I have written several Blogs lates concerning my HIrschenhof Ancestors and the Revision Lists. So far I have covered: Rathfelder Schwechheimer Lutke Fuhrmann and Biedermann I want to do a future Blog on my Gangnus ancestors in the Revision Lists. However, I have left a few loose ends which I wanted to address in this Blog. Biedermann Families One of my goals in looking through these Revision Lists is to add siblings to my ancestors’ families. Above are some of my ancestors in my Biedermann Line in 1816. The name Biedermann is abbreviated, but it was clear from the 1811 Revision Lists that t ..read more

I have been working on a series of my Hirschenhof, Latvia ancestors using the Revision Lists. So far, I have looked at Rathfelder, Lutke and Schwechheimer. In this Blog, I will look at my Furhmann and Biedermann ancestors. Note that Furhmann pops up in two branches. Also, as my last Blog was on the Schwechheimer family, I want to find Anna E Schwechheimer at the bottom of the tree above. The 1782 Audit of Souls The Revision LIst is also called the Audit of Souls. I will peruse through that list to see if I can find where the Furhmanns lived then. Here is the listing I want at the Raduraksti w ..read more

In my last Blog, I looked at my Lutke ancestors through the eyes of the Revision Lists. The 1850 and 1858 Lists have been posted on Ancestry for easy access and earlier lists can be found at the Raduraksti web site. Schwechheimer Genealogy I avoided looking at Schwechheimer in my previous Blog as I have two different Schweccheimer Lines in my genealogy: One goes back from 1823 and another is two generations earlier. Schwechheimer is a name that goes back to the early days of the Hirschenhof Colony in Latvia. Before that, the Schwechheimer family lived in Germany in a town named Altlußhei ..read more

In my previous Blog, I went over many of my Rathfelder ancestors who were listed in Hirchenhof, Latvia in documents called revision lists. It occurred to me that many of my other Latvian ancestors should be listed there. Here is the Latvian part of my family tree: My choices are Schweccheimer, Gangnus, or Lutke as my grandfather’s grandparents other than Rathfelder. I have a book on Gangnus and there are two lines there, but I would like to try Lutke as I do not know much about that Line. I see that I have very few DNA matches on the Lutke Line: Lutke in the Revision Lists Anna Jacobine was ..read more

In my previous Blog, I had some success in documenting some descendants of Abraham McMaster born about 1764 in Kilmactranny Parish, County Sligo, Ireland. Here is my descent from Abraham: The relationships are a bit confusing as James McMaster married Fanny McMaster. Also, in one of my trees, I have another Abraham between Abraham and James McMaster. However, I have that they were both married to Margery, so they may be the same people. My Sister Lori and Daniel My sister Lori has some good McMaster matches: Daniel matches Lori on the Robert McMaster Line. Unfortunately, it looks like Daniel ..read more

MyHeritage does Theories of Relativity. They are like Ancestry’s ThruLines. MyHeritage compares ancestral trees and matches them with DNA matches. This can be very helpful. I have looked at Paul’s Theories in the past, but they need updating. Here are Paul’s Theories: These Theories will be from the Frazer and McMaster families as that is where Paul and I match. Here is an update of my chart: This is my attempt to be more comprehensive in my look at Paul’s Theories. For example, I don’t have Melanie on Paul’s DNA Painter profile, but I don’t need her there as her mother is already there. I h ..read more

I recently noticed a new McMaster match at MyHeritage. This match came up the strongest for my second cousin Paul as he is a generation closer to the common ancestors. Here is how the match shows: I cannot see how Geoffrey and Paul match specifically on each chromosome as that information appears to be blocked. Geoffrey’s tree was aslo private but he shared it with me. Here is a DNA/Generalogy Chart I already have for part of the McMaster family: I circled my family and the Meehan Line where Geoffrey is. I’ll add in Geoffrey: Paul and Geoffrey are 4th cousins. My family and I are 4th cousin ..read more

I have very few DNA matches at Ancestry on the Clarke side. For that reason, I was glad to see that I have a match with Melissa. Ancestry also shows that Melissa and I have the likely common ancestor of Thomas Clarke: One interesting thing that I see is that Melissa’s great-grandmother died 57 years after my great-grandmother. Melissa has a very nice tree at Ancestry: This shows her paternal line going back to Thomas Clarke and Jane Henderson. Whereas, I am descended from Thomas’ first wife who was Jane Spratt. Clarke DNA According to Ancestry, Melissa and I are likely half 3rd cousins. Tha ..read more

I had previously looked at Josiah Bradfor in a Blog in 2019. At that time, my father’s cousin Joyce’s ThruLines for Josiah Bradford looked like this: Now, in addition to the two matches on the Jesse Bradford Line, Joyce shows two additional matches: I like to draw trees for the people that I believe are true DNA matches and match by genealogy, but my Bradford tree is quite out of date: I had previously looked at this connection with Joyce in 2019: My Bradford DNA/Genealogy Chart is starting to shape up. My Match with Rollie If I could confirm Rollie’s genealogy, that would firm up the St ..read more

I have on of my many colds this winter, so I’ll take some time and sign up for Tier 1 of Gedmatch. MRCA Search Tool I don’t remember using this tool before. Before I used it, I had to make sure my Kit# was associated with my family tree. My famiy tree was uploaded in 2014, so it is quite old. I suppose that I should update my tree at Ancestry. I’ll look at what I got, and then update my gedcom at Gedmatch. This is the first part of my list: What I first noted was that the path to the primary kit (mine) was very long. I am seeing 6-13 genertaions. After watching a video on this utility, I see ..read more