BJNL's GENEALOGY

As I have written previously in my post,  Slaveholder Ancestors , I have a number of slaveholder ancestors; my paternal ancestry being predominantly from the southern states of America, it is not surprising that I inevitably come across enslaved people associated with my slaveholder families. One such ancestral family is the Lang family. I wrote about Richard Lang in my previous post Loyalist - Rebel - Justice of the Peace: Richard Lang (1744-1816) with some mention of some of his other family members. I am not entirely sure exactly how I relate to Richard Lang. However, I am reasonably sure that his parents Robert and Millicent (Myrick) Lang are my 5th Great Grandparents as I explained in my post My Relationship to Richard Lang - What Does the DNA Say? . The information I have gathered so far about the enslaved persons associated with the Lang family is limited but I have made a start in pulling it together. There is a lot more research to do, particularly in terms of researching sla

As you might expect for someone with heritage from the southern states of the United States, I have a number of slaveholder ancestors. As I research my family history, I inevitably come across associated records of enslaved people.  I have been making notes to record these findings, especially where an enslaved person is named in the records. Initially, I was making use of the notes space in each slaveholder’s profile in my Ancestry tree. This gave me a means for noting the information about the enslaved people associated with slaveholder ancestors but it is not necessarily effective for understanding how enslaved persons moved within, or between, families or for encouraging collaborative activity with others researching the same individual(s).  More recently, I discovered  The Beyond Kin Project   and its method for recording enslaved persons. The Beyond Kin Project and Method The Beyond Kin Project was conceived by Donna Cox Baker and Frazine K. Taylor in 2016 as: a way to encourage

I wrote about Richard Lang in my earlier post  Loyalist - Rebel - Justice of the Peace: Richard Lang (1744-1816).   While I am fairly certain that Richard is a relative of mine, my actual  relationship to  him is uncertain.  DNA evidence suggests that Richard's parents, Robert and Millicent (Myrick) Lang, are likely to be my 5th Great Grandparents but I don't know whether my link to them is via Richard or one of his siblings. While my initial thought was that Richard is my 4th great grandfather, I have been unable to find sufficient documentary evidence to either confirm or refute this. Consequently, my attention turned to DNA evidence and what that may tell me in conjunction with the little documentary evidence I have found.  In order to explore this further, I decided upon a hypothesis to test. Hypothesis  My hypothesis is that I descend from Richard Lang, son of Robert and Millicent (Myrick) Lang, via their son William (and William’s wife Martha ‘Patsy’ Adams) … as illustra