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Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Dlabh boy on census record?” plus 3 more

Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Dlabh boy on census record?” plus 3 more


Question: Dlabh boy on census record?

Posted: 06 Feb 2016 03:11 PM PST

You don't make things easy, do you? With all the misdirection you caused, you'd need someone who was incredibly experienced, amazingly intelligent, and, above all, devilishly handsome to solve your puzzle. BOY, are you lucky!

I tried your link and found that I have to log in to Heritage Quest from my library to follow it. I'm at home, with a beer, in my underwear. I'm not going to go to the library. It would be easier to decipher your link. I pulled these from the link:

1910USCenIndex
gsfn=Harry
&gsln=Jackson
&msbdy=1895
&msbpn__ftp=Virginia

which means

1910 US Census (NOT 1920)
Harry Jackson, b. 1895 in Virginia

He's on MT Gilead, Loudoun, Virginia; Roll: T624_1633; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 0073

FamilySearch.org has the sheet too;
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:...

If you look at the "S" in "Servant" on Catherin Warner, just above Harry, you will see this enumerator's "S"s sometimes look like "D"s. You also see that the last letter isn't "h"; it is "le". With those clues, his occupation becomes
"Slable boy", still a mystery.

If you look at the industry of the two servants just above Harry, it's "Private Fam", for "Private Family", which meant they were not servants in, for instance, a hotel, Pullman car or restaurant. You can see from the "T" in "Private" that this enumerator didn't always cross his "T"s properly.

Assuming he missed his stroke on Harry, and the "L" in "Slable boy" is really a "T", we get:

STABLE BOY.

Just call me Sherlock . . .

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Please don't forget to choose a best answer. It doesn't have to be mine. 10 points aren't much, but they tell us you read the answers and we didn't flush 8 minutes of research and/or typing down the toilet.

Question: What ethnicity and race would you consider me?

Posted: 06 Feb 2016 08:36 AM PST

Unless you left something out, you are 1/16th non-German and 15/16 German. If you are 15/16th German, any sane person with an IQ higher than room temperature would consider you German.

You can pretend to be anything you want to be.I used to check "Other" on the question about race, and write in "Iban", which is a tribe in Borneo I knew when I was in the Peace Corps. I'd add it was by adoption, which was a stretch. They welcomed me into their homes, thanked me profusely when I paid one of their children's school fees, and gave me a tattoo in return for a coupe of quarts of beer, but they didn't really adopt me. I was pretending, which young men do quite a bit. You are too.

President Obama is 1/2 black, 1/2 white. 1/2 is 8 times bigger than 1/16.

Question: How do you think my ancestor got into the country?

Posted: 06 Feb 2016 07:21 AM PST

Not all records are on Ancestry or any other website. Your aunt's DNA tests will not necessarily give you a picture of your own DNA. Also immigrants came in through New Orleans in the 19th century. Don't know when theyrequired them to come in through New York. I know I had great great grandpaents that came in through New Orleans in 1853. I have a friend whose father was from Sicily and mother from Calabria. They all originally came in through New Orleans. Some of them went back to Sicily and came back but then were required to go through New York.

For the overall ancestral testing they use the Autosomal DNA along with the X. This is more complicated than the Y & Mitochondrial that have been used for years. Y & Mitochondrial are more exact but it represents a small portion of a person's ancestry. You would get each from only one person in each generation you go back if you were tested. Your aunt would normally only get Mitochondrial from only one person in each generation she goes back.

A person gets Autosomal 50-50 from both parents but not necessarily 25% from each of his 4 grandparents. The reason why when your parents passed on the Autosomal they received from their parents to you it went through "meiosis" where it was randomly jumbled and recombined. So while you got 50% from your mother's side and 50% from your father's, there usually will be a bias in what you inherited from grandmother and grandfather on both sides of the family. How you inherited any bias will not be how your siblings inherited it unless you have an identical twin. Also, since you are a male, you got Y from your father and X from your mother. However, your mother got X from both her father and her mother. Whose X did you get, your maternal grandmother's or your maternal grandfather's? It can differ among brothers who share the same mother. So with this type of testing if you and a full sibling both took the same tests from the same company at the same time, you will not get the same results. You definitely can't expect it to be the same as your aunt's. See your mother's and your aunt's could be different.

Also with this type of testing the results will differ among companies. The reason why the only thing they can do is match you with population samples in their database. So if one doesn't have or is deficient in certain population samples another has and vice versa, the results will not be the same.

Question: Possible cousins?

Posted: 06 Feb 2016 06:41 AM PST

That would be fun to figure out!

From what you know already, it looks like "second cousin" is a possibility. You and your friend can do a little work to check. Start with your grandparents.: you've got four, and your friend has four. If it turns out that the two of you share one set of grandparents, then you are first cousins.

That's probably not the case, so move to great-grandparents: you'll have eight, and your friend will have eight. This is more promising, because one of their children is your father's uncle, your friend's mom's uncle, or married into the family at that level. If it turns out that you and your friend share a set of great-grandparents, then you are second cousins.

Good luck. This isn't that hard to figure out.

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