Peter Roberts
Honor Code SignatorySigned 10 Jul 2013 | 25,880 contributions | 2,577 thank-yous | 2,572 connections
Signed 10 Jul 2013 | 25,880 contributions | 2,577 thank-yous | 2,572 connections
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Here is my family tree.
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cousins and anyone else with an interest in genealogy.
Here is my family tree.
Please let me know how I can help you with DNA and using WikiTree.
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Peter J. Roberts
Born 1950s.
Ancestors 
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| Created 9 Jul 2013 | Last significant change: 30 May 2023
13:39: Peter Roberts edited the Biography for Peter Roberts. (Bio improvement. ) [Thank Peter for this]
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Peter Roberts is part of a Bahamian family.
Peter was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!
RootsTech Attendee: 2015 - 2023
WikiTree Day Attendee: 2022
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DNA Portal for Peter Roberts-7085
"What better place to prove a theory than a well sourced single family tree that has robust DNA features?" -- Gaulden-7
Biography
Peter J. Roberts is the son of Bert L. Roberts[1][2][3] and Nan Dekle.[4][5] He was born in 1959 at Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas. He was named Peter after his father's mentor Pieter Van Vlaanderen of Ridgewood, New Jersey who was a Winter resident in Nassau. He was given the middle name of James after his maternal grandmother's father Rev. James Miller Rustin of Meigs, Georgia. His godparents were Cambell F. and Helen Taylor of London, Ontario, Canada.
Peter J. Roberts is a retired associate professor and archivist from Georgia State University. He has a B.A. in art history from Emory University and an M.A.T. in museum education from The George Washington University. He has had an interest in genealogy since 1975 and has been exploring genetic genealogy since March 2003. He is the administrator for the Bahamas DNA Project YDNA mtDNA atDNA and three surname DNA projects, namely Roberts, Sasser, and Rustin. He is a past regional coordinator for the Atlanta area for the International Society of Genetic Genealogy. He is a life member of the Clan Donnachaidh Society. In WikiTree he is a leader of the Bahamas Project and very active in the DNA Project. His FamilySearch ID is LDR5-GFX. Fan chart at FamilySearch. Public profile at yourDNAprofile.
Peter is a genetic genealogy consultant and lecturer and does business as WikiHelix. He is also a co-founder and team member of mitoYDNA.org (a non-profit Y-DNA and mtDNA database).
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The Relationship Finder shows Charlemagne, Carolingian-77 is the 35th great grandfather of Peter J. Roberts-7085 -><-
Peter J. Roberts' blogs (mostly about WikiTree and DNA)
- WikiTree and DNA Nov 4, 2013.
- Wikitree and DNA: Why YSearch Matters May 15, 2014.
- The Beauty of mtDNA and MitoSearch in WikiTree Jun 5, 2014.
- WikiTree Uncovers X-Chromosome Ancestral Treasure! Jul 17, 2014.
- I Am A Cousin - Peter Roberts Aug 20, 2014.
Noteworthy G2G Postings
When is DNA testing too much of a good thing?
What should you do with your full sequence mtDNA results?
Are you using auDNA segments which are less than 7 cM?
Videos
mitoYDNA - WikiTree Challenge, May 16, 2023
View Y-DNA and mtDNA via GEDmatch, WikiTree, & mitoYDNA, Sep 9, 2022
Using DNA and WikiTree to Find our Bahamian Ancestral Heritage, May 1st and 2nd, 2015
DNA and WikiTree: Where We are and Where We are Going RootsTech recording of Feb 10th, 2017
How to Make the Most of the DNA Features on WikiTree Recording of Feb 11th, 2017 WikiTree LiveCast
How 23andMe testees can share their ancestral tree in WikiTree 1 min 45 sec, Mar 25, 2020
How to Give Your FTDNA Admin Advanced Access 1 min 45 sec, May 15, 2020
How to view an atDNA Tester's X Chromosome matches in WikiTree 1 min 50 sec, May 15, 2020
Click on a GEDmatch ID in WikiTree and link to GEDmatch's One-to-many matches and then link back to a compact tree in WikiTree 1 min 45 sec, May 23, 2020
Compare the DNA of autosomal DNA Testers in GEDmatch via WikiTree 52 sec, May 23, 2020
Link WikiTree to public chromosome map in DNA Painter and link shared segments back to shared ancestry in WikiTree 1 min 39 sec, May 23, 2020
Click on a mitoYDNA ID in WikiTree and see a Y haplotype and then view that haplotype's associated direct paternal line in WikiTree 1 min 5 sec, May 24, 2020
Compare two or more Y haplotypes in WikiTree via mitoYDNA 50 sec, May 24, 2020
Which Surnames in WikiTree have been Y-DNA tested? 1 min 40 sec, May 24, 2020
Linking to mtDNA HVR differences from the rCRS 1 min 22 sec, May 24, 2020
Compare two or more mitotypes in WikiTree via mitoYDNA 1 min 17 sec, May 24, 2020
Display the ancestors who could have contributed to a testee's X-DNA 2 min 2 sec, May 24, 2020
Use WikiTree fan chart to compare X-DNA
Autosomal DNA Ethnic Admixture and Ancestry
Ethnic admixture of people whose ancestry is only from one country
Free DNA Tests
Major DNA Haplogroups in WikiTree
Major mtDNA and Y-DNA haplogroups of testers
Native American mtDNA in WikiTree
Important Links
URL for Early DNA Searches
URL for WikiTree+ Early DNA Searches
Number of Descendants
Guide to GEDmatch Ethnic Ancestry
GEDmatch Guide to Ethnic Ancestry
MyConnections
MyCousins (with DNA)
Adoption Template
Ordering a DNA Test
Links for DNA tests which provide financial commission to WikiTree
Bio Check App
WikiTree +
WikiTree History
Genetic Genealogy History
WikiTree's Most Outstanding Features
WikiTree Stats
Statistical Analysis of Wikitree
WikiTree Visitor Stats
Information about visitors to WikiTree
How to Use WikiTree
Walt Howe’s WikiTree Presentation (PDF)
How to Split a GEDCOM
[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Splitting_a_GEDCOM Splitting GEDCOMs
Numbered List of Countries
Countries with Profiles of People
Numbered List of Languages
Different Languages used for Profiles
Map of My Known Ancestors within xy Generations
[https://wikitree.sdms.si/findmap.htm?userid=6035205&grouptype=Ancestors
World map showing where my recent ancestors were born and died]
Table of My Known Ancestors within Ten Generations
Known Ancestors within ten generations
Known Ancestors within 2,000 years with errors
Postage Stamps on Profiles
My Gateway Ancestors to the Global Family Tree
Williams-17627 Ancestry Map -><-
Ancestral Homes
Homes of the ancestors of Peter J. Roberts
Portrait Tree
Alternative Tree View
Ancestral Family Circles
Ancestral Portraits
Interesting Ancestors
Atilla The Hun add
Sir Thomas,11th Earl of Warwick Died in the plague (1369 in Calais, France) -><-
Tailboys-41 Lunatic -><-
Frances - [Gingaskin / Accohannock] Native American [-><-]
Thomas Driggers - African-American slave [-><-]
Matthew Whitfield, Jr. Indentured Servant [-><-]
Henry Greene -><- and Dymoke-2 -><- Executed by beheading
William de Braose -><- Executed by hanging
John Drummond Quaker -><-
Joseph Bridger Bacon’s Rebellion Loyalist -><-
William Wise American Revolution POW -><-
William Rustin War of 1812 veteran -><-
Benjamin W. Rustin American Civil War POW -><-
Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestors
Edmund Scarborough (1584 - 1635) Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge -><-
Nathaniel Wheatley (1549 - ) Magdalen College, University of Oxford -><-
John Kingsmill (abt 1458 - 1509) New College, University of Oxford -><-
Pict-1 Pictish ancestry
Dunkeld-77 Scottish gateway anscestor
Wessex-28 Saxon gateway ancestor
Maximus-1 Western Roman ancestor -><-
Edward III (1312 - 1377) King of England -><-
Henry III (1207 - 1272) King of England -><-
Sir Richard Venables, Captured at the Battle of Shrewsbury (1403) and was hung, drawn, and quartered -><-
John Harley Knighted at the Battle of Tewkesbury -><-
William, 1st Baron Bonville Yorkist, Executed by beheading following his defeat at the 2nd battle of St. Albans -><-
Lionel, 6th Baron Welles (abt. 1406 - 1461) Lancastrian, Died in the Battle of Towton -><-
Raoul de Beaugency -><- and Aubrey de Vere -><- Fought in First Crusade
Hugues de Vermandois 1057-1102 Died in First Crusade -><-
Alsace-5 -><- and Mowbray-192 -><- Fought in Second Crusade
Raul de Coucy 1134-1191 Died in the Third Crusade -><-
Henri de Brabant 1165-1235 Captured during the Crusade of 1197 -><-
Gerard de Furnival 1175-1218 -><- and Saher de Quincy abt 1165-1219 -><- Died in the Fifth Crusade
Robert d'Artois 1216 - 1250 Died in the Seventh Crusade -><-
Louis IX 1214 - 1270 Led the Seventh and Eighth Crusades -><-
Saint Louis -><- and Saint Ferdinand -><- Saints
Chaworth fought in Battle of Agincourt -><-
Thomas de Camoys Battle of Agincourt organizer -><-
William Denmark Fathered children with two sisters at the same time (I descend from both sisters) -><-
Nancy Roundtree North Carolina Tar Heel -><-
Some of My Most Distant Ancestral Lines
65th great-grandfather Vologases I of Parthia born about 25 A.D., whose B.C. ancestry is found in Wikipedia.
57?th great-grandfather Eudos ap Euddolen born about 5 A.D.
56th great-grandfather Feradach Finnfechtnach Fearadhach born about 7 A.D.
My Most Distant Cousins via Relationship Finder
Magnusson-175 31st cousin twice? removed
Pieterse-13 30th cousin, once removed
Beaumont-82 28th cousin once removed
Kotzé-1903 26 cousin twice removed
Østenstad-1 26th cousin twice removed
Palme-11 26th cousin once removed
Pellissier-9 26th cousin once removed
Cuvellier-16 25th cousin
Clarke-11007 25th cousin twice removed
Orozco-108 24th cousin
Kóczy-1 24th cousin once removed
Dominguez-117 24th cousin twice removed \ Coetzee-48 24th cousin
Bourque-573 22nd cousin four times removed
Muñoza-792 21st cousin three times removed
De_Melo_Banha-1 20th cousin five times removed
Canine Genetics
DNA testing of my potcake dog from Nassau, Bahamas
Advance Directive
e.g. Digital Afterlife
In the event of my death I would like all of my private profiles to be managed by a WikiTree member at the discretion of the WikiTree leadership. Help:Advance_Directive
Maternal relationship is confirmed by a 7.8 cM X chromosome match between Jean-Pierre Côté and his 4th cousin twice removed Jocelyn Larouche on GEDmatch. Their most-recent X chromosome common ancestors are Charles Turgeon and Pasquière Lefebvre.
Sources
- Maternal relationship is confirmed by a GEDmatch comparison between Peter Roberts and John Rustin, his 1st cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are James Rustin and Tallulah Sasser, the great grandparents of Peter Roberts and grandparents of John Rustin. Predicted relationship from GEDmatch: Est. 2.5 gen. to MRCA, based on sharing 449.9 cM (6.031%) across 24 segments.
Footnotes
- ↑ Paternal relationship is confirmed by a 37 out of 37 Y-DNA marker match between this Family Tree DNA yDNA test for Peter Roberts and this Family Tree DNA yDNA test of his paternal line cousin Roberts-7266.
- ↑ Paternal relationship is also confirmed by a 1828.2 cM Family Finder match between Peter Roberts GEDmatch RN449431C1 and his paternal aunt Betty Maxwell GEDmatch T527089.
- ↑ Paternal relationship is also confirmed by a triangulated group consisting of Peter Roberts GEDmatch RN449431C1, Kris Sjostrom GEDmatch A936004 and Elizabeth Collins GEDmatch T688604 sharing a 10.8 cM segment on chromosome 1 from 163621974 to 173712569.
- ↑ Maternal relationship is confirmed by a 1417.42 cM Family Finder match between Peter Roberts GEDmatch RN449431C1 and his maternal uncle Dekle-6 GEDmatch T559569.
- ↑ Maternal relationship is also confirmed by a 49 cM X chromosome match from 2,904,827 to 32,262,167 between Peter Roberts GEDmatch RN449431C1 and his male fifth cousin twice removed Anonymous Turner GEDmatch T685002.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Peter's formal name
- full middle name (J.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (16)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (3)
- spouse's name and marriage information
Sponsored Search
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Peter 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 Peter or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Peter Roberts: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup I-F14873, FTDNA kit #8867, MitoYDNA ID T10003 [compare]
- Thomas Roberts
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I-F14873, FTDNA kit #107901, MitoYDNA ID T10543 [compare]
- Peter Roberts: Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup I3c, FTDNA kit #8867, MitoYDNA ID T10542 [compare]
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100.00%
100.00%
Peter Roberts:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member peterebay
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch RN449431C1 [compare], yourDNAportal PET66d076b1, FTDNA kit #8867
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Living DNA
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50.00%
100.00%
Nan (Dekle) Barrett :
Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch LL605548 [compare]
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50.00%
100.00%
William Roberts :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T655183 [compare], FTDNA kit #371246
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50.00%
Bert L. Roberts :
Autosomal DNA Test, GEDmatch LL835438 [compare]
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50.00%
50.00%
Anonymous Roberts :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T048625 [compare], FTDNA kit #373541
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50.00%
100.00%
Chris Roberts :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T134879 [compare], FTDNA kit #MK38024
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~25.00%
Betty (Roberts) Maxwell :
23andMe
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch YC018055C1 [compare], FTDNA kit #13628
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~25.00%
50.00%
William Dekle :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T559569 [compare], FTDNA kit #15373
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~6.25%
Wally Rustin :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T440170 [compare], FTDNA kit #18349
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~6.25%
Susan (Higgs) Goulet :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T371345 [compare], FTDNA kit #236991
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~6.25%
Denis Roberts :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A621368 [compare]
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~4.69%
Jack Sawyer :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T030102 [compare], FTDNA kit #240900
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~1.56%
Irene (Lowe) Payne :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T829035 [compare], FTDNA kit #310477
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~0.78%
Lana Payne :
23andMe, GEDmatch M191333 [compare]
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~0.78%
Britt Franklin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A232623 [compare], Ancestry member britt_franklin
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~0.78%
Joy (Lowe) Jossi :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T388818 [compare], FTDNA kit #80156
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~0.78%
Rhys Dekle :
23andMe
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Peter:
- Peter Roberts is a Wonderful WikiTreer Dec 6, 2022.
- Peter Roberts is a Wonderful WikiTreer Nov 9, 2022.
- 600,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Peter Roberts, and thank you from all of us! Oct 25, 2022.
- Peter Roberts is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 8, 2022.
- Peter Roberts is a Wonderful WikiTreer Oct 24, 2021.
- Peter Roberts is a Wonderful WikiTreer Nov 28, 2020.
Peter is 18 degrees from Victor Castro, 23 degrees from Loretto Coronado, 22 degrees from Sebastian Constantino de Arce, 28 degrees from Sor Juana De La Cruz, 28 degrees from Enrique Gómez Carrillo, 22 degrees from Desiderio Gonzales, 25 degrees from Ramon Lopez, 20 degrees from Lin-Manuel Miranda, 25 degrees from Frank Rodriguez, 37 degrees from Francisco Villa and 30 degrees from Oliver Stegen on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Categories: Bahamas Research Assistance | WikiTree Leaders | DNA Painter Users | The Bahamas | WikiTree Day Attendees
It's time for our annual Scotland Project check-in!
This year we are hoping to learn what our membership would like to accomplish over the next 12 months. In case you aren't aware, this year is WikiTree's ""Year of Connections"" and the Project's leadership would like to contribute to this in as many ways as possible.
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The Y chromosome testee belongs to the same direct paternal line. If the genealogy is accurate then every male on that line will have a similar Y-STR haplotype.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Toeni-21
Thank you for your message. That GEDmatch number is indeed wrong - I will correct it now.
Jayne
It’s time for a Project check-in!
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edited by Chase Ashley
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Peter Roberts and Nancy (Pumroy) Jackson are both descendants of Robert Warde.
We have 278 common ancestors.
I was listening to your podcast when you said you were investigating Rustons. I adopted the tree of Lott Russon only to find his siblings had been baptised as Ruston and Russon. Most of them are in the Dudley area which is just south of Cheshire. This would be in the 1840's. It seems that Ruston and Russon were interchangeable.
Yes, I tested with Ancestry, and their is no one named George in my family. I used George as a pseudonym name. You might be interested to know I used George after George III and Henry after Henry VIII. :-)
Why do you ask?
Bettye Holland-3338
edited by Bettye (Holland) Carroll
edited by Karen Lowe
Barbara
Can you interpret this statement for me in terms of Time before Present?
Matches at the SNP I-Y4739 level which is one level higher than I-Y49500
From my perspective, lower is the TAPROOT of a tree, the oldest. Higher is closer to the present time - younger. Thank you for your help, you are so helpful to so many! Barbara
Thank you for your message. I believe Clan Robertson is also known as Clan Donnachaidh because Donnachaidh is the official name. I have done very little with the Clan Donnachaid page. Over the years I've been in contact (and have had meetings with Tim Duncan) the leader of the Clan Donnachaidh DNA Project. However I've not yet been able to convince him of WikiTree's merits.
One project should be to make sure the Chief's line is in WikiTree along with a succession box on each chief's profile. It would also be informative to know which clan project in WikiTree is the most active and do some of those activities. If there was a Clan Robertson page then I believe it should redirect to Clan Donnachaidh.
Thanks sincerely, Peter
Could you please send me a private message.
Kind Regards
Ron H
I have volunteered to help with the Clans and with a Robertson Grandparent, it is of interest to me and I have been added to the Clan page list which does not show on the Robertson Clan page.
Without a Robertson Clan leader could you please advise how we sort what to do and coordinate etc.
Of course, we're more closely related than that, as we share many common ancestors as detailed on each of our profiles. The connection tool gives the first blood break at a Pratt, and I have many Pratts on my tree, but there is no father given for Pratt-7242. One of my 2nd great-grandmothers was a Roberts (Roberts-20804), but that's such a common name that there may be no connection that way. Greta Moody (below) is also my tenth cousin, but I don't appear to be descended from Gilbert Elam, Jr. My common ancestor with her is John Brown, Jr.
I also wonder if you might be related to Tennessee Senator James Sasser, infamous for pronouncing "deficit" like "daffy."
edited by Scott Hutchins
Peter and Greta are 10th cousins. Peter Roberts and Greta Moody are both descendants of Gilbert Elam Sr.
I LOVE your profile! It has a lot of details and information.
My name is Amy and I am a co-Leader of the Scotland Project. As you may have heard, we have merged the Scottish Clans project into the Scotland Project. I am contacting you today to find out if you are interested in continuing with us under this new format. If you would like to go forward on the Scottish Clans Team, please reply and let me know which clans you have been working on or would like to work on. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely
Amy Gilpin, Scotland Project Co-Leader
Thanks for the DNA confirmation on the profile of https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Meares-99. I don't understand this part of the DNA statement "change EKA to spouse Ann Bethel." Did something get left in there during the copy paste?
Debi
Alexander Du Bois' death record, 1887 MA, indicates he was born in the Bahamas. I put a note to that effect in his biography. Du_Bois-391
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You have posted: It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share DNA with Peter: How do I make this happen on my profile? Where is the edit to such?
Joy
https://web.archive.org/web/20161015204626/http://www.genetic-inference.co.uk/blog/2009/11/how-many-ancestors-share-our-dna/
That's the version from October 15, 2016