Alan Gaines
Honor Code SignatorySigned 31 Jan 2015 | 1,083 contributions | 16 thank-yous | 1,080 connections
Signed 31 Jan 2015 | 1,083 contributions | 16 thank-yous | 1,080 connections
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Alan M. Gaines
Born 1930s.
Ancestors 
Son of Ed Gaines
and Dorothy (Hougland) Gaines
Brother of
[private brother (1930s - unknown)]
Descendants 
Father of
[private son (1950s - unknown)], [private daughter (1960s - unknown)], [private son (1980s - unknown)] and [private son (1980s - unknown)]
Profile last modified
| Created 30 Jan 2015
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Autobiography
I was born on Sunday, November 13, 1938 in the Biltmore Hospital, Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina. [1] My father, Edward McCulloch Gaines, was a forester with the US Forest Service, and his career progression required us to move frequently during my childhood, first in about September, 1940 to Cleveland, Bradley, Tennessee, then in about September, 1941, to Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia. I started school in Atlanta, but in 2nd grade (January, 1946) we moved again to Crossett, Ashley, Arkansas. We were there only 9 months before moving in October, 1946, to Brewton, Escambia, Alabama, where we remained for 5 years. In December, 1951, we moved to Tucson, Pima, Arizona, but spent summers in Flagstaff, Coconino, Arizona. I started high school in Tucson, but in September, 1953, we moved permanently to Flagstaff, where I finished high school in 1956. I enrolled in the University of Chicago in September, 1956, earning my B.S. (Chemistry) in 1960, M.S. (Geochemistry) in 1963, and Ph.D. (Geochemistry) in 1968. During this period, I married Margaret (Maggie) Mary Shepherd in 1958, and our son, Sean Frederick Gaines, was born in 1959, and our daughter, Fredericka Victoria Gaines, was born in 1968. I began a teaching career in 1960 as a Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Illinois, Chicago Campus. From 1962 through 1964 I was a Lecturer in Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago, and after obtaining my doctorate, moved in August 1969 to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor of Geochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Maggie and I divorced in March 1971. She subsequently remarried, and moved to Germany with her new husband, taking Fredericka with her, but leaving Sean with me. In January 1975 I married Ruth Lynette Norman, and in January 1977 Ruth, Sean, and I moved to Rockville, Montgomery, Maryland and I began work as Associate Program Director for Geochemistry at the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
Sources
- ↑ Vital Statistics for Buncombe County, North Carolina, Volume 26, Page 765
- [2].
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Alan or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Alan:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Alan or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Alan:
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100.00%
100.00%
Alan Gaines:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member alangaines1
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~6.25%
~12.50%
Andrea (Brudvik) Carr
:
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Kathy Hougland :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch YK8642200 [compare], yourDNAportal KATf5d5098f, Ancestry member greenguthrie
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MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch WU2161637 [compare], yourDNAportal KAT57ef102e
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Featured National Park champion connections: Alan is 14 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 21 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 15 degrees from George Catlin, 17 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 25 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 15 degrees from George Grinnell, 23 degrees from Anton Kröller, 15 degrees from Stephen Mather, 20 degrees from Kara McKean, 18 degrees from John Muir, 16 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 26 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
I don’t do this very seriously and get lost in the number of “greats”, but Austin was my Great, great, great grandfather. Some of his research is what I have passed down from my grandfather. A note in the collection refers to Austin being the family historian and I wondered what happened to his research as there is so little left.
edited by Doug Mitchell
Liz and Alan are 9th cousins (through Joost Jans van Meteren).
Cheers, Liz
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