{"id":2385,"date":"2014-09-29T06:20:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T10:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2014-09-29T07:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T11:35:34","slug":"carolina-gathering-september-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/?p=2385","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Gathering &#8211; September 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-restrict-output\"><p>It was truly a family reunion of old and new Morrison-Q members who met one another at the K &amp; W Cafeteria in Statesville, North Carolina on September 27, 2014.\u00a0 The gathering of Morrisons was prompted by Jean Morrison\u2019s week-long trip to North Carolina to continue research on her William Morrison line.<\/p>\n<p>Others in attendance representing William Morrison\u2019s line were sisters Anna Morrison Speaks, Agnes Morrison Lloyd and Carolyn Morrison Henderson with her daughter Pat Tomlinson.\u00a0 William was also represented by Milton Morrison and his wife Catherine as well as Sarah\u00a0Morrison Howard and her husband Roy Howard.<\/p>\n<p>Coit Morrison and Jolette Morrison represented James Morrison while Dave Morrison and Rene Williams Bryson represented Thomas Morrison.\u00a0 Also in attendance was Tom Akers who has not yet determined which brother immigrant was his ancestor.<\/p>\n<p>After sharing a meal together, Coit spoke about the different types of DNA and testing:\u00a0 Autosomal, MtDNA, Y-DNA, STR (short tandem repeat) and SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms).\u00a0 The Morrison-Q group works with Y-STR and Y-SNPs.\u00a0 Coit briefed the group on the status of the <a href=\"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/?page_id=2298\">Morrison-Q-athon<\/a>.\u00a0 The annual group meeting will take place at the Outer Banks October 19-26, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Carolina-Gathering-Sep-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2387\" src=\"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Carolina-Gathering-Sep-2014-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Carolina Gathering Sep 2014\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Carolina-Gathering-Sep-2014-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Carolina-Gathering-Sep-2014-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-restrict-output\"><p>It was truly a family reunion of old and new Morrison-Q members who met one another at the K &amp; W Cafeteria in Statesville, North Carolina on September 27, 2014.\u00a0 The gathering of Morrisons was prompted by Jean Morrison\u2019s week-long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/?p=2385\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":88901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morrison-q.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}