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Dr. Chet B. Snow
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Son of Walt Snow Sr.
and Ann (Bonine) Snow
Brother of
Walter Snow Jr., Ph.D.
Profile last modified
| Created 12 Dec 2013 | Last significant change: 24 May 2022
02:07: Chet Snow deleted a comment from Mark Hayden on the page for Chet Snow [Thank Chet for this]
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"A Genealogist must have the patience of Job; the curiosity of a cat; the stubbornness of a mule; the eyesight of an eagle; be blessed with the luck of the Irish and have the ability and stamina of a camel to go long hours without food or drink." - A Wise Genealogist
This profile is part of the Snow Name Study.
Biography
Chet Snow is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger Constance (Hopkins) Snow.
Chet Snow is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.
I was born at the end of WW II in Paterson, NJ, where my father was employed as a mechanical engineer at the Wright Aeronautical works, helping develop jet aircraft engines during that conflict. My parents met when both were students at Penn State University in State College, PA. Both my grandfathers were also professors at Penn State until they retired. All are now deceased. I have one older brother, retired from the US Federal Government, in Florida.
I went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, alma mater of my maternal grand-father, for whom I am named, and I later did graduate work in history at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, at Columbia University and at the Institute for Advanced Studies, up to my doctorate in social history. I taught college history for a while until I decided Academia, with all its committees, was not for me.
In the 1970s I moved to Napa, California; since 1994 I have lived in Sedona, with my wife, born in France, and whom I met while living in Paris doing research in the 1980s. We have no children and I am now retired.
Recently (2013) I was "bitten by the genealogical bug" and discovered Wikitree, whose easy access and community ethics appealed to me. In a relatively short time, I have found answers to many of my questions about different branches of my family, such as that my Snow relatives and I are descendants of 2 Mayflower passengers... I have therefore set up a Snow one-name study page (although I haven't had much time to work on it yet!) and added DNA testing to my biography.
I am always open to new information, corrections anywhere on my Tree (with Sources, please!), and to finding new distant cousins from my Snow, Bonine, Weston, Whiteman +/or other related lineages.
As I am bilingual in French, I will be happy to assist Wikitree researchers seeking short translations etc. from that language too.en
This user is a native speaker of English.
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Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle.
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Chet Snow on January 7, 2014. Edited on May 19, 2015 and Feb. 9, 2016.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Chet 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 Chet or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Chet Snow: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I-M253, FTDNA kit #335069
- Frank Snow
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I-M253, FTDNA kit #211676
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100.00%
100.00%
Chet Snow:
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T603702 [compare], FTDNA kit #335069
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~1.56%
Donna (Robinson) Falcone :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A327604 [compare], Ancestry member DFalcone
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~0.78%
Rob Hobdell :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A565346 [compare], Ancestry member No_Longer_on_Ancestry
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~0.78%
Kay Robinson :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch DV3713923 [compare]
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Chet:
- Chet B Snow is a Wonderful Wikitreer! Apr 27, 2022.
- Chet Snow is a Wonderful WikiTreer Apr 15, 2022.
- Chet Snow helped with my Mom's profile Apr 1, 2022.
- Chet B Snow is a Wonderful Wikitreer!!! Jan 18, 2022.
- Chet B Snow is a Wonderful Wikitreer and Legacy Heir Oct 5, 2021.
- Chet Snow is a Wonderful Wikitreer Jul 26, 2021.
Chet is 19 degrees from Isaac Asimov, 22 degrees from David Attenborough, 17 degrees from Bill Bryson, 22 degrees from Richard Dawkins, 30 degrees from Bengt Feldreich, 28 degrees from Ruth Gates, 25 degrees from Stephen Hawking, 23 degrees from Julius Miller, 18 degrees from Bill Nye, 27 degrees from Magnus Pyke, 26 degrees from Carl Sagan and 19 degrees from David Randall on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
Congratulations on being #1 on the Legacy Heirs team for the April Connect-a-Thon. You kept me inspired as I pushed to keep up with you (til I had to stop for the evening - but even then I was about 20 behind you). You kept going! Very impressive, sir. And then I read your bio - wow! I was bested by the bestest! All best wishes to you and thanks for keeping me inspired!
Diane Scholten (from Barrington, IL - suburb of Chicago)
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lanoue-222 Cindy
Registration for the April Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 22 Apr 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster. Here is the Registration Link: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1392037/have-you-registered-for-the-april-2022-connect-a-thon-yet?start=0#a_list_title
And here is our team Chat page: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1392211/legacy-heirs-april-connect-a-thon-g2g-chat
I am having trouble adding the “ Huguenot “ Tag.
Not sure what I am doing incorrectly.
Is this the proper way to add the tag?
—confirmed with DNA—
Thanks,
Terri Solomon/ McGhee
Solomon-2474.
Dallas, Texas
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I was born in Mars Hill, Maine almost directly across from the Snow Cemetery in Mars Hill. As a teenager I mowed that cemetery on a weekly basis, summers. Obviously, I noted the Snow names including Moses who died in 1847, perhaps in a house (purportedly the first built in that town in 1845), though he had cut logs/slash, etc. there as early as 1844. I have a cousin, Sandra Leighton (we have Sewell relatives who lived in Maugerville, NB, Canada, in common) who has done some work on Moses Snow, her relative. Gladys Tweedie, long since deceased, wrote a history of Mars Hill, ME and apparently included a lot of research in it related to Moses Snow and his relatives. I have written five books on the history of Togus, America's first Veterans home and hospital 1866-2016. Learning that one of Moses Snow's sons, Jeremiah Snow, is buried at the VA Cemetery at Togus in Augusta, Maine, I want to write a booklet about him and his brothers, especially, all who were in the Civil War in the 15th Maine. They signed up while living in Mars Hill. I am wondering if your Snow family hailed from this Moses Snow? If so or otherwise, perhaps you would share any information/sources related to Moses and Jeremiah, etc. I am a professional historian and have written mostly local history as an appendage to my educational, teaching and leadership roles. I'm 86 and still writing. I can be reached, preferably at [email address removed] I live at 245 Main Street, Winthrop, Maine 04364. My land line is 207-377-6251. Thanks. Donald Beattie PS: I am also on Facebook as Donald Beattie ad am known as my extended families' genealogist.
As we start this first Thon of 2022, I just want to say thank you for being a Legacy Heir!!! Have fun with this one and remember, We take it at our own individual pace. If you like to love one profile all weekend, so be it! Make that the most beautiful profile you can. If you choose to do many profiles!!! That is great too!! Just make sure you have at least one good source. Even one contribution makes this amazing tree more beautiful, healthy and strong that it was before that contribution!!
Family, obligations and most importantly, YOU are more important than the thon! We love having you here, but if something comes up, elsewhere, take care of that first. You Rock Legacy Heirs, lets have some fun and connect some profiles!!
Registration for the January Thon has started. It is going to be a connect-a-thon for the year of connections. The thon will start 14 Jan 2022 and, as always, run for 72 hours. I hope to have you with me for the Legacy Heirs team. I will understand though if it will not work out. Register so I can put you on the team roster. Here is the Registration Link: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1341478/have-you-registered-for-the-winter-2022-connect-a-thon-yet
And here is our team Chat page: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1341305/legacy-heirs-winter-2022-connect-a-thon-g2g-chat
Chet and James are 9th cousins twice removed
Chet Snow and James Ward Jr are both descendants of Mary Elizabeth (Claiborne) Harris (abt.1630-1710).
GedMatch DNA: Comparing Kit T603702 (*Chet Snow) [Migration - F2 - T] and Kit ET1709405 (James Ward Jr) [23andMe]
Segment threshold size will be adjusted dynamically between 200 and 400 SNPs Minimum segment cM to be included in total = 5.0 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 6 44,160,786 48,674,613 5.1 227
Largest segment = 5.1 cM
Total Half-Match segments (HIR) 5.1cM (0.143 Pct) Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 7.7
1 shared segments found for this comparison.
156177 SNPs used for this comparison.
52.473 Pct SNPs are full identical
Comparison took 0.018. CPU time used: 0.016.
Ver: May 11 2021 07 33 46 May
You are an amazing part of WT and of Legacy Heirs. I am so thankful that you are a part of our team. Hope we see you on the team for the next thon.
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Amazing I’m coming to you thru both of my parents White/Cook And I’m so sorry I need so much help in just adding my ancestors. Including you & family since we’re related Is it difficult to transfer Pre 1500-1700 ancestors into my tree or will I need help. If the new list of family names you posted for Barnabas Cooke Sr could be injected to my tree then my DNA could be matched, right. I have a way to go Sincerely Darrel PS: what’s your specialty field as a Doctor
Cheers ~ Denise
Registration started today for the Spring Clean-A-Thon.The cleaning will start on Friday, April 23, at 8 AM (EDT) and run until Monday, April 26, at 8 AM (EDT). If you can and will be joining us, let us now. You must register first, If you have not please go here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1199618/have-you-registered-for-the-2021-spring-clean-a-thon-yet?show=1199618#q1199618 and answer that you will be there and want to be on Legacy Heirs.
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Hope to see you!!
https://www.linvillefamily.us/LFA-o/g0/p1.htm#i3 had no son named William. Someone must have changed the profile but their info is pretty impressive. maybe you could move that info to William's profile before removing it. Thanks for the input.
Thanks for your attention to the Chastains, ancestors of my late wife. You have seen all I know or should not have accepted about them. I was surprised when I encountered the spelling Chastan, but assumed that it was another of those which had been in use, as Chasteen was in more recent generations, but I have no attachment to this. I have plenty of cases in other lines where I have seen even correct sources on FS used incorrectly, so I welcome corrections from those who have researched it. I was lucky that I was able to come up with enough about Chasteen/Chastains who were alive in my wife's youth to jog her memory to the point of choosing whom I believe are the correct ones. She wasn't willing to take DNA test, although not at all embarrassed about her ancestry nor the lies told on official records even down to 1917. I have probable and possible Huguenot ancestors myself, but don't know of anyone trying seriously to get them straight. As for Penn State, I have ancestors whose degrees there led to those Chester county families of 150 years beginning to more around the country, and I worked on aircraft engines with several people who studied there. Tim
edited by Tim Prince
Thank you for being on Team Legacy Heirs for the source-a-thon. I hope we will have you join the team again for the next thon.
I wonder if you were able to get over to France this year with all the troubles now? Hope you and yours are well.
I am helping Lisa from Legacy Heirs out for the Connect-a-Thon 2020. We start the day after tomorrow, Friday, July 17th, at 8:00 AM (EDT). Our link at G2G is over here at: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1054824/legacy-heirs-2020-connect-a-thon-g2g-chat-page
Registration ends today if you know anyone who wants to join our team.
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1054269/have-you-registered-for-the-2020-connect-a-thon-yet?start=60#a_list_title
Looking forward to your participation again and thank you.
Thanks, Karen
We both descend from Winston, where my family is from his son, William Henry Snow.
Perhaps we can collaborate tree information via email - mine is [email address removed]
Just noticed it was your wedding anniversary 12 December ? Congratulations and a big hug for both of you and hope you had a wonderful and very romantic day !
Greets from the Netherlands,
Bea x
you are a member of our team, Legacy Heirs, for the source-a-thon. I wanted to welcome you to the team and give you the links for the team pages. I am so happy to have you with us.
Chat page: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/902254/legacy-heirs-2019-source-a-thon-chat-page
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Thank you so much for the Rutan information. I will definitely check it out for any connections.
Have a great day! Shannon