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From: Sherry Furgeson Ball <>
Subject: Re: [FERGUSON-DNA] Thomas Esquire FERGUSON b. 1760
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:32:20 -0600
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The ancestry.com 1820 Lincoln Co. NC census shows "and", Geo, Jas, Jno and
Thos Furgeson. Can anyone familiar with this group of Furgesons tell me if
they are all related and all from Scotland? I'm still chasing a Furgeson
from Ireland who was the father of my Thomas J. Furgeson b. abt. 1819 in NC.
Have no idea what county.

Also, I have wills of an Andrew and Ellon Furgeson in Alamance Co. NC in
1852. They have a niece, Desdemonia McCully living with them. I believe
this Andrew to be from Ireland based on an 1850 census. Will doesn't
indicate that they had any children, so was a dead end for me at this
point. If it pertains to anyone else's Furgesons, will be glad to share.

Sherry Furgeson Ball

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Colin Ferguson <>wrote:

> Results are in for David N Ferguson who tested for the Searcy County
> Library study on the ancestry of their founder James G. Ferguson
> conducted by Geraldine Littleton.
>
> According to Geraldine, David's ancestor is Thomas Esquire FERGUSON b.
> 1760 a son of Andrew FERGUSON b.~1724, Scotland; d. 1810 Lincoln
> County, NC. He falls within Branch IV of Haplogroup: I2b - Clade:
> Isles/Sc. Kenneth Ferguson shares a common ancestor with David as he
> descends from Thomas' brother Robert FERGUSON b.1764. This means the
> TMRCA according to the genealogy between David and Kenneth is 284
> years.
>
> The genetic distance between David and Kenneth is 4 of 37 markers. The
> theoretical calculations indicate the probability is 5% that the TMRCA
> is no longer than 270 years. This is not a conclusive result in
> attempting to verify that indeed David and Kenneth share a common
> ancestor in Andrew Ferguson, we expect the probability to be higher
> but are at the limit of the error bounds in the calculation. David
> needs to upgrade to 67 markers if we are use the DNA match to
> corroborate the genealogy.
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