Karen (Freeman) Freeman-Smith
Honor Code SignatorySigned 24 Nov 2021 | 7,074 contributions | 102 thank-yous | 3,750 connections
Signed 24 Nov 2021 | 7,074 contributions | 102 thank-yous | 3,750 connections
Communication Preferences:
I am interested in communicating 
with
anyone who shares the same ancestors.
Here is my family tree.
I've inherited a lot of genealogical information and want to share it for my cousins (near and far). My family tree goes back to the east coast of the USA in the 1700s and rumors say cross the ocean to England/Scotland/Ireland/France. DNA results seem to corroborate those locations (France is sketchy...)
with
anyone who shares the same ancestors.
Here is my family tree.
I've inherited a lot of genealogical information and want to share it for my cousins (near and far). My family tree goes back to the east coast of the USA in the 1700s and rumors say cross the ocean to England/Scotland/Ireland/France. DNA results seem to corroborate those locations (France is sketchy...)
tested
Karen Freeman-Smith formerly Freeman
Born 1960s.
Ancestors 
and Sister of
Deb Freeman
Mother of
[private daughter (1990s - unknown)] and [private son (1990s - unknown)]
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Nov 2021
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Biography
Karen (Freeman) Freeman-Smith is a Military Veteran.
Served in the United States Army 1984-1985
Served in the United States Army 1984-1985
Born in Los Angeles County, California, the daughter of Fred Freeman and Cindy Scott.
My family moved around quite a bit when I was young. I believe we were on our 14th home when I started kindergarten in Springfield, Oregon. (1970)
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| Freeman-Scott Family about 1969/1970 |
After a couple more homes in California, our family finally settled down in Klamath Falls, Oregon in 1979. I attended Brixner Jr. High, and graduated from Mazama High School in 1983.
I've been interested in family history since I was a child and frequently harassed older folks (related or not) for "stories about when you were my age". I thought anyone older than my parents lived like the families on "Little House on the Prairie" so there were lots of questions about wagon trains and one-room schoolhouses that missed the mark. (But at least it wasn't, "did you ride a dinosaur to school?")
I'm semi-retired now and working on sorting out all the piles of genealogical notes my mother left me... as well as verifying and extending the family history where possible.
My mother's family consists of two lines of SCOTTs - one from South Carolina and the other from the Mid-West.
On my father's side, my paternal great-grandparents are FREEMANs from New England (and possibly Canada).
My paternal grandmother presents a bit of a mystery. On her mother's side there are two lines of ROSS men who, it appears, married LEASE sisters.
On her dad's side... well, she found out the man she thought was her father (DAWSON) was not when she applied for social security at 65. My mom got a copy of her birth certificate and we spent a decade or more trying to figure out who the man (WHITE) listed as her father was. Now with DNA testing, it turns out he was not her father either! So now I'm chasing YOUNGs through Kentucky and back to Virginia.
Sources
- First-hand information. Personal recollections entered by Karen Freeman-Smith.
- Second-hand information. Personal recollections of her mother as told to Karen Freeman-Smith.
- Second-hand information. Personal recollections of her father as told to Karen Freeman-Smith.
- My Background Images
DNA
- Paternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Karen and her Dad. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Father, based on sharing 3486 cM across 23 segments.
- Maternal relationship is confirmed by a 23andMe test match between JP and KAS, 2nd cousins, once removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Iris Luticia Maulsby and Commodore Bradford McElvain, the the great grandparents of JP and 2nd great grandparents of KAS. Predicted relationship from 23andMe: Second Cousins, based on sharing 194 cM across 7 segments.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Karen's formal name
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (1)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (2)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Karen or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Karen:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Karen or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Karen:
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100.00%
100.00%
Karen (Freeman) Freeman-Smith:
23andMe, GEDmatch JY1384788 [compare], yourDNAportal KARb7fd064d
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member karenfreemansmith97267
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B822635
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MyHeritage DNA
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Darrell Allen
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M875721 [compare]
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~1.56%
~1.56%
Joy (Allen) McDonner :
23andMe
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Dave Petrie :
23andMe
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Karen:
- Hello! I'm new. Now What? Nov 26, 2021.
Featured National Park champion connections: Karen is 17 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 18 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 14 degrees from George Catlin, 17 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 23 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 16 degrees from George Grinnell, 25 degrees from Anton Kröller, 18 degrees from Stephen Mather, 21 degrees from Kara McKean, 17 degrees from John Muir, 19 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 24 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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I saw your post on the G2G forum and you got some good answers there. I checked your tree, and saw that you already have your grandfather on Family Search Family Tree, and other ancestors. A quick way to get started with adding sources to WikiTree, is to open the sources list on each profile on Family Search, and then do a "cut and paste" of each source citation, right to the WikiTree profile. Ikeep Family Search open on one tab, and the WikiTree profile open on another tab, so I can switch back and forth easily. Under the sources place on the profile, just add an asterisk and a space, and then paste the source there. WikiTree accepts those citations, without any editing needed. If there is a Find a Grave source on FSFT, go directly to the Find a Grave page, and copy the source information that's at the bottom. There is a "template" for those on WikiTree that helps clean it up. Remember to click the Adding Sources button at the bottom before you Save it. Once you get started with these, then the apps etc that Rob and others suggested will help with sources from other sites.
I have a bunch of the Alabama Freeman families on Ancestry and Family Search and WikiTree, and some from my cousin's line also. I don't know if we a connected in any way, but if you add a tag for the Freeman surname to your profile, you will see all the contributions that people will add.
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