Author: Windle Ray Causey
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Ancestry Regional Inheritance
6 September 2024 If you are tracking your Y-DNA at familytreeDNA.com and you have also done the Ancestry.com DNA test, you might find it interesting to take a look at your father’s regional ancestry. You can find it by going to DNA by Parent, then Region by Parent and scroll down to see a chart…
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Tracking Absalom Causey|
10 July 2024. Our Causey family lines are traceable along two main lines back to Dorchester County, Colonial Maryland. Generally speaking the Philip Causey-I (1702-1778) line can be tracked from Dorchester County, Colonial Maryland to the Causey families arriving in Craven, Pitt, and Edgecombe Counties of North Carolina between 1755 and 1770. The other Causey…
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New Causey One-Name Site
7 February 2024. Many of you know that I’m a member of the Guild of One-Name Studies. “The Members’ Websites Program is designed to provide a safe haven for members’ one-name study websites. Members can upload a one-name study website to the Program’s webserver provided the site is concerned with a surname which they have…
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27 January 2024 More About Our Causey Haplotree
Last summer I decided to invest in confirming with some confidence my Y-DNA Haplogroup. Most of the members of our Causey DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA.com have purchased one of their Y-DNA tests. These tests , (Y-37, Y-67, Y-111 and the Big Y 700) provide help in determining common ancestors (grandfathers) as a way of helping us…
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Lineage of Nathaniel Causey
6 January 2024 Nathaniel Causey seems likely to be our American Common Ancestor. But, where was he born and what was his Ancestry? During the previous several years I’ve worked on trying to make a connection between The Causeys (Causey, Coursey, Cossey, Cawsey, Cowsey, Case, Casey, Casse, Cassey, Cose, etc.) of America and those of Scot,…
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Y-DNA Haplogroup Update
3 January 2024 Happy New Year to all. With the new year came an interesting twist in our continuing quest for the Common Ancestor of the latest mutation of the Causey T-M70 Y-DNA Haplogroup. As many of you know, the Y-DNA chromosome is passed from biological father to son and can go thousands of years…
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Captain Wm Causey b.1744, An Alternative History
14 November 2023 While researching Thomas Causey, Sr. today I ventured on an extensive presentation on a Thomas S. Causey, b.1861 to Jonas son of Thomas, son of Captain Wm. Causey. The story generally parallels that of other writings depicting the life of Captain Causey, this one interested me because it states his father as…
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1683-1776 Thomas Causey Line – A new look
12 November 2023 Windle Ray Causey here. I just received some interesting documents from Cousin Patti Causey Nedoluha, originally from Decatur, IL but now in Bowie, MD. It is always exciting to find new documents which shed more light on our family history. Patti’s contribution provide substantiation including more family members, dates, and links to…
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New Causey Surname DNA Information
The Big Y-700 test from Family Tree DNA is a Y DNA test that analyzes millions of locations on the Y chromosome to reveal mutations and haplogroups. It is the most complete Y DNA test offered by Family Tree DNA. It reports on your paternal ancestry and allows you to find living relatives on your…
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Full Circle
10 September 2023 In the spring of 1608 Nathaniel Causey, soldier in the band of John Smith, arrived from England at the Jamestown Colony in the new world of Virginia. His wife Thomasine arrived in 1609. They adapted to the wild new environment and in 1620 received a grant of 200 acres of pristine land…