Beasley DNA Update 2
Doug to Mark Sat 4/4/2009 10:12 AM
If Laurence Beezley does match up, that’ll be a major breakthrough since his is one of only a few lines of Beezley’s that hasn’t been incorporated into mine. There are a few other key positions I’d like to see tested. It’s only take 2-3 more to cover at least 80% of the US Beezley’s.
I’ve been trying to coalesce other Beezley researchers to promote the idea. I haven’t found many who actually carry the Beezley surname who are actively interested, so most of the people I’m communicating with have to be secondary or tertiary proponents with their relatives. A few weeks ago, I started a new website to draw together some of these people. I also plan to put out a fund-raising effort among Beezley relatives to overcome some of the financial barriers I’m running into. Motivation has to be a lot higher at nearly $200. Lowering that might net some of the ones we are missing.
I’m kind of stalled on the beasleygenealogy website. The key issue is how to organize material so people can find it. For a while, Eloise was cranking out lots of miscellaneous records that she was scanning. They were coming with default titles that left no idea what is in each document. In order for anyone to find something, these things need to be indexed in some fashion. Same with the information the Austin Beasley site and much of the material already on the Beasley genealogy site. Without some sort of indexing or organizational system, it’s going to be very difficult to use it for resolving the questions we have. The only way we are going to come up with some plausible theories for relationships of the various lines from the earlier colonial days would be systematic study.
Heaven knows, I’m having a hard enough time getting systematic with my own materials. The best progress I’m made is by entering each identifiable individual or family in a genealogy database. I’ve got my own and each of the other two major Beezley lines lined up for comparison, then I have a database for “loosebeez” where I put every individual I find that doesn’t fit anywhere else. Eventually, I find information that starts to connect people, or that show that two or more entries can actually be merged. On several occasions, I eventually find a connection with one of the main lines and can move a whole group of people from the “loosebeez” database to their proper place in one of the other major lines. In one case, I’m getting a large enough cluster in the loosebeez database that I’m about ready to split off into a separate database.
As it is now, if any living Beezley contacts me, I estimate a 90% chance that I can link them to a grouping I already have if they can give me dates and locations of their Beezley grandparents.
I’ll let you know when I finally get my work on-line. Maybe I can make progress this snowy weekend.
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