Jan (Wooters) Bruce

Good afternoon Jan :-) After watching a recent documentary episode on the Science channel on cable tv called Mysteries of the missing I became curious wondering if I am somehow prehaps a descendant from John White that lived from 1540 to 1593, that is 480 years ago or about 24 generations, yes that is a stretch, lol he apparently was a governor of the u.s. state of Virginia and had to do with the lost colony of Ronoake that basically from what I understand in a way has to do with both u.s. states of Virginia and North Carolina, its very interesting stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_White_(colonist_and_artist) So during my research I came across a Ancestry dna match in which I share dna that has Nora Nevada Wooters that lived from 1906 to 1977 and her spouse was John Herman White that lived from 1912 to 1999. I also share dna with you Jan via Gematch:

Comparing Kit YU5218111 (Frank John Nolan) [Ancestry] and A841797 (Janice Wooters Bruce) [Migration - F2 - A]

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 8 127,661,127 129,714,626 5.7 580

One of the main reasons why this so called John White caught my attention from this documentary is because he seems to have a striking resemblance to my deceased Father Patrick Francis Daniel Nolan(https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nolan-729) that also has blue eyes! :-)

regards Frank :-) Virginia Beach, Va, u.s.a

Thanks I am just getting started my grandfather on my mother's side who was a wooters from Delaware passed away when I was young and my mother and I don't speak so k want to know more about his side of the family.

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Here is the link to the Gedcom help page. [1] Enjoy Ronel

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