Timothy May

Ancestors

Son of [private father (unknown - unknown)] and [private mother (unknown - unknown)]

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Biography

2023 Source-a-Thon

Timothy was born in Colorado in the 1960s. He lived in many places as a child. He had three years of high school in New Hampshire and graduated in Arizona. In 1986 he received a B.A. in History from Concordia University Nebraska (then called "Concordia Teachers College"). He graduated from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis with the M. Div. degree in 1991. While at the seminary he also took three months of intensive language training in Spanish in Mexico. He is a Lutheran Pastor in southern Wisconsin.

Timothy's work on a family tree began in the early 1980s as a class assignment. He has become more active with the family tree and genealogy in the last 15 years. In connection with genealogy he discovered the use of DNA for genealogical purposes and became actively involved with that (see the DNA section below). Timothy's paternal grandfather, Edward Moore May (1895-1975), was active in genealogy before the time of the personal computer and wrote the following genealogical works: "The Griffiths of Plymouth, Massachusetts" (1970) and "The Spahr Family of Virginia" (1971). Timothy's uncle on his mother's paternal side explored the genealogy.of the Haase Family and related families. His mother's maternal ancestry, the Peterman(n) Family and other families, has also been researched.

Timothy's ancestors came to America during these time periods:
1600s - paternal grandmother's ancestry from England or Wales
1860s - maternal grandfather and grandmother's ancestry from Germany
1880s - paternal grandfather's ancestry from Ireland

Research Notes

Surname List
Here is a link to a quick list of surnames on Timothy's family tree: https://www.WikiTree.com/treewidget/May-14298/10 (If any surnames overlap one another making them hard to read, widen your browser window.)

Surnames in Ancestral Family Lines
Grandparent surnames in bold print.

Grandfather's Paternal Ancestry
Campbell, Heanan, [Heneghan], Kelly, McFarland, McKeon [Mc Keon, McKeone, McKeown, McKone, even McKern], May, Root, Simpson
Grandfather's Maternal Ancestry
Capen, Cumins, [Cummings], Ellis, Everest, Griffith, Hardy, Helmer, Reed
Grandmother's Paternal Ancestry
Choitz, Haase, Krutz, Paetke, Utecht
Grandmother's Maternal Ancestry
Boss, [Böss, Bösse, Bosse, Boesse], Bruning, Kaufeldt, Peterman, [Petermann], Pruss, Richert, [Riechert, Rieckert], Sander

DNA Tests

Timothy is tested atDNA, mtDNA, and Y-DNA

atDNA (AUTOSOMAL) RESULTS (UPDATED)
The atDNA results at the various providers are different from one another. His atDNA is tested at a number of providers and some of those results are below. Also below are admixture tool results from GEDmatch and yourDNAportal.

atDNA Summary: Irish & British & German & Austrian
("Share your Ancestry", 23andMe V5)

23andMe V5 Ancestry Composition (December 2023)
28% British and Irish
Genetic Groups
Central and Southern Ireland - Highly Likely
> Connacht, Leinster, and Munster
Southwest Munster - Highly Likely
> Kerry and Limerick
Country Matches
Republic of Ireland - Highly Likely (10 counties listed below)
United Kingdom - Highly Likely (10 regions listed below)
24.9% French & German
Austria - Highly Likely
Germany - Highly Likely
Netherlands - Possible
9.8% Scandinavian
12.0% Broadly Northwestern European
24.6% Eastern European
Country Matches
Poland - Highly Likely
0.6% Ashkenazi Jewish
0.1% Ethiopian & Eritrean

Irish and U.K. Autosomal DNA Ancestry (updated)
To help with Irish ancestry research, below is a list of the top ten counties from the Republic of Ireland where there is shared ancestry and where matches report ancestral origins. This list is from 23andMe V5 (12/19/23) and is labeled a "Highly Likely Match."
1. County Cork
2. County Mayo
3. County Galway
4. County Dublin*
5. County Kerry
6. County Donegal
7. County Cavan
8. County Limerick
9. County Roscommon
10. County Clare

Also, in the United Kingdom and labeled a "Highly Likely Match"
1. Belfast
2. Glasgow City
3. Merseyside
4. Greater London
5. Norfolk
6. Greater Manchester
7. Fife
8. South Yorkshire
9. Cardiff
10. Cheshire West and Chester

• The paper trail of Timothy's paternal ancestry line goes back to County Dublin in the 1800s.
  
  

AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimate (September 2023)
22% Scotland
21% Sweden & Denmark
19% Eastern Europe & Russia
> Northwest Poland
> Northern Pomerania
14% Germanic Europe
> Central & Northern Germany
7% Ireland
6% Norway
5% England & Northwestern Europe
4% Wales
2% Baltics

myOrigins (Version 3) at FamilyTreeDNA
55% Central Europe
21% Scandinavia
14% Ireland
7% England, Wales, and Scotland
4% Baltic

ADMIXTURE RESULTS

EUtest V2 K15 Oracle results (AncestryDNA kit at GEDmatch)
North_German
Danish
North_Dutch
Irish
West_Scottish
Norwegian
Swedish
Southeast_English

EUtest V2 K15 nMonte3 Oracle results (yourDNAportal)
North_German
Danish
North_Dutch
Icelandic
Irish
West_Scottish
Southeast_English
Norwegian

K47 Global Population Calculator (yourDNAportal)
19.92 Celtic*
16.30 Scando Germanic
15.78 East European
15.77 North Sea Germanic
0.22 - 5.04 12 Other population groups

• • Irish, Cornish and Scottish
    

Ancient DNA
Eurogenes K36 (nMonte3 oracle results) (yourDNAportal)
Closest populations distances [ancient populations]
IA Britain York 6DRIF3
11767_EarlyBronze_Age_Briton
IA_Britain_York_3DRIF16
SZ2_Langobard
Sweden_Viking_97002
BA_Srubnaya_10234
LNBA_Urnfield_Germany_10099
CL93_Langobard

Eurogenes K36 (nMonte3 oracle results) (yourDNAportal)
Oracle Population Percentages
Sweden_Viking_97002 27.6
Early_Medieval_Czech_RISE569_K36 17.2
BA_Hungary_RISE371 15.4
IA_Wielbark_Mas_5_PL 13.8
BA_Unetice_Germany_I0047 5.4
IA_Wielbark_Kow_25_PL 3.6
BA_Unetice_Germany_I0164 3
IA_EastKazachstan_Is2 2.6
IA_Wielbark_Kow_22_PL 2.6
BA_Hungary_RISE374 1.8
IA_Wielbark_Kow_26_PL 1.8
IA_Britain_York_6DRIF3 1.6
Finland_Levanluhta_JK1968 1.2
BA_Unetice_Germany__I0115 1
Balto-Slavic_AV2 0.6
IA_Sarmatian_PR9_I0574_Pokrovka 0.4
SZ2_Langobard 0.4

mtDNA RESULTS
His mtDNA results are in the K mtDNA Haplogroup Project at FamilyTreeDNA.

Y-DNA RESULTS
His Y-DNA is tested with the Big Y-700 test at FamilyTreeDNA. His results are in a variety of surname, haplogroup and geographical projects there. In his surname project, his results are one of three out of 650 testers who are related. These three testers make up .46% (less than 1%) of all the testers in the surname project.

R1b1a1b1a1a1c2b1b2a is the haplogroup signature of R1b-A1142 (ISOGG 2019-2020 Haplogroup R Tree) R-A1142 is a recognized haplogroup upstream from Timothy's haplogroup of R-FGC30240 (February 2024).

Below are Ancient Y-DNA results from the Big-Y 700 Test at FamilyTreeDNA.

Ancient Y-DNA
Kumle høje O, 900-1000 CE
Grave, Langeland, Denmark
Viking Denmark Cultural Group
Source: Big Y-700 Test at FamilyTreeDNA,

Rare Connection
1 in 1,100
Only 223 customers are this closely related to Kumle høje O.
(Source: discover.familytreedna.com)

Research

Timothy May is a member of the Hennigan Name Study Project.

Timothy May has an interest in Clan Campbell, part of the Scottish Clans Project.

Kings of Luighne Connacht
Campbell DNA Group Project

Sources

• Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing. Timothy May, FTDNA kit #242329, and his father, Living May, FTDNA kit #318915, match at a Genetic Distance of 0 on 111 markers thereby confirming their direct paternal lines.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed through mtDNA testing. Timothy May, FTDNA kit #242329, and his mother, Living Haase, FTDNA kit #242329, match at a Genetic Distance of 0 on HVR1, HVR2, and Coding Regions, thereby confirming their direct maternal lines.