After a busy couple of months, July was more of a kicked-back time of relaxing. Our new Y-DNA group is slowly growing and sales of my Vaughan book has slowed down, which I expected. I’m now offering it to anyone who would like a copy. It’s on CD, over 700 pages in length and with other “goodies” on the CD, for $30. If you’d like to buy a copy, e-mail me at ec21davis@gmail.com for more information.
I did spend a few days tidying up some of the genealogical trees I have tried to assemble, especially the line of John Vaughan, who came to the Virginia colony on the Bona Nova in 1719. I have a theorized chart of his descendants, and it was this chart that I updated in July. Interestingly, there are three men in the Vaughan DNA study who are suspected of being descendants of “Bona Nova John”. Yet all three men have different Y-DNA signatures, and none of the three match each other. So this is another mystery to try to solve. Records in the British Isles from the 18th century and before are very scant, so it is rather difficult to track anyone back that far in time. We may never know where “Bona Nova John” was from other then the general area of Devonshire, England. We probably will never know who his parents were or what Vaughan family he came from. Yet there is always hope and that hope fuels the genealogy hobby.
Eddie Davis