paul Chiles who left his daughter Frances Chiles 200 acres on Mayo River in his will dated 2 September 1761, Halifax County Virginia. In 1773, Richard Breeding and his wife Frances sold 130 acres to John Stanton in Henry County, VA (Henry was created from Halifax). Also, of note, Paul Chiles parents were Henry Chiles and Ann Rowland”. The good news about the Chiles line is that it goes back to Walter Chiles of Jamestown who had the first brick home”. Whoever is descended through this line are eligible for Jamestowne Membership.
Here is some links to Frances data: Frances Chiles’ individual record, Frances Chiles’ pedigree record.
By the way, my toes are Roman and my wife Elaine’s are Egyptian.
The original questions come from the blog: Geniaus
As Geniaus is an Australian side I added couple more questions.
The Ancestors’ Geneameme
Which of these apply to you?
The answers are mine (me: Carl Rhodes).
Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents: 16 if you include my step great-great-grandfather
Can name over 50 direct ancestors: I can trace to 333
Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents : 4
Have an ancestor who was married more than three times : Margaret Ann Snyder my Great-Grandmother
Have an ancestor who was a bigamist : not that I know of.
Met all four of my grandparents : All but my grandfather Clarance, he died when my father was a teenager
Met one or more of my great-grandparents : All died long before I was born.
Named a child after an ancestor : no
Bear an ancestor’s given name/s : no
Have an ancestor from England, Scotland or Ireland : All three
Have an ancestor that is a Native American : yes Japasaw, leader of the Patawomeck and Paupauwiske tribes of Virginia, born before 1600, my 11th Great-Grandfather
Have an ancestor from Asia : yes, if you consider the Native American originating from Asia.
Have an ancestor from Continental Europe : yes
Have an ancestor from Africa : if you go back far enough we all do
Have an ancestor who was an agricultural laborer : yes
Have an ancestor who had large land holdings : this question is relative, my great-great-great-grand William Rhodes was given 466 acres of land for his service to his country.
Have an ancestor who was a holy man – minister, priest, rabbi : yes Amos Alexander one of my 4th Great-Grandfathers, and Josephus Good, my 2nd Great grandfather.
Have an ancestor who was a midwife : don’t know
Have an ancestor who was an author : don’t know
Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones : Elizabeth Jones, she was my 5th Step-Great-grandmother
Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng : no
Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X : no
Have an ancestor with a forename beginnining with Z : Zachariah Callaway my 5th Great-Grandfather
Have an ancestor born on 25th December : unknown
Have an ancestor born on New Year’s Day : unknown
Have blue blood in your family lines : yes
Have an ancestor the served in the American Revolution : several
Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth : no
Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth : no
Can trace a direct family line back to the eighteenth century : to my great-great-great-grand William Rhodes
Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier : not yet
Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents : yes
Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X : yes Amos Alexander one of my 4th Great-Grandfathers
Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university : yes Josephus Good, my 2nd Great grandfather.
Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offense : I have one ancestor sentenced to 100 lashes for giving birth to a basted child, but I can’t recall the ancestor
Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime : probably
Have shared an ancestor’s story online or in a magazine (Tell us where) : Many on this site
Have published a family history online or in print (Details please) : Many on this site
Have visited an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries : yes
Still have an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family : no
Have a family bible from the 19th Century : sadly, no
Have a pre-19th century family bible : dido with the above
Back in 2005, I had a Genealogy quote generator on this website. I removed it for a couple of different reasons. Now, I thought I’d bring it back. It’s at the top of the any of the pages, and each day, it will usually have a different quote.
~Carl
About a week ago, I knocked down one of those brick walls that we sometimes hit in genealogy, thanks to the help of other researchers through internet. For around, twenty years I was barking up the wrong tree, all due to a court record misspelling, & place of birth error. It started while researching my great-grandfather, Isaac Wesley Thomas (b. 1853) at the Marshall County court house, in Plymouth, Indiana. There, I found two separate marriage applications, in which he listed his father as: Isaac Thomas, his mother as: Betsy Harnerson and his birth place as: Perry County, PA. So, I checked the 1860 census for an Isaac Thomas with a wife by the name of Elizabeth or Betsy, with child named Isaac, born in Pennsylvania, and found no matches. Unfortunately, Isaac Thomas was a very common at the time, and Ancestry.com and the internet were not available at the time. I searched every resource available to me at the time to no avail. Now, thanks to the internet and Ancestry.com’s Family Tree Search, lo and behold, I have found my Isaac Wesley Thomas in one of the family tree databases. I discovered his mother’s maiden was “Harmirson,” not “Harnerson”. I also later concluded his birth place was Marshall County, Indiana, not Perry County, PA. The data I saw said that Isaac Wesley Thomas’ mother, Betsy had died in 1856. By 1858 his father, also named Isaac, had removed to Stark County, Indiana and remarried. With that name correction, I was able to go back another three generations, as seen here: http://carl.rhodesfamily.org/pedigree.php?personID=I172&tree=Carls I’m exited more ancestors to research!
Have good hunt, and all the best,
Carl
Cinthia Ann Callaway/Wheeldon was my third great-grandmother. I took the photo about 15 years ago. It was an extremely difficult cemetary and grave to find. It was located 1/4 mile back in a farmer’s field on a wooded hill, off a rural road, but it was worth the day it took to find it. This is most information I have seen on a single tombstone. It lists all of her children, with either their birthdate if they where living, and if they had died before her, it gave their death date. Definitely a genealogists dream to find so much information.
