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I am the Admin for the Beasley Surname Study. I am interested in All Beasleys, All Spellings, Worldwide. I keep lineage trees for Earliest Known Beasleys and descendants. I have about 120 of them located at Ancestry.com. Of all the profiles I have, a small percentage are on WikiTree, mainly because I don't have time to do all of them. I am willing to share my material, inviting its use in any way you please. Using YDNA testing, I organize trees by confirmed YDNA Haplotypes. The scope of the surname is large for complete coverage. About 70% of Beasleys are in the US where most of my work is. I'd love to have participation from other countries.
Douglas Alan Beezley was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on 28 Oct 1948, the eldest of three sons of Nathaniel Willard Beezley and Lucille Pearl Barnard. [1]Doug was raised in Lincoln and attended school, graduating from LIncoln High School and the University of Nebraska.
Doug and Barb have a daughter, Jenn, living in Cincinnati with her husband. They have one daughter and one son. Doug and Barb also have a son, Jon living near Albany NY and a son Devon living in Fort Collins CO.
Two miles from the homes of Doug and of Jenn's family, Doug's gggg grandfather John Beezley settled on the Little Miami River in 1792 where he built the first mill in the vicinity and whose name remains in local history.
Career
In 1971, Doug moved to Scottsbluff, Nebraska to serve alternative service at Panhandle Mental Health Center as a Conscientious Objector. He stayed until 1976, attending graduate school at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. A year later, he returned to Scottsbluff, appointed Director of the Partial Hospital Program.
After expanding the program to include expanded service and a halfway house. In 1984, Doug led the transition of the Partial Hospital Program to a psychiatric rehabilitation program using the Clubhouse Model named Cirrus House [2] patterned after Fountain House in NYC[3]. Over the following years, Cirrus House moved to its present building in downtown Scottsbluff, a rehabilitated Hotel, and expanded to include employment opportunities and advocacy. Housing programs were added including statewide HUD financed cooperatives operated by a non-profit corporation that Doug established. By 1996, the auspice of the entire program was transferred from the Mental Health Center to the non-profit corporation renamed Cirrus House, Inc. Doug served as Executive Director.
In 2001, after 30 years working in the Mental Health field decided to retire from that career and retrained in computer technology. In 2006, Doug began his final employment with the IT department at Western Nebraska Community College. [4] At the end of March 2015, Doug and Barb retired and shortly after moved from Nebraska to Cincinnati OH to be near the grandchildren.
Interests
Doug has a long-time interest in music, performing over the years in solo, choral, small group and stage productions. He is interested in technology, photography, gardening, landscaping and reading (primarily history).
In 2003, Doug began his work in genealogy, beginning with genealogy material that had been gathered by family predecessors. After gaining a comprehensive view of his Beezley ancestors and descendants of the patriarch John Beezley, he began to cover other Beezley lines in the US. Having a comprehensive view of most of the Beezley families in the US, Doug claimed interest in All Beasley's, all spellings, worldwide by establishing the Beasley Genealogy Project with the Guild of One Name Studies. Collaborating with other he also helped expand the Beasley DNA Project at FTDNA.
MY FIRST CENSUS!
Sources
First-hand information. Entered by Douglas Beezley.
↑ Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 64 out of 67 Y-DNA marker match shown in the (A1 BLUE CLAN) at the top of the "Beasley" Surname DNA Project between Doug Beezley kit 128426 and of his direct paternal line paternal line fifth cousin W. Beezley kit 181989.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Douglas or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
Douglas Beezley:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 838 markers, haplogroup R-BY82704, FTDNA kit #128426, MitoYDNA ID T13130[compare]
Hi Doug, many thanks for the Schellenberg merge request. You will see a book referenced in the record - this is a genealogy book written around 1750 or so from Schellenberg-106 . It contains tons of Schellenbergs and had been printed around 1920s ... dont know how many 100 to 1000 Schellenbergs are listed there with general information and in a lot of cases anecdotal bio information. But not sure if this book is somehow available on the second hand marked somewhere. i got the real old data from there (plus some remaining info from other sources like church books or my mother and my aunt first hand). with kind regards and wishing you continued success and fun ... Dirk (my mother is a born Schellenberg)
Hi, Douglass: I am trying to help someone join a legacy group and she is a Isham Beasley (Smith County TN and American Rev. solider) descendant. I saw you wrote something about William Beasley of Old Rappah, VA and I am trying to see how far back her ancestors go above Isham. Any help you can give is much appreciated.
I'll need to get to my computer for details but, yes, that's a fruitful discussion to have. Ishams father was Henry and by DNA, this line is the same as William you mention. Probably a grandson. Give me another "poke" if you don't hear from me in a day or two.
Doug, I have repaired the Johann Bernhard Fehr profile with correct mother. So, Dorothy Moesch was the wife of Johann b. 1728 instead of his mother. I merged the profiles that were in question. So confusing! His mother's last name was likely Wagoner from looking at English documents. I also see where Fehr may have been French rather than German. My mother always said she had French ancestry. Look and see if I got everything right so far. The only thing I changed was his mother, who was Barbara. Thanks.
Hi Douglas! You have helped me with other Rutherford, Tennessee Beesley’s! For this adds, it was for my Blackman, Tennessee neighbor-Wynell Belew-Harris. She had a boy and girl but I have lost touch with them. I will ask if anyone in my family is still in contact. lynda. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Belew-272
Thanks for having a big heart and adopting those Orphaned Profiles.
And thank you for all that you do on WikiTree! You have some beautifully sourced profiles. Every ancestor you honor in this way is beneficial to our global tree.
Thanks for the support, Mindy. As the keeper of all things "Beasley," I tend to adopt those orphans even though it is too much to manage. I used to adopt every one of any spelling who appears on the adoption list, but I have been more discriminating of late. Even though I have some work outside of the US, I'm not adopting folks outside of the US. Also, everything I adopt I check my records to see where and how they connect with existing information. If I have the time and it is not too difficult, I'll add the connections. Otherwise, I make a note hoping to get back to it someday. As it is, I have thousands of Beasleys and relatives of all spellings in my database. There is no way I can properly get it all in. But I do want people to know that my information is readily available. That way other WikiTreers can add what they can.
I did notice you DNA is showing up on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barnard-5391 and her father, George W Barnard and his father, Jonathan Barnard. I haven't looked any further back. :)
Im checking in with all Titanic Project Members to introduce myself and see how you are and what you are working on. Im Lizzie and Im honoured to be looking after the project in the role of coordinator. Please let me know what you are working on and if you need anything from me.
Looking forward to moving the project forward with you
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I don't have a connection. I have the list of Confederate Veterans that were buried in New Mexico. I am just trying to add them with as much as I can find. I saw there were quite a few William Jasper Beasleys. The one in 1880 Dunkin Missouri may not be the same one I added. There is a different wife in 1880 . ( I was surprised there were so many. ) He could have had more than one, but the find a grave for the one buried in New Mexico does not list the wife noted in the 1880 census. If you find anything wrong in it, please feel free to add or fix anything.
My mom was born in New Mexico and I had/ have relatives in Portales and Roswell.
Doug, thanks for reaching out to me. My great grandmother is Sarah Caroline Beasley (married to Sims Kimbel). Her father, Beverly Bates Beasley, his John Pitts Beasley III b. 1805, N.C. , d. Tenn., his, the same name, his father, the same name, his father..William Beasley II, b.
15 November 1708 (Virginia), his father, the same name .. William Beasley 16901790 Virginia this is where I reach my dead end. Best, Bryan Thompson
Unfortunately, you have not provided the source of these alleged facts, so I cannot verify them. Per the WikiTree Guidelines on Commercial Web Sites as Sources, please can you provide the origin of this information (such as a newspaper article), especially the birth location, which clashes with the existing citation of a cousin.
Hi, thanks for your message about the Beesleys. The truth is, I'm not sure if/how I'm related yet! I have DNA matched a Beesley descendant on a part of my family tree that has a bit of a brick wall, so I'm trying to flesh out some of the possible links.
Thank you, Debra Young Maggart Sumner County, TN
Thanks for having a big heart and adopting those Orphaned Profiles. And thank you for all that you do on WikiTree! You have some beautifully sourced profiles. Every ancestor you honor in this way is beneficial to our global tree.
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I have been working on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barnard-5391 documentation and bio. Please take a lookat her again.
Thank you,
Loretta
Im checking in with all Titanic Project Members to introduce myself and see how you are and what you are working on. Im Lizzie and Im honoured to be looking after the project in the role of coordinator. Please let me know what you are working on and if you need anything from me.
Looking forward to moving the project forward with you
Lizzie
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Doug, I don't have a connection. I have the list of Confederate Veterans that were buried in New Mexico. I am just trying to add them with as much as I can find. I saw there were quite a few William Jasper Beasleys. The one in 1880 Dunkin Missouri may not be the same one I added. There is a different wife in 1880 . ( I was surprised there were so many. ) He could have had more than one, but the find a grave for the one buried in New Mexico does not list the wife noted in the 1880 census. If you find anything wrong in it, please feel free to add or fix anything. My mom was born in New Mexico and I had/ have relatives in Portales and Roswell.
janice
15 November 1708 (Virginia), his father, the same name .. William Beasley 16901790 Virginia this is where I reach my dead end. Best, Bryan Thompson
Unfortunately, you have not provided the source of these alleged facts, so I cannot verify them. Per the WikiTree Guidelines on Commercial Web Sites as Sources, please can you provide the origin of this information (such as a newspaper article), especially the birth location, which clashes with the existing citation of a cousin.
Philip