Looking for my "Layne" roots. Hard because it has been spelled: Layne, Lane, Lain, Laine.

Paternal Great Grandfather: William Thomas Layne, wife Nora (Potts) Layne; 2nd marriage. Have never been able to find William Thomas' headstone. Nora (Potts) Layne is buried at the Potts Family Cemetery, see info. next paragraph.

Paternal Grandfather: Brown James Layne, I, wife Gracie Enon (Potts) Layne. Both are buried at the Potts Cemetery, Kirby White Rd off Hwy. 7, Maury Co., TN.

We did a DNA TEST (blood) on my mother's only brother a few years before he died, at www.familytreedna.com. This DNA test is FAR SUPERIOR to what the current "country of origin" DNA test that Ancestry has been pushing for the past 2 yrs. The FAMILY TREE DNA, actually gives you based on YDNA. So instead of "leafs" that Ancestry does, which I haven't had much luck contacting these "4th-6th cousins" that Ancestry touts as a way of finding your relatives, as they have the choice NOT TO ANSWER.

His name was: Brown James Layne, II. I recently got a list of dna match ups by something they call: Short Hand, the number was: R-M269. There was a fairly long list of other Layne/Lane dna samples that match up to the R-M269 numbers.

Brown James Layne: DOB 4/17/1923-DOD 2/25/2008. He is buried at the POTTS CEMETERY, Kirby White Rd., Maury Co.
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6/3/2017 UPDATE - I AM NOW SEARCHING FOR MY FATHER'S BIRTHFATHER

On Family Tree DNA, I was looking for a PARTICULAR FAMILY NAME GROUP, mine was LAYNE (variations of that name: Lane, Lain, Laine, McLain, McLaine....you get the idea usually are interwoven). Because you can join a particular FAMILY NAME, THOSE PEOPLE are looking for you too & the information I have gotten from ACTUAL DNA MATCHUPS, has been GREAT.

I just did the same test on one of my brother's, Richard, because we are LOOKING FOR MY FATHER'S BIRTH FATHER.

He was: Candy Seaton. NO OTHER FIRST NAME was ever given, making it IMPOSSIBLE for me to find this male Seaton. I have researched census, birth records, cemeteries in: Giles Co., Lawrence Co. & Maury Co., since those were the areas my grandmother Katie/Kittie Hubbard Prier, lived or worked in, so would have had the opportunity to have met this man in. Now as for that middle name "Hubbard", I have NO IDEA where that came from, perhaps a family name from Aarron's first wife, Myrtle (Peden) Prier. She passed away after the birth of their 4th son, who also passed away.

I find my father as: Darnell Prier (my grandmother Kate's maiden name) in the 1920 census, living in his Grandfather Aaron Lindsey Prier's home, Giles Co., Campbellsville, TN. He was a HOME BIRTH at this same house on 11/5/1918 & had no birth certificate to my knowledge. Me MAY have had one but the Giles Co. courthouse burned, so IF there was one, it would have been destroyed.

Kate did eventually marry William Hollis Williams, who was a lineman for the Mt. Pleasant telephone co., where my grandmother worked for several years. She MAY have met "Candy Seaton" there, or in the Mt. Pleasant/Maury Co. area.

Kate lived w/her sister Annie (Prier McGriff) & her husband's home in Mt. Pleasant. After the birth of my father, apparently the relationship ended (maybe there were ill fillings, PERHAPS of family shame of an illegitimate birth (???? I do NOT KNOW THAT FOR SURE) & they never spoke the rest of their lives.
HOW VERY SAD!!!!! I cannot imagine. But illegitimacy was a huge disgrace to a family back in those days. And their father, Aaron, was a Missionary Baptist preacher. It was only her sister Annie that became estranged though, so it was something "between them", whatever it was. She still had contact to her one full brother, Robert Whittaker Prier (wife-Icie). Not sure how close they were but I did take my mother on several occasions to visit Icie Prier, widow of Robert.

Aaron Lindsey & his second wife, Ethel/Ethyl (McGriff) Prier, kept my dad in their home until my grandmother married when my dad was 9/10 yrs. old. So clearly, they loved & cared for him. In fact, Ethel had a 9 mo. old son at the time (which would have been my father's half-UNCLE) & SHE NURSED her own son & her grandson, my father! My grandmother Kate of course, had to continue to work to support herself & her son.

I am HOPING that we WILL FIND a genetic match & have joined the : SETON/SEATON group of www.familytreedna.com.

Looking for my "Layne" roots. Hard because it has been spelled: Layne, Lane, Lain, Laine.

Paternal Great Grandfather: William Thomas Layne, wife Nora (Potts) Layne; 2nd marriage. Have never been able to find William Thomas' headstone. Nora (Potts) Layne is buried at the Potts Family Cemetery, see info. next paragraph.

Paternal Grandfather: Brown James Layne, I, wife Gracie Enon (Potts) Layne. Both are buried at the Potts Cemetery, Kirby White Rd off Hwy. 7, Maury Co., TN.

We did a DNA TEST (blood) on my mother's only brother a few years before he died, at www.familytreedna.com. This DNA test is FAR SUPERIOR to what the current "country of origin" DNA test that Ancestry has been pushing for the past 2 yrs. The FAMILY TREE DNA, actually gives you based on YDNA. So instead of "leafs" that Ancestry does, which I haven't had much luck contacting these "4th-6th cousins" that Ancestry touts as a way of finding your relatives, as they have the choice NOT TO ANSWER.

His name was: Brown James Layne, II. I recently got a list of dna match ups by something they call: Short Hand, the number was: R-M269. There was a fairly long list of other Layne/Lane dna samples that match up to the R-M269 numbers.

Brown James Layne: DOB 4/17/1923-DOD 2/25/2008. He is buried at the POTTS CEMETERY, Kirby White Rd., Maury Co.
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6/3/2017 UPDATE - I AM NOW SEARCHING FOR MY FATHER'S BIRTHFATHER

On Family Tree DNA, I was looking for a PARTICULAR FAMILY NAME GROUP, mine was LAYNE (variations of that name: Lane, Lain, Laine, McLain, McLaine....you get the idea usually are interwoven). Because you can join a particular FAMILY NAME, THOSE PEOPLE are looking for you too & the information I have gotten from ACTUAL DNA MATCHUPS, has been GREAT.

I just did the same test on one of my brother's, Richard, because we are LOOKING FOR MY FATHER'S BIRTH FATHER.

He was: Candy Seaton. NO OTHER FIRST NAME was ever given, making it IMPOSSIBLE for me to find this male Seaton. I have researched census, birth records, cemeteries in: Giles Co., Lawrence Co. & Maury Co., since those were the areas my grandmother Katie/Kittie Hubbard Prier, lived or worked in, so would have had the opportunity to have met this man in. Now as for that middle name "Hubbard", I have NO IDEA where that came from, perhaps a family name from Aarron's first wife, Myrtle (Peden) Prier. She passed away after the birth of their 4th son, who also passed away.

I find my father as: Darnell Prier (my grandmother Kate's maiden name) in the 1920 census, living in his Grandfather Aaron Lindsey Prier's home, Giles Co., Campbellsville, TN. He was a HOME BIRTH at this same house on 11/5/1918 & had no birth certificate to my knowledge. Me MAY have had one but the Giles Co. courthouse burned, so IF there was one, it would have been destroyed.

Kate did eventually marry William Hollis Williams, who was a lineman for the Mt. Pleasant telephone co., where my grandmother worked for several years. She MAY have met "Candy Seaton" there, or in the Mt. Pleasant/Maury Co. area.

Kate lived w/her sister Annie (Prier McGriff) & her husband's home in Mt. Pleasant. After the birth of my father, apparently the relationship ended (maybe there were ill fillings, PERHAPS of family shame of an illegitimate birth (???? I do NOT KNOW THAT FOR SURE) & they never spoke the rest of their lives.
HOW VERY SAD!!!!! I cannot imagine. But illegitimacy was a huge disgrace to a family back in those days. And their father, Aaron, was a Missionary Baptist preacher. It was only her sister Annie that became estranged though, so it was something "between them", whatever it was. She still had contact to her one full brother, Robert Whittaker Prier (wife-Icie). Not sure how close they were but I did take my mother on several occasions to visit Icie Prier, widow of Robert.

Aaron Lindsey & his second wife, Ethel/Ethyl (McGriff) Prier, kept my dad in their home until my grandmother married when my dad was 9/10 yrs. old. So clearly, they loved & cared for him. In fact, Ethel had a 9 mo. old son at the time (which would have been my father's half-UNCLE) & SHE NURSED her own son & her grandson, my father! My grandmother Kate of course, had to continue to work to support herself & her son.

I am HOPING that we WILL FIND a genetic match & have joined the : SETON/SEATON group of www.familytreedna.com.