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Happy Dae·

As for my Shelton research, I can completely sympathize with the "castle" analogy. They have been a primary source of frustration for the past few years. There are several different branches that have come to the US primarily from England, and I have several areas where Sheltons connect with a Farris or within a generation of doing so. I have been trying to connect the Shelton fragments with very little luck. It seems that many researchers have been condemning the works of other researchers claiming mispelling of name, similar names and near identical birthdates and questionable frontier documentation.

I have presently put aside my Shelton shinanigans for a current Farris fiasco. Through all my collected charts, lists, stories and descriptions, it was believed that I as well as many others connected to Ian Esom Farris. Now since receiving my DNA test results and being catagorized in haplogroup R1b, I have been informed that I must look elsewhere and am most assuredly not a descendent of Ian Esom Farris. This in itself would not bother me because there probably is another connection to the Ian Esom branch if not directly. To my knowledge there is no DNA from Ian Esom or any close descendents. How convenient. His claim, I'm sure is through stories, book references, magazine and newpaper articles, local legends and tales along with the typical charts and lists as I have. He claims Ian Esom to belong to haplogroup I1 (as does he) and spoke of R1b as though it held an unplesant odor. Oh, Well...

I've rambled enough. Thanks for the contact.