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I have an ancestor named Churchwell Jackson, Sr. He was born in 1758 in Orange County, VA. He came out of the woods at the Battle of Kings Mountain and there's no documentation of him before that. I Googled his name to see what new developments there were on him, and found the Jackson page from the Family Tree DNA Project. This is found at http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Jackson/default.aspx?section=results There are several people in the study who match Churchwell Jackson as the common ancestor. But the page includes this information: The following Kits within this Jackson Group match at 37 markers to the Jackson surname as well as the following three other surnames as follows: …..46298 – JACKSON with matches to BLACK, HENRY & SINCLAIR surnames …..61325 – JACKSON with matches to BLACK, HENRY & SINCLAIR surnames …..N3392 – JACKSON with matches to BLACK, HENRY & SINCLAIR surnames …….7020 – JACKSON with matches to BLACK, HENRY & SINCLAIR surnames .…..12604 – JACKSON with match of only the BLACK surname .…..51855 – BLACK with matches to JACKSON & HENRY surnames .…..46976 – HENRY with match of only the JACKSON, BLACK & SINCLAIR surnames What does all of this mean? Did our family change its name and should we now be looking for Churchwell Black, Henry or Sinclair?

Public Comments

1. No. The "matches" only show that they descend from that person, and are related somehow. Each person has many ancestors in their family. Example.. Mr Jackson might have had 3 daughters.. one married a Black, one married a Sinclair.. where the names are coming in from their paper work. By the time you have worked your line back to him, it is assumed that you HAVE information on exactly how YOU are descended. Those would be your documents. For the moment, the idea of the dna is that you locate relatives who have also been doing research, and potentially have records to share/ exchange with you.
2. He just appeared at the battle? Who are his descendants? How far back have you gotten? Maybe you should get a test done too. He apparently has many descendants, judging by the number of family trees on ancestry.com. Maybe some of them are Blacks. Henrys and Sinclairs. Maybe a whole bunch more. Finding records of his parents may be difficult. Good luck.