Checking New Potential NicholsonCommon Ancestors Matches at AncestryDNA

After perusing AncestryDNA matches lately, it seems that I am showing some potential Common Ancestors for my family.

Heidi and Chris

This match with my sister Heidi is on our maternal side:

Chris and Heidi show as potential fourth cousins. I have Lydia in my onlline Nicholson genealogy:

Bernard also shows up. However, so far, I show no matches from that line on my combined DNA match/Nicholson Genealogy Chart:

For some reason, I have Henry Nicholson with no descendants, then William Nicholson. Let’s do a quick check on Chris’ genealogy. I was able to find Gladys in the 1911 Census:

Unfortunatley, Driver was transcribed as the less likely Drivas.

Here I have added Chris to the DNA/Genealogy Tree and taken out Henry Nicholson:

Chris and Heidi correctly show as fourth cousins. This fills in a gap on the Nicholson tree.

More on the Henry Nicholson Line

Perhaps I took Henry out too soon. I see that Heidi shows DNA matches to two descendants of Henry Nicholson at Ancestry ThruLines:

Checking the Genealogy for Nancy

Nancy does show her maternal grandmother as Mary Ellen Nicholson:

Nancy also has her grandmother moving to New Jersey:

Here is Warren to the West of New York City:

I’m too lazy to build a tree for Nancy, so I will try to build down from Henry Nicholson and his son Walter. Here is the 1891 Census:

Here we have 5 year old Clara. I am guessing that Joseph was perhaps out of the house or away then? He would be about 17 in 1891. For some reason, I don’t see Joseph in the 1881 Census:

I’m guessing that this is why I did not add Henry earlier. That means that I do need to create a tree for Nancy. Turns out I already did:

Here my tree gets away from what Ancestry ThruLines had. I will skip Nancy for now as I cannot clearly see how she connects to my Nicholson Tree.

A Tree for Louie

My top down analysis showed that Walter did have a Clara Nicholson. I’m happy to borrow from this Tree at Ancestry:

Here are Clara and Samuel in 1911:

Now I just need to add Henry Nicholson and Louie into my Chart:

It took me a while to get this chart right. It is still a mystery as to how Nancy fits in at this time.

Summary and Conclusions

• I added two new collateral ancestors to my Nicholson DNA/Genealogy Chart. These were Lydia Nicholson and Henry Nicholson
• I redicovered why I had questions about connecting Nancy’s and my genealogies
• It would be interesting to see if Louie and Nancy match each other at Ancestry.