In part 2 of my Blog series on enhanced shared matches, I looked at four matches. For three out of four, I figured out how they fit in and added them to my DNA/Genealogy Trees. I’ll continue the exercise in this Blog. This was one of four methods suggested by Jim Bartlett in a recent Blog that he wrote on the subject.
Doris on My Maternal Side
Ancestry thinks that we could be 2nd or third cousins. That should be easy to figure out. However, Doris has no trees. It looks like I have never tried to contact Doris. Doris and I share a match with Barry:
Pro Tools tells me that Barry could be Doris’ first cousin once removed. Here is how I am related to Barry:
This is interesting becuase Barry descends from a NIcholson ancestor named Maria who stayed in the UK when most of the family moved to Philadelphia. That means that Doris is likely from the UK. I believe that Barry and I should be full, not half third cousins.
I see that Sue is Doris’ daughter:
Sue shows that she has a tree but there is nothing in it. I have written to Doris to see if she would like to share information.
Mystery Match Kathy
I know that Kathy matches on my mother’s side – perhaps on the Nicholson or Lentz side or both:
Kathy’s closest shared match is with my late mother:
This makes sense as my mother is obviously an earlier generation than me. That would mean that Kathy likely descends from Lentz and Nicholson and is from a generation later than me. This also means that no close relatives to Kathy have tested at Ancestry.
Mystery Match #3: emach
Even the name of this paternal side match is mysterious. Joyce is emch’s grandmother:
I’m glad I got a DNA sample from Joyce at a family reunion.
I also see that emach’s mother is Jill:
Here I’ve added emach into my Hartley DNA/Genealogy Tree:
emach is my second cousin once removed. The tree is a little out of date as I’m not at my primary computer writing this. David should be in the same box with emach.
Mystery Match #4: Matthew
I think that four matches are enough for a Blog. Matthew is on my mother’s side:
I am now down to below 100 cM for a match.
Matthew’s best match is with Marian:
However, she has a line through her tree next to her name. That means she has no tree.
One More: Howard
Howard and I have a fairly large match:
Even though the match is quite large, I think that the relationship is quite distant. Based on Howard’s last name, I would suspect connection to the Pilling side, but I don’t see obvious Pilling matches that we share.
Howard and I share a match with John:
John shows this:
However, I have questioned some of these Hartley trees. I have two Robinson Trees that I have looked at, but I have not looked at this one. This gives me an idea for a subsequent Blog. I can look at all my Hartley Common Ancestor Trees at Ancestry to see if they have anything in common or shared matches.
Summary and Conclusions
- I looked at four more enhanced shared matches
- I found out where one of them fit in my Hartley DNA/Genealogy tree.
- For three of them, I have a pretty good idea where they fit in my maternal tree, but not exactly
- the fifth match is in a category of Hartley matches that I am unsure of, because I am so unsure of the Hartley genealogy before the early 1800’s. However, it gives me impetus to take a fresh look at my possible early Hartley ancestry to try to prove or disprove the Ancestry theories.