I have been looking at Enhanced Shared Matches in several recent Blogs. I have used different methods in doing those. In this Blog, I will take a look at my Nicholson Enhanced Matches. The goal is to identify some new matches. These are matches without trees or trees that are unhelpful.
My Nicholson DNA/Genealogy Chart
This chart is already large:
Perhaps because of all the connections, it would be fairly easy to make some more connections. Now my grandmother was a Lentz, but her mother was a Nicholson. I have found many Nicholson connections but not many Lentz connections. I plan to look at Lentz in a subsequent Blog.
Going Down My Mother’s Maternal Matches
The first match is my older sister. After that, Eric shows a common ancestor. After that, the people are not easily identified. In addition, there are two matches over 200 cM that I have not looked at – at least on my mother’s match list.
Jessica
Here is Jessica’s tree:
She is a bit of a mystery as I have not figured out how she connects to my mother’s genealogy. That leads me to believe that Jessica’s genealogy could be wrong. Jessica is Angela’s sister, but Angela has a private tree:
If Angela and Jessica are sisters, then they could descend from William Lentz:
Doris
Doris has no tree. However, she shows as a possible 1st cousin once removed to Barry:
Here is Barry’s paternal side tree:
I added Barry onto my chart here:
Barry is my mother’s second cousin once removed. He descends from Martha Baxter Nicholson. Martha stayed in the UK when the rest of the family moved to Philadelphia. If Doris is a 1st cousin once removed, she could be from a sibling of Martha Jane Dockrill.
Marian
Marian’s closest match is to Matthew:
Unfortunately, Matthew does not have a tree.
Paige
I already added Barry, so Paige is next on my mother’s list of matches. Judy shows as Paige’s mother:
Here under Grandmother Judy, I have replaced mother with Paige. I had a question with Judy as I was a liitle shaky on the genealogy. Further down the list, I see that Justin is Paige’s son, so Haiven’s brother. I will add him in also. That means we have three generations of a tested family. Of course, to be complete, I should get around to adding these people to my Lentz chart also.
Karen
I already have Haiven and Robert on my chart, so I’ll look at Karen. Karen should be easy to figure out:
Karen shows as Joshua’s mother. Somehow, I lost my NIcholson chart, so I added her on my Lentz Chart:
Other, than losing a chart, this is going pretty well. Fortunatey, I have a copy on my other computer. Karen is my mom’s 2nd cousin twice removed.
Colleen
I have Robert and Heidi on my chart, so I’ll look at Colleen. She has an unlinked tree, but there is only one person in the tree. Eric is Colleen’s father, so there is another easy add.
This is starting to fill in the William Lentz Line.
Rachel
I don’t think I need Shared Matches to fill in Rachel:
Rachel’s paternal side tree has this:
Albert Pote Allen is already on my chart:
I’ve added her in. She is my mother’s 2nd cousin once removed.
Summary and Conclusions
- I started out looking for my mother’s Nicholson Shared Matches, but ended up just looking at her maternal matches which was easier.
- These matches included Nicholson and Lentz Matches
- Many of these matches had a high cM value and were easy to place due to other close identified relatives showing up in the Shared Match List
- Due to the success of this exercise, I would like to continue this in a subsequent Blog