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Biographies
of the Volunteer Staff
Roberta
Estes
Project
Administrator
Colony
Research Group
Genealogy
~ DNA ~ Archaeology
Roberta Estes has been a
professional scientist and business owner in the information technology arena
for
25+ years, (BS Computer Science, MBA, graduate work in Geographic
Information Systems), as well as an obsessed genealogist since 1978.
In 2005, reflecting her interest and expertise in genetics for genealogy,
she formed DNAeXplain, a company providing individual analysis of DNA results
and genealogical assistance.
Please
visit the web site at http://www.dnaexplain.com
Roberta speaks publicly on
the topic of DNA and genealogy and has been interviewed by the New York Times
for
multiple publications, appearing on Voice of America, National Public Radio,
ABC News, TACC9-TV “Down East Today”, as well as in other national and
international radio, television and news publications and conferences.
Recently, Roberta has launched the DNA search for the Roanoke Lost
Colonists.
Roberta’s genealogy
specialty is southern colonial records, focused primarily in Virginia, Tennessee
and NC. Minority records,
reflecting her mixed heritage are of particular interest, specifically Native
Americans, slaves, and other indentured individuals.
Her “colorful” family history has allowed Roberta to
participate in every aspect of DNA testing for genealogy, revealing unexpected
surprises. It’s amazing to find
the blood of European royalty, Slaves and Native Americans, all converged in an
individual within the past few hundred years.
Many of Roberta’s
ancestors seem to have either disappeared into or appeared during the confusing
Revolutionary War era on the new Western Frontier that would one day become
Eastern Tennessee, an area more appropriately nicknamed “Scrabble State”.
Records are scarce to nonexistent, leaving DNA testing as the only viable
avenue to recover one’s heritage, although she hasn’t given up hope
completely for that family Bible listing on E-bay.
In 2000, thanks to
FamilyTreeDNA, the infant scientific field of DNA for genealogy emerged,
allowing DNA to be used to trace individuals to common ancestors.
With traditional genealogical records already researched to no avail, and
several brick walls needing to fall, Roberta was one of the early DNA surname
administrators and pioneer adopters of DNA analysis for genealogy.
Roberta
manages over 20 surname projects and is the founder of the Lost Colony Yline and
mitochondrial DNA research projects. Her
regional Cumberland Gap Yline and mitochondrial DNA projects have several
hundred participants. The
Cumberland Gap mitochondrial project is the largest mitochondrial DNA project in
the world and the yline is the second largest.
She also co-administers the American Indian project and serves in an
advisory capacity for the Melungeon project and other groups.
Andy
Powell
Mayor
of Bideford, England 2009-2010, joins us in our endeavors to find the
Lost Colonists.
Andy has this to say about his passion for the
search:
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“I first became interested in the Lost Colony some
30 years ago and was privileged back then to privately view John White’s
Drawings.
Time passed and all was forgotten until about three years ago when I
discovered the link my home town of Bideford has with the
founding of America.
Since that time the Lost Colony has become an obsession; so much so that I have
been encouraged to write
a book on my research. What I hope to bring to the
quest is my years of research into the project and a conviction that out there
somewhere is the key to re-writing the history of America.”
"I chose to join the LCRG because I felt it essential that in order to further the quest here in England for
Lost Colony descendants and to establish exactly what happened to them, we needed to ensure that any affiliation
with a research group in America had to be with one that was based on sound scientific principals, and operated with a
high moral and ethical standard. We here in England, have not been dissapointed."
Anne Poole
Principal
Researcher
Anne Poole has been
involved in Lost Colony Research for thirty years. She continues to do active
research in all facets of what may have happened to the colonists and is now
researching the Chowan, NC area, for information that may connect to the
colonists.
Anne is also an affiliate of the prestigious Rhine Research Center in
Durham, NC, where she frequently
lectures on Criminal Profiling.
She also is founder of Carolina Ghost Hunters,
and was featured in the 2005 fall issue of OUR STATE magazine on her ghost
research in the NC Capitol in Raleigh, NC.
She has two adult daughters and two
grandsons, and is also a professional pianist.
To Contact Anne Poole [email protected]
If you are interest
in visiting anything that she is connected with, Please contact her at the above
email address
Robert Noles
Co Admin
The Lost Colony DNA Project
Robert B. Noles
Rob retired from McDermott, Inc. (The Babcock & Wilcox Company) in 1994 after a 31 year career involving the design and manufacture of nuclear power plant components, primarily for the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program for the Navy's fleet of nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers. He is a 1963 graduate of the University of Kentucky with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.
Rob has spent the past 13 years as a full time genealogist. In addition to the traditional family genealogies in his database, Rob has added genealogies for the U.S. Presidents, Western Civilization Royalty, the Pilgrims, Magna Carta signers, Bible personalities, etc. A major effort for Rob's database has been the addition of all known genealogies for the southeast Georgia region known as Wiregrass Georgia.
Rob serves as the Director for the national Knowles/Knoles/Noles Family Association
(http://www.kknfa.org/
), the 1st Vice-President of the St. Tammany (Parish) Genealogical Society in Louisiana
(http://www.StTammanyGS.org), and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Huxford Genealogical Society and Library in Homerville, Georgia
(http://www.Huxford.com ).
Rob is the Project Administrator or a Co-Administrator for the following Surname and Regional DNA Projects with Family Tree DNA:
Surname Projects: Bagley, Beha, Bicksler (Bixler), Courson, Finnell (Fennell), Hersey
(Hursey), Knowles (Noles), Knox, Marvel, Noble(s), Paulk, Prettyman, Pulley, Rowell and
Spell(s).
Regional Projects: Lost Colony, Lumbee Tribe, West Florida Parishes (southeast Louisiana), Wiregrass Georgia (southeast Georgia and northern Florida).
Wiregrass Georgia / Lumbee Tribe Regional DNA Projects
The Wiregrass Georgia DNA Project is for the living descendants of the pioneers of the Wiregrass Region of Georgia (southeast Georgia) and the neighboring area of northern Florida. The pioneers of this region in the 1800s were primarily from the Carolinas, who were seeking their claim for the land opening up for new settlers in Georgia. This DNA project permits comparisons of Y-DNA test results across the spectrum of Wiregrass families in conjunction with the use of the Wiregrass Family Database maintained by Robert B. Noles and the resources of the Huxford Genealogical Society Library. The Wiregrass Georgia Database contains the genealogies for approximately 175,000 people including the original pioneers and their descendants.
The Lumbee Tribe DNA Project was initiated because the Wiregrass Georgia DNA Project was identifying participants who were likely the descendants of the Native American tribes from the Carolinas. Genealogies for these descendants are being added to the Wiregrass Georgia Database.
Janet
Crain
Co
Admin for the Blog,
retired Librarian, looks up sources for the Group.
Janet
Crain
Retired Public School Librarian
Interests: Grandchildren, reading, computer, genealogy, DNA, history, writing,
arts and crafts, sewing, Lost Colony.
Live in Texas in the country and raise Boer
Goats in my spare time.
Nancy
Frey
United Kingdom Research and Genealogy
Nancy’s specialty within the Lost Colony Research Group is
UK research and genealogy. Her focus will be finding and reconstructing the
families of the colonists in the British Isles with the goal of finding
current day descendants.
Nancy was born in East York, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario,
Canada to middle-class parents who, lacking formal education, insisted that
every life experience should be a learning experience. As a family they
travelled to historical places in Canada, the U.S.A. and the U.K. As a
teenager, Nancy sailed to London, England with four others girls and
didn’t come back until she was 21. In Canada Nancy worked her way up from
Collection Clerk to a Law Clerk with a specialty in real estate. Along the
way she pursued the hobbies of motorsport and philately and turned her
passion for photography into a small company. She retired from motorsport in
2010 after having served as both volunteer and professional including the
organization of two F1 races in Canada and the Shell 4000 Car Rally, an FIA
Event.
Retired
since 1993, Nancy has
kept herself busy doing ‘whatever’, including as much travel as possible.
In 2008 she went on a 37-day “UK
Genealogy Tour”
by herself, renting a car in Reading, Berkshire and driving over 1000 miles
around England visiting all the places her ancestors came from, meeting
relatives she never knew she had and genealogy friends, and doing some research
at several Record Offices. Talking
to the local people gave her a wealth of knowledge about the places her
ancestors lived in. Nancy is
currently the Online Parish Clerk (a volunteer position) for the villages of
Ansford & Castle Cary, Somerset. Nancy keeps a database for
the surname DAVIDGE and variants worldwide.
Anyone interested in the surname may apply to become a member of
Yahoo! DAVIDGEConnections at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DAVIDGEConnections/.
In 2011, Nancy participated in the Lost Colony Research
Group archeological dig in Buxton, Hattaras, North Carolina.
It was her opportunity to meet other members of the team and to see
first hand how one went about unearthing the past.
It was an experience she will always remember.
Nancy has been researching her Family History for over 20
years now, both on the internet and hands on while in the UK. As a member of
many Rootsweb Lists, and a member of many and moderator of a few Yahoo!
Groups, she is in contact with other genealogists all over the world. After
retiring, her computer skills were honed thanks to a retraining grant, and
she graduated with Honours from the Desktop Publishing School in 1995. Nancy
maintained her car clubs website for several years, edited Newsletters and
Magazines as well as having edited one published book.
In 2010 and 2011 Nancy completed distance learning
courses at the Pharos Institute of London, England on the topics of
“Researching in Devon”, “Becoming a Professional Genealogist”, and
“Genealogy & DNA”, the latter being very helpful in her work with
the Lost Colony Research Group. Recently
Nancy has delved into the study of Heraldry becoming more familiar with
grants of Arms in England and is finding this a fascinating part of her
genealogical research.
Nancy
is regular contributor to the Lost Colony Research Group Newsletter with
full length articles and her very popular "Snippets" The Lost Colony
project is Nancy’s idea of the perfect ‘jigsaw puzzle’. She feels that
putting it together is an amazing experience to look forward to.
6 Jan 2012
Jennifer
Sheppard
Genealogy
Research Experience – 1974 – Present
Professional
Researcher – 1985 – Present
THE NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF HISTORIANS, INC.
(Society
was formed on December 26, 1941 by a group of men who’s main goal and interest
was to collect, preserve, share and promote North Carolina history)
Member
Board of Directors – September 2011 – Present
Newsletter
Editor – September 2011 – Present
THE LOST COLONY RESEARCH GROUP, GENEALOGY~DNA~ARCHAEOLOGY
(A
group looking for descendants of the Lost Colonists of 1587)
Staff
Member – Lost Colony Genealogist - 2007 - Present
LOST
COLONY CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND RESEARCH:
Chair
– Planning Committee, Volunteer, Lost Colony Center for S&R, Open house - 2006
Event
Co-ordinator
for event planning – 2006 - 2007
Director of
Genealogy Research – 2006 – 2007
HISTORICAL
SOCIETY EMPLOYMENT:
Perform
Deed Abstracts for Martin County Historical Society 2008 - Present
Videographer
for Martin County Historical Society (filming oral histories) 2009 - Present
EDUCATION:
Diploma - Brigham
Young University, Provo, Utah, Family History Research, Professional Research
Option, – 1996
Effective
Teaching Certificate, Martin Community College, Williamston, NC 1997
Basic
Genealogy Course – Senior Center, Burbank,
California – 1974
WRITING
EXPERIENCE:
Book
Reviewer, The National
Archives, the United Kingdom – 2006 – Present
Genealogical
Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD 21211 – 1993 – Present
Grant
Writer – Friends of the Old Martin County Courthouse, Williamston, NC 2004
– 2005
Martin County Genealogical Society - 1997
Editor:
- Martin County Genealogical Society Newsletter – 1995-1997.
Published
Author, Heritage Quest Magazine, an
International Genealogy Magazine – 1993 – Present
Newspaper
Columnist, “Everything is Relative” – The Enterprise, Williamston, NC
1989 – Present
Committee/Board
Membership:
North Carolina
Society of Historians, Inc. Board of Directors – 2011- Present
Martin County
Genealogical Society Executive Board – 1997 – 2000
Martin
County Historical Society Executive Committee – 1997 – Present
TEACHER:
Beginning
Genealogy, Martin Community College (Windsor, NC Campus) - 2002
Intermediate
Genealogy, Martin Community College, Williamston, NC – 2001
Beginning
Genealogy, Martin Memorial Library, Williamston, NC – 2000
Beginning
Genealogy, Home Course in Residence, Williamston, NC – 1996
Beginning
Genealogy, Martin Community College, Williamston, NC – 1991
Beginning
Genealogy, Martin Community College, Williamston, NC – 1990
Offices Held in Societies:
Editor,
North Carolina Society of Historians Official Newsletter, From
The Quill, 2011- present
North
Carolina Society of Historians, Inc., Board of Directors – 2011 - present
Editor,
Martin County Historical Society Newsletter – 2008 – present
Martin County
Historical Society Executive Board Member – 1997 – Present
Publications
Chairman Martin County Genealogical Society – 1996 – 2000
President, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, Theodore Hassell Chapter, #437 – 1996 - 2000
Registrar, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, Theodore Hassell Chapter, #437 – 1997 – 2000
President, Martin
County Genealogical Society (MCGS) – 1995 – 1997
Editor,
MCGS Newsletter – 1995-1997
Vice
President, Martin County Genealogical Society (MCGS) – 1993-1995
The
National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Treasurer
- Manassas Virginia #175, 1987 – 1988
Membership in Societies:
Martin County
Historical Society (Life Member) – 1997 - Present
Theodore Hassell
Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) – 1996 – Present
Martin County
Genealogical Society – 1993 - Present
Manassas
Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), 1988 - Present
The
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
(DAR) 1986 – Present
Other
Related Activities:
President –
Gurkin Family Association –Williamston, NC – 1996-2000 (Responsible for
planning all aspects of reunion).
Special
Recognition:
Biography published
in Marquis’ Who’s Who of American Women, 2007.
BOOKS SELF-PUBLISHED:
1.
Genealogy and Self-Publishing, A
Guide to Researching, Writing and Self-Publishing Your Family History 2000.
2.
The Spruill Family of Martin
County, North Carolina – 1997.
(Alex Spruill, a former slave)
3.
Price Family and Related Lines of
Beaufort, Martin, Pitt and Washington Counties, Volume Two – 1997.
4.
Martin County Genealogical Society
Newsletter, Editor – 1995 – 1997.
5.
Price Family and Related Lines of
Beaufort, Martin, Pitt and Washington Counties, Volume One – Completely
Revised – 1994
6.
My North Carolina Ancestors of
Beauport, Bladen, Columbus, Martin and Washington Counties, NC and Isle of Wight
County, VA – 1990
7.
Price Family and Related Lines –
1986
AWARDS RECEIVED:
1. The North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc., The Paul Green
Multimedia Award for Oral
History DVD – Deborah Brown and Gloria Hassell, Cousins After All –
October 2011.
2. The North Carolina
Society of Historians, Inc., Joe. M. McLaurin Newsletter Award for Martin
County Historical Society Newsletter, Jennifer Sheppard, Editor
official newsletter of the Martin County Historical Society,
Williamston, NC – October 2011
3. The North Carolina
Society of Historians, Inc., Joe M. McLaurin Newsletter Award for Martin
County Historical Society Newsletter, Jennifer Sheppard, Editor
official newsletter of the Martin
County Historical Society, Williamston, NC – October 2010.
4. The North Carolina Society
of Historians, Inc. D. T. Smithwick Newspaper/Magazine Article
Award for the following article: “Be
Cautious When Using Deed Indexes” Published in the
Everton’s Genealogical Helper,Issue
November/December 2008 – October 2009.
5. The North Carolina
Society of Historians, Inc. D. T. Smithwick Newspaper/Magazine Article
Award for the following article: Was
The Lost Colony Really Lost? Published
in Everton’s
Genealogical Helper, Nov/Dec 2007 Issue – October 2008.
6. The North Carolina
Society of Historians, Inc.- D. T.
Smithwick Newspaper/Magazine Article
Award for the following two articles (1) Learn to Research Courthouse
Records and (2)
Unique
Research Facility Available – October 2007.
7. The North Carolina
Society of Historians, Inc.- D. T.
Smithwick Newspaper/Magazine Article
Award for the following five articles (1) Genealogists Highlights
Excerpts from Cherokee Census;
(2) The Lost Tribes of North Carolina; Old Albemarle and its Absentee
Landlords; (3) Was the Lost Colony Really Lost?;
(4) Tracing Ancestors Among the Five Civilized Tribes; (5) The Lost
Tribes of North Carolina; and (6)
Looking for Your Revolutionary War Ancestor Pensioner? –
October 2006.
8. The North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc.- D. T. Smithwick Newspaper/Magazine Article
Award for the following five articles (1) Case of Mistaken Identify for
County Man, (2) Book
Features North Carolina Black History,
(3) Revolutionary War Records Now Available,
(4) NC State Library Makes Addictional Microfilm Available,
and (5) More Changes at the NC state
Archives. – October 2005.
9. The North Carolina
Society of Historians, Inc.- D. T.
Smithwick Newspaper/Magazine Article
Award for the following five articles: Be Wary of Indexes, Preserving
North Carolina History,
Some Little Known Sources in the Courthouse, Figuring the Dates When No
Birth or Death
Records Exist, Just in Time for Christmas & Local Book Reviews and
Five New Books Donated
to Library’s Francis Manning Room. – October 2004
10.
The North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc.-
Paul Green Multimedia Award for Genealogy
and Self-Publishing, A Guide to Researching, Writing and Self-Publishing Your
Family History – 2000.
11.
The North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc., Willie Parker Peace
History Book Award for Records of Marks
and Brands, Register of Deeds No. 1, Martin County, NC – 1999.
12.
The North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc. – Robert Bruce Cooke
Family History Book Award for book entitled Price Family and Related Lines of Beaufort, Martin, Pitt and Washington
Counties, Volume Two – 1998.
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The North Carolina Society of
Historians, Inc. – Joe M. McLauren Newsletter Award for Martin
County Genealogical Society Newsletter, Jennifer Sheppard, Editor
official newsletter of the Martin County Genealogical Society,
Williamston, NC – Nov 1997.
-
The North Carolina Society of
Historians, Inc. – D. T. Smithwick
Newspaper and Magazine Article Award for My
Illusive Ancestor and Photographs: Our Window to the Past, (Heritage
Quest Magazine) – 1997.
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The North Carolina Society of
Historians, Inc. – Award of Prestigious – Robert Bruce Cooke Family
History Book Award – The Spruill
Family of Martin County, North Carolina – 1997.
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The North Carolina Society of
Historians, Inc. – Award of Special Recognition – Family History Book
Award for Price Family & Related
Lines of Beaufort, Martin, Pitt & Washington Counties, NC, Volume 1 –
1995.
17.
The North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc. – Award of Special
Recognition – Historical Article for Port O’Plymouth Roanoke River Museum
Records Hold Surprise for County Genealogist – 1994.
Dawn
Taylor
Dawn has been a dedicated genealogy for over 14 years. She is the founder of the Hatteras Island Genealogy Society, which evolved from a desire to preserve the heritage and culture of the people whose ancestors emerged from the sands of Hatteras Island, her people. Dawn also hosts the Society's Facebook page where the 400 members can stay up to date on events, post photos, and submit genealogical queries.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=245433063719&ref=ts
Dawn is an author whose works may be seen in Lighthouse Digest Magazine and the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society's newsletters. Her articles tell of her family's many lighthouse keepers who spent their lives tending the lighthouses up and down the Atlantic coast.
Within the past year, Dawn has become very much involved with tracing her
ancestors back to the Croatoan Indians and the Lost Colonists of North Carolina.
She is currently working with Roberta Estes, Anne Poole, and Baylus Brooks,
on the Hatteras Island Family Reconstruction Project under the umbrella of the Lost Colony Research Group.
In addition Dawn co-administers the Hatteras Families DNA projects with Roberta.
Ana Oquendo Pabon, MD
Doctor, Advisor, Graphic Artist,
Manages the Lost Colony Store,
Dr. Ana Oquendo
Pabón, MD, is an advisor to the Roanoke Lost Colonies Research project relative
to both DNA and Spanish Research. Dr.
Oquendo Pabón specializes in Internal Medicine.
In addition to Dr. Oquendo Pabón’s private medical practice, she has
developed a specialty in mitochondrial DNA.
Her DNA and
research interests include the Native Population of Puerto Rico as well as that
of the United States and the African Diaspora.
In 2003, as
early genetic genealogy pioneers, she co-founded the Puerto Rican Geographical
DNA project with her brother, Rev. Father Jose Antonio Oquendo Pabón, a
humanities professor, island historian, genealogist, and researcher. Through the
project and the collaboration of their members, they have successfully
determined the ancestral haplotype of many of the oldest surnames on the island
such as the Maldonado, the Rivera de Mathos, Ramírez de Arellano and others.
From the outset,
Dr. Oquendo Pabón vigorously encouraged mitochondrial DNA testing of DNA
participants, corroborating the results of previous scientific studies which
have shown the extremely high ancestral frequency of the purportedly extinct
Native American/ Taíno people of Puerto Rico.
In mutual
collaboration, Dr. and Father Oquendo Pabón combined have contributed over 40
years of research between Puerto Rican, Spanish and other related island
archives. This led to the discovery
and translation of thousands of documents directly relevant to the history of
the colonists and creoles, pardos and slaves in the post Columbian period of
Puerto Rico and critical to the understanding of the diverse genealogy of the
descendant Puerto Rican families of today.
This landmark project was featured in the bestselling book, “Tracing
Your Roots With DNA”.
In addition, Dr.
Oquendo Pabón, a descendant of many of the first Spaniard colonists on the
island, African, and Taíno Native American ancestors, founded the Amerind
Founder mitochondrial DNA Project, the geographical African DNA Project, the
Casa de España DNA Project, and other DNA surname projects.
Dr. Oquendo Pabón’s
extensive knowledge of mitochondrial DNA, Native American and African DNA,
genealogy and early historical documents is a welcome resouirce.
Personal
Information:
Graduate of
Univerity of Michigan, Michigan State University-College of Human Medicine,
University of South Florida - Bayfront Medical Center, Affiliate
Fellow of
American Academy of Physicians. Three children, 4 grandchildren.
DNA Projects:
Administrator/
Founder:
African DNA
Project http://www.africandnaproject.homestead.com/index.html
Casa
de España DNA http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~spain/welcome.htm
Amerind Founder
mtDNA http://www.familytreedna.com/public/AmerindFoundermtDNA/
Co Adminsitrator/
Co Founder
Puerto Rican DNA
Project - 1st public Geographic DNA project of the Island
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/puertoricansurname/
http://proyectosadnhispanos.bravehost.com/ProyectoADNPRyDNA25.html
Co Administrator
Sepharad-PR
Co
Administrator
Flores
DNA Surname Project
Administrator
- Surname Projects: Quiñones, Blanco, Villa, and others too many to
count.
Co Founder with
her brother (Padre José Antonio Oquendo Pabón, STL) of Muertito Heaven -
1995 to present. The first and most well-known and visible Puerto Rican
genealogy sites on the web. Brother is professor of English, Humanities,
Philosophy and Ethics at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, PR. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/7214/
Member of:
Hispanic
Genealogical Society of New York
Sociedad
Puertorriqueña de Genealogía of San Juan
International
Society of Genetic Genealogists
Web site:
www.DNAHaplogear.com
Store:
http://www.cafepress.com/dnahaplogear
Penny
Ferguson
Co
manager of Blog, Co
Admin The Lost Colony DNA Project
Penny was born in Hyden Kentucky, Leslie County. Her family has been in the
Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky for 200 years, her many surnames can be found in Knox, Harlan, Clay, Letcher, Owsley, and Perry Counties, usually
the counties changing, the families not moving.
Penny was the 13th child in
her family; she mentions that she was lucky they gave her a name and not a
number.
She attended Eastern Kentucky University studying music and business.
Penny has two beautiful daughters, two wonderful sons-in-law and four
grandchildren (another grandson due soon).
A Realtor for 21 years, she spends her spare time being an Appalachian and Melungeon researcher. She is co administrator for the Melungeon DNA, Goins
DNA, Minor DNA, Cumberland Gap DNA and Lost Colony DNA Projects.
She made the http://www.jgoins.com website (a new one is now being made),
and combined some of her research in a TimeLine: http://jgoins.com/webtimeline.htm
Joe
Chandler
Co
Admin Lost Colony DNA Project
Joe
Chandler, an attorney by profession, has had a lifelong interest in the Lost
Colonists as well as early North Carolina history. He has played an active
role in his Chandler family DNA project and participates in early English
records research.
Nelda
L. Percival
Owner of Aircastles Internet Marketing
Lost
Colony Web mistress, Researcher, and DNA project assistant administrator
Personal Information: I love Graphics, Color and Mysteries.
Nelda attended school in Grays Harbor County, Washington, USA. She acquired a
GED in 1969, before attending Tacoma Technical College, Tacoma, Washington 1969
- 1970, for a
secretarial degree.
She
attended Jacksonville Community College 1995 - 1996 for accounting. Acquired an
AA in Commercial Art and Advertisement at Texas State Technical College, Waco,
Texas, 1997 -1999.
She was a member of the U.S. Army for close to 14 years, enlisting in 1973 in
the Women's Army Corps - WAC, converting to the US Army in 1976, acquiring the
rank of E6, before medically retiring in 1987.
1984-1985 she served as the first female Advanced Individual Training Platoon
Sergeant at the US Army Chemical School, at Ft. McClellan, Anniston, Alabama.
Over the years, not only was she stationed in the lower continental United
States, she was stationed in Germany, South Korea and Japan. Nelda believes that
you can learn more about a country if you visit the areas that are not geared to
the military. She spent most of her off duty time among the natives of each
country.
In 1989, she was certified by Duncan Ceramics and served as the Ceramics
Instructor at Ft Stewart, Georgia's Craft Shop from 1989- 1991.
She
is a member of International
Society of Genetic Genealogists, 20005 - Present
Her hobbies are Genetic Genealogy, and Ceramics and doing volunteer work
designing websites.
Family
and Friends are important to her.
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