STAPLE & STAPLES MY FAMILY BRANCH
“A brief family history and journey of 100,000 years.”

PETER STAPLE - PISCATAQUA PIONEER

Of Kittery in the County of Yorke in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England
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DEDICATION

This electronic book is dedicated to present and future family generations with a special remembrance of all the past generations who made this publication possible.

I acknowledge and give sincere thanks to all the people, too numerous to mention here, who inspired me and without whose help much of the information presented I would never have found. 

FOREWORD

When family history based on genealogical records is coupled with family history based on our paternal and maternal genetic data, together they answer the family historians basic question - Who were my ancestors and where did they come from?
 

This ongoing study of the branches of my ancestral family tree involves three primary areas of research that when tied together ultimately validates my family history during the surname and pre-surname era.
 

The first area of research, started in November 1996,  is to generate a pedigree based on primary and secondary genealogical sources that document proven family connections and locations for each generation, thus proving written family history during the surname era.

The second area of research, started in April 2002, is to identify paternal and maternal genetic hereditary data through testing and compare it to other genetically tested cousins who have a pedigree to a common ancestor. This will identify our common ancestors genetic signature and prove our relationship to that common ancestor beyond any shadow of a doubt. 
 

The third area of research is comparing paternal and maternal genetic hereditary data to published scientific papers involving human genetics, paleontology, archaeology, linguistics, and history, to identify paternal and maternal pre-surname ancient ancestral groups or clans, their migrations, cultural changes and eventually develop a time-line through history and pre-history going back thousands of years. 

Arthur B. Staples, Jr.

 
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