Carolyn Adams
Honor Code SignatorySigned 16 Sep 2015 | 21,142 contributions | 1,103 thank-yous | 2,870 connections
Signed 16 Sep 2015 | 21,142 contributions | 1,103 thank-yous | 2,870 connections
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Carolyn L. Adams aka Freach
Ancestors 
Daughter of Kirt Allard Adams
and Barbara Frances (Morgan) Adams
Sister of
[private brother (1950s - unknown)] and [private brother (1950s - unknown)]
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Biography
Carolyn Adams is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger [[John Howland, John Tilley, and others|]].
Carolyn Adams is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger [[[Warren-66]|Richard Warren]].
Carolyn Adams participated with Nor'Easters during the Jan 2022 Connect-a-Thon, and added 56 connections.
Genealogy has been an avocation for me most of my life. As I look toward retirement in the next few years, I suspect I will segue into genealogy as a profession.
I was blessed with two grandmothers who loved genealogy. One of them copied family bible data belonging to a relative and kept that information in her own bible. I am still working to prove that line, which is an as yet unaccepted Mayflower line. Maybe this is the year, probably 80 or more years after my grandmother saved the data. (Update, 2019 was the year! My supplement to Richard Warren was accepted!)
One of my early memories is my parents writing to their mothers about family history. We had moved from Vermont, where the family had lived for many generations (like 9) to Pennsylvania, and living in a different culture (Pennsylvania Dutch) encouraged my parents to remember their own roots. Both of my grandmothers complied, and that became the beginning of what is now a fairly large database of about 12,000 ancestors.
Both my parents caught the bug, and I remember as a teenager driving long distances with them to repositories, to look at the census, and find original records. We'd go to the family history center too; this is before the internet, but LDS had the IGI. I learned the difference between primary sources and secondary sources, and why they are always preferred to compilations by amateurs like the IGI. Ancestry,com, with all its good points, is still fraught with error, and while I use it (at a local library as I won't pay for it), it is just a tool to find the real sources. Lookiing at other people's trees is a short cut to research; to get it right you have to do the research yourself.
Early in one's quest in family history, it is common just to try to flesh out that five generation chart. It is an important goal, but one learns after a few years (or decades) not to ignore the siblings and the uncles and aunts, the next door neighbors, and the community and times they lived in. Your family tree is a lot more than a bunch of names and dates. It is your own history.
Have moved back to Vermont, actually twice now, as it is such a part of who I am. i am active in a number of genealogical / heritage societies. Past Governor of the Vermont Society of Mayflower Descendants. Vice President, Genealogical Society of Vermont. More.
I am interested in Mayflower roots, Vermont and New England ancestry, Huguenot, Roger Williams & Rhode Island ancestry, Quaker, Plantagenet, Magna Charta barons and European nobility and royalty. Vermont may be my long suit.
I strive to connect, source, and integrate. Always still learning.
Carolyn is a participant of the Integrators Challenges
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Carolyn Adams at registration.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Carolyn's formal name
- full middle name (L.)
- e-mail address
- birth location
- private siblings' names
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Carolyn 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 Carolyn or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Carolyn Adams: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup T2c2, FTDNA kit #202580
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Carolyn Adams:
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch UY6486189 [compare], FTDNA kit #202580
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Kirt Adams
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch NE3891265 [compare], FTDNA kit #34080
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50.00%
50.00%
Barbara (Morgan) Adams :
Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch RR6501308 [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 Carolyn:
- Carolyn Adams is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 7, 2023.
- Carolyn Adams is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 31, 2020.
Featured National Park champion connections: Carolyn is 15 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 22 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 12 degrees from George Catlin, 16 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 25 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 15 degrees from George Grinnell, 27 degrees from Anton Kröller, 16 degrees from Stephen Mather, 24 degrees from Kara McKean, 15 degrees from John Muir, 19 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 28 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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I noticed that you recently merged one of my 4 x great grandfather Benjamin Andress with another Benjamin Andress posted by Carol Van Sickle. I also noticed that you used mainly my biography and I don’t believe you used much of Carol’s. Is this the case? I have been away until recently and I asked Carol to please make this merge for us. I believe Carol’s profile included some very useful information and sources for Benjamin and I believe they should be included in the one Benjamin Andress profile.
Are you related to this family line?
I looked briefly at your family tree and descendants of your family in MyHeritage. I am not very competent at navigating its site.
Many of my English ancestors came from Connecticut and seem to have been part of the original settlers in Massachusetts. I am not at all familiar with a lot of their surnames but I did recognize the name Babcock in your list of surnames. One of Lydia Andresses sisters married a Mott here in Ontario. They moved to the North Crosby area along with Lydia and her husband Eniel Palmer. I believe the Babcocks (another UEL family) are descended from the Andress Mott couple.
Unfortunately I cannot afford to be a premium member of my heritage. As a consequence, myheritage says my family tree is too big and they have blocked me from including most of my mother’s family’s surnames. My tree is more complete on familysearch.com. I could send you a list of family surnames if that would help. I had my DNA tested with my heritage and you could maybe find out if we share any DNA......but I suspect our connection may be too ancient to have much DNA in common.
Keep well and safe in these troubled times, Shirley
My difficulty with Benjamin is his birthday. If he was born in 1775, he could not be the father of my Lydia Andress as she was born in 1784. However, from all the Leeds County Censuses that I have uncovered and that Carol has uncovered, her father‘s name was indeed Benjamin. If Benjamin was born in 1765 or 1768, he could have been a very young father and his wife Deborah was probably equally young if not younger.
I cannot solve this dilemma right now so I will just leave it alone. I do want to share with you some of my Anderson kin but I will do that in a personal message as it will take up too much space here. Cheers Shirley
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