In my last Blog, I wrote about Doreen’s results. Doreen and I have the common ancestors of likely first cousins, James Frazer b. 1804 and Violet Frazer born 1803. For some reason, I don’t believe that I have ever mapped this couple out using Kitty Munson’s Chromosome Mapper.
Descendants of James and Violet Frazer
The people in bold have all taken autosomal DNA tests. That is, except for Rick who took the YDNA test. If I compare myself to Susan, Doreen, Pat, Gladys and Bill, the DNA that we share would represent either James or Violet Frazer.
Kitty Munson’s Utility requires the information be put into a CSV File like this:
I share the first and last segments with Doreen. The second I share with Pat. I share rows 3, 5, and 9 with Susan. I share rows 4 and 8 with Gladys. I share rows 6 and 7 with Bill. However, they are the same segment. One is as reported at FTDNA and one is as reported at Gedmatch.
Here is my map of just these two ancestors:
This is just my map. The map for each of my siblings and my cousin Paul would look different. Also The map for each of the people in the yellow part of the James/Violet Tree would also look different.
Here is the blue James/Violet segments (now showing as navy blue or black) with other segments I have identified:
Next, I would like to put the ancestors in a better order. They appear randomly, but I am guessing that the first chromosome gets the first color, etc. as I have my table sorted by chromosome. My four grandparents are Hartley, Frazer, Rathfelder and Lentz. So I would like to sort them by these four grandparents. Then I would like the older ancestors in each line first. That is, except for Annie Snell. I have her listed separately as I must have figured out some of my DNA was from her. However, her dark green is overshadowed by the blue Hartley/Snell segments.
My new order will be:
Hartley:
- Esther Howorth
- Otis Snell
- Annie Louisa Snell
- Hartley/SNell
Frazer:
- Richard Frazer
- James/Violet Frazer
- George Frazer/Margaret McMaster
Rathfelder
- Hans Jerg Rathfelder/Juliane Bietenbinder
- Rathfelder/Gangnus
- Rathfelder/Lentz
Lentz
- Nicholson/Stanisforth
- Nicholson/Ellis
- Lentz/Nicholson
That configuration gives me this:
I like the colors better. However, Annie at the first part of Chromosome 16 is still subsumed in Hartley/Snell in dark green. Also Otis Snell is a tiny segment at about 4cM. I think I’ll take out Otis and Annie:
I like this version the best. I have a lot of Hartley/Snell as this couple had 13 surviving children. As a result, I have a lot of 2nd cousins with matches. Hartley/Snell is now light blue. James/Violet Frazer is now dark green. My goal is to split up the light blue into Hartley and Snell.
Summary and Conclusions
- I added some important James Frazer/Violet Frazer segments to my Chromosome Map
- This couple was born in 1803/4.
- Mapping points out where you have cousin matches and where those matches are missing
- I hope I haven’t missed any other important ancestor segments on my map