Ken Spratlin
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Surname: Spratlin(g) with a "T".
All of my verified family lines are US Southern Colonists. My wife's verified family lines are all Yankees. Oh my!
My earliest known US Southern Colonist immigrant ancestor arrived in Jamestowne in August 1611—Sisley (unknown) (Jordan) Farrar, my 10th great-grandmother, is my Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestor. Sisley lived at Jordan's Journey, a complex of 20 buildings housing 55 people. Items found during archaeological research of the site are on display at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
The Story of Virginia Exhibition, Jordan's Journey, 1621–1640. |
I am a member of the WikiTree US Southern Colonies Project, and my roles include:
My research primarily supports the Jamestown, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia Teams.
I am a member of the WikiTree 1776 Project, part of the Military and War Project, and my roles include:
I am member of the WikiTree United States Project, where my areas of focus are:
I am a member of the WikiTree Categorization Project, and my roles include:
I am the Name Study Coordinator of the WikiTree Spratling Name Study.
I blog about genealogy at www.kenspratlin.com.
My public family tree is on my blogging site at www.kenspratlin.com/our-genealogy/. This site is implemented with The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding, and provides tree search and mapping functions, so this is the best place to search my family tree for surnames and locations.
My working family tree is on Ancestry.com at Spratlin-Knight-Wetherbee-Watne Family Tree. This is my most up-to-date tree. I also have a copy of the tree in Family Tree Maker on macOS.
I am the Group Project Administrator for the FamilyTreeDNA Spradlin Project.
I am one of the Group Project Administrators for the FamilyTreeDNA Knight Project.
While searching for Spratlin(g) sources, I bumped into William Philip Spratling (1900–1967), my 3rd cousin 3rd removed. William was one of the most distinguished silversmiths of the 20th century. He and William Faulkner were roommates in New Orleans. His biography[1] is the most interesting book I've read in a long time.
The James Spratling (1750–1812) brick wall.
Currently compiling and properly sourcing all records for Spratling Name Study in Virginia pre-1800. Many removed to NC, SC, and GA, and then west. Name variants include: Spracklin, Spradley, Spradlin(g), Spratlin(g), and a few more. See Sourced-Spratlin(g).
Y-DNA results from the Spradlin project make it clear the US Southern Colonists Spradlin(g)s and Spratlin(g)s are not related within both the genealogical and historical timeframes. So despite what 100s of family trees say, James Spratlin (1750–1812) is not a descendant of Andrew Spradling (1652–1733).
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