Stigler / Oliphant
I’ve previously made connections to Robert Oliphant b. ~1771 ; d. ~1841 ; m. Abigail Davenport… I created a family tree based on a 4th-6th cousin match from AncestryDNA and had shared ancestors with the Olpihant side, the Davenport side […]
Haplogroup Followup
Here’s what I’ve learned between last night and this morning… The maternal haplogroup H has been around for a VERY long time and lots of people are part of this group / carry it. I found success in my first […]
Haplogroup H
l’ll be honest – I din’t think haplogroups would really help me at all.. I mean I had no idea what they were! When I learned that maternal haplogroups are passed down on the maternal side… I decided to dive […]
23andMe results are in!
23andme Results I about jumped out of my skin when I got the email saying the results were done. In case you were wondering how long it took to get the 23andMe results back.. they received the sample on 10/3/14 […]
Kunz / Streider Family Revisited
After re-evaluating my process, I’ve decided to go back and look at the families I’ve already looked at. My mom has one 3rd cousin match that has Peter Kunz and Anna Catherine Streider as her great great grandparents. Her tree […]
Lehr, Stigler, Oliphant – New Connections
I got stuck tracing records back on the potential lead that I wrote about in the last post so I decided to give my brain a break from that and work on creating a 4th cousin tree that had the […]
Finding Shared Ancestors – A Walk Through
Finding Shared Ancestors I was telling my sister how I’ve made some progress recently and I quickly realized that she had no idea what I was talking about. I think it’s because she’s not on Ancestry. So I’m going to […]
Dead Ends and More Testing
Dead End I’ve been hitting a lot of brick walls and just dead end after dead end with this Blackwell family. I really thought we had found my mom’s birth mother. DNA matched to one side of the family but […]
How to Share AncestryDNA Results
*If someone asked you to share AncestryDNA results with them, skip this intro and go down to step 1. *If you are trying to figure out how you and another person are related, this will be VERY helpful… Download Google […]
Johnston, Blackwell, Crotts, Worley
I feel like I’ve been working on this non-stop. But for good reason – I’m making progress. Just take a look. I’ve been able to add an entire branch with the names Crotts, Worley and Howard! Phew! It doesn’t seem like […]