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From: Steven Lominac <>
Subject: Re: [DNA-R1B1C7] examining possibilities.
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:16:33 -0500
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Jeff,
Admirals tend to beget generations of officers in the family and McCann is one such name. You will see the same officer family names on promotion and Naval Academy graduate lists over many years. I worked with a McCann (female) who was a Naval Academy graduate in the mid 1990's. I have retired since then and lost track but I wonder if you tracked this Admiral McCann's line to the present day or looked for other McCann's in the Navy.. Great detective work on your part. Good Luck.

Steve> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:53:12 -0700> From: > To: > Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] examining possibilities.> > > > In my case I KNOW I am working against a non-marital birth, my father's. > Family lore has tended to support the conclusions I have reached as to > the identity of the actual father. I was relayed "death bed" information > unfortunately it came to me after the aunt concerned had passed. WE had > only made contact with my father's family about two years prior. (He was > born out of country, to a single mother, and she returned to the USA > without him, he was raised by her father, who always listed him as his > son, instead of his grandson. This was done to establish citizenship, > although the Birth cert listed no father.)> > Fortunately the death bed information was enough to lead us to a path > toward solving the mystery. The information was that the father of my > father had been in the USN, worked in "construction" in1932, and was > "named McCann or something like that".> > The cousin who relayed the information thought that he may have been a > SeaBee, but 1932 was a decade before that. The only "construction" group > in the Navy at that time was the Bureau of Construction and Repair, the > section that built ships, and repaired them. BCR had no Panama branch, > which is where my father was born, Christmas night 1932.> > My deceased aunt had thought the first name may have been Robert, so we > looked that way first. Both in Panama records and in NY, where she was > from. No luck.> > I went to the 1930 census when it came out, there was only ONE McCann > family in Panama for that census, but in 1932, they had gone to Egypt. > They then went to California. Coincidentally the same town my Father > ended up in, Burbank, but no connection. He when a young adult knew > members of this family.> > We started looking for the Military clues, which for a while was a dead > end. At this time I took the initial 12 STR dna test.> > The basic level test wasn't very informative, but I did match with > several "McCanns, O'Kanes, and Cain Families."> > I decided (when it became available) to upgrade to 37 markers, I got a > 35/37 match with Dr. Keane out of England.> > Other people from the net decided to also see what they could find. One > found the military bio of Vice Admiral A. R. McCann. He had been > stationed in Panama previous to 1932, but in 1928-1931 was working for > the Bureau of Construction and Repair. At first I thought "almost", and > almost discarded him as a candidate.> > I decided however to dig a little deeper. I contacted the site owner of > the Bio site, and asked if they had more on his career, they sent me > his career itinerary, a list of his assignments. In early 1932 he was > in transit, on administrative hold in Panama, while his submarine > underwent refit. My grandmother's sister was a dependent wife on the > base where then Commander McCann was stationed, Coco Solo sub base. Ten > ears earlier, the Panama Canal's Dredging division assisted the Coco > Solo Sub Base in raising a sunken submarine from the bay outside the > Canal locks, near the base, The submarine 0-5. The dredging division's > crane was used to lift the sunken sub to the surface so two crewmen > could escape. The previously mentioned grandfather was a senior Tow > Master for the Dredging Division. Commander McCann is an identified > individual who was also on the rescue scene. This incident made > Commander McCann think about rescuing downed sub crews, the 0-5 was the > first such successful rescue. This led his career to the Bureau of > Construction and Repair, where he developed the "McCann Submarine Rescue > Chamber", completing it in 1931. McCann was a engineer, and diving > expert. He worked with Charles B. "Swede" Momsen, together they > developed the Momsen Lung, The Momsen/McCann Diving Bell, and the McCann > SRC.> > This put him in the right place at the right time. It also met the > reference to "Navy Construction."> > He is still the best candidate.> > I have recently upgraded the y-test again to 67 markers, now my closest > match is a McCann out of Australia, at -4/67. The Admiral had spent most > of y part of WWII in the south Pacific as a Sub Squadron Commander. The > individual in Australia indicates he knows of no connection via the > Admiral. It is likely however that common roots are further back.> > It was recently discovered that Admiral John McCain, II was also in > Panama at Coco Solo in the right time frame. He however doesn't fit as > well. His line is so far not represented in the DNA projects. It is > represented in the Current race for President. Senator John McCain, III > is his son, born at Coco Solo in 1936.> > -- > > > Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG> ~~> > Blacksheep Ancestors in your Family?> 'Blacksheep Genealogy' is a registered California Sole Proprietorship.> The International Black Sheep Society of Genealogists is a Social Organization Identified by its members using IBSSG after their signatures.> > > -------------------------------> 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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