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Exciting developments in my CLOSE one-name study!

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I'm deviating from my usual practice of focusing on one CLOSE individual today to record some of the exciting recent developments in my one-name study. First of all, I've had a number of very interesting email exchanges with Karen Close Goodman in the USA who has spent many years researching the family of Goodman John CLOSE who emigrated with his family from Swaledale to Fairfield, Connecticut about 1640.  Karen has not only recorded the genealogy of several thousand descendants of this John CLOSE in the USA, but has collected an amazing amount of background information about the individuals and the places where they lived.  It makes fascinating reading, and will take some time to digest the enormous amount of detail!  Thank you for sharing this with me, Karen! A second, but not entirely unrelated, development is the progress recently made with the CLOSE Y-DNA project - details can be found at www.familytreedna.com I'm in contact with the project co-ordinator Catherine