Category: DNA-12: The Brown Pelicans of Barbados
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The DNA Waiting Game has yielded a result!
Last month I posted in regard to a pending Y-DNA test for descendant of Fitz Herbert Babb of St Lucy, Barbados. Well the results are in and he is a exact 37-Marker match with our other Barbados Babb who tested about 5 years ago. Today I had the distinct pleasure of introducing the two cousins,…
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The DNA Waiting Game begins anew!
Well, it’s that game of hurry up, wait for international mail, hurry up again and wait for international mail to return to the US. We have successfully located a descendant of Fitz Herbert Babb, who is of the Barbados Babbs. You may remember Fitz from this article in Feb 2022, which I published in both…
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Book Announcement: Babbs of Barbados
The first draft of the Babbs of Barbados is ready for peer review. I will acknowledge that there are an unusual number of gaps in the record. But trees have to start somewhere and now is the time for it to finally happen. I’m making it free of charge to help spur interest. I recommend…
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Barbados Church Records
I’ve come across a stash of old records from Barbados that have been digitized since I last did research on the topic almost exactly 5 years ago. Calling all Barbados & Caribbean Babbs Most of those records are church records that date from the earliest times and up to about 1891. They are deeply fragmented…
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Announcement: 12th Proven Y-DNA Lineage
12. The Brown Pelicans of Barbados Today I am proud to bring to you the 12th Babb Lineage that is proven by Y-DNA results. Today’s lineage comes from a line of Babbs of African descent living in Barbados. The Brown Pelican is the National Bird of Barbados, and it seemed fitting to use it as…