Barb (Looper) Beasley
Honor Code SignatorySigned 6 Dec 2015 | 1,667 contributions | 42 thank-yous | 3,323 connections
Signed 6 Dec 2015 | 1,667 contributions | 42 thank-yous | 3,323 connections
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Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thurston Lee Looper
and Willa Mae (Compton) Looper
Descendants 
Mother of
[private daughter (1960s - unknown)], Liz (Beasley) Jackson and [private daughter (1960s - unknown)]
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Biography
I was born in Lee County, Virginia, where my father worked for the Kemmerer Gem Coal Company. From about age 5 to 9, I lived with my maternal grandmother in Cold Springs, Blount County, TN while my parents moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. After they were settled, I joined them and lived there until my marriage. I graduated from Portage High School, just outside Kalamazoo and then entered Western Michigan University. I later attended Wayne State University and lastly University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, majoring in marketing.
I met my husband while working as a copywriter at WKZO radio in Kalamazoo. After our marriage we moved to Columbus, GA, to Detroit, MI, and then to Milwaukee, WI, where we raised our 3 daughters. In 2013, we retired (him from broadcasting; me from project management and sales), and moved to the Nashville, TN suburbs. We both have strong early roots in TN.
My mother's interest in genealogy got me started. She was working on a First Families of TN application when she died. I didn't want her records to go to waste, and I got hooked.
I have since gotten very interested in DNA. I bought my husband a Y-46 DNA test at Ancestry in 2011 as a birthday gift, just for fun. The results came back with exact matches to 14 males who descended from Thomas Blanton. My husband Jim Beasley had no Beasley matches to his paternal test, which was not surprising. Jim's paternal grandmother Julia Beasley worked in downtown Nashville when Jim's father Jess Beasley was born (June 1906). Julia wrote a letter to her mother, saying that her husband J H Beazley (Beasley with a Z) had left her prior to the baby's birth, due to a breach of promise suit. Julia raised Jess as a single mom, and we have not found proof of a marriage.
Jim has done FTDNA's Big Y test and a yFull analysis, putting him on the same branch of the human phylotree as a person named Gillespie. We are getting closer to the family of the mystery grandfather. We have 2 Blantons and 2 Gillespies who are pretty similar to Jim, and just this week found another close match with the surname Anderson. We have seen no Beasley/Beazley paternal matches to his Y-DNA testing. It's only through autosomal tests like Family Finder that Beasley DNA matches show up among his relatives.
Due to excitement over Jim's missing grandfather, I began collecting family DNA. All of our descendants have done autosomal tests, along with some other family members whose accounts I manage. Lots of fun. Jim complains that, as each of the 3 daughters' test results became available, it was like being on the Maury Show, with people repeatedly yelling "You ARE the father."
- First-hand information. Entered by Barbara Sue Looper at registration.
Sources
Name
Birth
Residence
- Residence:
- Date: 1990
- Place: Pewaukee, WI[5]
- Source: S1050 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Virginia, Birth Records, 1864-2014 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015; Repository: #R1
- Repository: R1 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
- Source: S334 Author: Ancestry.com Title: U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010; Repository: #R1
Barb's father Thurston Looper ... Barb's mother Willa Compton ...
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Barb or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Barb or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Barb (Looper) Beasley: AncestryDNA Maternal Lineage (discontinued) Full Sequence, haplogroup K1a1b2a1a, Ancestry member BarbaraBeasley66 + Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup K1a1b2a1a, FTDNA kit #207206
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100.00%
Barb (Looper) Beasley:
23andMe, GEDmatch A939387 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A939387 [compare], Ancestry member BarbaraBeasley66
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A939387 [compare], FTDNA kit #207206
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~12.50%
Tom Looper
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A724705 [compare], Ancestry member BarbaraBeasley66
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A724705 [compare], FTDNA kit #B13118
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~3.12%
Michael Cordell :
MyHeritage DNA
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~1.56%
Kevin Phillips :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #MK51038
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Regards,
Ryan Compton
I have your Jeremiah Horn Compton in my tree on Ancestry and i wanted to reach out to you prior to adding him in WikiTree as I see he is your last known Compton. We do share a small autosomal DNA match on GEDMatch. 9.7 cM's on Chr 16. You can reach out to me here or by email [email address removed] to work together in breaking a wall.
Kind Regards,
Ryan Compton
Thanks for the clarification on the Josiah Bowman marriage. I don't actually have any info on that Bowman Family group, the possible duplicates just popped up when I was trolling through Bowmans as part of my Bowman Y-DNA Paternity Research ( FTDNA kit #549566 Paternity Research Page ). I noticed you're also working on a Y-DNA NPE project! Exciting stuff eh?
I hope you don't mind, I did a little bit of GEDCOM cleanup on the profile for Julia Etta Beasley. I am not a fan of GEDCOMs as they import into WikiTree, they generate a lot of illegible gibberish, and being I stubbornly refuse to join Ancestry.com I like to add subscription free citations at every opportunity. If you're not happy with the edits I made, let me know and I can easily repair/restore to the previous state.
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