Soon to Be Published or Recently Published Items 2007-2010
The Probable Genetic Signature of Thomas1 Riggs, Immigrant to Gloucester c1656, PUBLISHED, Register, Apr 2010.
The Probable Genetic Signature of Edward1 Riggs, Immigrant to Roxbury in 1633, PUBLISHED, Register, Apr 2010.
The Genealogy of Edward1 Riggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Revisited, with Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, PUBLISHED, The Genealogist, Fall 2009.
Proposed Hawkshead, Lancashire, Origins of Edward1 Riggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Thomas1 Riggs of Gloucester, with Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, PUBLISHED, The American Genealogist, Apr 2008.
Dr. John Durand (1664-1727) of Derby, Connecticut: His Family Through Four Generations, Featuring the Branch of His Youngest Son, Ebenezer Durand, Through Ten Generations to 2003, REPRINTED (second printing), Newbury Street Press, Boston, 2007.
Elder Bethuel Riggs (1757-1835)of Morris County, New Jersey, and His Family Through Five Generations, PUBLISHED, Newbury Street Press, Boston, 2006. Winner of the 2007 Jacobus Award.
Hannah Parsons and Her Four Husbands: Early Mormon History and Apostasy, with Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FASG, PUBLISHED, The American Genealogist, Jul 2006 (published Jan 2007), vol. 81, no. 3, 199-219.
The Probable Genetic Signature of Thomas1 Riggs, Immigrant to Gloucester c1656
Published, NEHGS Register, vol 164, Apr 2010, 85-94, first of two articles (see below).
ABSTRACT. The genetic (DNA) signature of immigrant Thomas1 Riggs is derived formally on 67 markers from the genetic signatures of three living descendants. The descent proofs are established with classic paper-trail genealogy. The genetic signature is derived using a maximum parsimony argument applied at each node of the descent tree, working from the living descendants up the tree to the immigrant ancestor.
The Probable Genetic Signature of Edward1 Riggs, Immigrant to Roxbury in 1733
Published, NEHGS Register, vol 164, Apr 2010, 95-103, second of two articles (see above).
ABSTRACT. The genetic (DNA) signature of immigrant Edward1 Riggs is derived formally on 67 markers from the genetic signatures of three living descendants. The descent proofs are established with classic paper-trail genealogy. The genetic signature is derived using using a maximum parsimony applied at each node of the descent tree, working from the living descendants up the tree to the immigrant ancestor. The proofs in this paper rely on prior publication of the article just below in The Genealogist. It is a companion piece to The Probable Genetic Signature of Thomas1 Riggs, Immigrant to Gloucester c1656.
The Genealogy of Edward1 Riggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Revisited
with Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, published, The Genealogist, vol 23, Fall 2009, 131-73.
ABSTRACT. The genealogy of Edward Riggs of Roxbury was first presented briefly by Congar in 1866, concentrating particularly on Edward’s New Jersey descendants, and similarly by Orcutt and Beardsley in 1880 on his Connecticut descendants. The first extensive treatment of the entire family was presented by Wallace in book form in 1901. Portions of the early genealogy were subsequently refined by Cory in 1937 and Jacobus in 1959, both relying to some extent on Wallace. There are enough genealogical errors and unsubstantiated relationships in these, and there is sufficient new information, to justify a corrective revisit to the early genealogy of this large and widespread American founding family.
Proposed Hawkshead, Lancashire, Origins of Edward1 Riggs of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and Thomas1 Riggs of Gloucester
with Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, published, The American Genealogist (TAG), vol 82, Apr 2008, 120-29.
ABSTRACT. DNA studies have proved that Thomas Riggs and Edward Riggs were related. Thomas Riggs's origin in Hawkshead Parish, Lancashire (now Cumbria), suggests that Edward Riggs's family might have originated there too.
Elder Bethuel Riggs (1757-1835) of Morris County, New Jersey, and His Family Through Five Generations
Book, 794 pages, 35 illustrations, 3,095 footnotes, full name index, published Dec 2006, Newbury Street Press, Boston
Hannah Parsons and Her Four Husbands: Early Mormon History and Apostasy
Paper, with Marsha Hoffman Rising, CG, FASG, published, The American Genealogist (TAG), Jul 2006 (published Jan 2007), vol. 81, no. 3, 199-219.
ABSTRACT. Hannah Parsons was Nathaniel Riggs's second wife. Her story in various Mormon reference works was inconsistent so this paper is a rewriting of her history and an analysis of why other attempts failed. Hannah's life coincided with early Mormon history and involved several leading characters, including at least one apostate to what is now the main church.