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 Just a quick post here as cousins are asking me what are our resources for Shawnee & Powhatan DNA studies.

First, you need to get your DNA tested, I recommend Ancestry.com because 23 and me has been hacked and sold and... it is all too confusing. I don't like ancestry.com but where ya gonna go?

When you get the test back, then you download your results and you upload to Gedmatch.

I will explain all this later this is just a quick run-through.

Now, GEDmatch will give you a code - your "GEDmatch" you will use this to compare your "kit" to others. You want to see where you overlap. You do this in one to one comparison (in the GEDmatch drop down menu)

Then there is a way to see your "paint." I will explain later... This where you can see which ethnicities you have on each segment of your Chromosome.

Do not share anyone else's GEDmatch numbers with anyone else. You can in private Facebook groups but not in any other way. So if you are approved to join a private Facebook group and that other person you overlap to is also in that group you can talk about it. But never anywhere else even in private email with your friends or family.

Now, you can join studies and I will get a list of those here or how you find them.

This is just my rough draft and I will be working on this in the next few days...

Catherine dee Auvil 8/9/25

Photo for sale: Man & Cactus

 

I'm doing it - I am getting organized enough to start selling my photographs. This one I have chosen to sell and the proceeds will go to a young family that needs repairs on a home they own. They are hard workers and have often taken second jobs to pay bills. BUT they have a young family and they need to be able to spend more time with them. So I thought of this. Please email me if you have questions: auvil.catherine@aol.com

I don't know who the photographer is but maybe we can crowdsource? It is in its protective sleeve, so not a great photo of the photo but I am pressed for time.

I LOVE the elements of this photo: the shadow of his hat brim, the chiaroscuro of his face, the stance, THE CACTUS!

I found this out about the printer:Yes, there was a photo studio called Fox Co. (also referred to as Fox Photo or Foxco) in San Antonio, Texas. It was originally founded by Arthur C. Fox in 1906 as a small photo studio. In 1909, Carl Newton purchased the studio for $700 and expanded it into a major photofinishing business. By the 1920s, it was the largest mail-order photofinishing operation in the world. The company, later known as Fox Photo, grew to include retail stores and large commercial photofinishing plants, serving major retailers like Wal-Mart and Walgreens. It also operated under names like Fox-Stanley Photo Products Inc. after a 1961 merger and was sold to Kodak in 1986. The Fox Photo name eventually faded after further sales and rebranding, notably to Wolf Camera in 2001.

1 Research Challenge: Elinipsico - Allanawissica

 I'm trying to find the first instance where Elinipsico (son of Cornstalk) is referred to as Allanawissica.

Right now, May 2025 I have this 

REVOLUTION ON THE UPPER OHIO, 1775-1777

published in 1908

Compiled from the Draper Manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society and published at the charge of the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution

EDITED BY

REUBEN GOLD THWAITES, LL. D.

You can read it online

https://archive.org/details/revolutiononuppe01thwa

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The first Instance that I have found of Elinipsico (spelled with two Ls) in a published work is:

Chronicles of border warfare

by Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865

published in 1831

read online

https://archive.org/details/Ayer_154_V7_W8_1831/page/n132/mode/1up?q=ellinipsico

Do you know of anything earlier?

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* "Citing" Wikipedia

 You can cite Wikipedia. Here is an example:

Chicago Style (Notes and Bibliography)Format:

 "Title of Article." Wikipedia. Last modified Month Day, Year. URL.Example:

"Sumner County, Tennessee." Wikipedia. Last modified July 27, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee.

Notes: For Chicago Author-Date style, adapt to:

Wikipedia. 2025. "Sumner County, Tennessee." Last modified July 27, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee.

But of course Wikipedia is not a source. What you need to do is read the Wikipedia article and find out where the editor found that fact and then go get a copy of that book and find that fact in the book and cite that as your source!

13. Thomas Bailey Christian - Important Christian surname families of the frontier

 

Important Christian surname families of the frontier Thomas Bailey Christian  Capt. Gilbert Christian and his nephew Israel Christian (W) father of Col. William Christian Gilbert: had previously arrived in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1726 and, after living in Lancaster for a time, he and his family were among the first to settle in the Valley of Virginia in 1732. Israel: Early Kentucky pioneer and landowner; founded Fincastle, Kentucky and Christiansburg, Virginia. William: In Dunmore's war; led an expedition against the Overhill Cherokees, which saw little action but compelled some of the chiefs to agree to peace. He served in the commission which negotiated the "Treaty of Long Island of the Holston" with the Cherokees, signed on July 20, 1777.  Mr. Thomas Christian, I - progenitor of a large family  All roads led to Texas : family histories of the allied families: Pettipool, P'Pool, Pool, Poole, McCain, McCown, Greenwade, Wingard, Mayes; v. 02 read online at FamilySearch

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