Chet Snow
Honor Code SignatorySigned 12 Dec 2013 | 66,017 contributions | 6,700 thank-yous | 2,438 connections
Signed 12 Dec 2013 | 66,017 contributions | 6,700 thank-yous | 2,438 connections
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Dr. Chet B. Snow
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Son of Walt Snow Sr.
and Ann (Bonine) Snow
Brother of
Walter Snow Jr., Ph.D.
Profile last modified
| Created 12 Dec 2013
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"A Genealogist must have the patience of Job; the curiosity of a cat; the stubbornness of a mule; the eyesight of an eagle; be blessed with the luck of the Irish and have the ability and stamina of a camel to go long hours without food or drink." - A Wise Genealogist
This profile is part of the Snow Name Study.
I came across this in a recent research foray. If anyone knows whose grave this is on, let me know. Chet
- This is on a cemetery plaque at a cemetery in Alabama:
- "Linger awhile and walk with me into the shadowy mist that was yesterday. Stroll across the faded pages of history and from our hardships learn the ways of a better life. Pass me not for I am the spirit of your ancestors. In your veins flow my blood and the blood of my fathers. Linger awhile, if only for a moment and through your thoughts I will know I am remembered."
Biography
Chet Snow is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger Constance (Hopkins) Snow.
Chet Snow is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.
Chet Snow was a RAWKER in the We Will RAWK You Event.
Chet Snow competed in the 2023 WikiGames.
I was born at the end of WW II in Paterson, NJ, where my father was employed as a mechanical engineer at the Wright Aeronautical works, helping develop jet aircraft engines during that conflict. My parents met when both were students at Penn State University in State College, PA. Both my grandfathers were also professors at Penn State until they retired. All are now deceased. I have one older brother, retired from the US Federal Government, in Florida.
I went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, alma mater of my maternal grand-father, for whom I am named, and I later did graduate work in history at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, at Columbia University and at the Institute for Advanced Studies, up to my doctorate in social history. I taught college history for a while until I decided Academia, with all its committees, was not for me.
In the 1970s I moved to Napa, California; since 1994 I have lived in Sedona, with my wife, born in France, and whom I met while living in Paris doing research in the 1980s. We have no children and I am now retired.
Ten years ago, in December 2013, I was "bitten by the genealogical bug" and discovered Wikitree, whose easy access and community ethics appealed to me. In a relatively short time, I have found answers to many of my questions about different branches of my family, such as that my Snow relatives and I are descendants of 2 Mayflower passengers... I have therefore set up a Snow one-name study page (although I haven't had much time to work on it yet!) and added DNA testing to my biography.
I am always open to new information, corrections anywhere on my Tree (with Sources, please!), and to finding new distant cousins from my Snow, Bonine, Weston, Whiteman +/or other related lineages.
As I am bilingual in French, I will be happy to assist Wikitree researchers seeking short translations etc. from that language too.en
This user is a native speaker of English.
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Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle.
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Chet Snow on January 7, 2014. Edited on May 19, 2015 and Feb. 9, 2016.
- Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing. Chet Snow, FTDNA kit # 335069, and his 8th cousin, once removed, Frank Snow, FTDNA kit # 211676, match at a Genetic Distance of 2 on 37 markers, thereby confirming their direct paternal links back to their MRCA Nicholas Snow. FTDNA indicates that the probability the two share a common ancestor within the last 8 generations is 88.33% and within the last 9 generations is 91.76%.
- Paternal and maternal relationships in his matrilineal line are confirmed by a GEDmatch test match between Chet B. Snow GEDmatch T603702 and his 2nd cousin, once removed, Donna Robinson Falcone GEDmatch A327604. Their most-recent-common ancestors are George Cleland Robinson and Eliza Ann Howell. Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 3.6, based on sharing 101,4 cM across 3 shared segments.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Chet's formal name
- full middle name (B.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (1)
- private siblings' names
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Chet 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 Chet or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Chet Snow: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I-M253, FTDNA kit #335069
- Frank Snow
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I-M253, FTDNA kit #211676
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100.00%
100.00%
Chet Snow:
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T603702 [compare], FTDNA kit #335069
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~1.56%
Donna (Robinson) Falcone :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A327604 [compare], Ancestry member DFalcone
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~0.78%
Rob Hobdell :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A565346 [compare], Ancestry member No_Longer_on_Ancestry
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~0.78%
Jeanne Weston :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Kay Robinson :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch DV3713923 [compare]
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 Chet:
- Chet Snow is a Wonderful WikiTreer! Jan 24, 2024.
- Chet Snow is a Wonderful WikiTreer Apr 21, 2023.
- Chet Snow is a Wonderful WikiTreer Feb 28, 2023.
- Legacy Heir Chet B Snow is a Wonderful Wikitreer! Jul 19, 2022.
- Chet B Snow is a Wonderful Wikitreer! Apr 27, 2022.
- Chet Snow is a Wonderful WikiTreer Apr 15, 2022.
Chet is 23 degrees from Emeril Lagasse, 24 degrees from Nigella Lawson, 23 degrees from Maggie Beer, 43 degrees from Mary Hunnings, 29 degrees from Joop Braakhekke, 26 degrees from Michael Chow, 21 degrees from Ree Drummond, 25 degrees from Paul Hollywood, 25 degrees from Matty Matheson, 23 degrees from Martha Stewart, 31 degrees from Danny Trejo and 27 degrees from Molly Yeh on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
I hope you might be able to help me remove my ancestors and ydna results from this tree. Benjamin Brown, Sr. and wife Sarah Thompson were their names. The John Brown shown as Benjamin's father is not related to me. Thanks, Keith Brown
I see you contacted me recently in regards to Mayflower descendant stickers on profiles. The stickers I am using are merely a customized version of the normal Descendant sticker; it is NOT the official Mayflower Descent Sticker that is restricted to living individuals.
Numerous other people have contacted me in regards to this, and I was told previously by people who are involved with template maintenance/usage that there is not an issue with my usage of the template.
Regards,
W. A. Hopkins
Thank you for your quick answer. I spent some time in the past few days with a 31 pages (plus detailed notes) document that Alice Eichholz put on the Linville Family web site https://linvillefamily.us/ called "Linville Family in America – First Generations." I just happened to discover it about a week ago. To see this, you can go to the web site and click on the link to the document, and it will download. She wrote this in 2012, and it includes updates and corrections to the information in her book. Regarding the death of John Linville (Linville-5), she says (p. 13): "John Linville probably died after 14 Oct. 1739 at Conestoga, Lancaster County, PA, a date when daughter Lydia's husband, Samuel Richey, wrote his will. The inventory for Richey's estate indicates that John Linville owed the estate 1/3 of a debt." Alice seems to feel that John probably died in Pennsylvania, but Ann went to South Carolina, probably to live with a daughter, and died there in 1785. She has a citation for an estate file for Ann. I am planning to try to get a copy of it, but I just learned about it from this document, which I just found about a week ago. I was gratified to discover that Alice cited an article I wrote about the marriage of Agnes Linville, daughter of John (Linville-5) and correspondence with me in notes 261 and 262! Peace Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer (also a descendant of John Linville (Linville-5) and Ann, through their daughter Agnes (Linville) Hindman)
I have been working on my Linville connection recently, and am looking at the Wiki page for Ann (Hendricks) Linville (1685-1733??) (Hendricks-355), wife of John Linville (1677-1739 [not 1733, according to Alice Eichholz]) (Linville-5). Whoever wrote the original page for Ann Hendricks wrote that Ann's third husband was "Ellender Bryan." This is *very* confused, because Ellender is a variant of the name Eleanor, and Eleanor Bryan was the wife of William Linville, the son of John and Ann (Hendricks) Linville. That whole paragraph needs to be removed. I am not yet certified for pre-1700 work, so I can't do it myself. Also, Thomas Baldwin was the name of John Linville (1677-1739)'s stepfather (b. 1657) and stepbrother (b. 1685). There is no evidence that either of them were married to Ann Hendricks. Can that paragraph also be removed from the biography? I have more questions, but will wait until you answer this.
Peace Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
You are right there have been many additions to this profile which I did not create but as Ann is my 7th great-grandmother, I adopted it a few years ago. I had made "notations" on it about the clearly-conflated passages but have not had time to do real research - and I do not have access behind Ancestry.com's "pay wall" subscription. I have added "Research Notes" to help clear up the conflations. I do not know which date 1733 or 1739 is when Ann Linville died - it may be 1739 as her husband is said to have died in 1733 but I do feel certain that they died in Augusta Co., Virginia, not in Pennsylvania. More research is required than I have time for at the moment but at least I believe the narrative is clear.
He is not a relative so far as I know - my apologies if I interrupted your work.
Best Chet Snow-2128
George Parchment married Grace Snowe 15 Sep 1603 in Salisbury, St Edmund, Image 171 Salisbury, St Edmund Parish Register https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/902397501:61187?_phsrc=dpS30&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=agnes&gsln=davys&ml_rpos=33&queryId=56933ec3c4d536dc9698595c90ade468
I've added this in research notes on Parchment-1
Short answer - maybe. There was an important Snowe family in Salisbury/Wiltshire in that time period that went on to become Goldsmiths and Bankers in London - all to end in scandal in mid 1800s when there was a "run on the bank" at a "panic" and the last heir got caught - so far as I know they are NOT related to "my" Snows, my earliest male ancestor came to Plymouth Colony in 1623. I will see if I can find the profiles I posted on WikiTree and make the connection. Chet
Update - All I can find is an "Edmond" or "Edmund" Snowe who died 1637 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He had a will that is on Ancestry but it's in medieval English script and I am not an expert on that - wife was "Elizabeth". There are more from Wiltshire but I do not know how to find them.
edited by Chet Snow
Here is the registration page link: Have you registered for the April 2023 Connect-a-Thon yet? - WikiTree G2G
Hope to see you there.
There is one "fix" which is to accept Margaret Dernewell as the wife of John' father, Thomas Penne (1370-1413) making son John the heir of lands in Aldenham and husband of only Alice Fereby.
Any insight?
Don Ward (husband of Sue Penn)
Thank you so much for being a Legacy Heir and being in the Connect-A -Thon. I hope to see you for the Source-A-Thon in October.
When you get a chance, can you investigate Charles Whitten Sr (1736-1798)?
In 2014/2016 you wrote, "Charles Whitten was the son of Evart Jones Whitten and his wife, Dorothy (Tash) Whitten." There is an Evart Jones Whitten (1913-1980) who married Dorothy Jeanette (Tash) Whitten (1914-2007) in Maine. It would be a strange coincidence if the parents of this Charles Whitten, born in Virginia ca. 1736, were also named Evart Jones Whitten and Dorothy Tash.
Thanks!
Chris
Registration for the July Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 15 Jul 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster. Here is the Registration Link:https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1431009/have-you-registered-for-the-july-2022-connect-a-thon-yet
Congratulations on being #1 on the Legacy Heirs team for the April Connect-a-Thon. You kept me inspired as I pushed to keep up with you (til I had to stop for the evening - but even then I was about 20 behind you). You kept going! Very impressive, sir. And then I read your bio - wow! I was bested by the bestest! All best wishes to you and thanks for keeping me inspired!
Diane Scholten (from Barrington, IL - suburb of Chicago)
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I was born in Mars Hill, Maine almost directly across from the Snow Cemetery in Mars Hill. As a teenager I mowed that cemetery on a weekly basis, summers. Obviously, I noted the Snow names including Moses who died in 1847, perhaps in a house (purportedly the first built in that town in 1845), though he had cut logs/slash, etc. there as early as 1844. I have a cousin, Sandra Leighton (we have Sewell relatives who lived in Maugerville, NB, Canada, in common) who has done some work on Moses Snow, her relative. Gladys Tweedie, long since deceased, wrote a history of Mars Hill, ME and apparently included a lot of research in it related to Moses Snow and his relatives. I have written five books on the history of Togus, America's first Veterans home and hospital 1866-2016. Learning that one of Moses Snow's sons, Jeremiah Snow, is buried at the VA Cemetery at Togus in Augusta, Maine, I want to write a booklet about him and his brothers, especially, all who were in the Civil War in the 15th Maine. They signed up while living in Mars Hill. I am wondering if your Snow family hailed from this Moses Snow? If so or otherwise, perhaps you would share any information/sources related to Moses and Jeremiah, etc. I am a professional historian and have written mostly local history as an appendage to my educational, teaching and leadership roles. I'm 86 and still writing. I can be reached, preferably at [email address removed] I live at 245 Main Street, Winthrop, Maine 04364. My land line is 207-377-6251. Thanks. Donald Beattie PS: I am also on Facebook as Donald Beattie ad am known as my extended families' genealogist.
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https://www.linvillefamily.us/LFA-o/g0/p1.htm#i3 had no son named William. Someone must have changed the profile but their info is pretty impressive. maybe you could move that info to William's profile before removing it. Thanks for the input.
Thank you for being on Team Legacy Heirs for the source-a-thon. I hope we will have you join the team again for the next thon.
I wonder if you were able to get over to France this year with all the troubles now? Hope you and yours are well.
I am helping Lisa from Legacy Heirs out for the Connect-a-Thon 2020. We start the day after tomorrow, Friday, July 17th, at 8:00 AM (EDT). Our link at G2G is over here at: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1054824/legacy-heirs-2020-connect-a-thon-g2g-chat-page
Registration ends today if you know anyone who wants to join our team.
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Looking forward to your participation again and thank you.
Thanks, Karen
We both descend from Winston, where my family is from his son, William Henry Snow.
Perhaps we can collaborate tree information via email - mine is [email address removed]
Just noticed it was your wedding anniversary 12 December ? Congratulations and a big hug for both of you and hope you had a wonderful and very romantic day !
Greets from the Netherlands,
Bea x
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