Mags Gaulden

Ancestors

Daughter of Earle Gaulden Jr. and NJ Hunt

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Mags was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!

RootsTech Attendee: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Mags Gaulden has Irish ancestors.

Mags Gaulden has Appalachian roots.

Mags was a valued member of the Greeters Project who has moved to Emeritus status.

Mags Gaulden migrated from WikiTree to Rabbit Holes.

Participated on the Appalachia Project's first Appalachia Thon Team for the Connect-a-Thon 2023, and in 2024

Mags Gaulden was RAWKED in the April We Will RAWK You Event.

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Biography

“They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps.” - William Shakespeare. My favorite quote, ever. If I were a color I would be cobalt blue. In tense situations, I try to diffuse the tenseness with humor (sometimes this approach works, sometimes not). When it rains I feel calm and restive. When it snows I am an ecstatic child expecting a snow day (living in Canada I am ecstatic often). I am happiest when I am doing something, anything, outdoors. People in my family have had names like Goolie and Nimrod (the last one handed down for generations). I thrive when I am helpful to others. I thrive when I am problem-solving. I am a Carolinian at my core and I am deeply rooted in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains where I grew up. If you cut me I would bleed the sound of bluegrass music.

Business

Mags is Grandmas Genes

Grandma's Genes Website Grandma's Genes Blog, Grandma's Genes on Twitter, Grandma's Genes on Facebook Granmda's Genes on Pinterest

Non Profit Work

mitoYDNA.org is a non-profit, 501(c)3, site for YDNA and mtDNA.

My Surnames

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Paternal Grandfather , Paternal Grandmother vs Maternal Grandfather , Maternal Grandmother ancestors

Allen, Allen , Amphlett , Anderson , Anthony , Applewhite

Bacon, Barnard , Beasley , Bellson , Benton , Bobo , Bowen , Brewer , Brumfield , Bullock , Burford , Byrne

Carwell, Caulfield , Chalfont , Compton , Cook , Council , Crabtree , Craig , Craswell , Crawford , Cresson , Crisp

Dillard, Dodd , Donnan , Dunnahoo

Faries, Ferris , Ford , Franks , Freeman

Garner, Garrison , Gaulden , Geers , Giles , Gilliam , Gordon

Hall, Hall , Hammond , Hankinson , Harris , Harris , Harris , Hartsfield , Hawkins , Hawkins , Hawkins , Hearst , Hemphill , Henley , Hensen , Hester , Hipkins , Hunt

Isham

James, James , Jordan

Key, Kimball

Lacey, Lamacraft , Leachman , Loftin , Lord , Lynn

Mansell, Marshall , Martin , Massingale , Mauldin , McAllister , McElmoyle , McKinney , McNeere , Miles , Miles , Mills , Murray

Nash, Neederman , Newby , Norcum

O'Shields, Owens

Palfrey, Palmer , Pardue , Patram , Patton , Peake , Peake , Perrin , Pierce , Poteet , Pratt

Ramsey, Ray , Ricks , Roberts , Rodgers

Shearin, Sherwood , Simmons , Sims , Sloan , Speer , Stoney , Stratton , Stuart

Taylor, Teague , Templeton , Thompson , Thorpe , Tweedy

Upshaw

Vaughan

Welborn (Welborne, Wilbourne, Welbourn, Welburn) , White , Wilson , Wyatt

Younger

DNA

John Clay Gauldin Start here to work the William S. line.

Earliest Known Ancestors

Y-DNA - Direct Male Line R-FTC46937

Starting with the father of Mags Gaulden:

1. Gaulden DNA ✓
2. Gaulden DNA ✓
3. John Gaulden b. 1853-01-16, York, South Carolina, United States DNA ✓
4. James Gaulden b. 1826-08-01, York County, South Carolina, United States DNA ✓
5. Dempsey Gaulden b. 1767-00-00, Sumter County, South Carolina DNA ✓
6. John Gaulden b. 1735-00-00, Prince Edward County, Virginia DNA ✓
7. John Gaulding b. 1710-00-00, New Kent, Virginia Colony DNA ✓
8. John Gaulding b. 1665-00-00, New Kent, New Kent, Virginia Colony [confident]

View the Y-DNA descendants of John Gaulding.

mtDNA - Direct Female Line H1b1-T16362C

Starting with the mother of Mags Gaulden:

1. Hunt DNA ✓
2. Eunice Lord b. 1906-04-23, Westminster, Tugaloo, Oconee County, South Carolina, United States DNA ✓
3. Nola Dillard b. 1884-02-21, Rabun County, Georgia DNA ✓
4. Sarah Welborn b. 1859-06-18, Rabun County, Georgia, United States DNA ✓
5. Nancy Hall b. 1826-00-00, North Carolina, United States DNA ✓
6. Ann Unknown b. 1793-00-00, South Carolina DNA ✓

View the mtDNA descendants of Ann Unknown.

Pedigree Chart

Pedigree Chart

DNA Connections Yet to be connected

• Elizabeth Langston Stone Related via maternal. Relationship trail Dad and I match one of her descendants as well?

DNA Confirmed Citation

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by a Family Tree DNA Family Finder test match between Mags Gaulden and her maternal 2nd cousin Susan Hunt Silvas. Their most-recent common ancestors are Bert Eugene Hunt, Sr. and Ethel Essie Hammond, great grandparents of Mags Gaulden and Great Grandparents of Susan Hunt Silvas. Predicted relationship from FTDNA: 1st-2nd Cousin based on sharing 405 cM across 6 Chromosomes.

• M. Gaulden was born to her mother, Private.^[1]

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by a Family Tree DNA test match between Mags Gaulden and Gaulden-53, her 1st cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are Fletcher Gaulden and Sarah Templeton, the grandparents of Mags Gaulden and grandparents of Gaulden-53. Predicted relationship from Family Tree DNA: 1st Cousin, based on sharing 755 cM across 118 segments.

My Genealogical journey

As a Child, my mother, grandmothers, and grandfather would often tell me about my family. Who we were, where we came from and how our family came to be. As a teen I was given some unpublished papers by a Hunt cousin. I scanned them, as teens do, but I kept them. Years later I went back to them and entered the information into Family Tree Maker. Soon after I started my hunt, pardon the pun, in earnest for the rest of my family.

Over the next few years I spent time researching and looking and finding and not finding - you know how it goes. I found I was constantly one step behind another researcher working on one branch of our family. I left notes for him, I emailed him, I did everything short of going to his doorstep to get him to "share" or to point me toward this or that. Not a word. Not a single word did I hear from this researcher...UNTIL he published a book. Oh I got an email from him then, wanting me to purchase his book and I did.

I am all about open source. The Laptop I am currently working on is Linux. When I look for information on line I am accustomed to finding exactly what I want only to find it will cost me money. I have to pay money to see information about myself. There is just something wrong about that. I stumbled upon WikiTree by accident and I fell in love. With the concept, with the openness of the people, the ease of it (once you get in up to your ankles) and the depth of it. WikiTree is liberating and confirms my faith in one simple thing; Genealogy belongs to us, the descendants.

Photos

WikiTree - 10 Years!

Mags Collage (clockwise), Greg, Roberta, and Mags, Murph Moose tired, Greg and Mags doing the LiveCast, Greg and Mags from the back doing the LiveCast, Mags and Ellen Thompson-Jennings, and Mags with Cheri Hudson-Passey.

Sources

1. ↑ Maternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of M. Gaulden GEDmatch F340555, Sandy Sharp GEDmatch a759497 and Larry Milton Peterson GEDmatch F34276 sharing a 26.7 cM segment on chromosome 9 from 103,348,186 to 123,946,544.

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 3,585.6 cM Family Finder match between Mags Gaulden and her father Earle Gaulden

• First-hand information. Entered by M Gaulden at registration.

• Hunt Papers unpublished, [1], [2]. Personal copy in the files of M. Gaulden

• Personal papers and notes of Eunice L. Hunt, Family Biographical Information, unpublished. Personal copy in the files of M. Gaulden

• Personal Papers and Notes of Frances T. Gaulden, Family Biographical Information and letter to Dave Templeton, August 22, 1976. Personal copy in the files of M. Gaulden

• Conversations with Eunice L. Hunt and Thomas C. Hunt Gaulden-7

• Conversations with Frances T. Gaulden - M. Gaulden Gaulden-7

• Descendants of James Dillard and Sarah Barnard Dillard of Rabun County, Georgia, John M. Dillard November 15, 2009 Revised through August 20, 2012.

• Four Brothers in Oconee County by John M. Dillard, Dillard Annual, Vol. , Dillard Family Association.

• The Gaulden, Gauldin, Gaulding, Family History -- A Seven Hundred Year Study, Volume One, By Dr. Charles H. Gaulden, Self Published, April, 1999.

• Templeton Family History, L. B. Templeton, Jr., Self Published, 1953. Personal Copies in the files of M. Gaulden.

Digital Afterlife

September 8, 2014

In the event of my untimely demise I want to be sure that none of my hard work on WikiTree ends up having to be deleted. While I fully intend to be around to manage all my profiles for the next 50 years or so, in the event of my sudden death I hereby give permission for all of my private profiles to be transferred to any of my family members or to any of the other wonderful WikiTreers who have collaborated with me. My own personal profile will be left to Eowyn and Julie to tend and weed and... (I plan to haunt the WikiTree servers once my body has left it's earthly bonds).