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From: Steven Lominac <>
Subject: Re: [DNA-R1B1C7] Introduction to fellow members
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:35:31 -0500


Glenn, my American progenitors were also from Germany (not far from Mannheim no less) but I have the NW Modal. I discovered something very interesting in my hours of scouring names in the LDS family search site. There were more than a few Gaelic surnames in Germany in the 1600's where my family first appeared in the Rhineland. My American progenitor, Johan Jacob Lamineck actually married a person with an Irish surname (Cullen). My focus is to find close/perfect matches like the Burns, Daughtery's etc.and see if I can find them in the same area as my line at about the time my MRCA was supposed to have occurred. For instance I found some Neills (with whom I have two 25/25 matches) at about the same time (roughly 400 years ago) as a perfect 25/25 MRCA is supposed to occur. Just another avenue of research.

Steve Lominac> Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:06:58 -0400> To: > From: > Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] Introduction to fellow members> > I'm one of the group's mysteries, as discussed in John Lochlan's > message listing the various R1B1C7 people NOT having a known Irish > connection. In my case, all the "paper" genealogy says German. The > earliest documented ancestor I have in the Stroup surname is John > Peter Stroup in Wytheville, VA (Wythe County, previous Montgomery > County). John Peter (in records sometimes as Peter, also typical of > early German settlers) married Maria Magdelena Wenrich (Wennerich) in > 1788. Info on Maria's family takes them back to 1668 to Balthasar > Wennericj in Mannheim. The Wenrichs definitively were among the > Virginia German settlers whi came from Berks County, PA - so no doubt > that John Peter lived among the German community. Family tradition > also says that he and his son Peter (later moved to Abingdon, VA) > spoke mostly German. I have a picture of my Great Grandfather Samuel > Patton Stroup (son of Peter), the Civil War vet, with clothes and > beard style which resemble Amish practices.> > I was certainly surprised by the Ydna test results as NW Irish, > although I knew I was part Irish through Peter Stroup's wife and my > Mother's Adams line.> > My current projects regarding this line are to (1) identify John > Peter's parents, since early census records indicate that he was born > in VA before 1765, and (2) get other male descendants to take the > Ydna test. I'm having as much difficulty with the second as the > first, although I have offered to pay for the tests for any of my > distant cousins.> > Thanks,> > Glenn Stroup> > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
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