I was having a kind of dull plod through Lee South's DNA explained matches, the ones with "hints" that name the common ancestor between the match's tree and the CE South Family tree to which Lee linked his DNA results. It is just the kind of time-consuming thing an old librarian can get into--Michael Wilson South calls it being lost in the stacks--but today it got a little exciting, at least for me.
I am only half way done with Lee's 355 explained matches, but there are two matches so far where the common ancestor is Hannah Fuller. She is the daughter of Samuel Fuller and Jane Lothropp, born in 1638 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. She married Nicholas Bonham in her grandfather's church in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony in 1658. She is listed of course, in Vol.4 Mayflower Families through Five Generations, one of the famous "silver books" that are considered to be the "Bible" of Mayflower Genealogy.
I don't think the Mayflower folks, persnickety as they are, take DNA as solid evidence, but I certainly take it as confirmation that all this crazy tree paper trail we are following is not just dust.
Anyway, I just wanted to share these preliminary findings. Can't wait to see what the other 180 matches hold for extending our understanding and knowledge of our common family history. So far many, if not most, of the matches for Lee have been like mine, Bob's, Michael Wilson-South's, and Elaine Lee's: the same common ancestors except for these two today and one yesterday that took us back one generation earlier (as do the two Fuller matches) than we had been on the South line. These unique matches were just what I was hoping we'd get from Lee's results linked to the CE South tree. Thanks again, Lee.
I'll do a wrap-up when I'm done sometime next week. Gotta watch some tennis all day tomorrow in Kerrville where we play against some larger schools as a preparation for Boerne.
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