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I'm just wondering if any of the male born MOODY's of Henderson Co., TN or Decatur Co., TN (and surrounding areas also possibly of Giles and Lawrence Co., TN) have been Ydna tested.
We are working to make a very large tie-in with the MOODY's from Darlington Co., SC to those of next door Marion Co., SC whose families seemed to have gone to Henderson and Decatur Co's, in TN.
We have proven Ydna MOODY's in Darlington Co., SC and proven Ydna Moody's from Giles and most likely next door Lawrence Co., TN (they were at one time split apart from each other) and are trying to see if there is a link between these two families of MOODY's since it appears from my old map of TN that Giles and Decatur Co's. are only separated by Wayne Co., TN. If that is so, then these 4 counties are quite close to each other and therefore these large clans of Moody's could very likely be related to one another.
Our earliest known ydna ancestor goes back to a Thomas MOODY b.c1710 in/of Aghadowey, Co. L'derry, Nor. Ireland and his 1st wife Jean McQUISTON (more often seen spelled McCUISTON in the south). One of the links I found on Rootsweb has some of these McQuiston's linked to these families from Henderson Co. and Decatur Co., TN in their family tree which contains MOODY's from Marion Co., SC that link back to a Robert MOODY and wife Nancy (last name unknown).
We know that we do not share any Ydna with the MOODY's that hail from England so far and they are the most widely tested among all of the MOODY participants we have so far.
Ours is a branch of an ancient Norwegian heritage line that most likely came over to Scotland during the Viking raids of their time and then later during the religious upheavals of Scotland, they went to Nor. Ireland.
About 90% of our line of Ydna Moody cousins can trace their lineages back to Nor. Ireland, but prior to that its pretty sketchy, however Most and Many of the early names to whom our Moody's intermarried with in the 1700's, were from Scotland and can be proven as such.
Another Very Interesting link between all 4 of these MOODY's of Giles, Lawrence, Decatur and Henderson Co., TN, is that they all seem to link back to some of the same Surnamed families. Ironically two surnames that I share fairly close Ydna with that are Not my own surname, are TOLER and GENTRY and they are both found within the genealogies of these family trees. I believe we are on to something here but without documented evidence we cannot prove the relationships and or the lineage lines back to the common ancestors. I believe the only way in which we will be able to prove the lineage between these MOODY lines now is via Ydna testing.
We are also quite certain our Moody's link to those hailing from Wright Co., MO as well and some of these online family trees show these same families have intermarried and also went to Wright Co., MO which is typically a good clue.
Some sites are well documented others are simply Cut and Pasted info with the same repeated mistakes over and over again.
We are trying to positive proof here if at all possible.
If anyone here has further info about any of these MOODY's etc. we would be Most interested in hearing about them.
Thank you for your help.
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