Elsie,
Your paternal line is represented by Group 5 of the Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA
Project. The goes back into the mid 1500s to Steffisburg, Bern, Switzerland.
See:
http://carpentercousins.com/generallineage.htm#capl
Your maternal line is still a bit of a mystery. Nothing seems to match up
very well.
Hopefully someone on this list or elsewhere will provide a clue that will
help solve this mystery.
Best of luck!
John R. Carpenter
Carpenter Cousins Project
http://carpentercousins.com
-----Original Message-----
From: elsiemay.w(a)juno.com via
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2015 8:06 PM
To: carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CARPENTER] Genealogy
I have two Carpenter lines. My Dad's side of the house: Hans Zimmerman,
Johannes Zimmerman (John Carpenter), Margaret Carpenter m. Jonas
Mosteller,, Nicodemus Mosteller, Margaret Cornelia Mosteller, Columbus V.
McCain, Elsie McCain (me). On my mother's side: Nathaniel Carpenter b.
1814, Catherine Carpenter, Eva Laney, Martha Jane Robinson, Elsie McCain
(me).I am in the family finders mt dna program. Some of my matches have been
with Carpenter names that I could identify with. I have found many of my
matches in the Carpenter's A Plenty book, either under the Carpenter name or
listed under a different name. The book has been very beneficial to me in
my genealogical research. I still have not discovered who the father of my
Nathaniel Carpenter b. 1814 Ohio is. Nathaniel went from Ohio to Indiana,
then Iowa. He married Rosetta Graves in Indiana. I have their marriage
record..They both died in Iowa.Nathaniel died before the 1880 census so I
don't know where his father !
was born.I do enjoy reading the stories of my ancestors, and it is
interesting to read about the hardships they went through after coming to
our country. To me, family history is not only who are ancestors were, but
also about their lives. Elsie McCain White
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