Jimmy Chesteen's interest in family history had it's beginnings in high school.  He is a long time participant in local, county, history projects including cemetery cataloging and maintenance, activist for preservation of local historical sites and records.  Jimmy became involved in the Pierre Chastain Family Association in 1992 and assisted with the compilation of the Errata and Addenda to Volume I and then Volume II of Pierre Chastain and His Descendants. He became the Genealogist for PCFA in 2004 coordinating continued research on Chastain and surname variant spellings and was the Founder of the Chastain DNA Project and administrator of the Chastain yDNA Project at FTDNA.

 

Jimmy Chesteen has a B.S. from the University of Mississippi and retired in 2002 from a career in medical technology and IT support,  Besides genealogy record research and DNA, he is a farm and gardening hobbyist."

 

 
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