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Modern Myths of the Weems Family History: Separating Fact from Fiction

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"I made up the list from my own imagination." - Diana Muir, then known as Diana Hanson, speaking to the FBI in 1983. Anyone who has spent a significant amount of time doing genealogical research will probably be aware of the persistent myths which tend to surround many American family histories - Cherokee princesses, undocumented Mayflower passengers, and other vague recollections supposedly passed down through the generations. If you could travel back in time, perhaps you might find small grains of truth here and there, but largely these stories turn out to be unprovable and are generally regarded as extremely unlikely by any serious genealogist or reputable historian. Occasionally, you will come across more fantastical tales of buried treasure and descent from royalty, or even Biblical patriarchs. It isn't uncommon to see hastily thrown together trees on genealogy websites showing relationships which are mathematically or geographically impossible. Because of this, ...
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Autosomal DNA Results of an Abbeville Weems Descendant

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  Background: When I first ordered a DNA test from Ancestry in 2017, one of my main goals was to learn more about my great-grandfather McDuffie Weams (1876 - 1943). He was the oldest of my great-grandparents by almost 20 years, and his background was always a bit of a family mystery. Supposedly, he was adopted as an orphaned child along with his brother by the Weams family, who lived near the town of Central in Pickens County, South Carolina. This simple explanation was basically all that was passed down about his family history, and it would turn out to be the beginning of a long, gradual process of filling in countless details through historical records and DNA evidence. Early on in my research, I learned that this particular Weams family consisted of Andrew Weams (1800 - 1870) and his wife Martha Neal (1805 - 1885), who were married in 1834 in Pickens District, SC. They had four children born between 1835 and 1842: Thomas H. Weams, Margaret Jane Weams, John A. Weams, and Martha ...
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Descendants of the Abbeville Weems Family

In a previous post , I outlined most of the known historical records tracing several seemingly unrelated Weems family lines through Virginia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee during the middle to late 1700s. Although many internet sources have mistakenly combined or confused these separate lines, a close examination of the available records will hopefully clear up any further misunderstanding. These next posts will dive deeper specifically into the family of Thomas Weems and Eleanor Jacobs of Augusta County, VA and later Abbeville, SC. (Note: I have seen Eleanor's first name spelled Eleanor, Ellenor, Elinor, and Ellinore. Variations of her last name include Jacobs, Jacoby, Jacobse, and Jacob. I tend to use Eleanor Jacobs for consistency, but to my knowledge there is not necessarily one correct or incorrect spelling. Similarly, the Weems family used the spelling variations Weems, Weams, Weemes, Wims, and several others, all derived from the original Wemyss.) Notably, multiple Y-DNA test...
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