Teresa Fortenberry
Honor Code SignatorySigned 15 Apr 2014 | 4,370 contributions | 261 thank-yous | 2,265 connections
Signed 15 Apr 2014 | 4,370 contributions | 261 thank-yous | 2,265 connections
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Teresa Fortenberry
Ancestors 
and Sister of
[private sister (unknown - unknown)], [private sister (unknown - unknown)], [private sister (unknown - unknown)], Barbara (Fortenberry) Christian and [private brother (1940s - unknown)]
Descendants 
Mother of
Wanda (Gee) Rice, [private daughter (1970s - unknown)], [private daughter (1970s - unknown)] and A. J. Gee
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Apr 2014
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Short notes:
Born and raised in Clarkston, Georgia. One brother, four sisters. Four children, five grandchildren.
Retired. Photograph mushrooms. Research family history. Published in the book Mushrooms of the Georgia Piedmont & Southern Appalachians by Mary Woehrel and William Light. Photographs only. This book has been reviewed by several authorities, including: https://sabs.us/book-reviews/book-review-mushrooms-of-the-georgia-piedmont-and-southern-appalachians/
As of 2 June 2015, I have been accepted into the Society of Mayflower Descendants, Georgia chapter.
In HISTORY
We can trace our lineage through my father's mother, back to her grandmother who was Mary Jane Washburn and back through her Upham ancestors to Mary Jane's 5X great grandfather, Phineas Upham. Lieutenant Phineas Upham fought in King Philip's War in the late 1670's. For more information, please see King Philip's War
My sister, Andie Fortenberry Criminger has been working in our family's genealogy since the 1970's. Along with the work and encouragement of our parents, Andie authored our family book, "The Fortenberry Families of Southern Mississippi" which was published in 1984. Since that time, Andie has worked (off and on) as researcher, author and editor of her web page about our family, tracing our roots, writing the stories of individual family members as well as groups of our family, their places in history, their accomplishments and our DNA connections to them! Andie's tremendous research, her documented findings, her historical narratives about our families.... is nothing short of amazing!
Andie's most current research may be found here:
We have several direct family connections that would qualify for Colonial Dames, but have not gathered documentation. Lieut. Phineas Upham would qualify.
For the Revolutionary War, we have a number of family members who fought in that war.
Our William Jasper Fortenberry was a veteran of the War of 1812 (from South Carolina). Our Willis Simmons was a veteran of the War of 1812 (from Mississippi). Our 3X great grandfather, Asa Washburn, Jr., was a veteran of the War of 1812 (from Vermont).
Our Burrell T. Fortenberry was a veteran of and died from exposure during the Civil War.
Qualify for Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors (Dad was aboard the USS Helena, his cousin was aboard the USS Arizona).
My oldest daughter continues the military tradition, serving 12 years as a Marine and deployed twice to the Middle East.
---Continuing the military legacy is this daughter's son who is now a proud Marine! 8/2018
BACKGROUND
My Mom, Dad and sister, Andie, wrote the book "The Fortenberry Families of Southern Mississippi". Published in 1984.
I sometimes write for my sister's blog page: fortenberry.wordpress.com If you are a Fortenberry... or a cousin with roots in southern Mississippi, you may find some family related answers there!
DNA
My brother has had his DNA tested and the results are that our Fortenberry DNA matches ..... MATCHES.... others from Faulkenberry, Falkenburg.... and straight back to Van Valkenburgh and it's various spellings. TWO sisters have had their DNA tested. We all match as siblings, but the curious results of our own specific blend of our parents DNA has lead to some very interesting discussions!!
Now on GEDmatch (10/2017)
FAVORITE QUOTE FROM THE MOVIE "LAKE PLACID"
Oliver Platt turns to Brendon Gleeson and says "They conceal information like that in books".
And in GENEALOGY... they DO. If you don't take the time to give up the internet search and start looking through books that are APPROPRIATE for your research, then you might miss that one little sentence, one little clue that might send you in the right direction for knocking down that "brick wall" and finding your ancestors. Scores of books have never been scanned into digital format. You should try to make the time to just open the pages and read.
RELATIONS
- Third cousin, ONCE removed https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thomas-8856
- Eighth cousin, once removed https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Van_Valkenburgh-242
- Second cousin, 21 times removed https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Anjou-334
- Sixth cousin, 15 times removed https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vasa-39
- 15th Great Grandfather https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brandon-104
- 17th Great Grandfather https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Beaufort-4
- 23rd Great Grandfather https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mowbray-151
- 25th Great Grandfather https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Capet-13
- 26th Great Grandfather https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Normandie-32
- 30th Great Grandfather https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B8-2
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Carolingian-77
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Teresa Fortenberry at registration.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Teresa's formal name
- e-mail address
- birth location
- images (4)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (4)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Teresa 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 Teresa or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Teresa Fortenberry: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup J2b1a, FTDNA kit #419935
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100.00%
100.00%
Teresa Fortenberry:
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T303365 [compare], FTDNA kit #419935
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50.00%
50.00%
Wanda (Gee) Rice
:
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T744151 [compare], FTDNA kit #B265790
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50.00%
100.00%
A. J. Gee :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T811086 [compare], FTDNA kit #847421
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~6.25%
William Fortenberry :
23andMe, GEDmatch QS7332580 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A205686 [compare], Ancestry member georgiaboy29
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~6.25%
Micah Fortenberry :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member mlfort81
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~1.56%
Matthew Craft :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Mcraft24
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~0.78%
L. Williams :
AncestryDNA
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Teresa:
Featured National Park champion connections: Teresa is 15 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 23 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 11 degrees from George Catlin, 16 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 22 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 18 degrees from George Grinnell, 27 degrees from Anton Kröller, 19 degrees from Stephen Mather, 22 degrees from Kara McKean, 19 degrees from John Muir, 20 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 25 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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Thanks for the reminder!! I WOULD like to stay with the Military and War Project for this upcoming year if that is alright. I have lately been working in a few ancestor's profiles that need cleaning up.... Kennington and Narramore.... both families are very important to our family history! AND I DO have a question about one war "sideline" that needs to be explained to me. How are the Regulators treated in the Military and War Project? I am working on identifying some of my ancestors who were Regulators (my sister is the "wiz-kid" on that). Do we have a sticker? I DO SEE the Regulator FreeSpace page and would like to know IF that is considered part of the Military and War Project. Thanks for all the work you are doing with WikiTree.... IT IS MUCH APPRECIATED!!!! Teresa Fortenberry
Mary
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Thank you for replying to the Great War Project July 2022 check in (subproject of the Military and War Project). I have marked you as willing to be active.
You were unsure who added your badge. The badge is on your page. It was awarded in Feb 2018 by Jacqueline Clark with a remark that she just found your message to her.
Regarding you are willing to work on Great War profiles, that would be great for the project.
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I am not really sure who added "Great War Project" to my "requested" projects.... but I did not. I DO NOT mind being a part of the project, however, if you need people to work on profiles which qualify, I do not mind remaining a part of the group. I have access to ancestry as well as fold3 (even before it became a part of ancestry).
Thanks for the notice! Hope you are all well...... Teresa
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I have not been as active in any project or profile page as I would like to be. Hoping that will change. I WILL be working on Falkenberg-55 which is the profile of Hendrick Jacobs Falkenberg (Falkenburg) who was an Indian interpreter in about the 1670's. My sister is in the process of posting an extensive "research" paper about the evolution of the name Van Valkenburg-to-Falkenburg which will include a bit about Hendrick Falkenberg. There is another paper Andie posted to her blog page specifically about the Falkenburg to Fortenberry families..... which we will work on for both WikiTree AND WikiPedia as soon as she has time. .... I sure do miss Allan!
Teresa
Teresa I miss Allan an awful lot... We had talked/wrote so frequently.
edited by Mary Richardson
we'll see ... MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I assume you know about Allan.
It took me a while, but here is his profile, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thomas-8856
Mary
later, Dan
Thank you (once again), for the kind words!
It was great to be able to add Sir Rogers' father; "William Wasseburn of Stanford" and his wife Lucy, possibly Rogers' mother ... and there are some even earlier potential ancestor's that could move our known line back from the 13th to the 11th century ... pretty neat stuff!!
later ....
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Merry Christmas !!!
On the Fortenberry DNA page:
Is Faulkenberry-62 the same as
The some of those Ebenezer is in my direct line, so it's a bit sad that it's taken me this long to get to him.
I've been spending time lately in the 13th and 12th centuries, trying to firm up some of our early grandfathers.
Here's hoping the Holidays and New Year have been good for you!
The days are starting to blend together here ... trudging thru the winter (it was going fine, and then February showed up).
later.