Amanuensis Monday: Doolittle and Porter of Connecticut

Transcription of Family Notes found in family file for BISHOP at The New York State Library in Albany.

Chauncey Andrews Doolittle born Dec. 28, 1877

Married May 25, 1910, in Meriden, Conn, Edith E Porter.

Children:

Lawrence Porter born Mar. 15, 1911.

Henry Andrews born Apr. 23, 1912.

Lois Edith born May 24, 1913.

Ruth Helen born Sept. 26, 1914.

Dorothy Margaret born Dec. 30, 1915.

Raymond Chauncey born May 31, 1919.

Robert Everett born Feb. 10, 1921.

Harry Stevens born Mar. 10, 1922.

 

Harry Burton Johnson born Feb. 21, 1904.  [Maybe Brenton or Benton]

Ruth Mary 1897.

1930 United State Federal Census
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut
Ancestry.com

Family Files at Albany

A gem to find in any library or depository is a family file.  The New York State Library at Albany houses boxes of research deposited over the decades, oftentimes not indexed or otherwise accounted for, I was told on the tour.  Contents of the files varies greatly from self-published genealogies to newspaper clippings and family bibles.  Records end up deposited at the Library for a number of reasons, such as the family historian last living in the Albany area, and not necessarily because the family had any ties to New York.

Boxes containing family files
New York State Library, Albany

Custer Family Genealogy
Self-published

Copy of hand-written notes and
Copy of marriage certificate from 1859
John Rorbach to Harriet Cook in Albany

Posterior of actual photograph of Elting Family Bible

Photograph of Elting Family Bible written in Dutch
Dates in the 1700s

Hand-written family notes concerning a Connecticut family including Bishop.
This family historian recorded information on whatever paper available.
I think I will transcribe this set of papers.

Double Cousin

An interesting match has surfaced among my father's genetic cousins at 23andMe.  This cousin, N. H., shares three small segments with my father.  N. H. is related on both my father's paternal and maternal sides. How do I know this?

23andMe
DNA comparison between N. H. and D.W.
and N. H. and David Lutter

D. W. is my father's paternal cousin, once removed.  His DNA is so useful for sorting matches because anyone who matches both of them is related through the branch of my family tree that D. W. and my father have in common.

Here, we see that N. H. matches both my father and his cousin on the same segment of chromosome 4.  Thus, N. H. is related to my father via the paternal line.

Next, N. H. and my father share a small segment on the X chromosome.  The 23rd pair of chromosomes determines sex.  Men have XY.  The Y is passed from father to son relatively unchanged.  The X is passed from mother to son.  Thus, N. H. and my father are related through their mothers as well.  X chromosome inheritance follows a very specific path, eliminating several lines of ancestry from holding the match.

N. H. and my father also share a small segment on chromosome 8.  At this point, we cannot be sure which parent this segment can be attributed to.