Holly Vaughan
Honor Code SignatorySigned 21 Aug 2020 | 671 contributions | 15 thank-yous | 973 connections
Signed 21 Aug 2020 | 671 contributions | 15 thank-yous | 973 connections
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Holly Vaughan
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Biography
My genealogical journey began many years ago, following in the footsteps of my beloved maternal grandmother, Vera Whitley McCarty. It was the search for the roots of my sweet, fiery, adopted paternal grandmother - Robbie Lee Dotson Vaughan - however, which beckoned to most of my sleuthing. Through the revolutionary advances in genetic genealogy, we finally were able to solve the mystery of her biological family.
Over the decades, I have learned many things genealogically ... most notably about the morphing nature of surnames. For example, our family surname was ‘Boughan’ rather than ‘Vaughan,’ in Colonial Virginia of the seventeenth century. My paternal grandmother’s surname was ‘Dotson,’ rather than ‘Dolson,’ as she had thought. A clerk somewhere may have forgotten to cross a ‘t’!
Currently, I am working to establish the biological parentage of my adopted second great-grandmother, Ella Chambers Hancock Vaughan. I continue to seek the family of the foundress of our ‘mother branch,’ Rosannah Gwynn Crabb. In addition, I hope to learn more about the genetically evident origins of our paternal line, in the Boughan family of early Essex County, Virginia. I would like to understand better the patterns of immigration and settlement of the Scots, Ulster Scots, Welsh and Irish in the colonial United States. Finally, I am searching for the origins of my second great-grandfather, John T Sherron, whose parents may have emigrated from Ireland to the United States during the era of the Great Famine.
I also enjoy researching the family of my husband, whose roots lie in colonial Mexico.
It is wonderful to discover the collaborative work and community here at WikiTree!
Holly Vaughan is a Project Member of the Southern Pioneers Project.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Holly 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 Holly or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Holly Vaughan: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup H1c1
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Holly Vaughan:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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MyHeritage DNA
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Living DNA
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50.00%
50.00%
Robert Vaughan
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23andMe
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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MyHeritage DNA
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Living DNA
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50.00%
50.00%
Jacklin (McCarty) Vaughan :
23andMe
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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MyHeritage DNA
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Living DNA
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~0.39%
Jerry (Cieloha) Lawson :
23andMe, GEDmatch PE5702253 [compare], Ancestry member JWLawson_OK
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch PE5702253 [compare], Ancestry member JWLawson_OK
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch PE5702253 [compare], Ancestry member JWLawson_OK, FTDNA kit #361037
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Featured National Park champion connections: Holly is 17 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 25 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 18 degrees from George Catlin, 16 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 21 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 19 degrees from George Grinnell, 28 degrees from Anton Kröller, 19 degrees from Stephen Mather, 24 degrees from Kara McKean, 16 degrees from John Muir, 18 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 25 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Categories: Southern Pioneers Project Member
Thanks for showing Scotland as one of your interests. If you haven’t yet done so, please join the Scotland project via the G-2-G topic. I hope you get a great deal of pleasure collaborating with colleagues in this great project. If you have any questions or wish any advice either send me a private message or email me.
I’ve left a message on the ‘Scotland’ page and am beginning the ‘Tartan Trail!’
Holly
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Questions ask Here To contact me, be sure to use the "reply" link for this comment so that I will be notified. You can also click my name to send a private message, or post a comment, on my profile page.
Janet~Pre-1700 Greeter
PS Links not working, click them in your comment box on your profile page
Also, most of the ‘Family Bible Records’ that have come down to us have been detached from their former volumes. I will look for alternate sourcing, and will upload the copies that I have soon.
edited by Holly Vaughan
As you have been a member of WikiTree for a few weeks now I thought I would check in to see how you are getting on with the site.
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Mindy ~ WikiTree Mentor
Thanks so much!
Holly
I hope this helps!
Mindy
Check out the How-to Guide for some quick tips on working with both the Wiki pages and our other members. There is some great information in those pages.
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