I am interested in doing more in the way of researching my SWOPE lines, which were originally SCHWAB in Germany.
Hopefully there will be others who have an interest in this line as I get slightly frustrated and hate to keep whining about it.
The family was originally from the area of Sinsheim, Baden, Germany and I have Jost Schwab who died in January 1727.
I have scouring my book shelves to find the publication "The Swope Family" by Winifred Macclanen (?). I know that it is at least a 8 x 10 or larger, hardbound volume and very thick. It is a great book.
ReplyDeleteIt is not on my shelves. So I am trying to think who I loaned it to so I can recover it.
Lesson #1 - always write down on a card who has borrowed my books.
Lesson 2# - give them a date that you would like it back.
Did I do all that? No! So now after starting a Swope family blog, I could really use that book and I no longer have it.
It takes the family back into Germany very early with great pictures, documents, etc. A very well-done family history! So I am really very upset about losing it. Hopefully I can back-track and maybe find it.
Wish me luck - and take a lesson from me.
I am assuming that you have the free Google book by Gilbert Swope. It details the Swope line from Jost Swope.
ReplyDeleteMy line comes from Rev. Benedict Swope. He is in the Appendix of that book. At that time, Gilbert was not sure where Benedict fit into the Swope family tree.
Currently, only one other Swope male besides myself has taken a Y DNA test. He is from the Jost Swope line. We are 7 markers off on a 67 marker test. That would put us at about an 18% chance that we would be related at George Schwab/Margaretha Zimmerman common ancestor as the documentation would suggest. The probability would suggest a relationship that is a little further back in the family tree. More Swope family DNA testers will be necessary to solidify this connection.
I am trying to encourage more Swope men to take the Y DNA test, but so far I have not been successful. This would help fill in some of the gaps in the family lines between Benedict Swope's line and Jost Swope's line.
Good luck with your search. If you have an opportunity to talk any other Swope men into DNA testing, please encourage them to do so. This is our best resource to linking the Swope families in America.