Here's my take on the putative ancestral line of my late-1600s West New Jersey Colony immigrant progenitor Andrew SMITH [c.1644-1703] and his spouse Olive PITT [1653-1689], and descent therefrom:

h t t p : // awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=garymarian&id=I01396&track =AFT9

March 2009 - Edit Note inserted by Admin:
Gary has updated his website link - see next post below

Hi Gary,
Thanks very much for updating your link.
I'll be going back to have another look at your Smiths on there soon.

Carole

PS: belated happy birthday greetings to you Gary!!
Hope you had a good day on the 9th!!

Thank you, Carole; I'm one year closer to my reward, whatever it turns out to be, and, we have longevity in my family. Although, in recent generations accidents or worse took too early my father (auto), grandfather (falling tree), and his grandfather (assassinated during our civil war by Rebel Raiders). Earlier generations seemed to die the more gentle death of farmers.

Hi again Gary,

Sorry to hear you lost your father and grandfather at young ages, and I wish for you to enjoy longevity. We family historians all need longevity, God willing, to have time to carry on the work we have to do for passing down to our descendents!! - so they won't forget their roots!

Chat again soon,
Carole

Hello, Carole,
I see that I've acquired a new 'avatar'. It's charming and appropriate, especially as I have many immigrant ancestors in this land.
Cheers,
Gary

Hi Gary.. oops!! was this not your avatar in the first place?

A couple of weeks ago we had some image server problems and all the avatars went missing from members' profiles. I managed to retrieve some of the avatars, and put them back into the Profiles of the members whose avatars were missing, according to whom I thought they belonged to!!
I really thought this one was yours!! Well anyway it doesn't matter - if you like it, keep it

Chat again soon
Carole

Hi, Carole,
I had a ship. alright, a Viking ship, but realized later that my uncommon haplogroup Q may not have got to Scotland (and thence to Yorkshire) via Viking perambulations.
My ancestors apparently spent millenia wandering northeast across Siberia, following the hooved food-&-skins, and Lord knows how they got turned back toward far away northeast England.
You chose a fine, large vessel (early 1800s, I'd say), which will be fine unless I come across something appropriate to trans-Atlantic immigration in the late 1600s.
Cheers, warm regards, and happy holidays.
Gary in Berkeley

Hi Gary,

heck you've done well to discover that your ancestors trailed across Siberia before they eventually got to Yorkshire!

A Viking ship image "rings a bell" with me now! I know you don't want that now, but I'm curious to know where that got to, so will look for it later.

Carole

Carole,
I take no credit for the tracing. It's not by surname, but by yDNA Haplogroup, in this case Haplogroup Q, which is known by researchers to have left east Africa some 60,000 years ago and wandered northeast across Siberia (a 'mutation' called Haplogroup R broke off and wandered West into what are now Spain and the British Isles).
Around 12,000 years ago, near the end of the last true ice-age, there was a narrow band of dry land from northeast Asia to North America, exposed when oceanic water levels dropped as much water got locked-up in glaciation [it was re-submerged around 10,000 years ago as the glaciers began melting].
Some of the far-wanderers crossed over to today's Alaska and eventually peopled both Americas. American natives are a branch of Haplogroup Q. Bear in mind that slight mutations in their DNA makeup led to changes in the characteristics of the people, some members of the haplogroup look different based upon where their ancestors settled along the route.

Gary, this is really interesting, and after reading it, I do remember now watching a television documentary a few months ago about the research concerning tribes who left East Africa and dispersed across Asia and Europe (this is if I remember correctly) It showed a map with the routes they are thought to have taken, the obstacles some of them faced, such as large stretches of water which caused them to divert to different routes. Most fascinating, and it sounds as though you certainly do know the subject well.

Thanks Gary for sharing that information.

Carole

Thank you for your links.And when i was in college for learning American Culture, my teacher taught us more about him and his stuff that we could know more about America.So thanks again!