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William David Kelts
b.17 Dec 1924 Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, United States
d.9 Aug 1984 Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States
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m. 10 Oct 1919
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[edit] Personal historyThe second of three children born to George and Margarete Van Wye Kelts during the 1920s, Dave (as William David Kelts was known for most of his life) spent much of his childhood in the Great Depression. He sold magazines door-to-door to earn money and in high school was president of his junior and senior classes. Encouraged by his mother, Dave enrolled at Antioch College in August 1942, but soon the war interrupted his studies. World War II: By the time Dave was a young man, World War II had begun. He enlisted in the United States Navy and was inducted on May 4, 1943. He was trained in the Naval Training School at Great Lakes, Illinois; the Naval Armory in Chicago, Illinois; Houston, Texas; Corpus Christi, Texas; and Gainesville, Georgia in radar and radio aids to navigation, which took months. Then he was sent to Attu, one of the U.S.-owned Aleutian Islands, a chain of volcanic islands extending west from Alaska. The Japanese had seized control of two islands, Kiska and Attu, in June 1942 (the only American territory the Japanese possessed during the war). U.S. forces took them back in May of 1943 in fighting lasting more than two weeks in freezing conditions and costing over 1,000 American lives and 2,000 Japanese. By the time Dave arrived, fighting was over, and he helped man a radar station that monitored Japanese activity and assisted American forces. Dave received the American Area ribbon, the Asiatic Pacific Area ribbon, and the World War II victory ribbon. Dave returned to Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, after the war, this time with financial help from the G.I. Bill, and graduated in 1950 with a B.A. in Government. In 1949 he married Elizabeth (Libby) Cecil, a fellow Antioch student. Although they didn't know it, Dave and Libby were fifth cousins, both descended from John Brown, who lived in Pennsylvania from about 1725 to 1786. Dave worked a variety of jobs over the next few years and he and Libby had their first two children. Then in 1956 they packed nearly everything they owned into a trailer hitched to their old DeSoto and joined the migration two thousand miles west to California, attracted, as millions were after the war, by the hope of a pleasant climate and a good job for Dave. In the first week Dave got a state job and they bought a house in Arden Manor, a suburb recently built to accommodate the influx of new people and their baby-boom children, which had an “all-electric kitchen” considered so modern in those days, with the help of a government-sponsored veteran's loan. In Sacramento they had two more children. In 1966 Dave and Libby moved into a larger house on a third-acre in nearby Carmichael. Dave and Libby were long-time traditional jazz fans. Always interested in gardening, in his later years Dave became a Master Gardener (through the U.C. Agricultural Extension Service). He retired in May 1984 and died suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack three months later. In accordance with his wishes, Dave was cremated. -- Julie Kelts, written July 2014 (and later); imported here from WikiTree, all my own work - Julie Kelts [edit] DNA InformationDave Kelts is shown to be the son of George Kelts by 11 DNA matches between Julie Kelts (Dave's daughter, and/or her siblings and paternal cousins) and other descendants of John Randolph Kelts and Marcia Cleveland (George's paternal grandparents). Most of the 11 matches tested on Ancestry; two used 23&Me. The matches, third cousins or third cousins once removed, are all over 35 cM for the strongest family match; all but one are over 50 cM; and the strongest of Julie's matches is 123 cM over 7 segments. These matches include two on GEDmatch, nos. A220627 and A407682. In addition, there are seven DNA matches between Julie Kelts (and/or her siblings and paternal cousins) and descendants of Alexander Maxwell and Mary Ann Smith (George's maternal grandparents). These matches include Susan Maxwell (name used with permission) and two others on GEDmatch, nos. A170143 and M663307. These seven third cousins or third cousins once removed match Julie by 120 cM for the strongest, down to 23.9 cM. Dave Kelts is shown to be the son of Margarete Van Wye by five DNA matches between Julie Kelts (and/or her siblings and paternal cousins) and other descendants of John Van Wye and Adaline Carlton (Margarete's paternal grandparents), as well as by seven DNA matches between Julie Kelts (and/or her siblings or paternal cousins) and other descendants of Jacob Lemley and Margarete Herlinger (Margarete's maternal grandparents). These matches--third cousins, third cousins once removed, and third cousins twice removed--range from 184 cM down to 35.8 cM and include two on GEDmatch, nos. A433854 and A293834. Julie Kelts has created a set of chromosome maps for herself and her siblings, using a method outlined by Blaine Bettinger in an article entitled "Visual Phasing" posted on-line in 2016. This method identifies all of each person's DNA by the grandparent it was inherited from. Each GEDmatch match has been placed on the maps and determined to be consistent with the family branch that has been identified. In many cases, especially when a large number of matches have uploaded to GEDmatch (or used a testing company such as FamilyTreeDNA that provides chromosome detail), some of these matches also match each other, creating three-way (or greater) triangulated groups. References
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