I see a new DNA match my mom has on her Baker Line. The ThruLines look like this:
Ruth is the new match. Looks like I tried a tree for Gwen in the past. The ThruLines above showed Harry Wood’s mother as Rebecca Andress. I had a different mother:
Building a Tree for Ruth
Bassed on the ThruLines, Ruth is two more generations back from Gwen. The tree I have for Gwen appears to go back to Rebecca Andress:
A Social Security record was helpful:
Here is the 1920 Census:
Samuel was a widow at this time. Here a record for Rebecca Andress:
For the ThruLines to be right, Sophia Andress needss to be Sophia Baker. This death record implies that Sophia was a Baker:
Bottom line is that the ThruLines for Ruth appear to be correct:
Summary and Conclusions
- It is interesting that of my mom’s two ThruLines matches going back to Conrad Baker born 1764, one appear to be incorrect and one appears to be correct.
- The current match Ruth is two generations closer on the Thrulines than the other match, so that made it easier to verify her connection to Conrad Baker
- It would probably a good idea to check the connection with Gwen again, but the last time I checked, I couldn’t connect her back to Conrad Baker.
- If both these matches (Ruth and Gwen) uploaded to Gedmatch, it would be possible to see if they matched each other by DNA. If that were the case, it would be more likely that Gwen would also be descended from Conrad Baker.