NOVEMBER 11, 2020; 6:30 PM, WEDNESDAY Virtual Meeting
Miles Away from Butler: How a DNA Test Rewrote My Family’s History” presented by Dr. Steven Butler
The Collin County Genealogical Society presents “Miles Away From Butler: How a DNA Test Rewrote my Family’s History” by Dr. Steven Butler on Wednesday, November 11, at 6:30 pm. “Miles Away from Butler” is the story of how a DNA test led a veteran genealogist to discover a ninety-one-year-old family secret that not only had the effect of pruning several branches from his family tree (while at the same time rendering decades of research an enormous waste of time, money and effort), but also led him to have a crisis of conscience: Should he tell the person who lay at the heart of the secret, or remain silent for fear of potentially doing more harm than good?”
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ABOUT DR. BUTLER
Dr. Steven Butler, a Professor of History at Collin College, has been researching his family’s history for nearly fifty years. Since 1971 he has traveled all the United States, as well as England, Scotland, and Wales, in an effort to learn all that he can about his family’s origins. In 2019, after taking a 23 and Me DNA test, he discovered that he has previously-unknown ties to Collin County that reach back more than a century.