The Claim that George Birdwell (bef. 1725-1781) Was a Bridwell from Stafford County, Virginia: DNA Evidence?

Screenshot of a document at Roy Isbell, “Thomas-Isbell Family Tree,” Ancestry

Or, Subtitled: DNA Doesn’t Lie

In a previous posting, I noted that after researcher Edythe Rucker Whitley linked George Birdwell (bef. 1725-1781) to a Bridwell family of Stafford County, Virginia, in research she undertook in the 1950s for Texas descendants of George Birdwell, it has been persistently claimed that George was a Stafford County Bridwell, that he was born in that Virginia county and spent time in it. Though there’s not a scrap of evidence, at least that I’ve ever seen, showing George living in Stafford County at any point in his life….


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