Salabencher

Old Walt Disney World

2024-03-10T06:29:00.000-07:00

As a Florida native I've been going to Walt Disney World my entire life. Here are a few pictures my Dad took on one of our trips in the 70's. The character outfits sure have changed!

IT Links for Students

2024-03-10T05:29:00.000-07:00

I mentor students for cybersecurity, here are a few links that I often send to new students.

Unsupervised Learning, by Daniel Miessler

Home - Professor Messer IT Certification Training - CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+

Cybersecurity Certifications and Continuing Education | ISC2

Information Technology (IT) Certifications & Training | CompTIA

In Pursuit of Digital Trust | ISACA

National Institute of Standards and Technology (nist.gov)

Chippewa Engineer Boots

2023-09-11T20:36:00.005-07:00

I bought a pair of Chippewa engineer boots around the end of 2015. I think I paid $200 maybe $230 I can’t remember. Usually when I buy something, I like to keep it until it falls apart. I took this picture probably six months after I purchased them.

I proceeded to wear these boots for the next five or six years, working, shitty jobs at a biker bar, selling honey, and working at Walt Disney World. Eventually went back to corporate America and I still wear them as my office boots even though I work from home so I don’t wear them as often.

Now I’ve owned them for about eight years and I’ll probably keep them going for another five years or so.

I had to get patches put on since that was the cheapest option. I think it cost $150 to have them resoled and patched.

The price was almost the price of the boots originally but Chippewa quit making these and now it’s hard to find a pair of boots like this under $500.

The only boot care has been a few resoles, and rubbing coconut oil on them and polishing them maybe once a year.

My Time in the Wine World

2021-09-26T05:01:00.084-07:00

Growing up in the 80's wine was not as popular in the US as it is now. It certainly wasn't in my house growing up and I knew nothing about it. When I was In my 20’s I wanted to learn all of the skills I considered “Adult Skills” so I decided to take up wine tasting.

I subscribed to Wine Spectator magazine, bought a huge wine encyclopedia on the world of wine and would spend hours pouring over the various regions and varietals. I love plants so this was right up my alley. I was working for Capital One in Tampa at the time administering their Nortel phone system so made a good wage. I decided to go down to Bern’s Steakhouse and see if I could get a part time gig in the wine department. I met with Ken Collura their Sommelier and he offered me a part time job.

As one of the perks of working at Bern’s I would be allowed to attend all of the wine tastings they held at their other location SideBern’s. This was an amazing benefit for me since my wine knowledge was so limited. I was suddenly attending private wine parties and tasting flights of wine while increasing my knowledge.

Of course there was still work to do at Bern’s and my tasks at the restaurant included pouring over 200 wines by the glass as well as taking diners on a tour through the wine cellar and restocking that cellar from a warehouse of over 500,000 bottles. The tours were a lot of fun and I was lucky enough to take Mario Lemieux on a tour, though I didn’t know who he was at the time.

People romanticize working in a restaurant or a bar, but as anyone that has worked in the restaurant world knows, its tons of hard work and passions run high. We would be slammed all night hustling to keep the waitstaff happy pouring glasses, making drinks and cleaning. My day job got busy so my time there was cut short but I was lucky enough to try many wonderful wines, my favorite was a 1973 Petite Sirah.

Life took over and I left Bern’s but still wanted to work in the wine industry full time. I continued working in IT but sent my resume to Morrell & Company in NYC. Morrell was founded in 1947 and is a wine retailer in Manhattan with a wine bar, an auction division, e-commerce site and a storage company. They needed someone to manage their AS/400 system and my role would be 50/50 IT support and learning the wine business. They flew me to NY and I was taken on a tour of the company and we discussed the position. I ended up not taking the job due to the cost of living in NYC being young and naïve and was not fully aware of the differences in daily life.

Many years past and I threw myself into the business world building my skills while working at JPMorgan until we went through an outsourcing of my division and I was presented with a severance package. I traveled across the country in an RV but that’s another story. When I arrived back in Florida I was out of a job and started to rebuild my life. I took many jobs but I was living down the street from Florida’s largest winery’s Lakeridge Winery. I applied and was hired to work in the tasting room taking guests on a tour of the winery culminating with a wine tasting.

I was also lucky enough to work various marketing events held at the winery and representing the winery externally at restaurant shows and festivals. The Orlando restaurant show was amazing, there were hundreds of vendors there offering samples. We arrived and we had to setup our stand. Lots of hot sweaty work needed to be done lugging in wine and our displays. Once we were setup we got changed and poured wine all day and educated consumers on the product.

We took turns exploring the show and I had Kobe beef, tons of cheese and all the wonderful food I could eat. I am not a foodie so this experience was an education for me. At the end of these shows, no one wants to carry what they have left back to the car so everyone starts trading wares.

I left with several giant bags of chocolate and other vendor’s wine, and my food tasting experience increased exponentially.

The next event I represented the winery at was Biketoberfest. This is an annual motorcycle rally that attracts over 100,00 people to the Daytona beach area. I was pouring a biker themed wine for this event and quickly learned that the women were more interested in the wine than the men. It was still a fun event and I met many interesting people, saw tons of amazing motorcycle’s and finished my trip at the Boot Hill Saloon and way too much fireball.

Another event that stood out in my mind was representing the winery with Chef Jennifer Denlinger at a tasting event for students. Chef Jennifer Denlinger was named top Chef educator for 2020 and we were lucky enough to be able to work with her for events at Lakeridge and these educational events.

I left the winery to work for The Walt Disney Company as I had quite a few friends over there at the time. When I started at Disney I actually met with several restaurant managers as Disney offered a Sommelier program and training at the time. The Sommelier program they offered was focused on cast members that worked in the food and beverage areas of the company. I would have needed to move to a food and beverage area, then move into a waiter position for a while and I would eventually become qualified for the training.

I eventually left Disney and the wine world behind and went back into the Information Technology industry as making money in IT was much easier for me from my many years’ experience in that world.

I enjoyed my time in the wine world and seriously thought of taking courses at The Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California, Davis at one point. My advice for anyone that wants to work in the wine industry or become a sommelier, is to go to school or start working at a restaurant or liquor store. For most people there are many many years of grueling low paid work before you reach the point you want to be.

Juanita History

2020-03-06T12:01:00.002-08:00

This was a document I created to help understand my Grandmother Juanitas side of the family. I believe I created this around 2008. New science and documents are possibly available so I will have to revisit this issue. March 2020

I’m writing this to record and share my thoughts and research with my family that descends from Juanita Brady. I call her Juanita Brady because that is how she identifies herself on the few records I have of her. On the 1935 Florida State Census she lives with her family and the head of the family is Mr. Phillips. However all of the children are listed as Brady’s including Juanita. On a document from her first marriage in 1937, she identifies herself as a Brady also. I have never found a document that listed Juanita as a Phillips, only Brady. So I have to go with what I’m provided in the records.

First of all, family research and DNA analysis is hard. It takes quite a bit of research and money to figure this stuff out. I love doing it, but its not a simple task to reconstruct your family’s past. Some people spend their entire lives and spend a fortune doing this, only to find very little accurate information.

The TV shows you watch like the George Lopez Show where they give guests an ethnic breakdown are based on poor science. There are several companies that use very old tests and will tell you what Native American tribe you match up with. These companies are known within the DNA community as a sham. People continue to use their services because they tell people what they want to hear, that they are a certain percentage of American Indian. The “TV” tests use only 13-100 CODIS markers to identify your origin. This technology is antiquated and the results are ambiguous at best. The new tests available today utilize 500,000 + markers within our DNA , a substantial difference.

If you want to have membership within a recognized tribe, you need to “prove” decent from a person on the various rolls. (Dawes, Baker, etc.) This is very hard to do and the majority of Americans with Indian ancestors are not on these documents.

If you have no records and want to trace your native ancestry with DNA only, which is our present situation, there are still a few things you can do. 23andme provides a test that will give you a geographic breakdown but it’s rather conservative. It’s split up into three percentages: European, African, and Asian. For people with American roots the Asian is the Native American percentage. Most “white” people get 98-99 % European since that’s what we are overwhelmingly. If you get a larger percentage of Asian 4-10 % then you have a good chance of having a Native ancestor.

Family Tree DNA has a new test that is to be released any day now. This test is supposed to be more granular in respect to ethnicity, but the Affymetrix chip that is used by FTDNA is geared toward Northern European heritage, so I’m not sure how well it will identify Asian or Native American markers. It will probably tell me all about my Irish and English ancestry, but that’s not the subject of this article.

Within the extended Tanner family there is debate about Juanita’s origins. Here are the competing stories. Feel free to add more if you have one…lol.

Story # 1. Walter Lee Brady and Missouri Bryant are her parents. This is the official story, but we have little proof if this is true or not. Here are my thoughts on this.

We don't have a birth certificate for Juanita yet and no sign of her on the 1920 Census. Now Juanita was born supposedly March 1920 and the 1920 census was taken in January. On that census if Missouri was her mother, then she was about to have her. But the census doesn't mention if a mother is with child, so we will never know.
Juanita Tanner shows up on the 1935 Florida Census for the first time. On that census the following people are listed:

J.A Phillips 50, Missouri Phillips 52, Annie Brady 29, Frank Brady 26, Council Brady 23, Juanta Brady 15 and Corine Farabee 4.

Now we know that Annie was back in the house since she had divorced Mr. Farabee and had Corine there as well. But what I want to point out is the fact that the first 3 children of Missouri’s were 3 years apart each. There is an eight year difference between Juanita and Council. It’s not impossible, but suspicious.

Story # 2. James A Phillips brought Juanita from another state were she was born to an Indian woman. Grandma always had stories of different mothers.

Story # 3. Juanita was the daughter of Missouri Bryant and a traveling Italian salesman who was a boarder in Missouri’s boarding house.

So above are the 3 stories we have to work with.

Before we get into what we have discovered lets discuss what we know about the family without all of these pesky records and DNA tests. Families often have legends that are passed down and many of them have quite a bit of truth in them. There are also things that people don’t want to pass on and feel ashamed of at the time so details are left out.

My job as a family historian is to find the facts and present them in a respectful manner. I loved Grandma Juanita and would have done anything for her, but I have tools that she didn’t have access to and the ability to analyze DNA and cross reference large databases of people that have submitted their genealogy and DNA.

In years past if you researched your family’s genealogy you could only go by what was recorded and what you are told. With DNA and the huge databases that have been compiled by 23andme, the Sorenson Foundation, and Family Tree DNA, we are able to see what others match our DNA report as their heritage. For example, I consider myself English and Irish with a small amount of Native American ancestry. This is what I have been told by family and the genealogy that I have done over the years. When I took the data that has been reported by over 50 people in the FTDNA database, I see an overwhelming English, Irish Ancestry.

I also see a bit of Cherokee and Choctaw ancestry. This seems to reflect what has been reported by my family over the years.

We have several people in our family that look rather “Native” so it’s not so far fetched for us to say we have Native heritage. We have a strong family history from the South and actually have living people in our family that “look Indian”.

So what does my (our) DNA say about Native Ancestry?

There are several tests that you can take to prove, or try to prove Native American ancestry. A Y-Chromosome test (native male line), mtDNA (native female line), and various autosomal DNA tests (the rest of your DNA).

We suspect Juanita’s native ancestry comes from the female Northern European line. I carry her mtDNA which was passed down from her mother.

It is the mtDNA U4 haplogroup which originates in Siberia or Finland from 30,000 years ago. It’s quite common in Ireland and the UK which makes sense if Missouri Bryant is her mother. I manage the U4 mtDNA group at FTDNA and it’s not Indian. It is one of the oldest mtDNA’s of Europe.

The Y-Chromosome won’t help us here with Juanita since that’s a male only test.

Autosomal DNA testing is rather new but I’ve taken a test and my results have linked me to numerous people throughout the world that share DNA with me. There are also other databases that I’ve submitted my DNA to and have found several distant cousins from Ireland, England, and Australia. Not much Native American yet, only a small amount.

So what can we do at this point to find our Native ancestry?

#1 wait. There are numerous studies and tests that are linking portions of our genomes to areas of the world.

#2 Test Uncle Bo. – He is the closest link we have to Native Ancestry from the way he looks to his age. When he dies… we will be out of luck. That would give us a direct link to Grandpa Tanner’s paternal line as well as grandma’s mtDNA and atDNA.

Any test I take will be diluted by 50% since I carry Bill Allen’s DNA as well as April’s. So without Grandma to test, Uncle Bo is the best chance we have.

Uncle Bo is 50% Grandma, 50% percent Grandpa. I’m 25% percent Grandma, 25% Grandpa and the other 50% my paternal line (Allen.) So as generations pass, it gets diluted more and more.

So if you have any information that I have not covered in this document, please send it my way. I would love to be disproved or scooped by a family member with new information.

My Origins by FTDNA

2014-05-06T11:32:00.001-07:00

FTDNA released an update to their population finder tool. My old percentage was 90% Orcadian and 10 % Mediterranean.

My new percentage is, 100 Percent European.

If I click on the + symbol next to European, I can expand this to four different reference populations.

My population breakdown is:

56% European Coastal Islands
European Coastal Islands is typical to the British Isles, especially Ireland. Its reach includes all European Islands from the far north and down south to the Azores Islands off the coast of Spain. The continuous mixing of European populations means that this group is also present in lesser amounts on the mainland. Genetically close to European Coastal Plain and European Northlands, European Coastal Islands has had an impact on the demography of the world because of the explosion of population in the Anglosphere over the past few centuries.
The farmers came to Britain late, but when they came they brought great change. The hunters were assimilated by the farmer. This admixture caused the European Coastal Islands as we know it to become a hybrid of farmer and hunter. Perhaps due to its isolation and strategic placement, the major powers in the world and throughout history have wanted to rule the islands. From Caesar to the Irish king Niall of the Nine Hostages, we see the wide variety of genetic influence from the Celts, Picts, Vikings, Normans and French.

29% European Coastal Plain
The European Coastal Plain combines nearly all of the threads of European genetic history into one. This cluster goes from the Bay of Biscay near Spain, toward the Pripet Marshes of western Russia, to the coastal plain of Northern Europe. The hunter-gatherer, farmer, and intruder from the steppes were forged together as one people. The French and the German were created by the intersection between the civilized and the barbarian during antiquity. With this diverse ancestry across the uniform plain, a relatively unified cluster was born.
European Coastal Plain represents the diverse groups brought together over the past 5,000 years, as Germans, Celts, and Slavs have moved in with their cattle, and the Romans brought their mills and cities. This cluster is common among many populations with Northern European heritage. Germanic migrations after the fall of Rome guaranteed its presence in the south. The people on the European Coastal Plain are at the heart of recent history. Being the engines behind the Great Powers of the age, they became the dominant actors in colonization of the world.

8% North Mediterranean
The North Mediterranean cluster is a distinct European cluster. It is situated in the southwest of Europe from Spain to Greece. Its people are a mix of the first hunter-gatherers to reach Europe and later migrations from Western Eurasia. There were two waves into the area: first the farmers of the Middle East and later the Roman Empire.
A long history of traveling merchants and seafarers shaped this group. The great empires of Rome and Greece brought it to distant lands. They also brought a second wave of Western Eurasian influence into the cluster. Its modern geography speaks to the history of those who moved, either willingly or in chains, under the Roman Empire. Because of this, the cluster’s signature is strongest in the western part of the Mediterranean. It is particularly strong on the isolated island of Sardinia. It reaches upwards to the British Islands, as well as east into modern Turkey.
They have the same genetic origin as those who reached north to what is now Sweden. While the culture survived there, the genetic signature was largely replaced by later migrations.

7% North Circumpolar
The world is not such a wide place at the top and the bottom. The North Circumpolar cluster began around the arctic as hunter-gatherer peoples. They have carried their genes down to the modern era. The North Circumpolar stretches from Lappland east to Greenland. Though genetically diverse, the root of many of these populations is a genetic signature found most often in Finnic peoples.
These are the descendants of hunter-gatherers who withstood the push of the farmers. They adapted, and flourished, in a new age. Like the Bering Expansion, this cluster goes beyond conventional divisions, and has clear connections with both east and west. Even the New World is connected to North Circumpolar due to their shared kinship with ancient Siberia.
Humans pushed into the deep north only within the last 30,000 years, going where no Neanderthal had dared. With connections to populations in the south, the northerners maintained long term lateral connections and developed a coherence as the ice retreated. North Circumpolar has its roots with Saami hunters and fishers, as well as Uralic, Russian, Swedish, and even Scandinavian ancestries.

Overall I'm quite pleased with the new product since it is an update to an existing product that I purchased several years ago.This is a good example of a DNA test providing results for a long time. This test matches my known ancestry from genealogy.

More info here: https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/ftdna/myorigins-population-clusters/

Walter Brady/ Sarah Missouri Bryant/Bryan Marriage Certificate

2013-09-03T08:37:00.001-07:00

Jeremiah Allen Bastrop County Tax Assessments

2013-08-28T14:36:00.002-07:00

Here are various Tax assessments from Bastrop County from 1850-1870 for my 4th Great Grandfather Jeremiah Allen.

Roger R Tanner Obit

2013-08-23T11:37:00.004-07:00

Tampa Tribune Saturday Feb 14 1981

James Thomas Allen and Sallie (Sarah) Millers Marriage Certificate

2013-08-13T07:48:00.000-07:00

Will Allen and Maude Swartout Documents

2013-05-29T04:39:00.005-07:00

Marriage License Application

Marriage License

John Swartout and Alvira Debord Documents

2013-05-29T04:37:00.001-07:00

Maude Swartout (Allen) Birth Cert

John / Alvira Marriage Cert

Alvira death Cert

Death Certificates for various family members from the State of Florida

2012-07-12T07:54:00.000-07:00

Sara Missouri Phillips

Minnie Lee Tanner

Walter Lee Brady

John M Tanner

James A Phillips

1940 United States Census

2012-06-01T03:51:00.000-07:00

The 1940 Census is becoming searchable slowly. I'll post any family related images I find here.

1. Minnie Lee Tanner (Scott)

Some of the info on the Census below:

Name:     Minnie L Tanner
Titles & Terms:
Event:     Census
Event Year:     1940
Event Place:     Election Precinct 6, Polk, Florida, United States
Gender:     Female
Age:     65
Marital Status:     Widowed
Race (Original):     White
Race (Standardized):     White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original):     Mother-in-law
Relationship to Head of Household (Standardized):     Mother-in-law
Birthplace:     Georgia
Estimated Birth Year:     1875
Residence in 1935:     Same Place
Enumeration District Number:     53-13
Family Number:     104
Sheet Number and Letter:     6B
Line Number:     52
NARA Publication Number:     T627
NARA Roll Number:     612
Digital Folder Number:     005449603
Image Number:     00542

2. Annie and Homer Sapp

Juanita Brady State of Florida marriage and divorce records

2012-02-16T22:36:00.001-08:00

My grandmother Juanita Brady was married at age 15 to a man named Ollin Rowell. They divorced a few years later and she married my Grandfather Roger Tanner. Below are the documents I received today from the state of Florida.

Willow Oak Cemetery

2012-01-26T07:38:00.000-08:00

I visited Willow Oak Cemetery this week to see the graves of my Great Grandparents Missouri Bryan (Bryant) John Brady and James Phillips. No one was around when I visited.

The three grave sites. Phillips is to the right, Missouri in the middle.

Their son Frank

Ila Mae

Frank and Ila Mae

James Died 10 years later, so his stone is separate.

Walter and Missouri

Updated:

Here is Ila Mae's Obit:

Ila Brady

PIPER CITY - Ila Mae Brady, 70, of Piper City, died Thursday (Feb. 26, 1998) at Gibson City Hospital emergency room.
There will be no visitation.
Services will be held Tuesday in Mulberry, Fla.
Burial will be in Willow Oak Cemetery, Mulberry, Fla.
Arrangements are by the Knapp Funeral Home, Clifton.
She was born Jan. 16, 1928, in Bowling Green, Fla., the daughter of Frank and Claudia Barefoot Best.
Her first husband, Frank Brady, whom she married in 1948, in Miami, Fla., died in May 1978.
Surviving are her husband, Bernard Regnier, of Piper City, whom she married in 1988 in Florida; two daughters, Sarah Krell of Ocala, Fla., Peggy Youmans of Mulberry, Fla.; two sons, Frank Brady Jr. of Oak Harbour, Wash., Walter Brady of Frankfort; one sister, Edna Mae Bosarge of Theodore, Ala.; one brother, Robert Biddle of Olive Branch, Miss.; and 10 grandchildren.
Deceased are her parents and one brother.
She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, Mulberry, Fla.

Sallie C. Allen Confederate pension application

2011-08-27T12:59:00.000-07:00

In 1902 my 3rd great grandmother Sallie C. Allen applied for a Confederate pension. Her husband James Thomas Allen was a member of the 18th Texas Cavalry, Company "B" of the Confederate Army, also known as Darnell's Regiment. She was denied. I requested a copy of the pension application from the state of Texas.

Maude Allen

2011-07-14T20:23:00.000-07:00

I was looking for information about my Allen line from Texas and saw a "Maude Allen" listed on the Wise County headstone page: http://www.wisecountytexas.info/cemeteries/a.htm

I noticed at the bottom of the stone it said " Killed by Jene White" I have never seen this type of information on a headstone and figured there had to be a story behind this.

So I queried the txwise@rootsweb.com list to see if anyone had more information about this mystery.
Sure enough a kind soul, Jean was able to provide a newspaper clipping with more details

I guess you should be ready for surprises when you start digging around. Rest in peace Maude, we wont forget you.

Terry's Texas Rangers

2011-05-05T16:16:00.000-07:00

I was doing a little research and noticed that George R. Allen 1841 – 1924 (my 3rd great grand uncle) Son of Jeremiah Allen 1806 – 1883 my 4th great grandfather was a member of Terry's Texas Rangers.
"The unit earned a reputation that ranked it among the most effective mounted regiments in the Western Theater of the American Civil War."

He attended the 1902 reunion in Dallas and is probably in this picture.Too bad we don't know which one he is. Ill have to keep researching.

More about this group: http://www.terrystexasrangers.org/index.html

Update: I have a larger version of the picture above.

Henry Clay Allen and Edna Eliza Timmons

2011-05-01T11:53:00.000-07:00

My second great grandfather paternally was Henry Clay Allen. I knew the name, but it took me lots of time and research to connect this Henry with the Henry I knew I was looking for. Many people had suspected Henry Clay Allen was my great, great grandfather:

A reference for Henry as the Father of William Louis Allen:

http://www.wisecountytexas.info/births/BC-A-C.htm

More links referring to Edna and Henry.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/txwise/2005-04/1112928652

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/txwise/2005-03/1110766312

http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/TXDICKEN/2004-03/1080763512

https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwc.rootsweb.ancestry.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Figm.cgi%3Fop%3DGET%26db%3Ddemason%26id%3DI13192&h=9539d

http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/TXWISE/2003-06/1055882883

I decided to see if these two were living closely when the 1880 federal census was taken. They were listed six pages apart. Henry's family is on page 40. Edna and her 8 month old son William is listed living with her parents the Timmons on page 45.

William and Mildred Miller

2011-04-28T06:34:00.000-07:00

While researching my third great grandfather James T. Allen with Google books, I stumbled upon a book titled "Pioneer History of Wise County" by Cliff Cates. As happens sometimes in this situation, I found little in this book about James Allen except for one page that mentioned that he had married my third great grandmother Sallie Miller. I was a little disappointed but also happy to see on that same page was a biography of Sallie's parents William Alfred Miller and Mildred B. Hughes. So I immediately had a full biography with pictures of my fourth great grandparents. This was pretty amazing. Below is the article on the Miller family:

WILLIAM A. MILLER

In later years the truly original and picturesque subject of this sketch became generally known as Uncle Billy Miller, one of the jolliest, most generous, and optimistic old men that stepped down from the pioneer days to the rustling, bustling present ; a present that was strange to him, yet one which he enjoyed with all the heartiness of his ebullient nature.

Wm. Alfred Miller was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1817. Before he left that state for Texas he married Mildred B. Hughes, who was a faithful helpmeet to him through all his days. Mr. Miller came to Burleson County, Texas, in the fall of 1853. After three years he returned to Williamson County, Illinois, thence back to Burleson County in 1857. Mr. Miller then came on a mule to prospect in Wise County, which resulted in his location here in 1859. Mr. Miller first settled the Lockard place South of Decatur; finally he moved to his Sweetwater place, where he lived at the time of his death in August, 1900. Mrs. Miller died two months later, October, 1900.

Born to the union was a large family of children, as follows: Sallie, married James Allen of Wise County, both being now dead; Frank; Kittie, who married Chas. More, a prominent business man, miller, and respected citizen of Wise County for many years, both being now dead; C. H. Miller, born January 13, 1849, Hopkins County, Kentucky, married Sarah E. Stacks, of Ellis County, July 7, 1870. Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Miller, as follows: Teola, married W. T. Tull, now deceased; Charlie M., married, lives in Ft. Worth, Texas; Jake, Dallas, Texas: Albert, Ft. Worth, Texas; Robert H. and Lizzie May, children, at home. Mr. Miller has served faithfully and efficiently as a barber in Decatur for many years; is also a successful inventor and an upright and respected citizen.

Jim F. Miller lives in Clay County; Eliza, born in Burleson County, Texas, married S. W. Telghman, a prominent builder and contractor, and substantial citizen of Decatur; to the latter union have been born Minnie, married and living in Omaha, Nebraska; Bob, married and living at Decatur; Dan and Will. The next daughter of Wm. A. Miller, Viola, is now Mrs. J. H. Smith, living in California.

Loyd Miller a distant cousin of mine submits this story about the father and son barbers.

William Alfred started barbering with his son Charles Hector (Heck) who took over after William's death. Story passed from his son, Robert Hershell Sr., to his sons, Charles Houston & Robert H. Jr., on down to me & now to my son, Charles T.(C. T.)...No year was given....several riders dismounted in front of the Miller Barber Shop (not far from where the town square is now). After two of the riders had their shave, etc. the youngest man asked if he could leave the two horses they rode in on at the shop.

They wanted Heck to see that they got back to their owner (name forgotten), a local resident & to tell him Jesse James kept his word that they would be returned. The two men joined waiting riders & road double off towards the Denton direction. When Heck contacted owner he found out that the riders had "taken/stole" the horses (without owner knowing) and left the note that they would be returned. As to the "truth" of the story date and who the riders said they were would have to be compaired to reports of seeing the "James and Younger" boys passing through Wise Co., if any.

The Millers made their own barber trade tokens as well. Here is a picture of one from "Trade Token Tales" by Jerry Adams. I would like to find one of these if any still exist.

Dienekes Dodecad results with 23andMe V3 Data

2011-04-01T17:56:00.000-07:00

Im DOD515- cluster #2 which according to Dinekes is "British Isles - American White"

Some background on the project:

http://dodecad.blogspot.com/2010/10/introducing-dodecad-ancestry-project.html

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/10/the-dodecad-ancestry-project/
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101215/full/468880a.html

Roger Tanner Ancestry

2011-02-19T05:58:00.000-08:00

This posting is for my Uncle Roger Tanner. We recently tested his DNA at 23andMe. I will be sending this link to family and friends interested in the results of his test. I will also send this link to people that are looking for Native American ancestry to show what you can do with your data when the more conservative projects fail to show this.I will update this page in the future as I get more information from my research.

Roger's family on both sides is very Colonial and for the last few hundred years, very Southern. The family is from Georgia and Florida most recently but we have family from Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennesee. So any family connections in the Southeast are possible. The paternal Tanner side of the family is mostly from Washington County Ga. and surnames of interest are Tanner, Tompkins, Scott, and Sheppard. Roger's maternal side of the family is more of a mystery and we are working on that documentation now. Surnames of interest are Brady, Phillips, Bryant, Bryan, Dove, Smith, Mansell, and Mathis.

What have we done with Roger's DNA?

We have sent his data to Dr. Doug McDonald and David Wesolowski who runs the Eurogenes Genetic Ancestry Project We have submitted his Y-Chromosome information to Adriano Squecco and David F Reynolds' Y-Chromosome Genome Comparison project . Roger is also in Leon Kull's HIR Search.

If you have any questions or match him at HIR Search or 23andMe, feel free to email me with any questions. You can find my email in the "about me" link on the right side of this page.

Here is some Ancestral information for my Uncle Roger Tanner.

23andMe Global Similarity

23andMe Ancestry Painting

Here is a high level "painting" of Roger's chromosomes.

23andMe Ancestry Finder

23andMe decribes the tool by saying "Let the 23andMe Community help you discover what countries your ancestors might have lived in. This lab is fueled by your responses to the "Where Are You From?" ancestry survey."

So above are the results from 23andMe. 23andme tends to be rather conservative so I submitted his DNA to a few cutting edge projects.

Dr. Doug McDonald

Dr. McDonald had just gotten his V3 program working but was able to provide these comments:

"He has a 25 mb segment of Native American on Chromosome 18 and a 5 mb one on
chromosome 14. More to follow. There is also a teensy bit of African. Rest Euro. -Doug"

So we can see that with a higher resolution tool Dr. Mcdonald was able to find more Amerindian than 23andMe reported.

David Wesolowski

Next I sent his data to the Eurogenes Project for analysis. David replied with this:

"Your uncle (US184) does show some Native American, with small, tight hits on chromosomes 4 and 6, and larger but sparser hits on chromosomes 11 and 18. I assume it's one of the larger Amerindian hits that got picked up at 23andMe as "Asian". The chromosome 11 and 18 SNPs that weren't flagged in this analysis, that sit in-between those that were, do pull your uncle some way towards my North Amerindian samples.

However, he also shows very clear signals of Sub-Saharan African ancestry on chromosomes 2 and 4. They're quite unmistakable, and I have a hunch that they come from the same ancestor as the Amerindian hits, but that's just speculation." -David

Roberta Estes has written extensively on Native American and Melungeon ancestry. Here are a few links to a few of her articles for further reading.

http://www.jogg.info/52/files/Estes1.pdf

http://www.jogg.info/62/files/Estes.pdf

23andMe V3 Chip Ancestry

2011-02-09T06:24:00.000-08:00

23andMe provides many ways to figure out your ancestry. Here are a few of the tools they provide using my results as an example. This data is from the new V3 chip.

Global Similarity

Here is my "Global Similarity" provided by 23andMe. I'm closet to English, French, German, and Norwegian. I've included screen shots of each level of detail. I'm the red bar and then I'm the green dot as it gets more detailed.

Ancestry Painting

Here is a high level "painting" of my chromosomes. They only use three populations in this tool and it's pretty conservative. My results were 100% Europe.

Ancestry Finder

Ancestry Finder allows you to see where some of the people that match your chromosomes are from. Of course you have to complete the survey to have your data included, and many have not done this or any of the surveys. Since 23andMe have a large user base in the United States, many of my matches are here. Next highest are Ireland then the United Kingdom. This isn't surprising to me considering my known genealogy.

23andMe decribes the tool by saying "Let the 23andMe Community help you discover what countries your ancestors might have lived in. This lab is fueled by your responses to the "Where Are You From?" ancestry survey."

Digging Deeper

I also sent my data to Dr. Doug McDonald who analyzed my Family Finder data last year. Dr. McDonald uses a higher resolution process so you can find things that the 23andMe tool might miss. I have a little American Indian, some African, and some South Asian. These could all just be ancestral pieces of DNA that exsist in the general population.

Dr. McDonald : The "spot on the map" is in France, near Charleville-Mezieres

So even if you are adopted or know very little about your ancestry, these new tools can give you a lot of insight into who you are genetically. I posted last year about my Family Finder results from FTDNA here: FTDNA Biogeographical Ancestry

Elizabeth Claire Eaves

2011-02-01T11:46:00.000-08:00

This post is for 23andMe matches for my wife Elizabeth Claire Eaves. Her mother was born in Germany and her maternal side is German. Her father was born in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky and is very Colonial. My name is William B Allen and I manage her account. My email address is salabencher@gmail.com . I am very interested in genealogy and DNA and am quite active on the various DNA mail lists/blogs. Feel free to email me any time.

From 23andme we have the following reports for Elizabeth:

Elizabeth's Global Similarity

Her Ancestry Finder so far

What we know of her father's genealogy

What we know of her mother's genealogy

Results from Dr McDonald

Dr. McDonald uses a higher resolution process that seems to find things that the 23andMe tool might miss.

"You test 90% Orcadian, the rest somewhere in the Mideast. The spot on the map
is in Belgium. Since there is no sign of significant recent mixing, all western Europe, but not all northern Britain, is most likely. - Doug McDonald"

Spot on the map