David Willcox
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Signed 17 Mar 2021 | 972 contributions | 36 thank-yous | 908 connections
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David A. Willcox
Born 1950s.
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David Willcox is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger Elder William Brewster.
David Willcox is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger Love Brewster.
David Willcox is a descendant of Mayflower Passenger Edward Doty.
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Biography
Birth
- Born April 7, 1950 in New Haven Connecticut.
- Father was working on PHD in Math at Yale.
- Moved to Amherst Massachusetts in 1953.
- Father was Math professor at Amherst College.
Education
- Senior year in High School was actually at Katedralskolan in Uppsala, Sweden, where father was on sabbatical.
- AB in Math from Oberlin College, 1972.
- MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois In Urbana 1977.
- Research assistantship included work on ARPANET, the prototype of the Internet.
- Humorous story: At one point the team was going to start a project using a new operating system (Unix[TM]) and a new computer language called C. A staff of highly opinionated software geeks could not agree on correct formatting of the language source; where to put spaces around operators, what to indent and how much, that kind of thing. After a full week where *all* we did was argue about this, I decided we just needed a program that would reformat a programs source however an individual wanted it. So I spent a week writing a C program to do that. The result, called "indent," after much evolution since, is now a part of the standard Linux distribution.
Work Life
- 45 years (post graduation) in the software industry, mainly Motorola and Yahoo. Projects ranged from embedded systems (pre-smart mobile phones), to operating systems, to big-data processing on thousands of servers.
Fun Times
- Served for many years as a Boy Scout troop and pack leader.
- Served as advisor for six Philmont expeditions.
Mayflower
- Descended from Mayflower passengers William Brewster and Love Brewster through father Alfred Willcox.[1]
Sources
- This is all autobiographical.
- ↑ Mayflower Society application 101920, Oct 21 2021.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:
- Norman Willcox
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #MI21786
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100.00%
100.00%
David Willcox:
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Barbara (Wallace) Cullicott :
23andMe
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