In my previous Blog, I wrote about painting my sister Sharon’s DNA. The next logical step would be to paint another sister’s DNA.
Heidi’s X Chromosome
I liked painting the X Chromosome as women have two and men (like me) only have one. My only option is going to Gedmatch to find Heidi’s X Chromosome matches. Another option would be 23andMe, but Heidi has not tested there.
Heidi has some good matches with our Latvian cousins on her maternal side:
We can narrow down the match to my great-grandmother Maria Gangnus due to the way the X Chromosome is inherited.
For the same reason, we can narrow down the match between Emily and Heidi:
The DNA had to come from Margaret McMaster as George did not pass down and X Chromosome to his son James A Frazer.
That match gets Heidi up to 1% painted.
The Easy Part – Hartley Relatives
These matches will go back to my great-grandparents who were a Hartley and a Snell. The top four Hartley matches were three 1st cousins once removed and one 2nd cousin. That got Heidi up to 17% painted:
That is about half as far as I hopep to get. I would like Heidi to get up to 33% or one third painted by the end of this Blog.
Heidi at 26%
Here I have oganized the key and added dividing lines.
Many Relationships are Complicated – Like Otis’
When there are two possible relationships, I choose the closer of the two. Heidi has some good DNA matches to Otis. I gave the match color a bright red as it represents a couple from the 1700’s:
At this point, Heidi is 31% mapped.
An Old Rathfelder Common Ancestor with Astrid
Astrid gets Heidi pretty painlessly up to 32% painted:
I may be able to get beyond my 33% painted goal for Heidi. Astrid also represents the oldest DNA on this map so far.
Here is Heidi at 33% painted:
There are four ancestral groups in the key for three of Heidi’s grandparents but only one group for the Hartley side.
Adding an Old Hartley Line of Howorth
Louise and Anne have their results at Gedmatch:
Theories of MyHeritage
MyHeritage has Theories of Relativity which are likely common ancestors that have DNA matches:
Heidi and Susan have a large DNA match:
Susan adds a lot of Frazer/Mcmaster DNA to Heidi’s map and brings Heidi up to 35% painted overall.
Back to Hirschenhof with Silvia and Leva
Silvia is rellated to my sister Heidi on two different levels. I’ll choose the closer level.
I don’t recall painting Leva before. Perhaps this is a new Theory?
I painted Leva under the same ancestors as Silvia, but another Theory has her connection on the Lutke side.
FTDNA?
Does Heidi have any matchs at FTDNA that could add to her map? Ingrid is Astrid’s siters and matches on the Rathfelder line:
Painting this match in gets Heidi up to 36% painted overall. FTDNA also has X Chromosome information.
At this point, Heidi’s map is in pretty good shape:
Comparing Across Maps
The simplest comparison would be between siblings:
Putting the common ancestors in one spreadsheet gives a fuller picture. Now I only have three more siblings to go. By cross-checking, i can see if I missed any DNA matches.
Summary and Conclusions
- Heidi’s mapping went faster than Sharon’s for some reason
- Heidi had fewer Theories at MyHeritage compared to Sharon
- For Heidi, I checked FTDNA. I didn’t check Sharon’s matches there. I only added one FTDNA match for Heidi, but that also included an X Chromosome match.