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Raymond Marion Byrd, A939845

Current Location:: Semmes, Mobile County, AL, United States
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Allen Memorial Home, Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Francis Marion Byrd and Private
Husband of Private
Father of Private; Rachel Shaddix and Private
Brother of Private; Private and Private

Occupation: Retired Training Analyst
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About Raymond Marion Byrd, A939845

Past Master Counselor Order of DeMolay, Bowen Lodge, Whistler, Alabama
Years 1957-1959.
Sept 1959-1963 University of Alabama - Electrical Engineering
Summers Student Aide Electrical Engineering GS-3,4 EGEEIA Brookley AFB, Mobile, Alabama
1963-Dec1965 Courtaulds North America - Rayon production Shift Chemist and Technical Assistant
Dec 1965 - Dec 1972
My Navy experience was 7 years of Zero-G flyng with the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacole, Florida in the glory days of NASA. Our Physiological Optics Branch did Vestibular Physiology on test subjects. Motion sickness studies were completed on the astronauts, Thousand aviators ffrom WWI and WWII, drop-outs from the Navy Flight program and paid student volunteers. Our funds were all from NASA and no RTDandE.
Our results gave us a battery of tests to prequalify fliight candidates before spending $250,000.00 each when they were proven susceptible to motion sickness and became drop-outs from the flight program. Just a little History... We flew on slightly modified Air Force KC-135's (Essentially Boeing 707's) Could get about 30 seconds of weightless time for every parabola we flew.. My first day we flew 37 minutes of weightless time.

Missionary to Papua and New Guinea from December 1972 through April 1974. That was during the transition period to self government..

While Pastoring Life Church in Albertville, Alabama a storefront church ministering to previous drug addicts, also served as Chaplain of the Civil Air Patrol.

Served as a Captain in the Civil Air Patrol in Mobile, Alabama.
Was the radio engineer and operator for our narrow band FM communictions and operated our Single Sideband weekly schedule for Mobile, Alabama and across the Southeast.

Retired after 20 years with Alabama Power division of the Southern Company in December 1997.
Trained and supervised Electricians and Instrument men.

gedmatch
jtest 2.04% Ashkenasim

SOUTH_BALTIC 11.75 Pct
EAST_EURO 9.28 Pct
NORTH-CENTRAL_EURO 28.16 Pct
ATLANTIC 27.21 Pct
WEST_MED 11.9 Pct
ASHKENAZI 2.04 Pct
EAST_MED 3.9 Pct
WEST_ASIAN 4.43 Pct
MIDDLE_EASTERN -
SOUTH_ASIAN 0.37 Pct
EAST_AFRICAN 0.14 Pct
EAST_ASIAN 0.13 Pct
SIBERIAN -
WEST_AFRICAN 0.69 Pct

Initial Ethnicity test Ancestry.com
England, Wales & Northwestern Europe 73%
Europe West 11%
Europe South 3%
Finland/Northwest Russia 2%
Iberian Peninsula 2%
Scandinavia 2%
Europe East 2%
Ireland & Scotland 2%
Caucasus <1%
Asia Central <1%
Africa Southeastern Bantu <1%

August 2018
England, Wales & Northwestern Europe63%
Ireland & Scotland23%
Germanic Europe7%
Norway7%

Fall 2019
England, Wales & Northwestern Europe
53%
Ireland & Scotland
28%
Germanic Europe
8%
Sweden
5%
Norway
4%
France
2%

Ancestry 7/4/2020

England, Wales & Northwestern Europe
53%
Ireland & Scotland
28%
Germanic Europe
8%
Sweden
5%
Norway
4%
France
2%

Raymond Byrd FTDNA
100%
European
96%
British Isles
47%
West and Central Europe
24%
Scandinavia
16%
East Europe
9%
Middle Eastern
4%
West Middle East
4%
Trace Results Southeastern Bantu from Jamestown?
West Africa
<1%

My Heritage
86.0% North and West European
9.2% Irish, Scottish, and Welsh
4.8% Iberian

2021 Ancestry Scotland 35% England & Northwestern Europe 35% Ireland 10% Norway 7% Sweden & Denmark 6% Germanic Europe 4% Eastern Europe & Russia 3%
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/origins/share/3c65059b-b9ac-4e48-ba18-...
2022 Ancestry England & Northwestern Europe 50% Scotland 34% Germanic Europe 9% Wales 4% France 2% Ireland 1%

MyFTDNA Europe 100% Western Europe England, Wales, and Scotland 70% Central Europe 26% Eastern Europe East Slavic 3% Southern Europe Italian Peninsula info <2%

Genomelink-Northwestern Europe 63.0%-Other European 27.0%-East European 9.0%-Asian 2.0%-Native People of Americas 1.0%-
Oceanian 0.0%-African 0.0%-Other 4.0%

GEDCOM Source

@R1350455808@ U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. <i>Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings</i>. 1,1732::0

GEDCOM Source

1,1732::323077216

GEDCOM Source

@R1350455808@ Alabama, Marriage Index, 1800-1969 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations Inc <ul><li>Alabama Center for Health Statistics. <I>Alabama Marriage Index, 1936-1969.</I> Alabama Center for Health Statistics, Montgomery, Alabama.</li><li>Dodd, Jordan R., et. al. <i>Early American Marriages: Alabama to 1825</i>. Bountiful, UT: Precision Indexing Publishers, 19xx.</li><li>Hunting For Bears, comp. Alabama marriage information taken from county courthouse records. Many of these records were extracted from copies of the original records in microfilm, microfiche, or book format, located at the Family History Library.</li><li>Dodd, Jordan R., comp. <i>Early American Marriages: Alabama, 1800 to 1920.</i></li></ul> 1,7838::0

GEDCOM Source

1,7838::2269855

GEDCOM Source

@R1350455808@ U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. <i>Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings</i>. 1,1788::0

GEDCOM Source

1,1788::212473111

GEDCOM Source

@R1350455808@ U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. <i>Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings</i>. 1,1732::0

GEDCOM Source

1,1732::323077216

GEDCOM Source

@R1350455808@ U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. <i>Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings</i>. 1,1788::0

GEDCOM Source

1,1788::212473111

GEDCOM Source

@R1350455808@ U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. <i>Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings</i>. 1,1732::0

GEDCOM Source

1,1732::323077216

GEDCOM Source

@R1350455808@ Alabama, Marriage Index, 1800-1969 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations Inc <ul><li>Alabama Center for Health Statistics. <I>Alabama Marriage Index, 1936-1969.</I> Alabama Center for Health Statistics, Montgomery, Alabama.</li><li>Dodd, Jordan R., et. al. <i>Early American Marriages: Alabama to 1825</i>. Bountiful, UT: Precision Indexing Publishers, 19xx.</li><li>Hunting For Bears, comp. Alabama marriage information taken from county courthouse records. Many of these records were extracted from copies of the original records in microfilm, microfiche, or book format, located at the Family History Library.</li><li>Dodd, Jordan R., comp. <i>Early American Marriages: Alabama, 1800 to 1920.</i></li></ul> 1,7838::0

GEDCOM Source

1,7838::2269855

GEDCOM Source

@R1350455808@ U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,7339::0

GEDCOM Source

City: Mobile; State: Alabama; Year(s): 1994 1,7339::256498396

GEDCOM Source

@R1350455808@ U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,7339::0

GEDCOM Source

City: Eight Mile; State: Alabama; Year(s): 2002 1,7339::91105354

GEDCOM Source

@R1350455808@ U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,7339::0

GEDCOM Source

City: Eight Mile; State: Alabama; Year(s): 1995-2001 1,7339::67520541