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More DNA Matches

For the last few months, I’ve been busy with my new baby girl. I’ll be honest, I would log on to my ancestry account and check to see if my mom had a new top DNA match. If not, I’d […]

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Another 2nd Cousin!

Another 2nd Cousin!

New 2nd Cousin I can’t contain the excitement.  This new 2nd cousin looks to have ancestral ties to the Lang-Metzger lines AND the Kunz-Streider lines.  Her tree is not filled in but I already had her dad and grandmother in […]

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X-DNA Match and we’re back to the Kunz family tree

Recently, a 4th-6th cousin on AncestryDNA, uploaded their DNA to GEDmatch.com – and it was pretty much what I expected.   My mom and her shared 59cM of DNA across chromosomes 1 to 22.  How in the world did I […]

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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 […]

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Gillespie County, Texas – German Immigrants

Gillespie County, Texas – German Immigrants

German Heritage Apparently, my mom has some direct ancestors that were born in Germany and came over around 1845 and lived in Gillespie County, Texas.  It seems that they were a tight-knit community and tended to marry into every single […]

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Kunz Family – Possible Connection

Kunz Family – Possible Connection

I’ve felt kind of down about the Johnston side of the family.  It is a huge family and some people are just complete dead ends and I can’t find any records on them.  So I’ve decided to try to find […]

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