Military Monday ~ Veterans Day ~ Reunion on Pearl Harbor

 
 
 


My Dad William C. Carrow  BM1 USN was my hero through life. He served here on the USS Hopping DE -155 where he was a plank holder.

The USS Hopping made nine convoy crossings of the Atlantic Ocean before being sent to the Pacific. While in the Pacific, she withstood numerous Japanese air attacks as well as at least one concealed enemy shore battery. Dad was offered the opportunity to apply for a medal for his effort to secure the ship after it was torpedoed. He never filled out the papers saying "Someone had to do it".

My Uncle Francis Faunt served on the USS Cony DD-508 as a Torpedoman.  Cony was launched Christmas Day 1942 and then escorted a convoy from  Norfolk VA to Nouméa, New Caldedonia, where she arrived 27 January 1943.

From online chronology from sailors onboard I find that this file picture is the Cony in Pearl Harbor apparently in 1944. "Cony received two bomb hits on her main deck, and these with a near miss killed 8 of her men, wounded 10, and caused considerable damage. She was towed into Port Purvis for emergency repairs. She sailed from Port Purvis 4 May for Majuro and Pearl Harbor May 6th 1944.

So it seems that the joyous reunion between my Dad and my Uncle Franny which was joined by Faunt cousins Gilbert Earle and George Wilson at Pearl Harbor happened between May 6th and June 15, 1944. Family!!

2020- New Year New Me- Understanding my ethnicity better ~ Wales~

I  have not been blogging recently- a year for this blog it seems.. In 2003 when I started working with my ancestry, I knew little. With the advent of DNA, at about the same time that I found an Irish  researcher, I made exponential gains in at least my maternal ancestors. DNA and Irish Records becoming digitized helped a lot, and my Faunt Swanson line was really not hidden.

My  father's maternal line was visible also, Carrow and Edenfield anyway were there for the taking in Delaware and Maryland. Kirwan  and Sweeney eventually followed suit in New Jersey records.

Dad's biological father was never known to him but some things must have been known. Rumors were his father was an  uncle, or his stepfather, both of which have been discounted. Another rumor, ( Mom let things leak from time to time), was that Grandmother had more children and they went away somewhere.

I had seen some close cousins with DNA ( 1st-2nd) that had both Kirwan and Carrow ancestors, which brought their parents down to 2 people, Grandmom or her brother. Those people never answered messages about themselves but this time last year one of them did. Oh My! Sister and I had had aunts, 2 of them. both younger than Dad.

This huge breakthrough allowed me to begin to streamline Dad's bio father, who was NOT his sisters' father. My large amount of Welsh  matches is leading me to be able to know at least my  3rd and 4th Grandparents who were from Wales. They are shared with upwards of 15 fairly close cousin matches ( 3-4th) who live in Wales and even speak Welsh.

Ancestry ThruLines and Angharad James Pritchard sister of Owen David

Very excited with Ancestry DNA ThruLines.. Sister and I have about 19% Welsh.. How is that possible? Our distant Carrow line matches are quite tangled both in Delaware Welsh Tract and Wales.. Angharad James is a sister of Owen David (Dafydd) a known ancestor who had Fox Hall Plantation..
Angharad James and her husband William Pritchard are pivotal to maybe 50 DNA matches to Wales.. People who still live in Wales.. Amazing!!
So as I search.. Thrulines lets me click on my matches AncestryName to see if we match..It is awesome..

Wales DNA matches and what they can mean - An expert's compilation

Sister and I share an enormous amount of Welsh cousins.. Four 4th cousins came in just in a week.. Colin and Rees Roberts and Dilys Parker have long been matches from 23andme but it seemed sort of flukey..

Where do they fit?
They have to fit in the Carrow line.. and NONE of our many Carrow DNA Cousins share them( so excited I have them) so maybe it is our Grandfather. This is why we do DNA.
Many of them come from here Pwllheli Caernarvonshire




AncestryDNA with it's over 5 million matches have given us Janet Inglis  Haydn Eryl Hughes, Annwen Hughes,Dylan Fôn Thomas and so on..

We ( Sister and I )each have TWO Geographic Communities from Wales with 40 or more cousin matches.. I also have 2 from Ireland  and Sister has 3 from Ireland..


Blaine Bettinger has shared these tables with the ISOGG Facebook group.. a compilation of many of us and this year's version

DNA Trail back to Wales - Tracking it all

                                             Old Carrow Farm - Idalia Manor
For my DNA friends and rellies..I may go ahead and blog this also as it seems important.My sister Carol Bodofsky ( my DNA buddy) and I have a LOT of DNA matches in Wales..
 Yes the Carrow family is heavily Welsh between 1750-1840 but other cousins do not have all this Welsh..

Sister and I only have inherited about 15-17% of our DNA from our paternal grandfather.. (Which we knew before the 23ANDme test in 2009- from DNA Tribes c. 2008) my father's father who we assume is from Norway.. That leaves 34-35% of DNA inherited from Elizabeth Agnes Carrow..seen here as a young lady on Risnor Row..

We also share a good amount of Carrow matches to Baltimore cousins from Clara Carrow Friemiller..
 Clara and her mother Margaret Edenfield share MitoDNA( female) with her mother Hannah.. who may or may not be a Worters.. the 1870 census calls her Worters but she was married to Edenfield then so is that accurate? None of us know or have been able to figure it out..

Paternal grandmother matches are particularly good for inheritance..( X markers come from there)
 I feel pretty sure now that Hannah, wife of Thomas Edenfield must have been Welsh or 1/2 Welsh and sister and I inherited a lot of that..

To that end I tested with Living_DNA and am waiting for results.. it is Welsh UK in origin..

My close Carrow match this weekend shares matches back to Baltimore cousins also, more so than other directions..

 Tamyr and I also share those matches although she is NOT heavily Welsh..
 Sister and I have been given TWO Welsh communities at AncestryDNA which seems significant.. 

A good puzzle for a rainy week..

Elizabeth Agnes Carrow - Risnor Row Penns Grove NJ

Wisdom Wednesday ~ Fully Identical DNA matches from Full Siblings as seen at 23andme ~ Great Upgrade !

Important update to 23andme the only testing company who does this.. Ron and Peter shown here.. and at bottom Carol and myself
 The X is particularly telling for brothers 
 We’ve updated DNA Relatives and Share and Compare to show full and half-IBD (identical by descent) segments of DNA. You can see completely identical (purple) and half-identical (pink) segments on the Compare page, which you can access by clicking on any of your DNA Relatives matches, or on any of your sharing connections in Share and Compare. 

You won’t share fully-identical segments with all of your matches. Full siblings share a combination of fully-identical (purple) and half-identical (pink) segments. Fully-identical refers to stretches of the genome where the two siblings match each other on both pairs of the chromosome - both siblings inherited the same segment of DNA from both their mother and father. The relationship pictured is between two full sisters. Since half-siblings only share one parent, they will only see half-identical (pink) segments. 

March 16 update: Full and half-IBD segments are now also shown in the DNA view of DNA Relatives

Thrifty Thursday - Family Tree DNA now accepting autosomal DNA transfers from new AncestryDNA and 23andMe tests ~

Everyone who has been waiting for new AncestryDNA transfers and new 23andme (V4) here it is.. it seems to be free but then to get "everything" it is $19..

 I would go for the $19 for sure 

Here is what I just received..

Dear Project Administrators,

You’ve all been waiting for it, and it’s finally here - transfers for 23andMe© V4 and AncestryDNA™ V2 files!

Here are the details, point by point.

•Customers can now transfer 23andMe© V4 and AncestryDNA™ V2 files in addition to the 23andMe© V3 and AncestryDNA™ V1 files that Family Tree DNA accepted previously. MyHeritage and Genographic transfers will be supported in the coming weeks.

•Family Tree DNA still does not accept 23andMe© processed prior to November 2010. A Family Finder test will need to be purchased.

  

•23andMe© V3 and AncestryDNA™ V1 now receive a full list of matches and the ability to use the Matrix feature FOR FREE. For only $19, the customer can unlock the Chromosome Browser, myOrigins, and ancientOrigins.

  Here is a link where you can read about it.. https://www.familytreedna.com/…/family-tree-dna-family-fin…/

Remember that I do have the Carrow, Faunt, Rementer and Lower Delmarva   surname groups that you are welcome to join..