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NICHOLS BLOODLINES FOR DUMMIES

JUST KIDDING... but hey it needs a catchy title...

After years of struggling to connect the names on my family tree, I have found a number of bloodlines that arent mine... As it turns out the various lines may not have a common ancestor in the last 18000 years or so... That said, I felt like all the people out there connecting people to the wrong lines may need a bit of help, so...

Thanks to the folks at THE NICHOLS SURNAME PROJECT, sorting out the mysteries is not completely impossible any more...

NICHOLS SURNAME PROJECT

Y DNA is passed down from father to son to grandson and so forth and so establishing a positive paternity is a lot easier these days.

THOMAS NICHOLS of PA. who married MARY LUDFORD came from England to Pennsylvania with his family and became the immigrant ancestor of his line. His haplogroup is R-U152. So the male descendants of Thomas would have the same bloodline.


THOMAS of PA. IS NOT DESCENDED FROM THOMAS OF PLYMOUTH who married REBECCA JOSSELYN as he is not the same blood type. THOMAS OF PLYMOUTH is

I-M253.   

JOHN NICHOLS who married MARTHA PAYNE is from my line, R-CTS1571, and so cannot be the son of JOHN NICHOLS of Ireland who married BARBARA MCCOOMB and is from haplogroup I-M223.  

THOMAS NICHOLS of RHODE ISLAND married HANNAH
GRIFFIN. He is from HAPLOGROUP R-L257.

JOHN NICHOLS of CAROLINE VA. who married MARY OWEN was from HAPLOGROUP  R-P312 and not the husband of BARBARA MCCOOMB.  

SGT. FRANCIS NICHOLS of STRATFORD, CONN. married FRANCES WIMARKE. He is from HAPLOGROUP
G-S2808.

The key to a reliable connection is evidence. Dont just add what somebody else has added... fact check and confirm...  DNA is the tell tale tool of the modern family historian, use it when you can. 

WEEKEND HISTORIAN

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A TREE GROWS ON ANCESTRY

When I first started my tree I didnt think it would go very far. My parents knew the names of their grandparents of course and that was about it.
So when I put in the first four generations of my tree, I thought it was over. Then I got a leaf; my first hint... A cousin had already built a tree about one of my ancestors before me... Since then, I have had hundreds of hints and found hundreds of cousins, I never knew I had, and it all started with a little leaf....
Thank you Ancestry for helping me plant a seed that blossomed into a family tree... and for testing my DNA and finding over five hundred cousins on Ancestry with clues and trees of their own. Together we are breaking through walls and solving mysteries.

DOCTOR ALBERT NICHOLS #FamilyTreeTuesday

Doctor Albert Nichols

My grandpa's brother was named Doctor in hopes that he would become successful in life. The same way that his brother was named Banks. Doc was born in Floyd County, Virginia about 1911 and died in Roanoke County in 1980. He was a farmer in 1940 and married to Mary Blair Hale.

Rest in Peace Doc...

Death Certificate of Doc Nichols.

CHARLES ROBERT NICHOLS #FamilyTreeTuesday

MY grandpa's brother Robert was born July 3, 1913, in Floyd, Va,, and he was the eleventh child in the family. He passed away on Christmas Day in 1988. Rest in Peace Great Uncle Robert.

Clydia Emma Nichols 1915 -1916 #FamilyTreeTuesday

Clydia Emma Nichols 1915 - 1916

A recent find in my search for the Roots, is my great aunt Clydia, who never made it to a census record because of TB. Clydia was my grandpa's sister who was born in December of Nineteen Fifteen and died a few days later in Nineteen Sixteen. Over a hundred years ago. She was never recorded in a Census and might never have been remembered today without her birth and death records. Clydia's death certificate was shared on Facebook by a friend and fellow genealogist named Rena Worthen who is basically the expert on Floyd Virginia Records. Thanks again Rena.

Clydia appears to be buried with her parents at the old Nichols farm in Floyd, somewhere near the Blue Ridge Parkway. She died of Tuberculosis at the age of Twenty Nine days. May she rest in peace.

Remember the Census doesnt tell the whole story so keep searching and researching and keep climbing the family tree. See you in the tree.

Dracula's descendant #FamilyTreeTuesday

Charles, Prince of Wales is Vlad the Impaler Dracula, Prince of Wallachia's 15th great grandson, well according to him and Geni.com at least...

Vlad the Impaler Dracula, Prince of Wallachia

→ Vlad Dracula, IV

his son → Vlaicu Dracula

his son → Vlad Dracula

his son → Borbála Bilky

his daughter → Vanesca Kornis

her daughter → Gáspár Kendeffy

her son → Gábor Kendeffy

his son → Gáspár Kendeffy

his son → Ágnes Kendeffy

his daughter → Gergely György Inczédy de Nagyvárad

her son → Countess Agnes Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde

his daughter → Klaudia - Claudine Rhédey de Kis-Rhéde, Gräfin von Hohenstein

her daughter → Franz Paul Karl Ludwig Alexander, Prinz von Teck

her son → Mary of Teck, Queen consort of the United Kingdom

his daughter → George VI of the United Kingdom

her son → Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

his daughter → Charles, Prince of Wales

her son

http://www.geni.com/people/Charles-Prince-of-Wales/6000000003075030887

Alexander Hamilton #CousinoftheWeek

Alexander Hamilton, Signer of the US Constitution is your 10th cousin five times removed.
You
   →  Pop
your father →  Rufus S. Nichols
his father →  Tressie (King) Nichols
his mother →  Michael O. King
her father →  Margaret (Wright) King
his mother → James G Wright
her father →  Mary Whitledge Grant
his mother →  William Grant, of Crichie
her father →  Elizabeth Grant
his mother →  Jean Erskine
her mother → Margaret Home
her mother →  Mariot Haliburton
her mother →  Patrick Halyburton, 5th/6th Lord Dirletoun
her father → George Halyburton, 3rd/4th Lord Dirletoun
his father →  Janet Seton of Seton
his mother →  Marion Seton
her sister →  Margaret Baillie
her daughter → James Hamilton of Raploch
her son →  Gavin Hamilton, 6th of Raploch, Commendator of Kilwinning
his son →  John Hamilton
his son → Margaret Hamilton
his daughter →  Sir John Hamilton of Grange
her son →  John Hamilton of Grange
his son →  Alexander Hamilton of Grange
his son → James A. Hamilton
his son →  Alexander Hamilton, Signer of the US Constitution
his son

http://www.geni.com/people/Alexander-Hamilton-Signer-of-the-US-Constitution/6000000005749671177?through=6000000000954122460

FOURTH BLOGIVERSARY #YEAR5

YEAR FIVE HAS BEGUN AND THATS NO SMALL ACCOMPLISHMENT....

FOUR YEARS INVESTED IN THIS BLOG NOW AND STILL FINDING NEW STUFF TO WRITE ABOUT... HAPPY 2016 EVERYBODY!!!

2016