Brad Foley
Honor Code SignatorySigned 17 Mar 2014 | 117,952 contributions | 3,145 thank-yous | 5,072 connections
Signed 17 Mar 2014 | 117,952 contributions | 3,145 thank-yous | 5,072 connections
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Here is my family tree.
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Brad R. Foley
Born 1970s.
Ancestors 
Son of
[private father (1940s - unknown)]
and [private mother (1940s - unknown)]
and [private mother (1940s - unknown)]
Brother of
[private brother (1970s - unknown)] and [private brother (1980s - unknown)]
[children unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Mar 2014
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Biography
Brad Foley has completed Level 3 of the Trans-Canada Orphan Trail.
My major genealogical research interests are in Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. I'm helping to coordinate the Atlantic Canada Team of volunteers as part of the Canada Project. This means you might encounter me setting up new categories for things like communities, and religions for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Canada Project is here to help you find resources, research assistance, and to start grouping profiles together using accurate historical categories (groupings) for places (like communities, cemeteries, and churches) and events (like immigration, or disasters). This way, the whole community can benefit from the good work all the volunteers have been doing.
If you're not sure what any of this means, or if you're not sure what (or if) you want to contribute to these projects, I'd still encourage you to add nova_scotia, prince_edward_island, newfoundland, or new_brunswick to your followed tags. This will help you see what's going on in the G2G question, answer and discussion board with researchers in your area, and might give you some ideas about how you want to contribute.
If you have any other questions, please contact me!
Personal Info
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1976; with a mix of Nova Scotian and Newfoundlander ancestry that goes back a number of generations. A 23andMe test indicates my ancestry is primarily western European---British, German, and French, with a little bit of Native American and African. Grew up, mostly, in Hants County. Spent several years in Japan, and then in Melbourne, and Brisbane, Australia. Now living in Los Angeles, California.
DNA
Paternal relationship is confirmed by a GEDmatch test match between Brad Foley GEDmatch M154952 and his second cousin once removed Kerry Nash GEDmatch A434525. Their MRCAs are Angus Foley and Josephine Weston, the 2nd great grandparents of Brad and the great grandparents of Kerry. Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 3.2, based on sharing 169.4 cM across 6 segments.
Maternal relationship is confirmed by a GEDmatch test match between Brad Foley GEDmatch M154952 and his mother. Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 1.0, based on sharing 3581.8 cM across 51 segments.
Sources
- "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 21 June 2015, 00:16), entry for BRF (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LKSB-HCG); contributed by various users.
- First-hand information. Entered by BRF at registration.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Brad's formal name
- full middle name (R.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (3)
- private siblings' names
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Brad or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Brad or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Brad Foley: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 67 markers, haplogroup I-M253, FTDNA kit #B386625
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100.00%
100.00%
Brad Foley:
23andMe, GEDmatch M154952 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member barflyhigh
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~6.25%
~25.00%
Melvin Bursey
:
23andMe
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~1.56%
Kerry Nash :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A434525 [compare], Ancestry member Kumaonbass
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~1.56%
Mary Carrolyn Campbell :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Carr0lynb1lm3r
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Carol Dawn (Bursey) Prince :
AncestryDNA
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Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch HM5474435 [compare], yourDNAportal CAR6af0bbc0
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Brad:
- Brad Foley is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 6, 2023.
- Brad Foley is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 29, 2022.
- Brad Foley is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 28, 2020.
- Brad Foley is a Wonderful WikiTreer Aug 27, 2020.
- Brad Foley is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 16, 2020.
- Brad Foley is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 4, 2020.
Featured National Park champion connections: Brad is 19 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 22 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 18 degrees from George Catlin, 19 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 27 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 17 degrees from George Grinnell, 28 degrees from Anton Kröller, 18 degrees from Stephen Mather, 18 degrees from Kara McKean, 16 degrees from John Muir, 18 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 28 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Categories: Halifax, Nova Scotia
flagged by Rave Macdonald
edited by Brad Foley
flagged by Rave Macdonald
a name or relationship to another person, a date, though it may be estimated, and a source, saying where you obtained the information.
Magnified by thousands, if you added an additional source and location when you created a profile, it would make ongoing research more efficient for everyone, and make it easier to work cooperatively.
Now that we've discussed it, I won't mention it again. Sometimes it's not obvious how editing and sourcing choices affect others's work.
edited by Brad Foley
edited by Amy (Crawford) Gilpin
Thanks for your help, regards Margaret, Categorization project.
Thank you so much! I greatly appreciate your hard work.
Thanks, regards, Margaret
Thanks, regards, Margaret, Categorization project
Your name came up in a notification I received in my WIKITree EMAIL this morning, connected to an entry for Sarah Bishop (abt 1850). BISHOP is my paternal grandmother's surname. Unfortunately she passed before I was born, so I never knew her, and my father was only 4 at the time so he had few memories of her either.
Interestingly though, we actually are 9th cousins, but through my mother's French Canadian family, which fits in with your interests in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Cheers, Sue Bateman Matthews
Brad
7:45: Brad Foley added Edward Churnside Bishop (1798-1885) as father of Sarah Bishop (abt.1850-). [Thank Brad for this]
Thanks for your help, regards, Margaret, Categorization Project volunteer.
Brad
Cheers, Liz
That was how I came across this person. Cheers
Brad
edited by Brad Foley
I have extensive information on the Halfyard family and eidted a book "The Halfyard Family REgister, The Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Halfyard (1744-1815) and Elizabeth Churchill (1752-1828) in 1994 and revised in 1999. It is now out of print, but I have it on pdf. Malina White was my grandfather's first cousin. Are you related to the Halfyards? If so, how? Bob Halfyard
I'm, I guess, familiar on a second-hand basis with your book. We had one member, sadly deceased, who cited it extensively on a lot of profiles. I'm pleased to make your acquaintance, finally!
Brad
Adding place names is critical in ensuring that everyone can work well and efficiently. I was working on an Ana Maria Rodriguez elsewhere, in Durango, and it wasn't clear when the proposed matches appeared even what country your profile was located in.
You're right, I should have checked your activity level before editing in accordance with WikiTree guidelines: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Communication_Before_Editing
I'm not sure what the name-at-the-time for Coahuila was? I just followed the text on your biography as written (Saltillo, Coahuila) to make the judgment.
If you would like additional help with how to write biographies, I would look at the documentation here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Biographies
Regardless, it's very important to make the profiles as complete as possible, filling out data fields, and describing the your sources so that other WikiTree members don't need to re-do all the research every time they look at one of your profiles.
Let me know if you need additional assistance! I'm always happy to help.
Brad
edited by Brad Foley
I've received several complaints regarding your addition of place names to profiles managed by the Mexico Project. Would you please collaborate with profile managers before making changes. Also, please use the historical place names using Spanish spelling. Selecting "Spanish" for the Language drop down list will usually add the correct accents.
Is there a way of telling which profiles are managed by the Mexico project?
edited by Brad Foley
But I'll let you handle how the Mexico project deals with this. I'll stop editing other people's profiles in Mexico if they don't directly connect with one that I'm working on, and avoid So hopefully you won't get any more complaints.
edited by Brad Foley
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Location_Fields
For unknown locations, I am asking that you please follow the WikiTree policy of "Use their conventions instead of ours" and enter the historical place name in Spanish: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Name_Fields#Use_their_conventions_instead_of_ours
Best regards, Austin
I also realise, I do need to understand better how the historical states, like Nueva Viscaya and Nueva Galicia, map onto the modern ones. I've been trying to get it correct (for a given place and date) in the profiles I manage, but I will make sure I'm more consistent.
Thanks for the constructive criticism. It's useful and appreciated.
edited by Brad Foley
edited by Lee (G.) G
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Karen ~ Volunteer Coordinator
You were listed on the Newfoundland Research Assistance page. Can you help to connect Maurice Power and his wife, Adele Carroll? They lived in Conche, St. Barbe, Newfoundland. I've done all I can. They were Roman Catholics so any birth records would probably be found in those churches. Thanks for any assistance you may be able to provide!
Maurice is Power-3326
Im working with Eowyn to check-in with everyone holding the Project Coordinator badge to make sure we have the most up-to-date information. As a Project Coordinator badge holder, please can you let me know which project(s) you are currently coordinating and if you have a specific role as coordinator in those projects?
Many thanks,
Susie