Mason County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 103 Shelton, WA 98584-0103 The Mason Log Volume 14 Issue 8 April 1, 2017 April meeting •   Thursday, April 6th •   7:00 p.m. Start time •   Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 12th & Connection •   Membership dues - single: $15.00 Couple: $20.00 •   Find us on the web at http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wamcgs/ The inside scoop Ø   A year later Ø   Familial searching Ø   Random immigration musings A year later In the March 2016 Mason Log, I discussed family facts and lore on the Cook side of my family. A quick refresher of the contents. My great grandmother Gandy, had said her father, James Irvin Cook, owned at one time, a hundred slaves, and stated the slaves stayed around after emancipation because they couldn’t imagine a better place to live. Her 1961 obituary included this family story. I ran the Cook family down as far as the records would allow and found no history of them owning slaves. This week I received a DNA sharing invitation from a woman whose surname I did not recognize. I clicked it and read her information. A brief synopsis of her data, she’s 75.6% Sub-Saharan African, 23.1% European, .8% East Asian & Native American, with .5% unassigned. Part of her message in her sharing invitation stated; I hope to fill in the gaps left by slavery through DNA and by sharing family history. We are predicted 5th cousins. We share four family names Bacon, Cook, Wilhelms, and Wilson; four states Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Texas; and five countries England, France, Germany, Ireland, and Scotland. The first possible connection I noticed was the Cook and Louisiana one. As previously stated, I had checked the Cook family slave connection, but I rechecked to make sure I had covered all the bases. Turns out, I didn’t. I had neglected the Gandy side of the family. My great grandmother Gandy’s, father- in-law, Daniel Ross Gandy, my gggrandfather, had owned 14 slaves according to the 1860 slave census. Conducting a quick search failed to find a connection to the lady in question. This line also has one of my German connections tied to it, via my Swint line. The next obvious connection, would be through my Cologne line. She has a lot French surnames, and there is a chance that our ancestor’s path crossed in either France, my best guess or Haiti, a guess based purely on the slavery connection. My records for Colognes in France are thin and not well documented. As for Haiti, what few records I found suggest, my gggrand father Vincent Cologne Sr. and his immediate family were living and working in Haiti in 1790 at the time of the slave rebellion. Both parents died on the island during the rebellion. Their cause of death is unknown, and the son, Vincent Jr and his sister next turned up in Virginia. This would seem to be a viable avenue for a family intersect. , OCR Text: Mason County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 103 Shelton, WA 98584-0103 The Mason Log Volume 14 Issue 8 April 1, 2017 April meeting •   Thursday, April 6th •   7:00 p.m. Start time •   Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 12th & Connection •   Membership dues - single: $15.00 Couple: $20.00 •   Find us on the web at http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wamcgs/ The inside scoop Ø   A year later Ø   Familial searching Ø   Random immigration musings A year later In the March 2016 Mason Log, I discussed family facts and lore on the Cook side of my family. A quick refresher of the contents. My great grandmother Gandy, had said her father, James Irvin Cook, owned at one time, a hundred slaves, and stated the slaves stayed around after emancipation because they couldn’t imagine a better place to live. Her 1961 obituary included this family story. I ran the Cook family down as far as the records would allow and found no history of them owning slaves. This week I received a DNA sharing invitation from a woman whose surname I did not recognize. I clicked it and read her information. A brief synopsis of her data, she’s 75.6% Sub-Saharan African, 23.1% European, .8% East Asian & Native American, with .5% unassigned. Part of her message in her sharing invitation stated; I hope to fill in the gaps left by slavery through DNA and by sharing family history. We are predicted 5th cousins. We share four family names Bacon, Cook, Wilhelms, and Wilson; four states Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Texas; and five countries England, France, Germany, Ireland, and Scotland. The first possible connection I noticed was the Cook and Louisiana one. As previously stated, I had checked the Cook family slave connection, but I rechecked to make sure I had covered all the bases. Turns out, I didn’t. I had neglected the Gandy side of the family. My great grandmother Gandy’s, father- in-law, Daniel Ross Gandy, my gggrandfather, had owned 14 slaves according to the 1860 slave census. Conducting a quick search failed to find a connection to the lady in question. This line also has one of my German connections tied to it, via my Swint line. The next obvious connection, would be through my Cologne line. She has a lot French surnames, and there is a chance that our ancestor’s path crossed in either France, my best guess or Haiti, a guess based purely on the slavery connection. My records for Colognes in France are thin and not well documented. As for Haiti, what few records I found suggest, my gggrand father Vincent Cologne Sr. and his immediate family were living and working in Haiti in 1790 at the time of the slave rebellion. Both parents died on the island during the rebellion. Their cause of death is unknown, and the son, Vincent Jr and his sister next turned up in Virginia. This would seem to be a viable avenue for a family intersect. , Mason County Genealogical Society,Mason Logs,Mason Logs,2017,V14 I8 MCGS Apr 2017 Newsletter a.pdf,V14 I8 MCGS Apr 2017 Newsletter a.pdf Page 1, V14 I8 MCGS Apr 2017 Newsletter a.pdf Page 1