Saturday, January 4, 2025

FG#8

  The more that I look at the Castle yDNA project, the more confused I get.  FG#8 is a group with two members in it.  James Stapleton is an autosomal dna match to me.  He matches men with surname Stapleton:  Charles Homer, Michael Vaughn, Michael James, Ray D.  And one man with Castle surname:  James Travis Castle. I bought Travis's kit and Travis does not match the Castle FG#2 that has paper trail to Jacob Castle the longhunter.

James Stapleton's daughter also has a dna kit on MyHeritage and she is a match to me in exactly the same place that I match James Stapleton.  So I looked through the list of autosomal dna matches that James Stapleton's daughter and I match in the same place.  And I found one that has a really nice big tree.  

And this new information does not help me become less confused.  I see several places where James Stapleton and I might find our common ancestor.

This tree is on the smaller segment on Chromosome #5.

I descend from Juliana Penix who married Zedekiah Alan Castle.  This lady has 


And the Wooten, Castle, Bowen, Penix are so intermarried I can not figure out how to even sort them out.

On the larger segment on Chromosome #5 it looks as if I have already painted the segment as having come to me from Zedekiah Castle and Juliana Penix.  

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