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Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland

I hit send before I got done composing the title.

Someone requested the addition of this profile to the DNA project, https://www.geni.com/projects/R-L21-Y-DNA/3837

I don't want to ignore it but am not informed enough to make that decision.

Accept or Decline? (I have nothing to do with the project, don't know anything about it.)

Stewart is clearly L21.

13 minutes ago
Micah McCoy-Watkins asked to add Alan fitzFlaald, Sheriff of Shropshire to the R-L21 (Y-DNA) project.
Alan fitzFlaald, Sheriff of Shropshire

These types of requests are difficult to accept or reject because Alan fitzFlaald (fitzFlaad), of Oswestry, Sheriff of Shropshire was born, per his profile, in 1078
Dol, St Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France

Michelle Angelique Stein sorry! I do not understand "directories"

Ah, telephone and address directories. Very useful for genealogy. Not very relevant to DNA however. :)

PS. If you’re lucky, you can find out exactly where everyone lived and not rely just on census records. And, who was living with them.

I got tagged on this as Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland is supposed to be some sort of ancestor of mine. That said, I have been wading through a lot of DNA with my male 1st cousin and a lot of other matches trying to break through a few brick walls.

I am not sure that generations further back that 5 or 6 need to be populated or put in a project. Not yet. Maybe when more are tested and more samples from bone, hair, etc. are tested. Just my thoughts on a Sunday evening.

I think this might be why Alexander Stewart is requested to be added to the project:

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/alexander-stewart-the-wolf/about

In January of 2014, it was announced that a DNA study of the sons of Alexander, 4th High Steward of Scotland, Sir John Stewart of Bonkyll and James Stewart 5th High Steward of Scotland, had resulted in a new finding for those lines.

(I still wouldn’t know how to describe this, though)

Also here.

https://www.chuckspeed.com/balquhidder/history/DNA_of_Ancient_Stewa...

And the university study.

https://www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/centreforlifelonglearning/gene...

With regard to ancient DNA studies I'm compelled to leave such decisions in the hands of experts, but really appreciate this interesting discussion and the fine sources provided by Erica. Thanks, Everyone!

https://www.strath.ac.uk/media/1newwebsite/centres/centreforlifelon...

It’s pretty cool.

A couple of points.

My mother did not remember all the addresses she had lived with as a child, but I was able to find a few of them in address directories. So that was a real thrill.

I’m not when address directories were first published in the USA. That history would make an interesting geni project. The first printing press was at Harvard in I think the 1640s, so perhaps earlier than we realize. But probably not in the time of Alexander, 4th High Stewart. :)

Your cousin Robin doesn’t need to re enter her tree on Geni. If you’ve identified her in your own tree, just send her an invitation to claim the profile via that box (email address). She can then expand, or not, but then she’s a Geni member.

This is a really interesting conversation.
My father gifted me a book decades ago that had all the Hicks people in this country, supposedly.
I remember it now that “directory” is explained.

I used to look at those names and wonder if we were all related.
I got hooked early lol

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