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Category: John Gilbert IV
…Or I Could Be Wrong
Recently, Jane and Chris Gilbert of the Gilbert Y-DNA Project informed me that there were some errors in my research. They backed this up with solid science in the form of an extensive study that matches haplogroups of Gilbert men with demonstrable and documented… Continue Reading “…Or I Could Be Wrong”
Original Wikipedia Article on the Gilberts of Compton
Some time ago I had created a Wikipedia article on the Gilberts of Compton, based on the research and sources cited in this blog. Recently, a Wikipedia editor took it upon himself to delete whole paragraphs from that article saying they were ‘irrelevant’. Comically… Continue Reading “Original Wikipedia Article on the Gilberts of Compton”
Three Big Lessons from Genealogy
The miracle of the Internet, combined with the hard work already done by genealogists for their own projects, has enabled me to take a deep dive into my family tree – one that wouldn’t have been possible only scant years before. The things that… Continue Reading “Three Big Lessons from Genealogy”
Gilberts at Hastings
On October 14th, in the year 1066, an army from Normandy fought a single battle against the Anglo-Saxon defenders of England near Hastings in East Sussex. By that very afternoon, the English king was dead, William the Bastard became William the Conqueror, and the… Continue Reading “Gilberts at Hastings”
Colonial Gilberts
I was recently delighted to find that a small company out of Markham, Virginia, would print me a hard copy of J. Wingate Thornton’s 1850 Genealogical Memoir of the Gilbert Family in both Old and New England. Setting aside the forgivable retransmissions of errors… Continue Reading “Colonial Gilberts”
The Man: Bernard James Gilbert
Having come to a point of diminishing returns (which is how I describe a wall) in investigating the origins of my line of Gilberts, I think it’s time to focus on the individuals. So much is lost about the people, themselves, when generations of… Continue Reading “The Man: Bernard James Gilbert”
The Noble Gilbert Women
To this point, my genealogical studies have focused on the patrilineage from William Gilbert, the earliest suspected progenitor of the Gilberts of Compton, through my son. However, this following of the male line is a vestige, a reflex (if you will), arising out of… Continue Reading “The Noble Gilbert Women”
French Origins of the Gilbert Surname
Let’s take a moment to look at ‘Gilbert’ simply as a word, rather than as a surname. As such, Gilbert has ancient Germanic origins as a combination of the words ‘gisil’ or ‘gisel’ and of ‘berht’, ‘behrt’, or ‘beraht’. This first part is where… Continue Reading “French Origins of the Gilbert Surname”
The Gilbert Surname: Even Older Than We Thought
My quest to discover the origins of the Gilbert family of Compton has been, so far, mostly comprised of proving the null hypothesis –that is, I’ve been debunking largely unchallenged legends and unsupported hypotheses. (Chief among these was finding that there was probably no… Continue Reading “The Gilbert Surname: Even Older Than We Thought”
The Two Greenways
I’m pretty sure I upset an English genealogist, who specializes in the Gilberts of Compton, by strongly suggesting that the dearly-held theory that the family descends from the Fits-Gilbert brothers of Devon is probably untrue. I know he was upset because he stopped responding… Continue Reading “The Two Greenways”
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