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THE BOONE FAMILY
Another big surprise was finding so many matches to the Boone family. When I first saw these matches show up on Ancestry.com I was also noticing matches to the Morgan family. I therefore expected that I would be able to isolate the relationship to the descendants of Sarah Morgan (1700-1777) who married Squire Boone (1696-1765), parents of Daniel Boone (1734-1820). But this was not the case.There are matches to other Morgan family members but even more to the Boones.
We match descendants of five of the twelve children of Edward Morgan (1670-1736) and Elizabeth Jarman (1670-1731). But the matches are very small.
We have matches to most of George Boone III (1666-1744) and Mary Maugridge Boone's (1669-1740) children. Many Boone descendants have taken DNA tests and have built detailed family trees in order to show their relationship to Daniel Boone. This may explain why there are so many Boone matches. I have found 76 matches between verified Boone descendants and my family both on Ancestry and FamilyTreeDNA. Of those matches 10 are larger than 15 cM. These 10 come from descendants of George Boone III and Mary Maugridge's children Benjamin Boone (1706-1762), Mary Boone (1699-1774) and Squire Boone (1696-1765). A few of the larger matches descend from Benjamin Boone's son, John Boone (1727-1803), who married Rebecca Bryan (1735-1822).
I do not know if Rebecca Bryan is one of our Bryans. She would have been the right age to have been a sister to Thomas Bryan, or possibly a cousin. She could also be a niece or cousin of William Bryan, Sr. She was living in the correct geographical region for a relationship to be possible to either of these Bryan families.
So the Boone family will remain on my radar screen as I move forward with my research.
I will keep an open mind about matches of 10 cM or less. I am hopeful that genetic genealogy will advance over the next ten years so that the value of these smaller matches will become easier to assess relative to my ancestral research.
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