Category: Books: Babb Unabridged
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Book Announcement: Vol 11: Good Shepherds of Hatherleigh Devon
Volume 11 of the Babb Unabridged Series is now available! This installment takes a deep look into the 6th Genetically distinct Babb lineage. The book is available for sale using these links to Create Space and also via Amazon. The Good Shepherds of Hatherleigh, Devon are the 6th DNA-Proven Lineage of Babbs. The market in Hatherleigh sells sheep, cattle…
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Book Announcement: Vol 10: Falcons of Fremington Devon
Volume 10 of the Babb Unabridged Series is now available! This installment takes a deep look into the 5th Genetically distinct Babb lineage. The book is available for sale using these links to Create Space and also via Amazon. The Falcons of Fremington, Devon is the 5th DNA-Proven lineage of Babbs. The mascot and crest draws upon a popular…
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Book Announcement: Vol 09: Dragons of Somerset
Volume 09 of the Babb Unabridged Series is now available! This installment looks deeply into the 4th Genetically distinct Babb lineage, which has its roots in Trull & Pitminster in Somerset England. 18 months ago when I first started working on this volume I had no idea how deep the roots ran in England. I was…
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The Babbs of Devon, England
At long last I have completed my canvassing of the Babb families of Devon and thus of the Babbs of England. As expected the great county of Devon holds a number of surprises. The most surprising of which is that at least 3 distinct unrelated lineages (The Falcons, The Good Shepherds and The Gryphons) of Babbs…
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The Gryphons (of Halberton, Devon, England)
Today I am introducing a previously unknown Babb lineage, which I have deemed the Gryphons. This line was recently DNA proven and becomes the 3rd independent lineage of Babbs in the County of Devon and the 7th overall. As I mentioned in my posts The Somerset Dragons (of Somerset, England), The Falcon Babbs (of Devon,…
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The Good Shepherds (of Hatherleigh, Devon, England)
Today we come to the tiny market town of Hatherleigh, which is not much more than the crossroads to Okehampton, Holsworthy, Black Torrington & Petrockstow (say that 3 times fast). It is the smallest town in Devon and lies about 20 miles to the south of the Falcon Babbs of Fremington. It is in this community…
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The Falcon Babbs (of Devon, England)
Today I’d like to introduce you to the first DNA proven lineage of Devon, which is also known as Devon Pedigree 01. We stumbled across this tree in one of our early DNA attempts when we didn’t yet understand the complexity of the Babb line in Devon. We had mistakenly believed that we could connect Phillip Babb…
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The Babbs of West Midlands, England
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county, or in other words a city that is also a county. In 2014 the West Midlands boasted a population of 2,808,356 and stood as the second largest county in England. If you think about it for just a moment you already know which county outranks it. The city of Birmingham lies within…
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The Babbs of Staffordshire, England
I have struggled so much with this seemingly endless collection of Jeffrey Babbs. No where else in England have I seen such a confusing array of similarly named people. I’ve done my best to make sense of it all and am very pleased to have finally completed canvassing Staffordshire County, which lies in the Midlands…
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The Somerset Dragons (of Somerset, England)
The DNA waiting game ended today, with an early Christmas present from Family Tree DNA. The results on our test candidate whose lineage originates in Somerset came back and matched on 36 of 37 Genetic Markers. This is exactly what you would expect to see of two 5th Cousins taking this test. This becomes our…