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Ulster Pelan - Branch Overview

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Surnames/tags: Ulster_Pelan pelan
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Goal

This profile is part of the Pelan Name Study.

The goal of this project is to facilitate the research into the Pelan family from Ulster and all related variant surnames - backwards and forwards in time. This a pedigree project rather than a One Name Study because we do not have the resources to consider identical names that may have arisen around the globe, other than for the purposes of elimination.

It builds on a Y-DNA and research project [1] started in 2007 by John Pelan which established that Pelan is a variant of the English surname Paling or Payling, introduced by one or more immigrants to 17th century Lisburn in Ireland.

We have a reasonable amount of Y-DNA and autosomal DNA test results to bring together discrete family trees even where there are significant gaps in the documentary records, particularly the missing Lambeg church records.

Methodology

This is not a strict order but the main aim is:

  • Create profiles corresponding to Irish Civil BMD records starting with marriages
  • Link with 1901 / 1911 Irish census
  • Create profiles corresponding to Scottish Civil BMD records starting with marriages
  • English & Welsh records
  • US and Canada records - complicated by name changes, e.g. Palan, Palen
  • Merge with newspaper and other records (military etc.).

At each stage, compare with existing GEDCOMs and check for errors & omissions.

Great care needs to be exercised as there are many similarly named Pelans with similar birth time-frames. Margaret, William, James and Frances are very common names.

Labelling / Category Template

Active members of the Ulster Pelan project should add this sticker after the Biography header:

{{Member|ONS|name=Pelan}}

If you are a descendant of an Ulster Pelan please add the category before the Biography section:

[[Category:Ulster, Pelan Name Study]]

Otherwise Ulster Pelan profiles (again, who were born as Pelan or had a Pelan father or who feature Pelan as a first name) should just use the project sticker and altered category:

{{One Name Study|name=Pelan|category=Ulster, Pelan Name Study}}

Some profiles are incorrectly featuring member stickers and will be fixed in due course.


Citation Standards

We should aim to be reasonably consistent as regards citation format. The following tool is very useful (although not perfect IMHO):


References

  1. https://gene.pelan.org

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Will you join me? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send me a private message. Thanks!





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