Rosa Lane

Ancestors

Daughter of Perlie Lane Jr. and Marie (Rich) Lane

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Biography

Descendant of William Brewster Mayflower passenger.

Approved as a member of The Mayflower Society, my direct lineage was proven to William Brewster through my maternal line. I was born in Damariscotta, Maine, USA, eldest child of Perlie Edgar Jr. & Marie (Rich) Lane. In 1968 I left coastal Pemaquid, a small Maine fishing village, to attend Wilmington College (Ohio), returning to Maine to teach preschool in 1972. In 1975 I built a cabin in the coastal woods of Orland, Maine, which in 1977 expanded into Hardscrabble Hill Residential Retreat Center and operated summers for 10 yrs, 1977 to 1987. Inspired by poetry writing, I earned my Master of Fine Arts at Sarah Lawrence College 1980-82. In 1982, I moved to San Francisco to assist Joanna Macy in writing of Despair & Personal Power in the Nuclear Age (1983). As builder & then amateur designer, I attended University of California, Berkeley School of Architecture where I earned my MArch and PhD in 1989 & 2006, respectively. As architect with a specialty in the field of sustainability, I designed residences, schools, research facilities, and institutional/governmental buildings. Now retired from County government, I have returned to poetry, authoring four poetry collections: "Called Back" (forthcoming, Tupelo Press); Chouteau's Chalk (University of Georgia Press, 2019); Tiller North (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2016), and Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press East, 1980). I am currently bicoastal, living both in coastal Maine & the San Francisco Bay Area.

Genealogical research, my new found passion, is thrilling. I especially appreciate the one-ancestor/one-profile WikiTree approach, the commitment to substantiating ancestral connections with reliable sources, and collaborating with others in working on one human-family tree.

Growing up in a lobster fishing family on the Maine coast (with, let's say, its monetary challenges amidst a persistent and oppressive class structure) carried negative social stigma, unbearable "otherness," and non-belonging. Therefore, discovering through WikiTree with relatively high levels of "certainty" direct familial relations with royal roots, ancient and immigrant aristocratic ancestors, Mayflower passengers, originators of the Magna Carta and Declaration of Independence, Colonial governors, and US Presidents has caused a crisis in identity, cultural upheaval and re-shifting, reorientation within unfamiliar terrains of belonging, and new levels of responsibility toward social justice.

Given the sad context of current socio/political divisions, the collaborative work of WikiTree is especially meaningful and healing. Discovering cousins whom I adore, breaking through ancestral brick walls, and listening to ancestral voices of x-degree great grandfathers and grandmothers have reoriented personal and familial life, energized new purpose, deepened levels of courage and risk-taking, and spurred new responsibilities as a member of the human family.

Sources

• First-hand information. Biographical information initiated by Rosa Lane at registration.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by a GEDmatch test match between Rosa Lane GEDmatch A061580 and her mother Marie (Rich) Lane GEDmatch ML9581556. Estimated number of MRCA = 1.0, based on sharing 3559.5 cM across 48 segments.

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by a GEDmatch test match between Rosa Lane GEDmatch A061580 and her father's sister Hazel Genthner GEDmatch JG1698428. Estimated number of MRCA = 1.4, based on sharing 1938.3 cM across 51 segments.

• On paternal side, great great great grandparents Charles and Patience (Morse) Geyer are confirmed by a triangulated GEDmatch test match on chromosome 2 at exact same start-end position among Rosa Lane GEDmatch A061580; Alton T. Sears GEDmatch UM8805428; and Hazel (Lane) Genthner GEDmatch JG1698428. Estimated number of MRCA = 5.2, based on sharing 11.2 cM across 1 segment (chromosome 2), Alton being Rosa's 4th cousin both sharing 3rd great grandparents above named; Alton being Hazel's 3rd cousin also sharing same great grandparents her 2nd; and Hazel being Rosa's paternal aunt.

• On maternal side, great great great grandparents Alexandre and Marie-Angelique (Bégin) Guthro are shared between Rosa Lane GEDmatch A061580 and Sharon Cameron GEDmatch AR8239654. Estimated number of MRCA = 4.3, based on sharing 26.7 cM across 1 segment (chromosome 22), Sharon being Rosa's 2nd cousin twice removed both sharing ancestors, i.e. Rosa's great, great, great grandparents & Sharon's great grandparents as above named.

• Cushman, Rev. David Quimby. The History of Ancient Sheepscot and New Castle Including Early Pemaquid, Damariscotta and Other Contiguous Places from the Earliest Discovery to the Present Time (Bath, ME: E. Upton & Son Printers: 1882): https://archive.org/details/historyofancient01cush/page/n3