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The Lost Colony Research Group Genealogy ~ DNA ~ Archaeology Newsletter July 2012
The Wrath
of
Good
Queen
Bess Do you
ever
wonder
why some families
changed
their surname?
I’ll bet
you
have
and the
usual
answer
is to establish
a descendancy
in a
wealthy
family
where
there was no
direct
heir,
to obtain
an
inheritance,
or to
evade
the
law. It is the
latter
which
intrigued
me and
one
fact
that
I discovered
is that
Queen
Elizabeth I, who
reigned
November
1558
- 24
March 1603, beheaded
312
people
during
her
reign for
the "treasonous
crime"
of being
Catholic. At http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_did_Queen_Elizabeth_behead you
will
find
a list
of some
of these
people,
not
all
priests,
and
sometimes
a bit
of
history
of
how
names
were
changed
to avoid
detection.. Unfortunately,
there
is no
author
given
for
this
information,
nor
are there
any
sources quoted.
However,
another
site,
http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/PopishPlot.html does
have
an author
and
sources. If you find a surname of interest, you might want to do some further research to see if one of your distant ancestors was, in fact, beheaded for being a Catholic.
~ Who Am I Related To? ~ Using Family Tree DNA’s Tools to Compare Within Projects
By Roberta
Estes
One of the
most
common
questions
I receive
is how
to
figure
out
who
you’re
related
to within projects. For example,
the
Cumberland
Gap
project
is massive
with
over
4000
members.
In the
past,
people
would
go
and
look
at
the project
page
to see
who
they are
related
to,
but with over
4000
people,
that’s just
impossible.
Not to
mention
that
as
an
administrator,
I have
to group
them
all
individually,
by haplogroup,
and
given
that takes
a minute
or so each, that
equates
to over
66 hours,
which
I simply
don’t
have.
So,
participants
need
to use
tools
to
see
who
they
are related
to.
Thankfully,
Family
Tree
DNA provides
those
tools.
Click on Advanced
Matching.
You
will
see
several options. First, select
the
type
of test
you’re
interested
in
matching.
If
you’re
interested
in only
the Family
Finder test,
then
just
select
that
one.
If you’re
interested
in
seeing
who
matches
you
BOTH
on
Family
Finder and
your
Yline,
then
select
Y-DNA
12,
where there are
generally
more
matches
than
at higher
levels,
plus
the Family
Finder, then
click the
box that
says
“show only
people
I match
in all
selected
tests.”
As you
can
see,
by
using combinations,
this
is a very powerful
tool.
In addition to the tests, you can also select how to compare your data. You can compare to the entire data base, or you can compare to only people within certain projects.
For this example, I’m going to compare my results with the entire data base, asking for anyone who I match on Family Finder and on the HVR1 region
of
my mtDNA
as well.
You
can
see
my
selections
below.
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