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

I have a new MacMaster DNA match at Gedmatch. However, this match is also at Ancestry DNA and MyHeritage. Here is what Ancestry shows: We are third cousins, but we are also related on the McMaster side: As shown above, Ron and I are fourth cousins once removed on the McMaster side. This makes sorting out the DNA difficult. However, I am more interested in the Clarke connection as I have a lot of missing information on my Clarek and Spratt ancestry. MacMaster DNA I am really interested in the Clarke DNA. However, it would seem that anyone that I have a known Clarke DNA match with could also h ..read more

I have been building DNA/Genealogy Trees for my ancestors that have ThruLines that i have verified. On my Hartley side, I have looked at: Hartley Hathaway Snell Parker Hatch Howorth Churchill Cowen I do not think that I have looked at Luther. My Luther Genealogy My great-grandmother Annie Snell was the daughter of a Bradford and a Snell. Luther is on the Snell side. Benjamin Luther and Rebecca Trafton were my 5th great-grandparents. They lived in Dighton, Massachusetts. Luther ThruLines I’ll start with my own: ThurLines think that I match up with Lynn via Lynn’s ancestor Polly Luther. Poll ..read more

I have been going through my ThruLines and updating or creating DNA/Genealogy Charts for them. In this Blog, I’ll look at my Churchill ThruLines. The people who have tested in my family are: my three sisters, one brother and me my father’s cousin Joyce my father’s cousin Maury My Churchill Genealogy The Churchills are related to my Pilgrim Bradford genealogy: My great-grandmother Annie Snell had the Pilgrim ancestry on her mother’s side. Lucy Churchill married Samuel Bradford who was a descendant of Governor Bradford of the Mayflower. Lucy lived in Plymouth, MA. Her parents were Stephen Chu ..read more