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
Subject: Re: [CARTER-DNA] New Layout
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
Carter Surname Y-DNA Project
www.carter-cousins.org
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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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