“my” Brantleys…
My last name is Anderson. I am a Brantley by blood, DNA proven. A Big Y 700 match to me is another Brantley from the Brantley DNA group.
My good friend, Ken Brantley who wrote the book… and is the head of the Brantley Association.. has welcomed me in as an Ambassador… that is because of my mapping skills.
I will not mention my match to the particular Brantley I “match” to simply because I cannot reach him thru email… I suspect his ‘old’ address has probably expired. So I respect his privacy.
But I can lay out some facts from ‘my’ perspective.
Note here that my “rather rare” Big Y match @ 700 (not named) has speculated all on his own with absolutely no input from me that this is his ancestor…
Note that this is not ‘my’ theory… it is my ‘match’ to the Brantley group. And it is a BigY 700 match.
Also note that the mystery Brantley match to me thinks he may have a “Lumbee” Indian in his past. I do not think so.
My friend Ken Brantley of the Brantley Association recently did a recent check on my genealogy track…which is online … and found by his reckoning that I had more than 50 matches to the BASS family of, lets say, the Southside Virginia… (the Bass family dates to Jamestown).
So… without much ado… I am very interested in this.
Curious folks may note that I have recently explored the mysterious Joyce Lewis mentioned above who married, who I suspect, is my direct ancestor, Philip Brantley.
I am also curious how friendly Philip Brantley was with his wife’s close friend Susanna Braswell?
I discuss Ms Braswell in Posts below…
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