Maud Newton
Honor Code SignatorySigned 1 Apr 2015 | 878 contributions | 40 thank-yous | 625 connections
Signed 1 Apr 2015 | 878 contributions | 40 thank-yous | 625 connections
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Maud Newton
Born 1970s.
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Biography
I was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in Miami, Florida. Now I live in Brooklyn, New York, and am working on a book for Random House about the science and superstition of ancestry.
I've collected family stories all my life, and have been working on my tree sporadically for more than fifteen years and intensely since 2007. I've taken DNA tests at Ancestry.com and 23andme, and uploaded my data to FTDNA and GEDmatch. I enjoy connecting with close and distant relatives of all backgrounds, figuring out exactly how we match, and hearing all their stories
My surnames through great-grandparents are Newton, Bruce, House, Ricketts, Cook, Terry, Bailey, Johnson, Williams, Haddock, Johnston, Smith, Kinchen, Burge, and Martin. Through fourth great-grandparents, additional known surnames are Hail, Quinn, Austen/Austin, Cotham, Bennett, Green, Pruett/Prewitt, Armstrong, Meaux/Meux, Weaver, McGee/McGhee, Claiborn, Bonner, Anderson, Robertson, Hampton, Shepherd, May, Wright, Hays, de Minoville, Parsons, Hill, Burge, Morris, and Coles.
My recent lineage is largely southern and Texan, but some lines go back to Puritan-era New England, colonial Pennsylvania, and Dutch New York. Both sides include early settlers in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
I unfortunately had slaveowning ancestors on both sides of my family, my father's in particular, and it's important to me to do whatever I can to help relatives find family lines lost or kept secret because of slavery.
My essay on ancestry was the cover story of the June 2014 issue of Harpers, and I obsess over related miscellany of all kinds -- genealogical, historical, cultural, scientific, religious, superstitious, personal -- at http://thebegats.tumblr.com.
A.J. Jacobs is hosting a Global Family Reunion in New York City on June 6, 2015, and I'll be attending and speaking there, if you'd like to talk in person.
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I have collected family stories all my life, and have been working on my tree sporadically for more than fifteen years and very intensely since 2007. I've taken DNA tests at Ancestry.com and 23andme, and uploaded my data to FTDNA and GEDmatch. I have concerns about the ways DNA used for ancestry could also be used for other purposes, but for better or worse my curiosity has trumped those fears.
I enjoy connecting with close and distant relatives of all backgrounds, figuring out exactly how we match, and hearing all their stories.
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