[Granville-Hough] correspondence

[Trustees for Granville W. Hough]

Larry Huff kindly granted permission to broadcast the following 
exchange:

From: LARRY HUFF <huffer64 at hotmail.com>
Sent: Sun, June 5, 2011 12:32:49 PM
Subject: Picture Similarity

Folks,
 
Before we had y-dna tested some of the lines of the earliest Huff clans that came to Virginia, I had stumbled upon a  picture similarity.
 
Here was Granville's response when I said these 2 JUST had to come from a common source.
Care to guess who the common grandfather turned out to be ??
 
He basically told me to stick with dna testing, it was going to be the wave of the future.
 
He actually loved it when I sent him something proving that HE was wrong on his published works.
His memory of the lines never failed him. Just amazing to me he could remember them and know who was being discussed right away.
 
For those of you who do not know much about the late Granville Hough I would like to throw a couple of things.
 
He was absolutely sure he was not even related to us and he was right.
Yet for many decades he continued to track, research, and publish  our Dutch Huff/Hoff lines simply because we carried the name of Huff.
 
He was a firm believer in dna testing and had them test him by Family Finder right before his death in hopes of helping others.
He never got to see the results.

His was the first Family Finder test submitted to the lab and he took EVERY dna test of any kind that was offered before his death.
 
I'm sure the family will likely have the ydna-111 markers posted for him as well. 
 
He was from the English Quaker lines but did so much for us. 
Yes he made mistakes we are finding with the tools we now have, 
but I would have made many 1000s of times more mistakes if I had been doing it with the tools he had.
 
He tracked, documented and worked on OVER 100,000 Huff, Hough and Hoffs.
 
We should all be just like him in our efforts and communications.
 
Had it not been for Granville and Max decades long research,
Most of us would be a lost ball in high weeds on many of the lines.
 
Your buddy,
Larry
 
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Granville W Hough
Date: Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Subject: Picture Similarity>


  When I looked at the two Huff pictures, it suddenly came to me that I had seen them before, but what I remember seems to have been a mug shot of John Dillinger, from his bank robbing days.  In his random rules for providing faces, God must run out of new
patterns and send some that have been used before.

  When we line up pictures of my father, myself, and my son David, it looks as if we have three pictures of the same person, at different ages.

  Last evening I was at a church party where there was a father and son who were typical scotch rednecks, with freckles.  I remarked that we only had one little girl, a real peppermint patty, who came forward each week for a pre-Sunday school pep talk by
our children's minister.  The mother/wife in the red-head family stated that she had read that in another 100 years, American redheads will be almost extinct.  I suppose in those days, two redheads meeting would say: "We must be kinfolks,". and YDNA
testing might prove they are.

  It seems to me that, while in Arlington, VA, I was visited by a Hough family from New York, also in Arlington, whose family was red-headed; and he came by to see what I looked like.  I think he assumed that, if I had red hair, we would be related.

  I believe that YDNA is really an answer to those who select some other portion of our anatomy to prove we are thus and so.

  I admire what Larry is doing.  It is the only way to go.  

  With my regards, Granville.