Tretower Genealogy Research

That is what they call it, PC for either an adoption or a baby born to a woman married to another man. Who calls it that? Y-DNA companies that test YDNA. That would fit our tests on descendants of Ben Vaughan, as his Y-DNA does not match William or John Vaughan. He did match 37 out of 37 to a Bill Willard though. And it looks like Ben’s father could have been a Willard man living in Tennessee about the same time that James and Martha Vaughan were living there (Wilson County). We are still trying to find out a way to test this. Our group is paying for an upgrade to a 67 marker test, and Bill Willard is upgrading his test to 67 markers. If both match closely, it might show a connection. I’ve even been in contact with the Willard DNA study as Bill’s Y-DNA matches other Willards close too.

So who knows? Maybe we will learn something.

Also, we’re beginning a project to send out a mass mailing of letters to Vaughans in NW Arkansas, asking them if they are descendants of William and Fereby, John and Nancy (or Ben and Cherubia) and the group is very excited about this. I’ve sent out 9 letters today to suspected descendants of Ben’s brothers, in hopes of finding a Y-DNA test subject to compare Ben’s Y-DNA to. If his matches his brothers’ then we’d know that Ben was probably not adopted. But finding a descendant that will agree to this testing, even if our group pays for all the costs, is going to be a problem.

Eddie Davis