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Derry (Londonderry) / Gilmores - Robert Gilmore b abt1770 of inshaleen
« on: Saturday 27 July 19 11:38 BST (UK) »
Hi all,
new at posting here, but old hand at research and genetic genealogy.
Gilmores of County Derry have driven me crazy !
I manage many DNA kits and have the tests of 6 people aged 70-94 who are Gilmore descendants and I am trying to unravel it all. We are all at Ancestry, gedmatch, Myh and a couple at FTdna.
I have built a huge research tree detailing the trees of about 500 DNA matches and finding common ancestors etc. it has about 15000 records of all these trees and i use it to reference all the branches of gilmores. it is not entirely sourced nor proven - but more of a collection of data. Once the DNA link is proven I then re-research and source the data before it goes into my main tree. so....I know I have a lot of incorrect records in that research tree.
I am definitely related to the couple Robert Gilmore and Mary / Margaret /Martha of Garvagh and I think Inshaleen. I have vast numbers of DNA matches with US Gilmores and they all also seem to originate from Gilmores from Inshaleen. I also have researched and am very confident that my 4th great grandparents are Thomas Gilmore 1811-1897 and Margaret Gilmore b1807-1870 (yes a Gilmore and a Gilmore). Their daughter Margaret born around 1840 turned up in Australia in 1858 with basically no information. I have used DNA matches to research and build her life.
After a year of researching and collecting data and trees I am swamped. I am asking those Gilmore researchers out there if they have info about my couple. Unproven Ancestry trees have their birth years as 1770 to 1780 - but after researching here I wonder if my robert is the same Robert that is mentioned in a thread where he was b in 1772 and d in 1855 aged 83. That referenced his wife as Martha - and that could be possible because the Bann Valley records said the M?
was indecipherable.
Any help will be appreciated as I am feeling demoralised by my Gilmores. And just plain stuck.
Elle
new at posting here, but old hand at research and genetic genealogy.
Gilmores of County Derry have driven me crazy !
I manage many DNA kits and have the tests of 6 people aged 70-94 who are Gilmore descendants and I am trying to unravel it all. We are all at Ancestry, gedmatch, Myh and a couple at FTdna.
I have built a huge research tree detailing the trees of about 500 DNA matches and finding common ancestors etc. it has about 15000 records of all these trees and i use it to reference all the branches of gilmores. it is not entirely sourced nor proven - but more of a collection of data. Once the DNA link is proven I then re-research and source the data before it goes into my main tree. so....I know I have a lot of incorrect records in that research tree.
I am definitely related to the couple Robert Gilmore and Mary / Margaret /Martha of Garvagh and I think Inshaleen. I have vast numbers of DNA matches with US Gilmores and they all also seem to originate from Gilmores from Inshaleen. I also have researched and am very confident that my 4th great grandparents are Thomas Gilmore 1811-1897 and Margaret Gilmore b1807-1870 (yes a Gilmore and a Gilmore). Their daughter Margaret born around 1840 turned up in Australia in 1858 with basically no information. I have used DNA matches to research and build her life.
After a year of researching and collecting data and trees I am swamped. I am asking those Gilmore researchers out there if they have info about my couple. Unproven Ancestry trees have their birth years as 1770 to 1780 - but after researching here I wonder if my robert is the same Robert that is mentioned in a thread where he was b in 1772 and d in 1855 aged 83. That referenced his wife as Martha - and that could be possible because the Bann Valley records said the M?
was indecipherable. Any help will be appreciated as I am feeling demoralised by my Gilmores. And just plain stuck.
Elle