1940 United States Census

The 1940 Census is becoming searchable slowly. I'll post any family related images I find here.

1. Minnie Lee Tanner  (Scott)

Some of the info on the Census below:

Name:     Minnie L Tanner
Titles & Terms:    
Event:     Census
Event Year:     1940
Event Place:     Election Precinct 6, Polk, Florida, United States
Gender:     Female
Age:     65
Marital Status:     Widowed
Race (Original):     White
Race (Standardized):     White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original):     Mother-in-law
Relationship to Head of Household (Standardized):     Mother-in-law
Birthplace:     Georgia
Estimated Birth Year:     1875
Residence in 1935:     Same Place
Enumeration District Number:     53-13
Family Number:     104
Sheet Number and Letter:     6B
Line Number:     52
NARA Publication Number:     T627
NARA Roll Number:     612
Digital Folder Number:     005449603
Image Number:     00542

2. Annie and Homer Sapp

Juanita Brady State of Florida marriage and divorce records

My grandmother Juanita Brady was married at age 15 to a man named Ollin Rowell. They divorced a few years later and she married my Grandfather Roger Tanner. Below are the documents I received today from the state of Florida.

        
 

Willow Oak Cemetery

I visited Willow Oak Cemetery this week to see the graves of my Great Grandparents Missouri Bryan (Bryant) John Brady and James Phillips. No one was around when I visited.

                                 The three grave sites. Phillips is to the right, Missouri in the middle.

                                                                       Their son Frank

                                                                            Ila Mae

                                                              Frank and Ila Mae

                                            James Died 10 years later, so his stone is separate.

                                                                  Walter and Missouri



Updated:

Here is Ila Mae's Obit:

Ila Brady

PIPER CITY - Ila Mae Brady, 70, of Piper City, died Thursday (Feb. 26, 1998) at Gibson City Hospital emergency room.
There will be no visitation.
Services will be held Tuesday in Mulberry, Fla.
Burial will be in Willow Oak Cemetery, Mulberry, Fla.
Arrangements are by the Knapp Funeral Home, Clifton.
She was born Jan. 16, 1928, in Bowling Green, Fla., the daughter of Frank and Claudia Barefoot Best.
Her first husband, Frank Brady, whom she married in 1948, in Miami, Fla., died in May 1978.
Surviving are her husband, Bernard Regnier, of Piper City, whom she married in 1988 in Florida; two daughters, Sarah Krell of Ocala, Fla., Peggy Youmans of Mulberry, Fla.; two sons, Frank Brady Jr. of Oak Harbour, Wash., Walter Brady of Frankfort; one sister, Edna Mae Bosarge of Theodore, Ala.; one brother, Robert Biddle of Olive Branch, Miss.; and 10 grandchildren.
Deceased are her parents and one brother.
She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, Mulberry, Fla.

Sallie C. Allen Confederate pension application

In 1902 my 3rd great grandmother Sallie C. Allen applied for a Confederate pension. Her husband James Thomas Allen was a member of the 18th Texas Cavalry, Company "B" of the Confederate Army, also known as Darnell's Regiment. She was denied. I requested a copy of the pension application from the state of Texas.

Maude Allen

 I was looking for information about my Allen line from Texas and saw a "Maude Allen" listed on the Wise County headstone page: http://www.wisecountytexas.info/cemeteries/a.htm

 I noticed at the bottom of the stone it said " Killed by Jene White" I have never seen this type of information on a headstone and figured there had to be a story behind this.

So I queried the txwise@rootsweb.com list to see if anyone had more information about this mystery. 
Sure enough a kind soul, Jean was able to provide a newspaper clipping with more details

I guess you should be ready for surprises when you start digging around. Rest in peace Maude, we wont forget you.

Terry's Texas Rangers

I was doing a little research and noticed that George R. Allen 1841 – 1924 (my 3rd great grand uncle) Son of Jeremiah Allen 1806 – 1883 my 4th great grandfather was a member of Terry's Texas Rangers.
"The unit earned a reputation that ranked it among the most effective mounted regiments in the Western Theater of the American Civil War."

He attended the 1902 reunion in Dallas and is probably in this picture.Too bad we don't know which one he is. Ill have to keep researching.
 

 
 
More about this group: http://www.terrystexasrangers.org/index.html

Update:  I have a larger version of the picture above.

Henry Clay Allen and Edna Eliza Timmons

My second great grandfather paternally was Henry Clay Allen. I knew the name, but it took me lots of time and research to connect this Henry with the Henry I knew I was looking for. Many people had suspected Henry Clay Allen was my great, great grandfather:

A reference for Henry as the Father of William Louis Allen:

http://www.wisecountytexas.info/births/BC-A-C.htm

More links referring to Edna and Henry.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/txwise/2005-04/1112928652

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/txwise/2005-03/1110766312

http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/TXDICKEN/2004-03/1080763512

https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwc.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Figm.cgi%3Fop%3DGET%26db%3Ddemason%26id%3DI13192&h=9539d

http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/TXWISE/2003-06/1055882883

I decided to see if these two were living closely when the 1880 federal census was taken. They were listed six pages apart. Henry's family is on page 40.  Edna and her 8 month old son William is listed living with her parents the Timmons on page 45.

William and Mildred Miller

  While researching my third great grandfather James T. Allen with Google books, I stumbled upon a book titled  "Pioneer History of Wise County" by Cliff Cates. As happens sometimes in this situation, I found little in this book about James Allen except for one page that mentioned that he had married my third great grandmother Sallie Miller. I was a little disappointed but also happy to see on that same page was a biography of  Sallie's parents William Alfred Miller and Mildred B. Hughes. So I immediately had a full biography with pictures of my fourth great grandparents. This was pretty amazing. Below is the article on the Miller family:

   WILLIAM A. MILLER

  In later years the truly original and picturesque subject of this sketch became generally known as Uncle Billy Miller, one of the jolliest, most generous, and optimistic old men that stepped down from the pioneer days to the rustling, bustling present ; a present that was strange to him, yet one which he enjoyed with all the heartiness of his ebullient nature.

  Wm. Alfred Miller was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1817.  Before he left that state for Texas he married Mildred B. Hughes, who was a faithful helpmeet to him through all his days. Mr. Miller came to Burleson County, Texas, in the fall of 1853. After three years he returned to Williamson County, Illinois, thence back to Burleson County in 1857. Mr. Miller then came on a mule to prospect in Wise County, which resulted in his location here in 1859. Mr. Miller first settled the Lockard place South of Decatur; finally he moved to his Sweetwater place, where he lived at the time of his death in August, 1900. Mrs. Miller died two months later, October, 1900.
 

   Born to the union was a large family of children, as follows: Sallie, married James Allen of Wise County, both being now dead; Frank; Kittie, who married Chas. More, a prominent business man, miller, and respected citizen of Wise County for many years, both being now dead; C. H. Miller, born January 13, 1849, Hopkins County, Kentucky, married Sarah E. Stacks, of Ellis County, July 7, 1870. Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Miller, as follows: Teola, married W. T. Tull, now deceased; Charlie M., married, lives in Ft. Worth, Texas; Jake, Dallas, Texas: Albert, Ft. Worth, Texas; Robert H. and Lizzie May, children, at home. Mr. Miller has served faithfully and efficiently as a barber in Decatur for many years; is also a successful inventor and an upright and respected citizen.

  Jim F. Miller lives in Clay County; Eliza, born in Burleson County, Texas, married S. W. Telghman, a prominent builder and contractor, and substantial citizen of Decatur; to the latter union have been born Minnie, married and living in Omaha, Nebraska; Bob, married and living at Decatur; Dan and Will. The next daughter of Wm. A. Miller, Viola, is now Mrs. J. H. Smith, living in California.

Loyd Miller a distant cousin of mine submits this story about the father and son barbers.

William Alfred started barbering with his son Charles Hector (Heck) who took over after William's death. Story passed from his son, Robert Hershell Sr., to his sons, Charles Houston & Robert H. Jr., on down to me & now to my son, Charles T.(C. T.)...No year was given....several riders dismounted in front of the Miller Barber Shop (not far from where the town square is now). After two of the riders had their shave, etc. the youngest man asked if he could leave the two horses they rode in on at the shop. 

They wanted Heck to see that they got back to their owner (name forgotten), a local resident & to tell him Jesse James kept his word that they would be returned. The two men joined waiting riders & road double off towards the Denton direction. When Heck contacted owner he found out that the riders had "taken/stole" the horses (without owner knowing) and left the note that they would be returned.  As to the "truth" of the story date and who the riders said they were would have to be compaired to reports of seeing the "James and Younger" boys passing through Wise Co., if any.

The Millers made their own barber trade tokens as well. Here is a picture of one from "Trade Token Tales" by Jerry Adams. I would like to find one of these if any still exist.

Dienekes Dodecad results with 23andMe V3 Data

Im DOD515-   cluster #2 which according to Dinekes is "British Isles - American White"

Some background on the project:

http://dodecad.blogspot.com/2010/10/introducing-dodecad-ancestry-project.html

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/10/the-dodecad-ancestry-project/
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101215/full/468880a.html

Roger Tanner Ancestry

This posting is for my Uncle Roger Tanner. We recently tested his DNA at 23andMe. I will be sending this link to family and friends interested in the results of his test. I will also send this link to people that are looking for Native American ancestry to show what you can do with your data when the more conservative projects fail to show this.I will update this page in the future as I get more information from my research.

Roger's family on both sides is very Colonial and for the last few hundred years, very Southern. The family is from Georgia and Florida most recently but we have family from Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennesee. So any family connections in the Southeast are possible. The paternal Tanner side of the family is mostly from Washington County Ga. and surnames of interest are Tanner, Tompkins, Scott, and Sheppard. Roger's maternal side of the family is more of a mystery and we are working on that documentation now. Surnames of interest are Brady, Phillips, Bryant, Bryan, Dove, Smith, Mansell, and Mathis.


What have we done with Roger's DNA?

We have sent his data to Dr. Doug McDonald and David Wesolowski who runs the Eurogenes Genetic Ancestry Project We have submitted his Y-Chromosome information to Adriano Squecco and David F Reynolds' Y-Chromosome Genome Comparison project . Roger is also in Leon Kull's HIR Search.

If you have any questions or match him at HIR Search or 23andMe, feel free to email me with any questions. You can find my email in the "about me" link on the right side of this page.



Here is some Ancestral information for my Uncle Roger Tanner.

23andMe Global Similarity

23andMe Ancestry Painting

Here is a high level "painting" of Roger's chromosomes.

23andMe Ancestry Finder

23andMe decribes the tool by saying "Let the 23andMe Community help you discover what countries your ancestors might have lived in. This lab is fueled by your responses to the "Where Are You From?" ancestry survey."

So above are the results from 23andMe. 23andme tends to be rather conservative so I submitted his DNA to a few cutting edge projects.

Dr. Doug McDonald

Dr. McDonald had just gotten his V3 program working but was able to provide these comments:

"He has a 25 mb segment of Native American on Chromosome 18 and a 5 mb one on
chromosome 14. More to follow. There is also a teensy bit of African. Rest Euro. -Doug"

So we can see that with a higher resolution tool Dr. Mcdonald was able to find more Amerindian than 23andMe reported.



 

David Wesolowski

Next I sent his data to the Eurogenes Project for analysis. David replied with this:

  "Your uncle (US184) does show some Native American, with small, tight hits on chromosomes 4 and 6, and larger but sparser hits on chromosomes 11 and 18. I assume it's one of the larger Amerindian hits that got picked up at 23andMe as "Asian". The chromosome 11 and 18 SNPs that weren't flagged in this analysis, that sit in-between those that were, do pull your uncle some way towards my North Amerindian samples.
  
   However, he also shows very clear signals of Sub-Saharan African ancestry on chromosomes 2 and 4. They're quite unmistakable, and I have a hunch that they come from the same ancestor as the Amerindian hits, but that's just speculation." -David

Roberta Estes has written extensively on Native American and Melungeon ancestry. Here are a few links to a few of her articles for further reading.

http://www.jogg.info/52/files/Estes1.pdf

http://www.jogg.info/62/files/Estes.pdf

23andMe V3 Chip Ancestry

23andMe provides many ways to figure out your ancestry. Here are a few of the tools they provide using my results as an example. This data is from the new V3 chip.


Global Similarity

Here is my "Global Similarity" provided by 23andMe.  I'm closet to English, French, German, and Norwegian. I've included screen shots of each level of detail. I'm the red bar and then I'm the green dot as it gets more detailed.

Ancestry Painting

Here is a high level "painting" of my chromosomes. They only use three populations in this tool and it's pretty conservative. My results were 100% Europe.

Ancestry Finder

Ancestry Finder allows you to see where some of the people that match your chromosomes are from. Of course you have to complete the survey to have your data included, and many have not done this or any of the surveys. Since 23andMe have a large user base in the United States, many of my matches are here. Next highest are Ireland then the United Kingdom. This isn't surprising to me considering my known genealogy.

23andMe decribes the tool by saying "Let the 23andMe Community help you discover what countries your ancestors might have lived in. This lab is fueled by your responses to the "Where Are You From?" ancestry survey."

Digging Deeper

I also sent my data to Dr. Doug McDonald who analyzed my Family Finder data last year. Dr. McDonald uses a higher resolution process so you can find things that the 23andMe tool might miss. I have a little American Indian, some African, and some South Asian. These could all just be ancestral pieces of DNA that exsist in the general population.

Dr. McDonald : The "spot on the map" is in France, near Charleville-Mezieres

So even if you are adopted or know very little about your ancestry, these new tools can give you a lot of insight into who you are genetically.  I posted last year about my Family Finder results from FTDNA here: FTDNA Biogeographical Ancestry

Elizabeth Claire Eaves

This post is for 23andMe matches for my wife Elizabeth Claire Eaves. Her mother was born in Germany and her maternal side is German. Her father was born in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky and is very Colonial. My name is William B Allen and I manage her account. My email address is salabencher@gmail.com . I am very interested in genealogy and DNA and am quite active on the various DNA mail lists/blogs. Feel free to email me any time.

From 23andme we have the following reports for Elizabeth:



Elizabeth's Global Similarity

Her Ancestry Finder so far

What we know of her father's genealogy

What we know of her mother's genealogy

Results from Dr McDonald

Dr. McDonald uses a higher resolution process that seems to find things that the 23andMe tool might miss.

"You test 90% Orcadian, the rest somewhere in the Mideast. The spot on the map

is in Belgium. Since there is no sign of significant recent mixing, all western Europe, but not all northern Britain, is most likely. - Doug McDonald"

Spot on the map