In previous Blogs, I have painted my other two sisters’ DNA. Now I would like tp include Lori. This will finish the painting of all three of my sisters. I will be using a utility called DNAPainter. This is what I have done so far:
Lori is at 4% painted. I would like to get her up into the 30’s. It looks like I was just looking at Lori’s paternal side. This makes sense as my mom has tested for DNA. For some reason, I don’t have a match name for the Mary Pilling DNA.
Adding Cindy’s X Chromosome Match
Cindy is a first cousin. I don’t usually add first cousins, but because the connection is through Cindy’s father, that means that Cindy’s X Chromosome match must be through Cindy’s father’s mother. She was Emma Lentz:
This was a large 100 cM match on the X Chromosome and is the first maternal match that I have painted for Lori. This brings Lori up to 5% painted.
More Gedmatch Matches
There will be a lot of Hartley matches for Lori at Gedmatch:
These Hartley matches are in light blue and bring Lori up to 17% painted, or about half of my goal for Lori.
Filling in Some More X Chromosome at Gedmatch
Notice that Cindy and Carolyn overlap but have different common ancestors. That is because that DNA that Cindy and Lori share from their grandmother Emma Lentz born 1900 is the same DNA that Lori and Carolyn share from either Nicholson born in 1836 or his Ellis wife.
Continuing with Lori’s Autosomal Matches at Gedmatch
Here is Lori at 26% painted:
In the key, I now have the ancestors divided into Lori’s four grandparent groups.
Lori’s Matches at MyHeritage
Lori has this important match at MyHeritage, but the relationship is shown at AncestryDNA:
Stephen is also related:
Ron and Steve are also related through the McMaster line but further back in time.
The McMaster Connection
When I paint Ron and Stephen, I see a connection to Emily who has Mcmaster ancestry:
That means that on Chromosome 13, the connection is most likely on the McMaster side:
I could add another pair of common ancestors to DNAPainter, but I’ll leave it as it is for now.
Marilee’s Theory at MyHeritage
I have adifferent interpretation:
Marille is in the bottom left of this chart and I am in the blue section. Here we are 6th cousins instead of MyHeritage’s 5th cousins. I painted a segment for Marilee that was 6.7 cM. DNAPainter’s default is to paint only segments of 7 cM and more.
The small segment is in Chromosome 20. The jury is still out on Marilee’s ancestry. I think that I have the best guess. However, I think that MyHeritage’s Theory may be adding some bad information to the internet.
Lori and Warwick on the McMaster Line
I’m never quite sure about some of these older McMaster connections, but I’ll assume this one is right.
Assuming that Margery was not also a Frazer, this puts Paul and Susan’s green matches in the McMaster camp.
Lori at 28% Painted
This is a bit short of the 30% or more I wanted to have for Lori, but I may fill in more later:
Adding Astrid
I forgot Astrid on the Rathfelder Line:
Comparing Lori’s Common Ancestors to Other Mapped Siblings
In a previous Blog, I started this chart:
The coverage of common ancestors for Lori looks good except for Howorth.
Also I see Lori could have more matches under Nicholson and Ellis.
After adding four matches I missed, Lori is still at 28% painted:
This could mean that Lori has a larger percentage of unidentified common ancestors.
Summary and Conclusions
- I mapped Lori out thinking that I would be able to get in the 30 percent range.
- I was only able to get up to 28% mapped for Lori
- It is possible that her unidentified regions are the areas where I have trouble identifying ancestors such as on the Clarke, Spratt and Hartley Lines.