Bell just plays Lygon, but he learned about our common ancestor via two Ligon aunts who told the family tales. Michael probably does not have the Ligon Y chromosome (we're not really rednecks), but apparently he wishes he did. It was really neat wandering thru Jamestown one day and hearing him introduce himself to the tourists. When he was done I gave him my card and we traded stories.
A lot of us with that chromosome like things that go bang. We are also always right, which becomes difficult if two of us are present and have opposite opinions.
Interesting family sidenote: English male Ligons may not have the Ligon Y chromosome. There was at least one point in the family history where there was no male heir, so the husband of the oldest daughter was required to take the Ligon name to keep the family estate and minor title in the family, and I they also had no male heir to assume the title recently. They obtained the estate by marriage from the DeBracys when that family lacked a male heir. Considering the 50% dilution of genes that usually occurs every generation, apart from the Y in males, after a few generations we are essentially unrelated to our ancestors. All you really have left is the stories.
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Tom Ligon wrote:Bell just plays Lygon, but he learned about our common ancestor via two Ligon aunts who told the family tales. Michael probably does not have the Ligon Y chromosome (we're not really rednecks), but apparently he wishes he did. It was really neat wandering thru Jamestown one day and hearing him introduce himself to the tourists. When he was done I gave him my card and we traded stories.
A lot of us with that chromosome like things that go bang. We are also always right, which becomes difficult if two of us are present and have opposite opinions.
Interesting family sidenote: English male Ligons may not have the Ligon Y chromosome. There was at least one point in the family history where there was no male heir, so the husband of the oldest daughter was required to take the Ligon name to keep the family estate and minor title in the family, and I they also had no male heir to assume the title recently. They obtained the estate by marriage from the DeBracys when that family lacked a male heir. Considering the 50% dilution of genes that usually occurs every generation, apart from the Y in males, after a few generations we are essentially unrelated to our ancestors. All you really have left is the stories.
Funny thing that inheritance stuff. Years ago (1994) we had a fellow who claimed to be a descendant of Thomas Paine give a speech. His name wasn't Paine, so we presumed at some point he must have had a female ancestor from the Paine family. Now none of us knew what Thomas Paine looked like, but at the conclusion of his speech he pulled out a full sized portrait of Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) and by golly the fellow looked exactly like the portrait! Later perusal of other Thomas Paine portraits confirmed that we weren't mislead. The fellow was the spittin image of Thomas Paine.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that resemblance can be conferred through either the X or the Y.
