Clarkston Surname Family Update
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Clarkston Surname Family Update
| Roberta Estes (View posts) | Posted: 7 Dec 2005 3:20AM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Clarkston, Clarkson, Claxton
I've received a couple of messages since I posted about my own Clarkson family line a few days ago asking about the status of the Clarkson/Claxton/Clarkston DNA surname project. I wanted to give a brief update and encourage anyone who would like to test to do so.
Today we received two gift certificates to pay for part of the test for male y-line testing and one for a female's mtdna test. If you are interested, contact me about this and I will explain.
Now for the update. So far, we seem to be falling into 4 mail groups. These are shown on the web page
http://home.att.net/~bokay1/index.html with a description of the groups and a short pedigree, but it hasn’t been updated recently, so it’s not completely current. (My fault, not the web mistress.) We have two more results back that are not shown, one if for a descendant of Thomas Clarkson of Sampson Co. NC in the early 1800s, and a couple more results whose owners need to provide genealogical information. Just two days ago, a new participant from the James Lee Clarkson line from Hancock Co., Tn. joined. (To me this is the best Christmas present I could ever receive. Not only did he join, but we had a wonderful visit on the phone. I love meeting my genealogy cousins.)
So if you don't know who you connect to, consider testing. If you represent a line that is proven a ways back in time, consider testing so others can connect. Besides, it's fun to see where your ancestors were from.
One real success story we've had is when that the results of the Thomas Clarkston of Lee Co., Va. descendant matched a line who tested who represented an earlier line in Virginia. The Thomas line had been genealogically stuck for many years. You might remember this is the line we believe may be descended from George Middleton Clarkson who was hung in the state of Franklin. Well, the line they connected back to does in fact have the Middleton name in the line. Now this isn't proof, but it certainly gives this line the opportunity to now work down the line from Va. to try to get to the State of Franklin. The time gap between the lines isn't great - and this information is far more than we would ever have gotten without DNA testing. For details, see the web page.
As for the Clarkston spelling of the surname, the only folks of that actual spelling who have tested are from Lee Co. Va. and I suspect strongly they are connected with the Clarkson family of Hancock Co., Tn. If your family spells the name this way, you might want to test to see if you are related.
Bobbi Estes
Today we received two gift certificates to pay for part of the test for male y-line testing and one for a female's mtdna test. If you are interested, contact me about this and I will explain.
Now for the update. So far, we seem to be falling into 4 mail groups. These are shown on the web page
http://home.att.net/~bokay1/index.html with a description of the groups and a short pedigree, but it hasn’t been updated recently, so it’s not completely current. (My fault, not the web mistress.) We have two more results back that are not shown, one if for a descendant of Thomas Clarkson of Sampson Co. NC in the early 1800s, and a couple more results whose owners need to provide genealogical information. Just two days ago, a new participant from the James Lee Clarkson line from Hancock Co., Tn. joined. (To me this is the best Christmas present I could ever receive. Not only did he join, but we had a wonderful visit on the phone. I love meeting my genealogy cousins.)
So if you don't know who you connect to, consider testing. If you represent a line that is proven a ways back in time, consider testing so others can connect. Besides, it's fun to see where your ancestors were from.
One real success story we've had is when that the results of the Thomas Clarkston of Lee Co., Va. descendant matched a line who tested who represented an earlier line in Virginia. The Thomas line had been genealogically stuck for many years. You might remember this is the line we believe may be descended from George Middleton Clarkson who was hung in the state of Franklin. Well, the line they connected back to does in fact have the Middleton name in the line. Now this isn't proof, but it certainly gives this line the opportunity to now work down the line from Va. to try to get to the State of Franklin. The time gap between the lines isn't great - and this information is far more than we would ever have gotten without DNA testing. For details, see the web page.
As for the Clarkston spelling of the surname, the only folks of that actual spelling who have tested are from Lee Co. Va. and I suspect strongly they are connected with the Clarkson family of Hancock Co., Tn. If your family spells the name this way, you might want to test to see if you are related.
Bobbi Estes