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Recent commercialization of Y-Chromosome DNA testing (done with a simple cheek swab) is yielding significant information about individual lines (clans) and their Most Current Recent Ancestor (MCRA).  Click here, http://www.jamesbarton.org to jump to a genealogy site starting with my fourth-great grandfather James Barton born about 1730.  Use your Back button to return here.  My own genealogy site showing 4000+ of my known ancestors, descendants and relatives is at www.tribalpages.com.  You'll need to use User ID: gary2560 and Password: garysgenes.   Maybe we're related!  Use your Back button to return here.

Also, if you're a Barton researcher (or just want to see what one family organization is doing), go to www.bartondatabase.info and www.bartonsite.org.

Finally, if you're interested in seeing what kind of records Family Historians dig for and what information they can gleam from them, click here to enter my Genealogy Documents area.

Genealogy is a constant hobby... there's always individual research to conduct.  Here, however, are my current special interests:

• Tracing the journeys of my ancestors who trudged across the country during the Great Westward Migration

  •     James B. Young -    Missouri to California, 1847

  •     James Rickey -        Iowa to Oregon, 1850

  •     John Fine    -            Missouri to California, 1856

• Investigating the primary counties of England where my English ancestors lived

  • London                            1600's

  • Isle of Man                       1600's

  • Yorkshire                         1700's

  • Derbyshire                      1800's

  • Leicestershire                1800's

  • Staffordshire                   1800's

  • Warwickshire                  1800's

•   Learning more about my thirteen Immigrant Ancestors:

Immigrant Ancestor	Country of Origin	Time Period
Simon Stubblefield	England	bef Mar 1672
Johannis Fine	Holland	bef 1700
Robert Looney	England	bef 1730
Johann Metzger	Germany	1759-1764
Thomas Rickey	Ireland	bef 1802
Sarah Laughery	Ireland	bef 1802
Garrett Van Couwenhoven	Holland	bef 1807
Ann Skaife	England	1840
George J. Pfau	Germany	1854-1857
Arsene Malo	Quebec	1868
Albina Langevin	Quebec	1886
John D. Dooling	Canada	1869
Ruth Edwards	England	1871

DNA

DNA testing is becoming a powerful new tool to aid genealogists.  Briefly, the Y-Chromosome exists only in males (it's the essence of male-ness).  Further, it is passed down from father to son virtually unchanged.  Thus, when combined with a well-proven pedigree it is possible to ascertain Lines or Clans.  This, in turn, is helpful in proving or disproving a supposed relationship.  An interesting site is www.ysearch.org as well as www.worldfamilies.net

Here's my DNA info:

My Genetic Genealogy

Paternal Ancestry Signature (Y-Chromosome Test)

Results for:       Gary Michael Barton

From:               The Center for Molecular Genealogy, Brigham Young University (BYU), Relative Genetics (RG) and Family Tree DNA (FtDNA)  42 markers                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

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