My Autosomal DNA Test

As you know from my earlier post I am looking for my long lost ancestor Henry McIntire I have convinced my two cousins to test their Autosomal DNA with me.  I am still very new at all this Genetic Genealogy but I'll never learn if I don't jump in and figure it out.  So hopefully we will get our results back soon and the discoveries can begin.

Here is a 4 minute video of me getting my cheek swab.  Enjoy!

Have you done a DNA test?  What did you learn?  I would love to read your comments and opinions. Thanks for watching.

Until next time, happy hunting!
Kristina

Planning My Genealogy Research Trip to Salt Lake City

We are heading to the largest genealogical library in the world!  I will only have one, maybe two days to research so I have to be totally prepared.  I have been scouring the web for all the advice I can find.  And what do all those great websites say?  Be prepared!  Have a plan!  Know what you want to look at before you get there!

Ok Ok I get the idea.  And I am taking their advice.

1. Have a research plan. What do I want to know?  What do I already know?  What sources might lead me to the answers.

This is harder than I thought.  I have so many tree branches that need help! How do I choose which one to focus on for this trip?

I have to go back to what my ultimate goals in genealogy are:

• Write the McIntire Family History Book
• Research my maternal line, my mother's mother's mother
• Prove all my American Patriots for DAR
• Compile a book of all the military soldiers in my family tree
• Prove my connection to King Robert the Bruce
• Prove or disprove our connection to Capt. Christopher Newport

After looking at my list I've narrowed it down to my maternal line and the Newport connection.

My maternal line has run cold in Pasquotank County, NC and my Newport's are in Philadelphia.
For the next few days I will be making a list of all the records I might want to look at while I'm in Salt Lake.

At FamilySearch.org there is a very exhaustive online library catalog.  When I put in Pasquotank I got over 200 hits.  This is going to take awhile.

2. Create a Packing List

• Map to location with hours, telephone # and parking information (printed out- don’t trust cell phone service)
• Research Plan
• List of records and books you want to look at
• Blank charts
• Mechanical pencil with refills
• Notebook with lots of blank pages
• iPad and or laptop
• flash-drive
• digital camera
• Extra bag for all those printed pages or what ever else you might acquire there.
• Sweater
• Cash for parking, copy machine and snacks, call ahead to see if you can bring food and drink
• Research local lunch places

Until next time, happy hunting!
Kristina

My Brick Wall, Henry McIntire

All genealogist run up against a brick wall every now and then.  It is a place in our research where we cannot seem to go any farther.  My brick wall is Henry McIntire.  I have two cousins that have been helping me but for the last several years we have not found anything to help us find where is from or who his parents are.

I am using this blog to help me sort through my research and this is what I have so far:

1740 - The first time I find Henry in the record books is in 1740 in Falmouth, ME. Henry signed a petition; objections of Nathaniel Jones and 23 others to any action of the parish concerning the acceptance of the new meeting house 17 July 1740

1743 - Henry McIntire buys 60 acres of land with Benjamin Blackstone from Helen Coy and Mary Gilbert 17 September 1743.

1744 - marriage to Mary Small; Hampton Falls, NH

1746 - 10 March 1746 he is elected field driver at annual town meeting in Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine.

1748-31 January 1748 Henry is found on the tax rolls of Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine from the files of Walter good when Davis volume 8 number three page 71.

1753-marriage to Sarah Dodd daughter of Joseph Dodd and Priscilla Ball, on 25   October 1753 at Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine

1757-military Winslow, Maine French and Indian war Capt. George Barry of Falmouth in assists in the      election of Fort Halifax

1760-Cumberland County was established. Until now all Maine was York County.

1787-death he died before this date 2 October 1787 when his land was divided between his wife and two sons.

So my questions are:

Where was Henry born?  Who were his parents?  and What connection did he and Benjamin Blackstone have?  Indentured servant?  adopted son?