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Splinters From The Tree March 2007
Thanks to all of the following who made donations this month: 9 individuals donating a total of $675. Section 1 - Welcome Results from a half dozen DNA tests came back from the lab this month and many of these families will be highlighted below. I will be presenting the Bassett Family DNA project at a meeting of the Fox Valley Genealogical Society on April 12, 2007 in Naperville, Illinois for anyone living in the Chicago area. The Bassett DNA project is now approaching 200 members. If you have been thinking about joining and have any questions, send me a note at the e-mail address at the end of the newsletter. If you still have a kit outstanding (10 kits are still out), please remember to follow up and send the kit in when you get a chance. * * * * * Section 2 - Bassett Family Reunion to be held August 3-5, 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts I have begun a tentative schedule for the Bassett family reunion to be held in Boston this summer on Friday, August 3, 2007 through Sunday August 5, 2007. This schedule is subject to change. I am looking for someone interested in leading a short non-denominational church service on Sunday morning. I am also looking for someone that can organize and take reservations for a group dinner on Saturday night. Is there anyone that would like to make a presentation on their Bassett Family line? Please let me know the subject and the approximate length of your presentation if you are interested in speaking. Friday, August 3, 2007 Saturday, August 4, 2007 Sunday, August 5, 2007 * * * * * Section 3 -Updates to the Bassett Family website A new section has been added to the website showing a family tree of male descendants of William Bassett of Plymouth who arrived in America on the Fortune in 1621. There is a link to show all males descendants of each of his sons. This is still a work in process and not all of the male Bassetts have been included yet. Also shown on this chart are all participants from this family that have taken part in DNA testing. If you are a male Bassett belonging to this family and don't see a DNA project participant in your section of the tree, please consider joining. This is a sneak preview of exciting things to come for the website. We hope to add similar screen for other major family groups as time permits. Click on the following link to see this new page. http://www.bassettbranches.org/projects/fortune.shtml * * * * * Section 4 - Looking for information on the following Bassetts We are currently looking for more information on the following Bassett lines. If you have information on any of these Bassetts, let me know and I will foward the information to the family currently researching that line. (1) Looking to identify the William Bassett below. Anthony David Bassett, born 1948 in Camborne, Cornwall (2) Looking for the parents of the following siblings, all born in Hull, Yorkshire,
England. (3) Looking for someone that has access to the 1825 New York State Census and can do a lookup for a Bassett family living there in 1825. * * * * * Section 5 - Featured Bassett: Eligah Bassett of Whitcurch Township, York County, Ontario, Canada DNA results are back for a descendant of #243B Eligah Bassett of Whitchurch Township, York County, Ontario. Eligah Bassett and wife Margaret Results of Kit #82744 are listed below
This line shows a close relationship to the #3B Thomas Bassett of Connecticut family with a 24/25 match with a descendant of Thomas Bassett.
* * * * * Section 6 - Featured Bassett: Bassett Family from Llanelly, Carmarthenshire,
Wales The results clearly show that this line of Bassetts also shares a common ancestor with the Bassetts of St. Hilary and Beaupre Castle. (See Feburary 2006 newsletter for more on the Bassetts of Beaupre). Anthony Bassett (b. 1720) and wife Margaret Griffith Anthony Bassett (b. 1720) and wife Margaret Griffith 
202B314.33. David Bassett, son of Daniel Bassett David Bassett, son of Daniel and Margaret Bassett, was born in 1860 in Llanelly,
Carmarthen, Wales. He died in 1920. He married Mary. She was born in 1860 in
Llanelly, Carmarthen, Wales. Mary died in 1938.
Section 7 - Featured Bassett: W.H. & Alden Bassett of Colorado Anyone with ancestors that settled in Colorado may want to check out the following site. www.ColoradoHistoricNewspapers.org Using this site, I found an ad for William Howland Bassett and his son Alden Bassett. They descend from #1A William Bassett of Plymouth as follows: William Bassett of Plymouth and wife Elizabeth
* * * * * Section 8 - New family lines combined or added since the last newsletter The following family lines have been combined/eliminated since the last newsletter. 277B. George Bassett of England combined into the #116B John Bassett of Rothwell,
Northamptonshire Family 277B. James Bassett of Southwark, Surrey, England * * * * * Section 9 - DNA project update. The testing lab ran a SNP test on the following group and have determined that this group of Bassetts belongs to the I haplogroup. This group possibly has Viking ancestry.
Donations of any amount can be made to the Bassett DNA project by clicking on the link below. Any funds donated will be used to fund select Bassett DNA tests that will further our project as a whole and benefit all Bassetts worldwide. http://www.familytreedna.com/group-general-fund-contribution.aspx?g=Bassett This is just a reminder that the DNA portion of the Bassett Family Association can be found at: http://www.bassettbranches.org/dna/ A current spreadsheet of results can be found at: http://www.bassettbranches.org/dna/BassettDNA.xls If you don't have Excel and can't open the spreadsheet above, you can now see the DNA test results at the following website. http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Bassett/ Jeffrey Bassett | |
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