MyHeritage recently came out with new Theories of Relativity. I’ll check out a few for my Mom.
Rita with Latvian Heritage
Here is the Theory:
I only see a partial tree for Rita:
The Theory follows the Spengel Line. I’ll just look at the Theory. The theory doesn’t check out according to my tree. In order for it to work, Sophia would have had to have married a Spengel after a Schwechheimer. However, my genealogy does not show that. I’ll pass on this Theory for now.
Mom and Malcolm
Malcolm is from the United Kingdom. Here is his tree:
The Theory connects Malcolm and my mother on his maternal side. The tree confusingly has a Gadd as the father as a Dodsworth. I will need to build my own tree at Ancestry to verify:
In 1891, Louisa was living with her widowed mather Emily in Nether Hallam, Sheffield, England. It appears that Louisa could have been from a second husband of Emily as the first two daughters on the Census have the surname of Green.
Next I need to make the connection from Lockwood to Dodworth. Two of the three trees at Ancestry have Emily Lockwook as the mosther of Louisa Dodwood:
The third tree does not give parents. I will make the assumption that Malcolm knew who his grandmother was.
Here is Emily Lockwood in the 1881 Census:
She was an unmarried file cutter living in Nether Hallam, Sheffied. There also was an Ellis family living next door. I was able to find a little more information at FamilySearch:
Here is St George:
So, I have a sort of a connection now.
My DNA/Genealogy Tree for Ellis
I have a short Ellis tree already:
After a little searching, I see that Derek is a match to my mom at AncestryDNA. . I’ll add in Emma’s Line.
That makes Malcolm a third cousin to my mother. It looks as if Emma Ellis Tattershall could have been named for her Aunt Emma who was 7 years older than her? I think I see a mistake in that Emma Ellis should not have a Tatershall in her name.
Adding the DNA Match to My Mother’s Profile
Here is where Malcolm and my mom match:
Here I have ‘painted’ Malcolms matches to my mom in orange:
These matches are in places where there were no previous matches. This is also the first maternal match my mother has on Chromosome 21.
Malcolm and my mom also have shared DNA matches with at least three other known Nicholson/Ellis descendants at MyHeritage.
When I show all my mother’s paternal and maternal DNA matches, the orange DNA from Ellis/Roebuck gets a bit lost:
Summary and Conclusions
- I didn’t follow through on the match with Rita. However, the fact that she has Latvian genealogy means that there must be a match somewhere.
- Often, the conclusions for the more obscure Theories of Relativity are wrong and need correcting
- In this case, the Theory lead me in the right direction toward Ellis/Roebuck DNA
- I was glad to add this DNA to my mother’s DNA profile