Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill
Honor Code SignatorySigned 8 Jan 2014 | 105,420 contributions | 9,820 thank-yous | 1,671 connections
Signed 8 Jan 2014 | 105,420 contributions | 9,820 thank-yous | 1,671 connections
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My family tree is at <https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/72027249/family?cfpid=48252579857>.
I am a genetic genealogist, using DNA to map my parents' chromosomes and help me identify/confirm ancestral relationships. I've been researching my genealogy for over 35 years. I spent a number of years focused on medieval genealogy, which led me to become a leader of the European Aristocrats and Medieval projects here at Wikitree. I also am a leader of the U.S. Southern Colonies project, the United States project, the Nantucket project (I have numerous ancestors that trace back to the founders of Nantucket), and the Kirkland One-Name Study. I enjoy collaborating with distant cousins to try and trace our ancestors farther back in time.
with
anyone who shares the same genealogical or historical interests.
My family tree is at <https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/72027249/family?cfpid=48252579857>.
I am a genetic genealogist, using DNA to map my parents' chromosomes and help me identify/confirm ancestral relationships. I've been researching my genealogy for over 35 years. I spent a number of years focused on medieval genealogy, which led me to become a leader of the European Aristocrats and Medieval projects here at Wikitree. I also am a leader of the U.S. Southern Colonies project, the United States project, the Nantucket project (I have numerous ancestors that trace back to the founders of Nantucket), and the Kirkland One-Name Study. I enjoy collaborating with distant cousins to try and trace our ancestors farther back in time.
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Darlene Athey-Hill formerly Athey
Born 1960s.
Ancestors 
and Mother of
[private son (1980s - unknown)]
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Darlene is on the US Southern Colonies' Leadership Team.
Darlene was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!
Descendant of PGM migrant Major John Mason.
Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill descends from Tristram Coffin Sr, a Nantucket founder.
RootsTech Attendee: 2017
Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger John Howland and his wife, Elizabeth Tilley.
Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill is a member of the Kirkland Name Study Project.
WikiTree Day Attendee: 2023
Darlene gifted some WikiTree kindness during the 2023 Secret Santa!
Darlene gifted some WikiTree kindness during the 2022 Secret Santa!
THE BEST WAY TO CONTACT ME IS VIA A PRIVATE MESSAGE (AS OPPOSED TO POSTING ON THIS PROFILE PAGE). THAT WAY I RECEIVE AN EMAIL FROM YOU. ANY POSTS ON THIS PAGE MAY NOT BE READ FOR UP TO A WEEK. THANKS!
Darlene gifted some WikiTree kindness during the 2019 Secret Santa!
Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill is the descendant of a New Netherland settler.
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Biography
I DO NOT HAVE THE BULK OF MY FAMILY ATTACHED HERE TO WIKITREE. TO SEE MY FULL TREE, VISIT ME HERE: Dars Ancestry Tree Also, my personal database contains a lot more information on my ancestors, including deeds, court and land records. Feel free to send me a private message with questions or requests.
Wikitree Leader
At present, Darlene is:
- Leader of the U.S. Southern Colonies Project
- Leader of the Southern Pioneers Project
- Leader of the Texas Project
- Leader of the Nantucket Project
- Leader of the Kirkland One Name Study
- Co-leader of the European Aristocrats Project
- Co-leader of the Medieval Project
- Co-leader of the United States Project
She also does random acts of genealogical kindness by assisting others with their family research. Due to the inability to clone herself, her spare time is extremely limited.
Genealogy Background
Darlene has been involved in genealogy for over 35 years. She got the genealogy 'bug' from her paternal grandmother Verlie Snell who was always interested in her ancestors and traveled the country meeting distant cousins. The notes left by her grandmother proved invaluable to Darlene in beginning her research on her grandmother's family.
Darlene spent several years focused on medieval genealogy, spending an average of 60+ hours/week for several years researching to learn more than just 'dates' about her ancestors and their families from medieval times. It provided a good history lesson and gave her a new passion. Upon discovering WikiTree in early 2014, she moved her focus from researching these medieval families to sharing her information online.
Darlene's primary focus these days is as a genetic genealogist, focusing on DNA and mapping her parents' chromosomes. She uses DNAGedcom and GenomeMate Pro, along with Gedmatch and DNAPainter, to help her locate triangulated groups and organize her research. To better enable her to locate the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) with newfound cousins, she is working on extending her family tree by recording all of the siblings and their spouses & children, and then the same down the next generation. for seven generations. This will result in tens of thousands of new profiles in her tree. She sends lots of emails to the triangulated groups and oversees researching everyone's trees to locate the MRCA. It's challenging, frustrating, and occasionally rewarding! She knows this is her best chance to break down some of the brick walls in her ancestry! She hopes that others will work on developing their family trees to have a better chance of finding the match!
When you can tear her away from her research, Darlene enjoys spending time in the Canadian Rockies hiking and canoeing in the summer months. During the winter, you'll find her and her husband (along with their Golden Doodle dog) traveling the islands on their motor yacht.
EVER WONDER ABOUT HOW MANY ANCESTORS YOU HAVE? CONSIDER THIS...
- 1024 great great great great great great great great grandparents
- 512 great great great great great great great grandparents
- 256 great great great great great great grandparents
- 128 great great great great great grandparents
- 64 great great great great grandparents
- 32 great great great grandparents
- 16 great great grandparents
- 8 great grandparents
- 4 grandparents
- 2 parents
- One child
So . . . with 1,024 potential surnames at the tenth generation, you can understand why I tend to chuckle when someone asks me what surnames I am working on. Many of us tend to forget that a lot of people don't even know the surnames of all four of their grandparents . . .
Ancestral Surnames
Darlene's maiden name, ATHEY, traces back to Galway, Ireland. My ancestor George ATHY immigrated to Maryland from Ireland in 1662 as a bondservant to Thomas Dent. The ATHYs were one of the leading families in Galway, being one of the original 'Tribes of Galway'. My father's Y-DNA has been tested and his descent proven from this line. This line appears to trace to Girard d'Athée. To read more about the Athey surname Y-DNA project, visit here (my dad's kit # is 8468).
Darlene's mother's maiden name, McINANEY, also traces back to Ireland. (It was primarily spelled McEneany or McAneany in Ireland). The name in Irish has two forms: Mac an Dhéaghanaigh (son of the dean) and Mac Conaonaigh (hound of the fair). This helps explains why the name is pronounced “Mac” rather than “Mc”. The family was a sept of Oriel, Oriel being the ancient territory covering what are now counties of Armagh, Monaghan, Louth, and Down. There are at least 36 different spellings of the name. Quite strange is the case of six members of the same family whose tombstones all bear a different spelling. Four are buried in the same cemetery, i.e. Peter MacEneaney (the father), Mary McAneaney (the mother), Francis McAneney and Patrick McEnaney (sons). The other two children were buried in a different cemetery under the names of Catherine McEneany and John Bird (the word "ean" is Irish and means "bird", thus the pseudo-translation). Other English forms include McAnaney, McAnany, McAnanny, McAnneeny, etc. McEnany, McEneeny, etc., McNeeny, McNeany, McNanny, McNenny, McNeny and so on. My immigrant McInaney ancestor, Arthur McInaney, came from Ireland (supposedly county Tyrone but I'm beginning to think it was perhaps Monaghan) to ONTARIO, CANADA circa 1830-50. Descendants later immigrated to the U.S. through Minnesota.
Other names on her maternal grandfather's side include the Irish families of CLANCY, McCARTHY, and QUINLIVAN (from Miltown Malbay, County Clare) and the Scottish families of ANDERSON, CRERAR, DOW, and MACGLASHAN (from Perthshire, Scotland). There somewhere is a connection to the Irish families of MARRINAN and SHANNON from Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland. These families all immigrated to Ontario, Canada in the mid-1800s.
Families on her maternal grandmother's side include BEERY/BIERI, BEIGHLEY, CONKRIGHT, DENNISTON, MILLISON/MUHLEISEN, ELLIS, HOFFMAN/HUFFMAN, HUNSAKER, IMLER/IMBLER, JOHNSON, ROBERTS, SEARS/ZERR and WHITE.
Families on her paternal grandmother's side include the NANTUCKET families of BARNARD, BUNKER, COFFIN, COLEMAN, FOLGER, GARDNER, HUSSEY, MACY, STARBUCK; MAYFLOWER families HOWLAND, HURST and TILLEY; as well the SOUTH CAROLINA/GEORGIA families of BRADFORD, DORMINY, KELLY, KIRKLAND, LAMB, ROUSE, SNELL, STROUD, THRIFT; as well as FITCH, KIRKENER, MASON, PECK, SHEAFE, WHITFIELD.
Families on her paternal grandfather's side include ABBOTT, ATHEY, BERRY, BIGGS, BURNS, FALLIS, FRY/FREY, KIEFFER, LEWIS, MILLER, MAURER/MOWDER, PABST, RUSSELL, STRAUB/STRAWB, WILLIAMS.
DNA Confirmation
- Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill and George Athey, her father (direct ancestor). Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Parent/child, based on sharing 3453cM across 27 segments.
- Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill and Ruth Anne (McInaney) Athey, her mother (direct ancestor). Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: Parent/child, based on sharing 3471cM across 24 segments.
Ancestors Research Statistics
| BY GENERATION | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen. No. | Relation to Darlene | Total Possible Profiles | On Wikitree | Sourced | Biography | Genealogically Defined |
| 1 | Self | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Parent | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Grandparent | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 (50%) |
| 4 | Great Grandparent | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 (63%) |
| 5 | 2nd Great Grandparent | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 7 (44%) |
| 6 | 3rd Great Grandparent | 30 (-2)* | 30 | 30 | 20 (67%) | 11 (37%) |
| 7 | 4th Great Grandparent | 60 (-4)* | 37 (62%) | 37 | 40 (67%) | 6 (10%) |
| 8 | 5th Great Grandparent | 120 (-8)* | 45 (38%) | 45 | 31 (69%) | 2 (4%) |
| 9 | 6th Great Grandparent | 240 (-16)* | 40 (16%) | 40 | 18 (45%) | 6 (15%) |
| 10 | 7th Great Grandparent | 480 (-32)* | 29 (6%) | 26 (90%) | 16 (55%) | 2 (7%) |
| 11 | 8th Great Grandparent | 960 (-64)* | 29 (3%) | 27 (93%) | 17 (67%) | 0 (0%) |
- Total number of possible ancestors reduced due to pedigree collapse.
Sources
- Birth certificate
- Marriage certificate
- Personal knowledge of Darlene Athey Hill
Digital Afterlife
In the event of my death or that I have become unable through physical or mental inability to continue my work within Wikitree, I place the profiles I manage into the caring hands of the Wikitree Team. If any member(s) of my family have the desire to continue what I have started, I ask that they be allowed to manage those profiles and have the guidance to continue in the proper manner. Any locked profiles that I manage I believe to contain only information that can be found on the internet, so they may be dealt with as privacy would allow.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Darlene's formal name
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (9)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (1)
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Darlene or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Darlene or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Rick Athey
:
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup K2a6, FTDNA kit #587036, MitoYDNA ID T11998 [compare] - Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill: Mitochondrial DNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup K2A6
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100.00%
100.00%
Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill:
23andMe, GEDmatch A179614 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A179614 [compare], Ancestry member DarAthey
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A179614 [compare], FTDNA kit #B14089
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MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch A179614 [compare]
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50.00%
50.00%
Ruth (McInaney) Athey :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member RM
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A789447 [compare], FTDNA kit #B12728
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50.00%
50.00%
George Athey :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T673925 [compare], FTDNA kit #8468
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50.00%
50.00%
Rick Athey :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T063220 [compare], FTDNA kit #587036
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~1.56%
Robert Barnard :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T313058 [compare], FTDNA kit #607887
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Darlene:
- Darlene Athey-Hill is a Wonderful WikiTreer Mar 14, 2024.
- Darlene Athey-Hill is a Wonderful WikiTreer Feb 24, 2024.
- Darlene Athey-Hill is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jan 5, 2024.
- Darlene Athey-Hill is a Wonderful WikiTreer Nov 29, 2023.
- 500,000+ G2G points - Congratulations to Darlene Athey-Hill, and thank you from all of us! Nov 13, 2023.
- Darlene Athey-Hill is a Wonderful WikiTreer Sep 20, 2023.
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Ralph
Of course we have many common ancestors, the first of which is Mary(Harman)Scheafe 1536-1609. We are 12th cousins once removed. I am direct descendant of several Magna Carta Surety barons. You most likely have information on gateway ancestors. I would love to join Southern conies, Texas project, and others. I also have a Defender of the Alamo 2nd grt uncle who had no wife or children. His sister was my 2nd grt grandmother married Reason Curenton. Her brother,my uncle died as sharpshooter on March 6 the day of infamy and pride by the descendants. I have +or- 15 grt grandfathers who fought as Patriots in Rev War. My greatgrand Rev Screvens brought his congregation South to South Carolina and established the first Baptist church in the South. Back to Europe and much royalty including Charlamagne as grandfather and many more including 'bad' king John who signed Magna Carta my other grt grands forced him to sign and he reneged at first chance. Pls share with me anything wonderful with me in my comments on my wikitree. I am 75yo and in bed sick a lot, but can do ancestry almost daily. Queen Elizabeth died today and so I discovered she is my 14th cousin as we share Mary (Harley)Throckmorton as mutual 13th greatgrandmother. 14th cousin is she to me not noce or twice, but 0 times removed. She was quite a Queen, for sure. Talk about hard worker and faithful to our God. So happy to discover we are cousins, but obviously that's about all we share...my family's wealth was lost about 60 years post Revolutionary War. Wonder if the royals would gift a poor American cousin with a little of my money? Well, I don't regret my ancestors for giving us a brand new country even though it made destitute my Creek Indian grandparents within less than a half century. I would rather have this blessed country who has been a place of new birth for so many immigrants world wide! Thx for reading my msg. Please share things with me if it can make my life more fun here towards the end of mine. Sheila\
To join projects, you need to respond to the project welcome/join post on G2G. The Texas one is here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1408927/do-you-live-have-ancestors-from-texas-join-the-texas-project and the Southern Colonies one is here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1417082/would-you-like-to-join-the-us-southern-colonies-project
Thanks for reaching out, Darlene
You were so kind to help me.
Solomon-2474 🌹🌹🌹
Thanks - Suzanne
I just received this email from someone saying the following:
"On Rebecca Humphreys I just made changes to her profile on GENI and I noticed she was also in WikiTree wrong, which involves moving around her family group and connecting to her first husband.
1/7/2020 edit Rebecca Perry, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Millard) Perry of Rehoboth WAS NOT the wife of John Humphrey. It was proved in 2012 that John Humphrey married instead, Rebecca (Smith) Perry, widow of David Perry and daughter of Ensign Joshua and Mary (Peck) Smith.
Rebecca (Smith) Perry Humphrey was the mother of Sarah (Humphrey) Peck, who married David Peck.
See John Gibson, A New Identity for Rebecca, Wife of John Humphrey of Rehoboth, Massachusetts: Rebecca (Smith) Perry, Widow of David Perry of Rehoboth [The American Genealogist, Vol 86 (2012), pages 213-216]
Sarah Peck - this profile needs to be linked to her correct mother and merged with the duplicate Sarah shown as sister. Then delete this comment after changes."
Sarah (Humphrey) Peck, who married David Peck, is the daughter of Rebecca (Smith) Perry Humphrey, 2nd wife of John Humphrey.
1/7/2020 edit Rebecca Perry, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Millard) Perry of Rehoboth WAS NOT the wife of John Humphrey. It was proved in 2012 that John Humphrey married instead, Rebecca (Smith) Perry, widow of David Perry and daughter of Ensign Joshua and Mary (Peck) Smith.
See John Gibson, A New Identity for Rebecca, Wife of John Humphrey of Rehoboth, Massachusetts: Rebecca (Smith) Perry, Widow of David Perry of Rehoboth [The American Genealogist, Vol 86 (2012), pages 213-216]
Updated to add: With regard to Rebecca Perry. She would need to be detached from John Humphrey and his children. A new profile (unless one already exists) would need to be created for Rebecca Smith, daughter of Joshua and Mary (Peck) Smith. Joshua is Smith-5479 and Mary Peck is Peck-273
edited by Darlene (Athey) Athey-Hill
Cordially, Dick Ragland P.S. How mucho dinero to fix my death date?