Henry ‘lost Morgan tribes’ Morgan, Sr. - Not Lost

Started by Debbie Gambrell on Thursday, July 7, 2022
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Erica Howton I saw where you had curated this profile and that's great. However, his descendants aren't lost. We have discussed this before, that 'back in the day' before the internet and DNA, obviously some researchers lost track of this Henry and his brother Charles and designated them as 'the lost Morgan tribes'. I had told you previously that I had 37 DNA matches shared on Ancestry with cousins all sharing this Henry and his wife as our ancestors. I just rechecked it and have gained a few new cousins on the lines: 39 DNA matches through Henry Morgan.

So I consider that with the advent of the internet and now with DNA matching, the Morgan lines that some considered lost have been 'found', although we never consider our family lost. So I think it's incorrect to state "...their descendants are hence 'lost.'

Maybe it could say, "...thanks to DNA evidence, their descendants have been identified".

Just a suggestion so those of us descended from Henry don't feel still dismissed as lost Morgan lines. We've been here all the time . Some people just didn't know where our branches went, but we have always known where we've been. My mother herself could recite up to this Henry's son Henry II who served as a judge to me years ago, without any internet or DNA.

Thanks in advance to any consideration given to the DNA evidence and my thoughts on being considered a lost descendant.

Also, worth noting. those 39 DNA matching cousins I have on Ancestry ThruLines going back to Henry are just matches from Ancestry and don't even take into account other Morgan DNA matches on other sites or all the Morgan descendants who haven't even been DNA tested. So the 39 is just the 'short list'. Adding myself, that makes 40 known descendants of Henry just on Ancestry.

I used it as an identifier, like a nickname, to distinguish from all the many other Morgans. But I’ll take them out and count on you to steer people right.

Well, I don't know how many people thought we were lost. It may not be that many. I think notes about that part of the overall history in the profiles - that they were 'thought to be lost' or such - would suffice. I don't know who is looking for a tag of 'lost Morgan tribes'. I'd never heard of that until it showed up here on Geni. So far, I 'think' all the Morgans I encounter in America, in the online research groups, trace back to Col. Morgan Morgan. There may be exceptions to that, but so far I don't recall encountering any.

There over 65 Y DNA groupings under the Morgan surname at family tree DNA.

https://www.familytreedna.com/public/morgan?iframe=yresults

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