Hi ELDER researchers! I'm happy to see this ELDER topic!
RE: NANCY ELDER PETERSEN
I just saw my name mentioned, except PETERSEN has all "E's" -- husband has DANISH roots....
E-mail me anytime!
As host of the ELDER Y-DNA project on FamilyTreeDNA server of Houston, Texas,
I have now posted links for many lines of ELDER, including one I have named for "PAXTANG PENNSYLVANIA".
JAMES ELDER (Gun of the Gospel) of BALLYMONEY has been identified in that group.
We have discovered that several different DNA lines of ELDER lived in BALLYMONEY,
including the one that matches the "PAXTANG PENNSYLVANIA" DNA group.
9 Y-DNA kits matching "PAXTANG" group are now posted on the ELDER Y-DNA RESULTS chart:
at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/ElderSee my notes and links for BALLYMONEY
at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nancyelder/ed/BallymoneyData.htmSeveral ROBERT ELDER names have been mixed up in the Pennsylvania histories.
I have posted notes about ROBERT ELDER Family of "PAXTANG."
From Book chapter in: "Pennsylvania Genealogies." by Egle, William Henry. Published 1886.
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/EglePAelder.htm Pages 151-176
Chapter heading:
ELDER FAMILY.
I. ROBERT ELDER, b. about 1679 in Scotland, emigrated from Lough Neagh, County Antrim,
Ireland, where he had previously settled, to America, about 1730, locating in Paxtang
township, then Lancaster, now Dauphin county, Pa., on a tract of land near the first ridge of
the Kittochtinny mountains, five miles north of Harrisburg. He died the 28th of July, 1746, in
Paxtang, and is buried in the old church grave-yard..."
EGLE's BOOK is also posted full text on GOOGLE BOOKS:
at
http://books.google.com/books?id=d7_akH9VO_cC&dq=%22pennsylvania+genealogies+scotch+irish+and+german%22In my ELDER Family research, I would like to find ancestors in Scotland to connect the paper trail to my Revolutionary War Soldier,
Robert ELDER, b. 1730 Perth, Scotland - d. 1807 Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
I named my (brother's) DNA group "FRANKLIN COUNTY PA"
after ELDER ancestors with different DNA from others in the chart.
However, one ELDER line of BALLYMONEY matches my brother's group of "FRANKLIN COUNTY PA".
See:
"Preamble to [Wisconsin] Elder family genealogy"
"..A copy of my fathers birth certificate states the following facts.
"My father, James Gray Elder, was born on the
21st of July in the year 1868.
His birth was recorded in the District of Derraw, in the
Superintendent Registrar's District of Ballymoney, in the County of Antrim, North Ireland....
"His father's name was Joseph Dickey Elder, my grandfather.
"His mother's name was Margaret Ann (Gray) Elder, my grandmother. ...
"It was my belief that both my grandfather and grandmother were born in Scotland in the
area of Edinburgh. ...
Always a new mystery!
Nancy Elder Petersen
Vancouver, Washington State, USA (Southern Washington on the Columbia River)
Host, ELDER DNA project
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Elder