Let’s get right to it. Sharon’s match:
I’ll call the match Gibbs. Here is the maternal side of his tree:
No Need for Me to Build a Tree for Gibbs
Very often I will build out a tree for a DNA match. However, I’m pretty sure where this match fits in to my tree:
In fact, if I have it right, William McMaster and Margaret Frazer would be our common ancestors. Here is Gibbs’ version of the same tree:
His children on the second row go for a long, long way. I don’t show them all. This photo of Lucinda was on Ancestry. It shows her with her children:
Adding Gibbs to My McMasteer DNA/Genealogy Tree
I have a large tree already:
This is only one of the McMaster trees I descend from. I need to add Lucenda or Lucinda? here:
Here I’ve added Gibbs:
Sharon and hence me and my siblings are 4th cousins once removed. Gibbs has not linked himself to his tree, so Ancestry will not pick up the connection between our families on Ancestry Trees.
Shared Matches Between Gibbs and Sharon
This has been a short Blog, so I’ll add some bonus information. B.V was the top shared match. That is one reason that I knew that I was on the right track with Gibbs. Here is the connection that Ancestry has between BV and Sharon:
Sharon has a good match with BV – perhaps due to the fact that we are related to Frazers and McMasters in at least two different ways each.
Shared Match Robert
Sharon matches Robert by 48 cM on two segments. Robert has some Irish ancestry:
In the last row, James Hadden appears to be from Ireland. He married a Stewart. According to Frazer researcher Joanna, we should have Stewarts in our ancestry. So that may be the connection. I had put Margaret Frazer as the daughter of a Margaret Stewart, so that may be the connection – though it is a bit ancient:
I could continue on with Shared Matches, but it would be a lot of work to try to make connections. Gibbs does not match my other 4 siblings who I had tested at Ancestry. Gibbs does match a few other people who are in the Frazer DNA project.
Summary and Conclusions
- If I had not checked my sister Sharon’s DNA results, I would have missed this match to Gibbs
- Gibbs provides another branch to the line of William McMaster/Margaret Frazer > James McMaster born 1812
- This is an interesting line as my familiy has at least double ties with both the McMaster and Frazer families
- Some of these families were large, so I may expect some more matches.
- One shared match had a Stewart name which is possibly linked to a Margaret Stewart born 1764 – or more likely her parents.