I sent this just as the rootsweb lists were experiencing their difficulties,
and I do not see that it made it to publication. At least, it does not
appear in the archives for the INBrown County list, so I am trying it again.
I am related to the Bales family through my grandmother who was Pearl Mae
Bales, daughter of Samuel Francis and Lydia Clementine Chandler Bales. A
cousin I met through DNA matching and I have been working on establishing
the paper documentation for the Bales line, and have it back to Eden Bales
who was born about 1745, lived in Virginia, and died about 1815 in Clay
County, Kentucky. Several of the children of Eden Bales, including my 3rd
great grandfather Aden Bales settled in the Brown County and Monroe County
area of Indiana. My cousin and I have also discovered a direct male Bales
descendant who comes through another son of Eden Bales, and whose
descendants moved to Texas. This Bales cousin has done Y-DNA testing and we
would like to find other direct male descendants (they would be surnamed
Bales) to do DNA testing. We would also like to have other descendants of
the Eden Bales do autosomal DNA testing. Additional persons of this Bales
line doing DNA testing will help us to further prove all of the branches
descending from Eden Bales (we know he had at least five sons and a
daughter) but may also help us go farther back to the ancestors of Eden
Bales.
If you are a Bales, or if you have an ancestor back in Monroe or Brown
county who was a Bales, I would love to hear from you. I would never have
learned about my cousins through the Bales family out in Kansas without the
benefit of the DNA testing that we both did. It's painless (a cheek swab or
a spit test) and getting cheaper all the time. Even if you aren't sure that
you would want to DNA testing, I would love to talk with you about the
family.
Thanks,
Connie
Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM)
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Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM)
CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for
Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants
after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark
registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.