Frank,
I've been lax in genealogy also, as you know. Still looking... just
by spurts, when I feel like it. Getting older isn't for sissies is
it? I have another appointment with the cardiologist this afternoon.
I think your idea is good to look for similar profiles of men with
other surnames for your John W. Carroll descendants, since their
profile is entirely different from the other four Sampson County
descendants who have been tested. A Regional project is one good way
to do that. We know that the Elizabeth Carroll who was a Head of
Household in 1790 did have a male under age 10 at that time. She
could have been the wife of Moses Carroll who died between 1786 and
1790. We also know that one person named Elizabeth Carroll had a
"bastard" daughter named Dorcas in 1791 (I think that is the correct
date). If the young boy in her home in 1790 was also illegitimate,
then he could have been the father or grandfather of your John W.
Carroll who moved to TN in 1848. It might be good to see if we could
find out where Elizabeth Carroll lived. She was not on the same
census page as Alexander, Jesse, Stephen, and one Dempsey.
The only regional DNA Project that is near our Sampson County, NC
interest is Wake/Johnston County, NC. Only 3 have been tested so far.
I had thought of writing the Project Administrator and asking about
making that a Southeastern NC Project and including our profiles. You
might want to compare the profiles of the two descendants of John W.
with these. Here is the URL for that project.
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Johnston-WakeCountyNCDNA%20Research/
Since a person can be a part of two projects at FTDNA, you might want
to put at least one of your profiles into that regional project. I
have asked to have my cousin Robert's profile put into the R1b
Haplogroup Project as well as the Carroll project.
I would love to have some of the Johnston County Carrolls to take the
DNA test. As far as I know they have not. Several of them went to
Dale
County, AL.
One of the best ways to find similar profiles is through
YSearch.com.
Not all profiles are being put there, so there may be some who would
match, but they just aren't available to search. The DNA submitted
from the first of the two descendants of John W. doesn't seem to have
as many matches there as my descendant of Alexander C. I don't
believe the profile of the last one of your two descendants has been
uploaded there.
While you are looking for matches from other surnames, don't stop
looking for Carroll matches nor just plain old genealogy searching.
There's always the possibility your family moved there after 1790,
since they did live at the other end of the county.
Keep those shovels busy digging...
Lura
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmy and Frank Edwards" <frankedwards(a)frontiernet.net>
To: <carroll-dna(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CARROLL-DNA] William Carroll of Franklin/Granville, Co,
NC
: Lura, I've been away from the Carroll genealogy for awhile and am
now
: getting back a bit. It appears that Rodger and John Sidney
Carroll's DNA
: still does not match any of the Carrolls whose DNA we have. Have
you heard
: of any website or DNA database that enables a person to search for
matches
: by geographic area rather than by surname? If John W. was adopted
or
: illigitimate, we need DNA's from other surnames in Sampson County.
:
: Is your health doing O.K. these days? Surely hope so.
:
: Frank
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Lura" <luraj(a)triad.rr.com>
: To: <CARROLL-DNA(a)rootsweb.com>
: Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:23 AM
: Subject: [CARROLL-DNA] William Carroll of Franklin/Granville, Co, NC
:
:
: > Has anyone from the family of William Carroll whose genealogy is
shown at
: > the following site taken the DNA test?
: >
: >
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tevie/carroll/
: >
: > Several early genealogists decided that Jesse of Duplin/Sampson
County, NC
: > was the youngest son of this William. Serious dating of land
transactions
: > and the age of his oldest child, etc. proved that was wrong.
However, it
: > got written up that way in such things as the Sampson County
Heritage Book
: > and in newspaper articles written by a college history professor.
It
: > would be good if the DNA could be compared to see if there may
have been a
: > relationship at all with this family.
: >
: > Our cluster of similar profiles for the Sampson County Carrolls
now has
: > six members who match 35/37 or better. Two of those have thus far
not
: > established any paper trail showing a connection to Sampson
County.
: >
: > I think the project now has enough members to make a good database
for
: > comparison. Researchers in years to come will be greatful to you
who
: > became the pioneers of the project.
: >
: > Lura CARROLL Southard