Author: wpadmin
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AI – Should We Use Artificial Intelligence?
25 September 2025. Artificial Intelligence, can it make me a better Causey Clan Blogger? I am soon to begin my 79th year on this beautiful Blue Planet. Technology is quickly outpacing both my abilities and my motivation to learn new things. I need help improving my writing style and clarity. So, here’s my first attempt…
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Documenting Solomon Causey/Cossey
18 August 2025. Some of you American Causey/Cossey cousins have come to find out that just because we spell our surnames differently doesn’t mean we don’t have a common Grandfather. We know we possess a common terminal Y-DNA Haplogroup. We know that a mutation occurred sometime around 1750 splitting off from T-FTE36788, probably via a…
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Y-DNA Update
12 July 2025. Several Causey/Cossey males have recently purchased the Family Tree DNA Big 700 Y-DNA test. According to FamilyTreeDNA.com, “The Y chromosome is passed from father to son remaining mostly unaltered across generations, except for small traceable changes in DNA. By tracking these changes, we constructed a family tree of humankind where all male…
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Additional Jamestown Notes
25 April 2025. Our previous post presented some of the important documentation and related conclusions regarding the Causey Clan of Virginia and the probably connection to Maryland. Before we move on to the study of Dorchester County, Colonial Maryland, herein I offer some added notes on Virginia. Causeys Cleare was the 1620 Land Grant to…
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Causeys of Early Virginia: Part I.
24 April 2025. For the next few months I want to offer a series of posts containing raw research. These files are based on geographical areas beginning with Jamestown. My purpose is to share with you much of my research done over the past decade in these areas. In most documents I’ve tried to add…
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Where DNA and History Merge
Documenting the Lineage of Hubbert Causey/Cossey 21 April 2015. I have two Y-DNA cousins with whom I share the terminal Y-DNA haplogroup T-FTE75400. One of the two cousins’ surname is spelled CAUSEY, the other “COSSEY”. Sometime around 1750AD our ancestral Y-DNA Haplogroup T-FTE36788 mutated and now we have a common ancestor born about that date.…
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Exact Location of Causeys Cleare
Good Day my Causey/Cossey/Cawsey Cousins, For the last several weeks I’ve been rummaging through literally thousands of online documents at FamilySearch.org. I’ve saved a lot of documents the which I will soon add to this blogsite. BUT, one thing stood out today; something for which I’ve been searching for years; an original map showing the…
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Who is Our MRCA
2 March 2024. In both genetics and genealogy, the term Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) refers to the most recent individual from whom two or more family lines are descended. Many, if not most, of the Causey/Cossey/Cawsey families are descended from those first Causey men who migrated from Great Britain and Ireland before 1700 AD.…
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Y-DNA Update
27 February 2024. Sometime in December of last year (2024) I received an updated Big Y 700 Terminal SNP report from Family Tree DNA. In January two more Y-DNA Causey cousins were added to this new Y-DNA haplogroup designated T-FTE75400. Now I have questions. But first I want make clear what I am talking about.…
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The Unusual Story of Lloyds Forest
Some of the stories passed down from our grandparents and great aunts and uncles add so much humanity to our family history. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God”. Our Causey Clan is no exception. In our line are Gentlemen, War Heroes, Preachers, Thieves, Drunks, Slave owners, and slaves. There…