Randall Gardner
Honor Code SignatorySigned 28 Jul 2017 | 53,843 contributions | 963 thank-yous | 7,383 connections
Signed 28 Jul 2017 | 53,843 contributions | 963 thank-yous | 7,383 connections
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Here is my family tree.
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anyone who shares the same genealogical or historical interests.
Here is my family tree.
I have a maternal line, Sarah Jane Webb, that appears in Missouri in the mid-1800s. I'm working to understand how I'm related to the Webb/Breeden/Hurst families of Eastern TN through her. This is based on shared dna matches.
I'm also researching my Walker/Adair line which came through Oklahoma. I have some sketchy evidence that my Adair line may be from Kentucky.
I'd love to review and share information with anyone on those lines.
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Randall D. Gardner
Born 1960s.
Ancestors 
and Brother of
Rhonda (Gardner) Jackson
Father of
[private daughter (1980s - unknown)], [private son (1990s - unknown)] and [private son (2000s - unknown)]
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Jul 2017
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Biography
Randall Gardner has Scottish Ancestors.
Randall Gardner has Irish ancestors.
Randall Gardner has English ancestors.
Randall has participated in 36 out of 52 weeks during the 2019 52 Weeks of Photos Challenge.
Randall Gardner achieved the 15 For 15 award for completing 15 missions in our 2023 15 For 15 Challenge.
Randall Gardner participated with Team Missouri during the 2023 Connect-a-Thon, and added 353 connections.
Randall Gardner participated with Team Missouri during the 2020 Scan-a-Thon, scanning and uploading 356 items to profiles.
Randall Gardner participated with Team Missouri during the 2020 Clean-a-Thon, correcting 76 suggestions.
Descendant of PGM migrant George Gardiner Samuel Eldred
Henry Howland Jr.
Jacob Waterhouse Adam Mott Edward Rossiter John Mayne Thomas Newhall Sr Brian Pendleton
Edmund Goodenow
John Bellows Isaac Stearns Edward Dix
John Drake John Moore
Thomas Holcombe Thomas Bliss Samuel Chapin Bigod Eggleston George Phelps Joseph Loomis John North Sr Thomas Bird Jacques Eno Samuel Bissell George Trotter III.
Henry Howland Jr.
Jacob Waterhouse Adam Mott Edward Rossiter John Mayne Thomas Newhall Sr Brian Pendleton
Edmund Goodenow
John Bellows Isaac Stearns Edward Dix
John Drake John Moore
Thomas Holcombe Thomas Bliss Samuel Chapin Bigod Eggleston George Phelps Joseph Loomis John North Sr Thomas Bird Jacques Eno Samuel Bissell George Trotter III.
Descendant of Charles the Great, Charlemagne, Patricius Romanorum.
Randy is the son of Don Gardner and Carole Mann .
Born in Springfield, Missouri, Randy was educated at Ash Grove High School followed by Missouri University of Science & Technology (former Univ. of Mo - Rolla, former Missouri School of Mines) where he received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1991.
Besides engineering, Randy enjoys travel and landscape photography. Go check out his gallery!
Randy has a Randy Gardner Tracking Page: 15 for 15 Mission for tracking various challenges on WikiTree.
Ethnicity Estimates
Randy's ancestry is primarily from England, Scotland, and Ireland with a little Scandinavian, Iberian, and broadly European thrown in for good measure. A couple of companies also think I have a small amount of ancestry from Africa. Listed below are ethnicity estimates of various dna companies. All of these companies tend to have different categories so I list regions and countries separately at times.
| Region | Ancestry | MyHeritage | 23andMe | FTdna |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| British & Irish | 61.8% | |||
| England & NW Europe | 58% | 62% | ||
| English | 43.4% | |||
| Scandinavian | 41.2% | 2.2% | ||
| Scotland | 27% | |||
| Central Europe | 22% | |||
| French & German | 18.1% | |||
| Broadly NW Europe | 12.8% | |||
| North & West Europe | 11.4% | |||
| Wales | 7% | |||
| Ireland | 3% | 15% | ||
| Iberian | 2.5% | 1.4% | ||
| Sweden & Denmark | 5% | |||
| Broadly S European | 1.7% | |||
| Central Asian | 1.5% | |||
| Broadly European | 1.1% | |||
| Benin & Togo | <1% | |||
| Italian | 0.5% | |||
| African | 0.2% |
Genealogy
- Ancestry profile, including links to trees
It's All Relative
Here are some notable relatives of Randall Gardner.
Famous or Infamous Relatives
U.S. Presidents
- George Washington - 2nd cousins 8x removed
- Thomas Jefferson - 4th cousins 7x removed
- James Madison - 5th cousins 6x removed
- John Tyler (1790-1862) - 5th cousins 6x removed
- Zachary Taylor - 3rd cousins 7x removed
- Millard Fillmore - 6th cousins 6x removed
- Franklin Pierce - 5th cousins 6x removed
- Ulysses S. Grant - 6th cousins 6x removed
- Rutherford B Hayes - 6th cousins 6x removed
- James Garfield - 6th cousins 4x removed
- Chester A Arthur - 5th cousins 6x removed
- Grover Cleveland - 6th cousins 7x removed
- Benjamin Harrison - 8th cousins 5x removed
- Theodore Roosevelt - 7th cousins 4x removed
- William Taft - 7th cousins 5x removed
- Warren G Harding - 8th cousins 3x removed
- Calvin Coolidge - 8th cousins 2x removed
- Herbert Hoover - 7th cousins 2x removed
- Franklin D Roosevelt - 8th cousins 3x removed
- Harry S Truman - 9th cousins 2x removed
- Richard Nixon - 9th cousins 1x removed
- Gerald Ford - 9th cousins 1x removed
- Jimmy Carter Jr. - 7th cousins 2x removed
- George H.W. Bush - 10th cousins 1x removed
- Bill (Blythe) Clinton III - 9th cousins 3x removed
- George Bush - 11th cousins
Various
- Nathan Bedford Forrest - 4th cousins 4x removed
- Robert E. Lee - 4th cousins 6x removed
- William Falkner - 5th cousins 5x removed
- Harriet Beecher Stowe - 5th cousins 7x removed
- Horatio Spafford - 5th cousins 7x removed, wrote the hymn "It Is Well"
- Gen. George Patton - 6th cousins 2x removed
- Amelia Earhart - 6th cousins 4x removed
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) - 6th cousins 4x removed
- Samuel Morse - 6th cousins 6x removed
- Louisa May Alcott - 6th cousins 6x removed
- Writer William Bradbury - 6th cousins 7x removed
- Charles Wesley - 6th cousins 11x removed
- Actor Johnny Depp - 7th cousins
- Singer Patsy Cline - 7th cousins 1x removed
- Actress Carrie Fisher - 7th cousins 1x removed
- Swimmer Michael Phelps - 7th cousins 1x removed
- Actress Betty White - 7th cousins 2x removed
- Burl Ives - 7th cousins 3x removed
- Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) - 7th cousins 3x removed
- John Steinbeck - 7th cousins 3x removed
- Robert Frost - 7th cousins 4x removed
- Herman Melville - 7th cousins 4x removed
- William Cowper - 7th cousins 9x removed
- Glen Campbell - 8th cousins
- Naomi Judd - 8th cousins 1x removed
- Jack London - 8th cousins 2x removed
- June Carter Cash - 8th cousins 2x removed
- Bing Crosby - 8th cousins 2x removed
- Marlon Brando - 8th cousins 2x removed
- Bob Barker - 8th cousins 2x removed
- Robert Duvall - 8th cousins 2x removed
- Actor Jimmy Stewart - 8th cousins 3x removed
- Judy Garland - 8th cousins 3x removed
- Dr. Benjamin Spock - 8th cousins 4x removed
- Julia Child - 8th cousins 4x removed
- Outlaw Jesse James - 8th cousins 4x removed
- Daniel Whittle - 8th cousins 6x removed
- Singer Johnny Cash - 9th cousins 1x removed
- Peter Benchley - 9th cousins 1x removed
- Actor John Wayne - 9th cousins 2x removed
- Jimi Hendrix - 9th cousins 2x removed
- Winston Churchill - 10th cousins 2x removed
- Sir Walter Scott - 10th cousins 6x removed
Wikitree'er Cousins
- Kathie Forbes - 6th cousins 2x removed
- Pip Sheppard - 7th cousins 2x removed
- Greta Moody - 8th cousins 1x removed
- Margaret Summitt - 8th cousins 3x removed
- Eowyn Langholf - 9th cousins 2x removed
- Julie Ricketts - 10th cousins 1x removed
- Alexis Nelson - 10th cousins 2x removed
- Mindy Silva - 11th cousins 1x removed
- Loralee Hutton - 11th cousins 1x removed
- Deb Durham - 12th cousins
- Lori Zukerman - 12th cousins
Immigrant Ancestors
- George Gardiner - Immigrated from England to Rhode Island around 1638
- Horod Long - aka "Herodias", immigrated from London,England to Weymouth, Massachusetts around 1638 with then husband John Hicks. She became an avid Quaker later in life while "married" to George Gardiner.
- Samuel Eldred - Immigrated from England to Massachusetts around 1640, eventually ending up in Rhode Island
- John Greene - Immigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1635 on the, "James". Moved to Providence, Rhode Island in 1637 due to religious differences. Was one of twelve original founders of the First Baptist Church in Providence.
- Henry Howland, Jr - Immigrated from England to Plymouth Colony in 1632/33. Brother of Mayflower passenger John Howland.
- Edward Thurston - Immigrated from England to Rhode Island where he is found in 1647 Quaker records to be marrying Elizabeth Mott.
- Elizabeth Mott - Immigrated from England to Massachusettsin 1635 aboard the "Defense" with her family. Her family later removed to Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
- Samuel Gild - aka Guild, Gile, Guile, Immigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1636 and was an original settler of Haverhill.
- James Davis - Immigrated from England to Massachusetts around 1639
- Cicely Thayer - Immigrated from England to Massachusetts with husband, James Davis.
- Richard Pearce IV - Immigrated from England to Portsmouth, Rhode Island in the mid-1600s
- Richard Hart - Immigrated from England to Portsmouth, Rhode Island in the mid-1600s
- Edward Rossiter - Immigrated from England to Massachusetts around 1629
- Edmund Goodenow - Immigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1638 aboard the "Confidence".
- Hugh Caldwell Sr. - Immigrated from Ireland to Virginia around 1740
- Matthias Holstein aka Claesson - Immigrated from Kreis Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany to Delaware in 1663
- John Bellows - Immigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1635 aboard the "Hopewell".
- John Woods or Wood - Immigrated from England to Massachusetts around 1635, probably on the second voyage that year of the "Hopewell".
- John Parminter - Immigrated from England to Massachusetts around 1638.
- James Cutler Sr - Immigrated from England to Massachusetts around 1634.
- Thomas Dewey - Immigrated from England to Massachusetts and then to Windsor, CT in 1635.
- working on more ...
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Randall Gardner at registration.
DNA Sources
- Paternal relationship is confirmed with a 23andMe test match between Randall Gardner and Brianna Brown, third cousins. Predicted relationship by 23andme: 2nd to 3rd cousins based on 1.29% shared across 6 segments.
- Maternal relationship is confirmed with a 23andMe test match between Randall Gardner and Tamera Mann, second cousins. Predicted relationship by 23andme: 2nd cousins based on 3.72% shared across 10 segments.
- Paternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Randall Gardner and his second cousin Natalie Hack . Their most-recent common ancestors are Randall's great grandparents, Elmer Gardner and Anna J Walker. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd Cousins, based on sharing 250 cM across 15 segments.
- Paternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Randall Gardner and his second cousin once removed Jenifer Chandler . Their most-recent common ancestors are Randall's great grandparents, Benjamin Taylor Fine and Essie Golden Mynatt. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 3rd-4th Cousins, based on sharing 180 cM across 11 segments.
- Paternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Randall Gardner and his second cousin Crystal Sharp . Their most-recent common ancestors are Randall's great grandparents, Benjamin Taylor Fine and Essie Golden Mynatt. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 3rd Cousins, based on sharing 185 cM across 14 segments.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Randall's formal name
- full middle name (D.)
- nicknames
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (5)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (3)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Randall 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 Randall or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- David Gardner
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-Z346, FTDNA kit #1005374 - Randall Gardner: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #780148
- Howard Reynolds :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup R-S6881
- Randall Gardner: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup T2a1b1a, FTDNA kit #780148
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100.00%
100.00%
Randall Gardner:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A335350 [compare], Ancestry member were8fans
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T667077 [compare], FTDNA kit #780148
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~25.00%
50.00%
Lola (Scott) Mann :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T791155 [compare], FTDNA kit #795197
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Jeanette (Gartman) Barott :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A567936 [compare], Ancestry member jgartman03
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A567936 [compare], FTDNA kit #b11162
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~0.78%
Lynn Herrington :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T558978 [compare], FTDNA kit #835908
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Randall:
- Randall Gardner is a wonderful Wikitreer Jan 24, 2024.
- Randy Gardner is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 19, 2022.
- Randall Gardner is a Wonderful and generous Wikitreer Jan 13, 2020.
- Randall Gardner is a Wonderful WikiTreer Aug 13, 2019.
- Randall Gardner is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jul 12, 2019.
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Categories: Bois D'Arc, Missouri | DNA Painter Users | Springfield, Missouri | Descendants of Charlemagne
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First off, thanks for all your help over the past few years I’ve been using Wikitree. You recently added some details to the Abner Cotter family. Looking over the profiles, I noticed that the Amanda A. Starkey, (who has been said to have married John Henry Cotter), FaG site shows her married to Clarence Oran Cotter and interred with him in Kansas. I have a feeling that I might have included that source at some point, and don’t want to cause a domino-effect problem. Maybe she remarried? Different Amanda? I know this is a very small twig on your giant oak, but if you have any ideas, please let me know. I was born in Springfield, MO also, long before you tho. Regards, Donna
I noticed you had been doing some recent research on the Sarah Jane (Gardner) Hargis (abt.1849-abt.1914) family. Her profile only came under my management through Unknowns Project research. If you would like me to transfer her profile management to you, I would be happy to do so - just let me know.
Thanks!
This has helped a lot of people get connected to the Big Tree!
Thanks for any input Donna
ps I proposed a merge of one one of your profiles Squibb-452 and Squibb-636. I have explained to the other manager that the parents she has ascribed to JW were born after him. Do you want to get involved?
Thank you for contributing to the January 2022 Sourcerers Challenge! As you know, every source added to an unsourced profile improves our One Tree. Thank you for taking time from your own family history to help others.
Nan, WT Appreciation Team
According to GEDmatch and Wikitree, we are distant cousins.
I recently started painting my DNA segments using DNA Painter and I’ve only painted about 8% of my chromosomal map.
I was wondering if you have happened to identify your inherited GARDNER or GARDINER segments. I believe we also match through John “The Surgeon” GREENE. Have you identified your GARDNER or GREENE segments?
I compared your GEDmatch Kit Number to mine. Do you think our matching segments link us to John Greene and George Gardiner?
Comparing Kit A335350 (Randall Gardner - Ancestry) [Migration - F2 - A] and Kit T663704 (*Enrique Treat Gleason / Gleeson) [Migration - F2 - F]
Segment threshold size will be adjusted dynamically between 200 and 400 SNPs Minimum segment cM to be included in total = 3.0 cM Mismatch-bunching Limit will be adjusted dynamically to 60 percent of the segment threshold size for any given segment.
Chr B37 Start Pos'n B37 End Pos'n Centimorgans (cM) SNPs 4 72,592,214 77,024,534 4.1 430 5 4,157,570 5,178,624 3.6 241 5 79,543,124 82,207,556 4.2 403 12 117,153,385 118,295,924 3.1 277 14 63,425,070 68,842,160 3.6 548 16 55,511,537 57,503,360 3.6 361 19 41,531,705 44,466,156 3.1 285
Largest segment = 4.2 cM
Total Half-Match segments (HIR) 25.2cM (0.703 Pct)
7 shared segments found for this comparison.
401903 SNPs used for this comparison.
51.962 Pct SNPs are full identical
edited by Enrique Treat (Gleason Gleeson) Gleason Esq.
I also have a Gardner match on Chr 12 that overlaps the region you have listed. The others do not overlap any current matches.
Just wanted to check in and see if you're available to help your Team Missouri team mates out for the Source-a-thon. The event runs from Friday Oct. 2 to Monday Oct. 5th. Here's the link to sign up if you have the time and desire to join us. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1097927/have-you-registered-for-the-2020-source-a-thon-yet? Really hoping you will!
According to the Relationship Finder we are sixth cousins once removed through our common ancestor William C. Caudill (1779-1880). He is your fifth great grandfather and my sixth great grandfather. It's lovely to meet you, I hope you have a great weekend! Best Wishes, Mikayla M. Whitaker
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Hope to see you back on the team for the next event!
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I got the notification when I was added to your tree in FTDNA.
Your last message mentioned an email or message, but I havent received anything. If you want to collaborate or share info, my user ID on Ancestry is BAJordan76. :)
Ive seen the DNA connection we have and that I share it with other members of your family. It seems to come from the Stidger line. When I first got on WT a year or so ago, I tried to message you, but I think I did it incorrectly. Feel free to message me here or on Ancestry.com if youd like to collaborate or share info. :)