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.