I noticed that MyHeritage has some new Theories of Relativity. Here is one that I don’t recall from before:
If this relationship is right, Jan would be my 1/2 fourth cousin once removed. The first and second line agree with the tree that I have which shows that Jacob Gagnus had two wives and these two children of these two wives:
That is a lot of children.
Jan’s tree goes up to August Schmidt:
The 1941 is wrong. I think that 1841 was meant.
Some Problems with MyHeritage’s Theory
The first is that I should not match by DNA on Chromosome 20. Here is where we show that we match:
I have mapped my maternal Chromosome 20:
This shows my entire Chromosome 20 should be on the Lentz side. The Theory is showing the match on my Rathfelder side. DNA Painter shows actual Lentz side relative matches where I match Jan also. My assumption is that the match goes back somehow on my mother’s German Lentz side.
Jan shows that August Schmidt was from Ruckershausen, Germany which is quite a distance from Latvia:
A Latvian Theory with Sane
Sane seems more promising:
However, I don’t agree with the tree. As far as I know, I don’t have any Stumpf ancestors.
Making My Own Sane Tree
Here is a record of Sane’s grandfather Hugo from Jesus Church:
The next to the last column indicates that his mother was Anna Charlotte Muller.
Here is the Schwechheimer line that Sane has:
I note that I have George Gerhard in one of my trees:
This tree makes more sense than MyHeritage’s Theory Tree. Note that in this tree, I am doubly related to Otis who tested at AncestryDNA. I tried my best to describe Otis’ tree in this Blog.
At this point, I am tempted to add Sane to this tree on the right hand side under Johann Georg Schwechheimer. Here is the tree I built for Otis:
Here is where I have Sane:
I would not be surprised if we are related on other lines. The Schwechheimer family was large, so it was not uncommon for a Schwechheimer to marry a Schwechheimer as noted in Sane’s tree.
Sane’s DNA Match
Sane and I share DNA on two chromosomes:
He is what I have mapped so far on my maternal side:
My matches with Sane appear to fall in the orange area which is my mother’s father’s side.
Other DNA Matches with Sane in My Family
For some reason, I don’t see that my mother has a match with Sane which is strange. Only one of my five siblings has a match with Sane. Still, I will assume that my match is correct. My brother Jim shows triangulation with other Latvians which indicates that the DNA match is real:
Normunds is a second cousin – related on bother the Rathfelder and Gangnus sides.
At DNA Painter, I gave my match with Sane a dark green color so it would show up well:
I assume these matches are correct. However, the DNA would go back to 1723 which is quite old. There are possibly closer connections which I have not found yet. Sane’s match indicates that the matches I have with the people in the orange above her matches match me on the Rathfelder rather than the Gangnus side. That is because this Scwheccheimer match is on my Rathfelder side:
Ancestry shows possible parents for Johann Markus Schweccheimer in Germany, but I have not followed up on them. Here is where I have Johann Markus born:
The place is called Altlußheim bei Hockenheim Kraichgau Baden. It is on the Rhine River in Germany.
Summary and Conclusions
- I looked at two of my new Theories of Relativity at MyHeritage
- One was not correct and one was correct
- The match that was correct went back to 1723. That seems to be about the limit of what I would expect for an identifiable match
- The match was from Hirschenhof, Latvia. This was a German colony where many of the families intermarried with each other
- I may have other connections with Sane, but went with this early Swchweccheimer match
- I also mapped the match using DNAPainter
- It could take a while to check out all the new Theories at MyHeritage