Re: Joseph Gowin/Gowan/Going/Goin
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Re: Joseph Gowin/Gowan/Going/Goin
Jeanette Lambert 11/14/11
I'm not sure why this has turned confrontational, as I never wanted it to be that way and have no desire to belittle anyone.I've attempted to explain through DNA and other means the facts that support there not being Native American ancestry.Even today, there is no Gowin/Gowan/Goin/Going descendant of William & Annester that can provide proof that there was any Native American ancestry on the Gowin/Gowan/Goin/Going line, while DNA continues to indicate there was not.
DNA has proven that the male Gowin/Gowan/Goin/Going line of William & Annester were from Scotland.To date, those who have tested autosomal DNA have all returned results of 0% Native American, 0% Asian, 0% African American, and 100% Northern European.You are free to take the autosomal DNA test at 23andme laboratories (http://www.23andme.com) to see if you return differing results.
The person who owned the actual photo, which was hanging on the wall, is now deceased.I know who the owner was and am sad to say she is no longer able to tell us about William and Cordelia.I received the copy I have from someone still living who took the photo of the photo.
Family lore is an interesting thing and it usually contains some facts with an equal amount of fiction.So many want to explain why a persons physical attributes/characteristics differ from their siblings.Each person inherits DNA/genomes from their ancestors, except that two siblings may not inherit the exact same genomes.This is due to what is called recombination, or when a DNA segment moves from one DNA molecule to another DNA molecule.Recombination will have an impact on many things including health, physical characteristics, and longevity.That is why two siblings may not look alike.
If you look closely at the photo of William, to me, he does not have Native American characteristics. Scientific studies of Native Americans are published with these characteristics: 1) High cheekbones where glasses set high on the face and get all smeary on the bottom of the lens, 2) Almond shaped almost oriental looking eyes, 3) Lazy eyes in children, 4)"Shovel" teeth, the teeth have a ledge on the backside. Run your tongue across them, they feel almost like a shovel, 5) Large front teeth with a slight or more than slight gap, 6) Lack of the Carabelli cusp on the maxillary first molars, which is missing in Native Americans, and others.
William's cheekbones are not high and his face is more hollow than round and there are other things, for me, that do not indicate Mongolian (which is what Native American ancestry is) characteristics.There are many theories from the DNA that would suggest a more plausable aspect that he showed ancestral characteristics that may be from Portugal or something else.As I mentioned, Scotland and Portugal where very serious traders as early as the 1400's.
In Scotland and Ireland, the ancient language was Gaelic.In Gaelic, they would on occasion name a person with 'dubh' or 'black' in their name to describe the person they were referring to.Duncan, or Donnchadh, refers to the "brown or dark-skinned warrior".
'Black Irish' is often a description of people of Irish origin who had dark features, black hair, dark complexion and eyes and were believed to be people who were descendants of Spaniards and Irish as early as 1588.
I'm not stating that there was not Native American ancestry, but sometimes that is easier to explain through family lore (and why it is chosen by many) when the truth is harder to determine and may lie within our DNA from even centuries before -- when Europeans were not even on American soil.
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Jeanette Lambert 11/15/11