Don't be so sure that your ancestors made the name change. I discovered one
line of my family could not read or write when they first came to the U.S.
around 1800. That obviously included being unable to spell the surname as
documents I have found spell it a dozen different ways. It wasn't until 100
years later that the name began to be spelled consistently, coincidentally
when education of the family became common. It was definitely different in
the end than the earliest documents.
There is no male line to do DNA testing in this line, unfortunately.
Judy
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In a message dated 9/26/2007 7:41:26 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
vickie(a)carter-cousins.org writes:
Vic has made a good point about name changes. And as most of us know it
didn't happen at Ellis Island. In addition to Vic's situation there were
also many immigrant families who changed their name because they wanted
to
fit in. My son's Kostelecs from Slovenia adopted the name Costello in the
early 1900's in Illinois. My German Gentzlers anglicized their name to
Cansler as they traveled south from PA to NC during the late 1700's.
Y-search (
www.ysearch.org) does not charge to add your results to their
site. The site is provided by
www.familytreedna.com and is open to all
DNA
results from any testing coming. Everyone who has tested with Family Tree
DNA has a link on their personal page to automatically upload their
results
to Y-search. If you haven't done this yet please consider doing it. If
you
have any trouble with it I will be glad to do it for you.
Vickie
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Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 5:33 PM
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> For those of you that have had frustrations with being identified with a
> lonely Haplograph are going through what I went through some time past.
> My R1a
> Haplogroup is very limited in the Carter-cousins project with no
> identical
> matches in the 12-marker sequence. Naturally, if you have no match in
> the
> 12-marker sequence, to get additional tests would no gain anything.
>
> If you have a Scot/Irish ancestry, your problem may be similar to mine.
> I
> pair $19.95 to Y-search to have my Dan transferred over to their site.
> I
> discovered that I did, in fact, have several matches there - however,
> the
> surnames were entirely different. I also submitted my Dna to the
> Sorenson Group
> which is a FREE genealogy service and the results were the same. a
> number of
> matches, but the surnames were different from mine.
>
> When England ruled Ireland (or part of it) they required all Irish to
> drop
> the "Mc" and "mac" from their names. They also required anyone
with an
> obvious Irish name to change it - often to reflect the trade they were
> in - such as
> Baker, Carter, Cooper, etc. For this reason, many farmer McCarter,
> McCarthy, MacArthur, etc. became simply Carter. Many other surnames
> were
> changed to
> Carter to reflect this as their trade.
>
> In addition, many Irish/Scotch changed their names when they came to
> America. Of the many that were hired by the British to fight in the
> Revolutionary
> War, "jumped ship" and changed their names to blend in with the
> Amrerican
> patriots whom many joined.
>
> So, if you are at a brickwall on your research, you might consider
> Y-search
> or Sorenson to expand your research.
>
> Vic Carter
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Interestingly, Vickie, this reminds me of a family of Zimmermans from
Germany - related through marriage. I guess the name Zimmerman means
Carpenter in
English. They settled in Nebraska and of a dozen kids, half used the
name of
Carpenter and the other half kept the name of Zimmerman. I guess the
German
immigrants were notoriest for changing their names to English and caused
a
great deal of problems for ancestors to trace them.
Vic
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