HI Rosie,
You ask: just being curious, have you managed to link these Spencers directly to yours
NO, not yet, but it's getting there. I need to be able to bring Henry Spencer back far enough To link him to whom i believe he attaches to. But we shall see.
From him, on down to the Spencers of today i have found of his line, they all possess the particular looks, traits, of "our" line (just as Every family has those "specific" looks/personas,etc. that "dis- tinguish" them from other lines w/same last names but not blood-related).
Anyway it's a Fun search, if nothing else. DNA some day will prove my theories at any rate, but it's hard to get folks to do the simple, painless, inexpensive (male) y-line genetic surname marker DNA test. People don't realize it's "private'---no identifying names used (just a kit #), it does Not test anything Other than your surname markers (no health stuff,no paternity stuff, etc.). And they de- stroy the remaining DNA after the test--it's Not kept on file for any reason at all. So maybe one day when people are more educated about it, it will be a no-brainer to do this, so as to "place" oneself w/in a greater context of one's genetic family, and allow one to find other blood cousins, as well as connect-up with family who Do have paperwork oneself lacks!
Ok all for now,
Vienna Spencer
