Posted on 06/11/2007 2:04:04 PM PDT by varina davis
Edited on 06/11/2007 2:34:32 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
ROANOKE ISLAND, N.C. - Researchers believe they may be able to use DNA to uncover the fate of the Lost Colony, which vanished shortly after more than 100 people settled on Roanoke Island in 1587.
Using genealogy, deeds and historical narratives, researchers have compiled 168 surnames that could be connected to settlers in what is considered the first attempt by the English to colonize the New World. The team will try to trace the roots of individuals related to the colonists, to the area's 16th century American Indians or to both.
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Between 1607 and 1620 there were dozens of ships carrying people to the colony. One of my 8th-great-grandfathers was brought to Jamestown in 1619 as an adolescent orphan and he settled in Maryland.
Which brings to my mind the question of why the Pilgrims get all the attention. Was it because my 8th great-grandfather wrote that book about Plymouth Plantation and was the Governor? Huh?
$107.50 each. Go here for details.
My whole family has done it and now my 'extended' family has begun too.
http://www.baiki.org/content/exhibit/exhbt_home.htm
http://www.baiki.org/content/exhibit/pix_women.htm
Maybe?
Fascinating, thanks for the link. It seems (from the website) as though they don’t really tell you anything about your ancestry in the past 1000 years, though? Is that right? I’m thinking about doing it, but I find little interest (personally) in knowing about such distant ancestry many many thousands of years ago, I’d be far more interested in knowing about my genetic links to peoples living in the past 1000 years, maybe up to 2000 years (much is known about my mother’s genealogy back to 1635, but almost nothing is known to our family (yet) about my father’s genealogy before 1880). It sounds like this project doesn’t deal with recent generations but only with thousands of years ago? Thanks for any info.
Don't know...interesting site though.
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Yup, it's old, old, old stuff. Now, they do have a FamilyTreeDNA section where people are using their DNA and surnames to find each other but, I haven't utilized that option and don't know much about it. I did peek once and they seem to be having a grand ol time over there, lol. You may like that part.
As a girl, I remember reading about Virginia Dare. http://www.outerbanks.com/manteo/history/vadare.htm The mystery always fascinated me.
I thought they did this last year on BBC. Maybe that was another DNA mystery to do with colonists. I remember growing up going to the Outer Banks every year. I miss how the Outer Banks used to be. Now’s it almost just for tourists...
European fishing operations are alleged to have operated on both sides of the North Atlantic in pre-Columbian times.
“As a girl, I remember reading about Virginia Dare. http://www.outerbanks.com/manteo/history/vadare.htm The mystery always fascinated me.”
Me too, but I never could figure out the connection with the little girl and the cheap wine named after her.
The DC suburbs.
I had this idea about 10 years ago but no one would listen.
It was a wilderness and all they had were trees to write on. And besides, they were guys...who needs maps and stuff?
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Seriously, maybe they did and it disappeared or it was never found. Perhaps it was wrapped in oilcloth and buried under the tree “Croatan” was written on.
A small African settlement was formed on Beacon Hill which overlooks the site of the Indian town. This was quite possibly the first urban area in what is now the United States to be occupied by Africans.
Over a century later the African town was included within the bounds of Mount Vernon once European settlement moved North of the Rappahannock. George Washington was very solicitous of the folks who lived there. They are the ones he freed in his will.
Even as late as the 13th Century there were few outsiders visiting the area although it's reported that Ghenghis Khan made the journey to see other dwarves (like himself).
The Sapmai didn't really open up to foreign settlement until the late 14th Century. At the same time the Sa'ami in Norway were encouraged to take over farms abandoned by dead Norse. The Black Death seems to have been quite preferential. The Sa'ami suffered less than a 10% death rate. The Norse were killed off at far higher rates leaving vast areas of the Norwegian Coast devoid of population. The resettlement continued to take place until the 1700s.
Which means that if you have a Sa'ami ancestor, he or she probably showed up in your ancestry well within the last thousand years.
This is not that ancient.
This has led to all sorts of confusion throughout Scandinavia ~ until the last couple of years most Scandinavian governments dealt with the Sa'ami more as a "problem" with ethnic overtones and not as an inter-racial situation, or if "racial" that the Sa'ami were immigrants from East Asia.
Since the Sa'ami have been found to be indigenous to the region with no more East Asian ancestry than any other Europeans, there's been a bit of a revision of previous policies.
There's been very little interest on the part of the Europeans regarding Sa'ami migrations to America. That's where folks at FreeRepublic come in.
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