Joseph R. Buley - Genealogy for Joseph R. and Geraldine A. (Greenwood) Buley

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GENEALOGY FOR JOSEPH R.

and

GERALDINE A. (GREENWOOD) BULEY

JOSEPH R. BULEY

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

A special thanks to my twin cousin, Patrick Doheny -both born on November 19- who is ten years younger than I, for preserving the Doheny, OConnor, Hannon, and Hogan lineages, as passed on by my Grandmother Doheny.

Contents

Geri and I were born into the world at the beginning of World War II. Our early years were shaped by the fears, tensions, frugality, and rationing of a nation at war, as well as by our neighbors sons dying or being wounded in battle. At wars end, we were shaped by a recovering nation that embraced its returning warriors, the commercial development of the wars state-of-the-art technology, and an increasingly productive economy. Our society had not yet fully embraced travel or mobile family structures. Families tended to remain cohesive and, from birth to death, live in essentially the same local or regional area. Our families were traditionalists, and we were expected to become the same.

Tradition, as we understood it, began to change in the sixties. It began with the Soviets first successful flight of a manned spacecraft in 1961. A United States manned spacecraft would orbit the moon in 1968. Three of our respected leaders would be assassinated: John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. Desegregation battles would take front and center. The baby boom generation would come of age. The Vietnam War would divide our nation and spawn the violence at Kent State in 1970. Woodstock would introduce us to pot culture in 1969. Finally, Vatican II would end in 1965 and set in motion monumental change in Christianity and the Catholic Church.

Geri and I were busy building our careers and family, frequently relocating, and embracing different cultures during the sixties and seventies. In the mid-eighties, I received a genealogy profile of the Dohenys from my Cousin Patrick. Patrick had received and compiled the information from my Grandmother Doheny, with whom he had lived while attending St. Michaels College. I reviewed it and started a file with the intent of someday researching my mom and dads genealogy. From time to time, I would get inquiries from Buley relatives for genealogical information and an invitation to a Buley family reunion in Vermont. My aunt Bea would add information for the Dohenys, and I would travel to Ireland. Geris cousin Annette Couture Hernandez added information for the Jacques family. My file was growing, which gave me a strong desire to understand all the information I had accumulated.

As I began to connect the dots, what emerged was a compelling story. The story had been subordinated by our learning of American history from an English point of view. At about the time the first permanent English settlement was founded, in 1607, in Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent French settlement was founded around present-day Montreal, Quebec. I learned that Geris and my French lineage could be directly traced to this first settlement. It was also apparent that the Buley lineage probably emanated from the lineage of Samuel de Champlains wife, Helene.

The intriguing story became how two ethnicities, emanating from the confluence of Western civilization and Christianity, found their way to Vermont. The French had settled New France in concert with the Jesuits and with an exclusively Catholic faith. Later, when the English acquired New France, the French negotiated religious freedom for the Catholics. In contrast, when the English acquired Ireland, they imposed their Anglican faith. The Irish were oppressed economically and persecuted for their Catholic faith. Both ethnicities would be attracted to Vermont and eventually unite under their one religious faith.

This Buley-Greenwood genealogical history is the story of our ancestors paths to Vermont. The story begins in the broader context of Western civilization developing in concert with Judeo-Christian faiths and ends with Geri and my upbringing through our college years.

In 2008, a George Buley contacted me. He was calling from Seattle, Washington, to inquire if we were related. George stated that he was retired and pursuing an interest in his genealogy. He said that he had a son in Los Angeles and made frequent trips to visit him. He asked if we could meet for lunch on his next trip to Los Angeles. I agreed.

About three months later, we met for lunch at Parkers Lighthouse in Long Beach, California. He brought his sonalso named Georgeand I brought Geri. We had a lot in common. Most notably, we were both civil engineers and had somewhat similar careers. His son, George Jr., was also a civil engineer and worked for FAA Airports in the Los Angeles International Airports district office as a program engineer/planner.

George summarized his genealogy findings and said he had come to a dead end in researching his ancestors in the New York area. He hoped that I might help. He had determined that his ancestors came from England and suggested that one of his ancestors had been a crewmember aboard the Titanic who survived. However, he had been unable to connect his lineage as his ancestors moved westward. He had even taken a DNA test and wondered if I would be interested in having my DNA checked. I said I would look into it and told him that my limited knowledge of my ancestors was that they were French and had come from France to Canada, later immigrating to Vermont.

Within the year, I had my DNA tested and forwarded the results to George. They were not apparently useful to him, as they seemed to confirm that George and I were not of the same lineage. I put further pursuit of my genealogy onto my bucket list and left it there. I rescued it from my bucket list at the beginning of 2015.

Figure 1 shows the haplotype result of my DNA test. Haplotype is the scientific term for this kind of genetic profile. Each person has a long ribbon that is his or her chromosomal DNA. The protocol of the test travels down the ribbon, stopping at predetermined addresses. At each address, four DNA bases are represented: adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. My Y-chromosome test measured the pattern of base repeats in my DNA code at each address. My Y-chromosome test results represent a unique pattern of repeating DNA inherited from my paternal lineage. In my test, unique values were recorded for forty-six locations.