Archive for the ‘JOHNSTONE’ Category

One of my newer hobbies is learning about human genetics. I’ve been interested ever since hearing about the Molecular Genealogy project at BYU while I was attending the National Genealogical Society’s conference in 2001. It was in Portland, not too far away from my abode at the time. The only reasons I didn’t give a [...]

A Man Named Richardson

Posted: July 29, 2011 in Genetics, HILL, JOHNSON, JOHNSTONE

Newcastle-upon-Tyne – Capital of Scotland 1138-1157 With a somewhat close relation, at least according to testing on our Y chromosomes, tracing his paternal family to Newcastle upon Tyne1 in northern England, I’ve become more of an Anglophile, following the news and history of the area bordering Scotland much more closely. It was a man named [...]

DNA testing shows some sort of relationship among many men named Johnson and Hill in the United States, possibly linking back to southern Scotland. Therefore, I have been looking through a few biographical books such as the American National Biography series and the Dictionary of American Biography. This will be a continuing series of posts, [...]