What's Your Haplo Group?

A year ago, a friend told me about this DNA website called 23andme  All you have to do is spit in this vial and mail it off to get your DNA results. Of course if you live in New York state there are restrictions about mailing DNA materials ~ so that spawned an impromptu road-trip to Vermont to mail off my sample. The results came in, as promised, within a month's time. I gifted my Dad with a 23andMe membership so that I could add his DNA to mine and voila  ~ I've got DNA from my Mother and Father! How interesting how similar they are if you take in the fact that my parents met in Austin, TEXAS!

Paternal

Maternal

FAMILY

 Emmett Leigh Morrison Sr and Olivia Brown Morrison

 Emmett Leigh Morrison Jr and Anne Morrison Drew

 Lacie Elizabeth Morrison, Sandy Foster Morrison, Emmett Leigh Morrison Jr. and Sarah Morrison Dawson

Sarah Morrison Dawson, Sandy Foster Morrison and Lacie Elizabeth Morrison

Me and my Daddy 

It Began With a Dream

I've always dreamed of Scotland - my dreams have been colorful and full of life! The one theme that's connected all of my dreams have been the breathtaking Highland landscapes.

When asked by friends and family what exactly it is that I would want to do once I got there - the answer has always been a wistfully spoken - " I just want to walk over the hills and down winding paths - feel the earth beneath my feet - breathe the clean air. I just know once I arrive in Scotland I will be overwhelmed by a feeling of coming home to a place I've never been before."

So I sent off for a brochure in walking in Scotland - how simple and profound at the same time. The journey has already begun..

The Journey Began With A Dream

Three and a half years ago, I wrote this blog entry ~

Isle of Wight
Have you ever awakened in the morning and as your brush away the haze of dreams from you face, you find a word or phrase forms on your lips. A stowaway from dreamland has risen to the surface and begs your attention. This happened to me this morning ~ ISLE OF WIGHT ~

Isle of What? Have never heard of it before and what relevance does it have to me at this moment in time? I am a firm believer of memories embedded in our DNA. Perhaps an ancestor of mine lived on the Isle of Wight, hundreds of years ago. It's definitely a possibility.

I did some research on this Isle of Wight ~ was it just made up in my mind or a real place. Turns out, it is a island just south of England. At one point in time ~ the island was connected to England. I did a visual search to to see if I recognized anything from the island and found this neat picture of St. Catherine's Lighthouse. Another point of interest is the Needles ~ The island was inhabited back in The Old Stone Age and has many archaeological sites that are rich in geological history.

Maybe I should add this of place that I want to visit and then maybe more will be revealed.

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Little did I know that Isle of Wight would be very significant in my journey to retrace the footsteps of my kin. It became very clear to me as I dove into researching my Morrison family tree that Isle of Wight was the epicenter for the family ~ although ~ this Isle of Wight where they settled wasn't an island off the coast of Scotland, but rather a settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. The early settlers named a county after their mother lands. That's when I remembered the post written above that I wrote in July of 2007!

This is truly a DNA memory of mine that goes many centuries back ~ the journey has just begun. I can't wait to see what unfolds along the way.