Lees Of Virginia
Lees of Virginia
I am curently working on a new novel on the life of Richard Lee and Anne Constable. I hope you all will be as excited as I am!
"Richard and Anne"
by Jacqueli Finley
jacqueli@leesofvirginia.org
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or visit the start up page:
Lee DNA Project Page
We have an opportunity to start our own Lee DNA project for all lines from the
This will assist ALL Lee cousins and future generations!
Many Lee descendants are getting confusing information
Please contact: info@leesofvirginia.org
Please be careful believing what you may be told, or what is being stated, about certain
Y-DNA groups not matching Col. Richard Lee as not being lines from Lees of Virginia.
AN IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT LEE DNA PROJECTS AND GENEALOGY SITES
AND LINEAGE HAPLOGROUP COMPARISONS:
IT IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE that Col. Richard Lee, The Immigrant, progenitor of the Lees of Virginia lines
Y-DNA Haplogroup is M-253, or M-269.
All we know is that one descending line tested male descendants of Col. Richard Lee,
that line has two DNA samples that are being stated to have the Y-DNA Haplogroup M-253,
and the descendants from that group seem to have a match of M-253,
while the other 80% of documented descendants from the other lines of Col. Richard Lee are of a different Y-DNA Halpogroup M-269.
SO all we know is that one line of the six known descending lines of Col. Richard Lee is a Y-DNA Haplogroup
that is different from the other five lines with Y-DNA tested descendants.
And all the FACTS are NOT known about these two tested YDNA samples of the Haplogroup M-253 for they are 'unverified'.
What is a FACT is that stating from these UNKNOWN factors that a descendant with a well-documented connection
cannot be confirmed or denied a relationship to the ancestor, Col. Richard Lee.
REALITY IS the Y-DNA testing and comparisons present and past ARE NOT done against Col. Richard Lee’s DNA - which CAN be obtained - but from descendants of.
ALL else is assumption and opinion when it comes to stating that it proves a relationship or not to the Lees of Virginia lines.
This is not for any genealogy website, historical society, DNA project, or Society entity to decide,
to do it would be a violation of individual rights.
And spreading this wrongful information is wrong for it involves hundreds, if not thousands of individuals who descend from Col. Richard Lee,
as laws need to be adapted to today’s DNA and genealogy applications,
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specially here in the United States
where personal rights are even more protected by our Constitutional Rights, or should be,
as one’s individual genealogy, ancestry, and DNA is a personal right and ownership,
and it is probably best for an entity higher than individuals on websites to decide, the courts being a possibility,
how to proceed in the case of descendants of an historic figure as Col. Richard Lee
with the denial or acceptance of documented lines since there seems to be a discrepancy
– which may or may not be in the current descendant DNA sample of the Ditchley Line,
which all other descending lines are being compared, and again that is all ASSUMPTIVE.
IT IS NOT confirmed that any descendants from any lines of Col. Richard Lee are not related to the Lees of Virginia Lines based on
Y-DNA Haplogroup Lee Surname Projects, or otherwise.
We all get our DNA tested to bring genealogy and our family research together. It should compliment, not divide.
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This Website is about:
And the denial of descendants goes beyond William Lee, it goes on to all lines, except for those associated with Ditchley or Stratford,
Divisiveness, instead of Unity and Accord, is what is being promoted. Denial of the Truth, Denial of Heritage.
William Lee Descendants are just one small part of the denial and non-acceptance of Lee lineages.
The goal is to re-connect and acknowledge all Lees of Virginia lines and descendants.
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To understand the reasoning behind the controversy of the William Lee line stems from Mary Lee (Heath) daughter of William Lee and Alice Felton.
To further examine the issues of Mary Lee Heath, it is important to understand Mary Lee’s father (Capt. William Lee) died young leaving her as heiress. She inherited land from her father. However, after her remarriage to Bartholomew Schreever and the circumstances associated with it, the Lee family filed suit against Mary for the land. Two court dates later, Mary had lost her inheritance and been disowned by the Lee family. To this day the Society of Lees of Virginia will not accept her descendants as members.
See the new discussion "William Lee" on the Lees of Virginia Genealogy Forum
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This is website is dedicated to the preservation of the entire genealogical historical lineage of the Lee Family tree and to share information to other researchers.
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They gave us our heritage, and it is time we show them our gratitude and recognition for who they were. They were not saints - sometimes proving their point rather strongly - but they did live with an ethic that we would do well to remember today. They worked hard - and were rewarded for that, usually. They helped one another, and as families were orphaned - took in the children, extended their families - took care of their own. They did not think for an instant if this was something the "government" should do. To them, that was unthinkable. Family and neighbors shouldered responsibility and moved on. They moved westward, ever westward - as pioneers - living and moving deeper and deeper into often hostile territory - to carve out civilization from nothing....
Our Lee Ancestors ...
They built a Nation that is the envy of everyone else who did not follow their example. They despised all who lacked self-respect. They built churches and schools as they needed them, held barn raisings and worked harvest days that ended in "courting" parties, establishing new generations.
What we do today that we should not be doing, they would have strongly discouraged. What they did do, we should still be doing.
They are an example of success in the face of disease and hardship, we have now overcome. We should and can learn from their example - perhaps we too need to be tested and purified by the fires, the tribulations, as they were - for they turned out the better from these trials... perhaps we have become too soft, too lazy and self-indulgent. We should examine what made them great, examine what made them successful - and we should follow their examples, preferably without needing the experience of the tribulation, but through thought, morality and mental effort.
The American Patriot
We view with pride our ancestors’ names.
The blood they shed runs through our veins.
They fought to give us freedom and liberty,
These Patriots we proudly display on our trees.
The Founding Fathers of our Nation’s Pride,
They fought tyranny united, side by side.
Yet - how would they view us if they were alive today?
Would they accept these circumstances or would they dismay?
Or might they tell us that it is our responsibility?
To uphold and protect the Constitution they fought for
that set us free?
Or would they pick up the ax to help chip away
The foundation this Nation was built?
Leaving it to corruption and be reduced to silt?
Would they choose fortune over the future of us all?
Would they care not at this Nations fall?
I THINK NOT!!!!
I say to you, as they might say to me
“YOU, The People, are the namesakes of OUR legacy.
It is up to YOU”, they might interject!
“Wake Up Americans!
Time is growing short, but it is not over yet …
We did change the past to better this land!
And together YOU can make change again - only if, You the People, take a stand!
Be the Lion, not the sheep!
Live your lives with eyes open, not half asleep!
For only United this Nation can remain standing, and Divided you will surely Fall!
The future of the Republic depends upon YOU ALL.
For ‘Ever mindful of the Future’ must be your creed,
Remembering always ‘Don’t Thread on Me ’”!
~ Jacqueli C. Finley
Site email: info@leesofvirginia.org