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Down / Re: Family of Sir Rollo GILLESPIE
« on: Wednesday 04 March 09 11:41 GMT (UK) »
It is Yahoo group, Gillespie family tree DNA. I am Group 1. Haplo group l2b1. I am kit No 142370 which you should be able to access via FTDNA. The only way to decide which Gillespie group you belong to is to have the test yourself if you are male or the male who will carry your ancestral dna if you are female.
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: GILLESPIE FAMILY TREE DNA
« on: Friday 27 February 09 14:25 GMT (UK) »
Look at what FTDNA groups exist and you will get a discount as a member. You can do a basic 12 marker test as a starter. You should get some good basic matches and add to Y search. Then you will have contact with those you know match and maybe do a 36 marker. Don't do more that that because the last boxes will probaly all match. You may find one column shows changes. In my case DYS#534 is being added to test because that column shows up as 18 or 19 compared with other group members and it's the only difference. So the puzzle is am I 18 or 19 or neither. The extra 30 markers is $100+ compared with $7.50 for the one column. Here are 3 lines. The top line is the full column test<br>143222 Robert E. Gillespie John N. Gillespie m.1830>John W. m. 1864 Montgomery Co. OH John N., John W. I2b1 15 24 15 10 15 16 11 13 11 13 12 29 16 8 9 11 11 26 15 20 27 11 11 14 15 11 10 19 19 15 14 18 18 31 38 13 10 11 8 15 16 8 12 10 8 10 9 0** 19 21 16 11 12 12 19 9 14 25 20 10 13 11 13 11 11 12 11
114976 Michael Gillespie George Gillespie b. 3-5-1740 IRE d.10-11-1822 Ohio George, William, Hamilton Sawyer, George Herschel I2b1 15 24 15 10 15 16 11 13 11 13 12 29 16 8 9 11 11 26 15 20 27 11 11 14 15 11 10 19 19 15 14 19 18 31 37 13 10 19
142370 R. R. Gillespie Maj. Robert Rollo Gillespie b. Ireland d. India I2b1 15 24 15 10 15 16 11 13 11 13 12 29 16 8 9 11 11 25 15 20 27 11 11 15 15 10 10 19 21 15 14 19 17 31 37 13 10
114976 Michael Gillespie George Gillespie b. 3-5-1740 IRE d.10-11-1822 Ohio George, William, Hamilton Sawyer, George Herschel I2b1 15 24 15 10 15 16 11 13 11 13 12 29 16 8 9 11 11 26 15 20 27 11 11 14 15 11 10 19 19 15 14 19 18 31 37 13 10 19
142370 R. R. Gillespie Maj. Robert Rollo Gillespie b. Ireland d. India I2b1 15 24 15 10 15 16 11 13 11 13 12 29 16 8 9 11 11 25 15 20 27 11 11 15 15 10 10 19 21 15 14 19 17 31 37 13 10
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: GILLESPIE FAMILY TREE DNA
« on: Thursday 26 February 09 16:29 GMT (UK) »
It was easy to do> I had a 37 marker kit donated to me.The worst part was the waiting. You can see the results on the webpage, I am haplogroup l2b1. The matching markers prove my most remote common ancestor to be Thomas Gillespie b.1719 d.12-12-1797 Rowan Co. NC, and I am a match for a particular branch and not related to other Gillespie branches . In other words this as gentleman migrated to USA before 1745 he may have been a brother to a male relative, maybe a great grand fathers son to General Gillespies or something. This group now knows it came from Ireland or Scotland but it is not a Campbell link so it maybe that the Clan Gillespie still exists although it was thought to have died out mid 17th Century. What it does mean is that searches have to go back to both countries to discover more clues. You need to discover a family group or have the test and see what it links you to on the database and you will get a shock !
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: GILLESPIE FAMILY TREE DNA
« on: Thursday 26 February 09 08:18 GMT (UK) »
The result has come back and puts me into Gillespie Group 1. There are now 30 results all US based except myself.
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England / Re: an old book
« on: Saturday 31 January 09 17:04 GMT (UK) »
The subject gets even more interesting than this. A year ago I attended a Thoresby Society meeting as the guest of Professor Peter Meredith their libarian. Six months before I donated an archive of letters from Lucy Thursby to a Rev TD Whittaker. The part I did not know was that TD Whittaker wrote the other part of the history. The book Thursby wrote has 2 parts. I donated the diary/journal to them then. It gets even better now 
Because the journal mentions a cousin Joseph Green and is of course in part about Lisbon earthquake in 1755, Peter Meredith has been able to identify the author as being Ralph Thoresby's son. That is because the society has a letter in archive to Thoresby's son, from Joseph Green enquiring about his trip to Portugal. Lucy did of course marry TDW and my letters were a subject of PM's evening society meeting in Feb 2008. PM hopes that the letters will be published as a society book in due course. I am of course descended from TDW and LT as well. Amazing. I have given them two items, (the letters count as one) of historical importance to Leeds
Because the journal mentions a cousin Joseph Green and is of course in part about Lisbon earthquake in 1755, Peter Meredith has been able to identify the author as being Ralph Thoresby's son. That is because the society has a letter in archive to Thoresby's son, from Joseph Green enquiring about his trip to Portugal. Lucy did of course marry TDW and my letters were a subject of PM's evening society meeting in Feb 2008. PM hopes that the letters will be published as a society book in due course. I am of course descended from TDW and LT as well. Amazing. I have given them two items, (the letters count as one) of historical importance to Leeds
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / GILLESPIE FAMILY TREE DNA
« on: Saturday 31 January 09 16:39 GMT (UK) »
Here is the Gillespie Family Tree DNA group Link.
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/GillespieDNAProject/default.aspx
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/GillespieDNAProject/default.aspx
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Down / Re: Family of Sir Rollo GILLESPIE
« on: Saturday 31 January 09 12:06 GMT (UK) »
Last December I was asked if I would take a Gillespie Family Tree DNA test and was offered the test paid for by the group. I have accepted it and the first results will be out in a few weeks time.
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Down / Re: Family of Sir Rollo GILLESPIE
« on: Monday 06 August 07 21:52 BST (UK) »
Still looking for the fort information.