My Genealogy Research Journey

11 Sep 1992, I began Genealogy Research of my Father, who I met for the first time in 1968, and of his Mother Thelma Ferne Perry, whom I met in 1969.

Approx. March 1994, I learned my Father as I met him Richard N. Young, was born Newton Richard Begnal, 16 Jul 1924, San Francisco, d. 3 Jan 1995.

I obtained School records approx 1995, My Father was enrolled San Pedro, Los Angeles Co., dated 6 Sep 1930, as Richard N Young, parents Mrs. E. Rose and Earl Young, a step-father William Irby. Those are Not the names on my Father or Uncle's birth certificates, which are/were Thelma F Perry & Clifford F Begnal.  

30 Aug 2012, 12 yrs after the release of the 1930 census in 2000, I found Thelma Ferne Perry Begnal, 9 Apr living in San Francisco, with sons Clifford A & Richard N, as step-sons to Robert J Benesh.  Census shows Thelma F Benesh & Robert married. 

It took 21 yrs, 7 mos (approx Apr 2014) searching for a marriage of Thelma Ferne Perry (1906-1979) to Clifford Franklin Begnal (1903-1960), found dated 3 Jul 1922, Oakland, Alameda Co., CA

24 yrs, 3 mos (29 Dec 2016) into my research having known since 1994, that my Father Richard Newton Young, was born Newton Richard Begnal, of his grandmother Elizabeth Shaughnessy (1882-1949) mother of Clifford Franklin Begnal, their marriage of 13 Jun 1900, to Claude B Eaton (1878-1956)

16 Dec 2016, the results of my AncestryDNA test were in.  For the next 2 yrs researching Claude B Eaton as my perspective Bio Father, had not received a AncestryDNA match to the surnames of Young, Begnal or Eaton.

On 29 Dec 2016, I renounced the Begnal lineage of George Felix Begnal of 24 research yrs and his descendants and ancestors, George thought to have been the Father of Clifford Franklin, based on the 1910 federal census Seattle, WA and 1915 NY state census Manhattan, of Clifford Begnal and Elizabeth Begnal.  

Until the 1915 NY State Census find 26 Jul 2012, first proof of this family living together, I had never found a marriage record of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Shaughnessy to George F. Begnal.

I have not found to date, a Marriage of Thelma to William Lewis Irby or an Earl Young, both men named on my Father's School Records.

Dec 2018, I had taken FamilyTreeDNA Y-DNA37 test to find my Paternal blood line.

5 Feb 2019, FTDNA Y-DNA37 results confirm I am an Eaton.  26 yrs 4 mos and 24 days, since I began my Research Journey...and continues to never be completed

To this day results of other's sharing my Y-DNA37 on FTDNA, have been 7 Eaton's, not one Young or Begnal.  

D.R. "Doc" Young

my Ancestry Blaschko, Eaton, Perry/Pereira Cardozo, Shaughnessy, Wilson Family Tree - 

*FTDNA Kit No. 892549 (5 Feb 2019) Y-DNA = Haplogroup R-M269, aka R1b1a1a2

*GEDmatch A476709 (28 Apr 2018) - GEDCOM ID5626977 (13Feb2019)

*AncestryDNA (16 Dec 2016)

*FTM-2019 - Current Version (MacKiev) 1 Oct 2019

Salt Lake Valley, UT

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