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Hello my name is (name removed) and I have been trying to find resources and records for my great grandfather Lee Andrew Shannon Gaston and his name is the reasons my family and I have been hitting brick walls. My aunt went to the Link of hiring a professional genealogist to get information. She said he all he came up with was exactly what everyone was finding on my grandpa. So my great grandfather Lee Andrew Shannon was born with this name and he was also the one who created the person who served in the Philippines in the United States Military, The Army to be exact. And he changed his surname to Gaston when he joined the Army so. He erased the family surname of Shannon for my entire family. The carnver family is entirely part of it to, because my great grandma Lee's wife and mother of my grandpa Shannon, well she did the same thing to her given name and she was born with the given name of Martha Tabitha Cavner and when she died she was known by the name of Betty Jane Mitchell and Mitchell was her married name. But her surname has been changed several times before she settled on Mitchell. The reason why is that she was married 4 different times. So help
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Found your created GHRF-HDZ Lee Andrew Gaston aka Lee Andrew Shannon and wife L83X-Q8G Martha Tabitha Cavnar aka Betty Jane Mitchell
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/family/GHRF-HDZ
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X2V8-2WM?lang=enError
States Lee Andrew Gaston parents are Columbus Gaston and Tabitha Clifton
Does this document help?
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@OregonMom1234 Threw some records at your Lee Andrew Gaston including corrected birth info. Don't think he ever went by Shannon surname. His wife came up with that when she applied for a corrected birth record for son, Charles. Hard to say its origins and the son's birth record shows 'Gaston'. Didn't work all that hard on Lee Gaston's parents, but the little I did came up empty…
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I have to add that not finding records with Shannon surname would make sense if he indeed began using the Gaston surname pretty early on [1894]. I note that his wife's change of name for son, occurred after the father's death. Might explain why what little searching I did for parents with Gaston surname didn't come up with much
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Theories only
Theory are there any sources that might show the Gastons might be these Shannons?
GHRF-HDZ Lee Andrew Gaston
PQPR-Q55 Columbus Gaston
PQPR-HL6 Tabitha Clifton
G8K5-WYW L.A. Shannon
G8K5-395 Columbus Alexander Shannon
94NT-VJL Margaret E. Clifton
And theory are there any sources that might show Margaret E Clifton might be Margaret Clifton?
LZ1K-8XM Margaret Clifton
Aunt in law of
GHRF-HDZ Lee Andrew Gaston
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this appears to be a good match for this family in 1880 as entered from the 1880 census
I found this person on FamilySearch:
C. A. Shonnon
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/GVPN-NT6
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Confirmed all of the ids are the same and merged through multiple sources including
M E Shannon and C A Shannon from Mississippi in 1870 census and District 11, Grainger, Tennessee, United States
And Margaret E Clifton brother Francis F Clifton from Mississippi married in Hardeman, Tennessee, United States in 1868 to Mary M Cavnar and wife in 1870 census District 12, Grainger, Tennessee, United States with Cavnars
As in sister Amanda E Clifton husband Jesse Woodson Cavnar and as in Martha Tabitha Cavnar family
Lee Andrew Shannon Gaston parents connected
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/family/GHRF-HDZ
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@OregonMom1234 Mod note: Community is a public online forum. For your privacy, your post was edited to remove a name that is not part of your username. Please see the Community Code of Conduct for more details.
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hey there, sorry for the miscommunication about names. . So I will be very careful with what I post on this thread, and I am going to make sure that you are aware that you have made a mistake in the comments above and I apologize if you think that you have done anything inappropriate or offensive to my family members so that I am clear the line of Shannon and I am sorry to say I am not from descendants of Ireland and that we are from Scotland and I have personally proof of this fact and that is from the source of a DNA test which was done by the top level test from ancestry DNA testing and that is what it’s saying that I am not as Irish I am only 2% and that is why I am very confused about this information you have sent me
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@OregonMom1234 - forgive me because I'm not totally sure that I'm following your logic that you come from Scotland and not from Ireland, but if you are relying on Ancestry DNA ethnicity results, that would be a dangerous conclusion. Ethnicity results are not an exact science - several experts say that they work fine at the continental level but below that? No.
In the case of Scotland and Ireland, plenty of Irish went over to various parts of Scotland, while loads of Scots went over to Ireland, particularly the North. Indeed, they're called Ulster Scots for a reason.
So, for instance, your DNA ethnicity might say that you are ethnically Scottish but if you had a full paper trail, you might find that your ancestors went first of all from Scotland to Ireland, and then from Ireland to the USA (I presume). Since paper trails through Ireland can be fragmentary, it might be that your paper trail goes back from the USA to Ireland before it gives out. But the DNA (*if* it's correct), might show the deeper ancestry from Scotland.
Now, if you don't think that's what happened to your lot, fine, but I am trying to convince you that DNA ethnicity results might not match the paper results for perfectly good reasons - and both might be true, just for different time periods.
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