Hi, I'm a newly discovered Basden.  It's a weird story: my mother lied about my father's identity at birth because she only wanted to marry one guy and he turned out to not be my father.  My bio-father was a Basden and not a Johnson as I was told.  So after 40+ years of working on the Johnson side of the tree, I'm sawing off that limb and correcting my genealogy.  Just need to get my birth certificate fixed so that future researchers don't get confused. Nice to find a Basden group here. 

Thanks,

Kristine 

Kristine, nice to meet you and welcome to the Basden Group.

What was your father's name?

Dan Yaklin

Robert Lindsay Basden

His Father was Carl Thomas Basden and Carrah Brank was his Mother.  Researching the Basden line has been fascinating thus far, but I'm getting stuck trying to definitively determine the genealogy earlier than the Basden's arrival in the Bermudas.  

Ack, I meant my Dad's Mother was Ruby Gambrell, haven't had enough coffee yet this morning.  Carrah Brank would have been my Grandfather's Mother on my Father's side.

My line ties back to James Basden, born about 1768 in North Carolina. I have not been able to figure out who his father was and how he ties in with the other North Carolina Basdens, who came from Virgina and Bermuda before that.

Dan Yakln

Is your James possibly the son of Hugh Basden born in Bermuda ~1668?

No, too early for my James. There were several James Basdens through the generations.

Dan

I'll poke around at some of the earlier lines that diverge from mine to see if I see a link.  Have you done any DNA testing?  I'm on GED Match if you want to see if we have any matching genes...