In my previous Blog, I updated my daughter’s DNA profile using DNA Painter. I can do the same for my son using Gedmatch. I have a maternal profile for JJ at Gedmatch. JJ’s match with his second cousin Robert at Gedmatch looks like this:
This match goes back to their maternal great-grandparents:
These grandparents are Jarek and Wozniak and represent JJ’s Polish side.
Mapping this to JJ’s maternal side gives him a huge increase from 16% to 22% mapped or painted as per above. However, most of the matches are on the Polish side. Only one is on the Cavanaugh (really Warren) and Morrow side.
JJ at MyFTDNA
In order to look at JJ’s results, I need to update his password. JJ has 130 matches in common with Martha who is the Warren/Morrow match. I can check some of the Autosomal Transfer matches to see if any of those are on Ancestry. Here are some top transfer matches to JJ:
Unfortunately, Ancestry is not working right now.
JJ at Gedmatch
I went through many of the matches with trees. I found this match:
Louis has a wiki tree:
Here I see the Tacy/Tessier Line which is in my children’s ancestry. I would like to see if I can find a genealogical connection. If there is a connection, it must be quite old. According to WikiTree:
Here is the tree I have:
There is a connection on Jean Baptiste Tessier. Here is some information from WikiTree:
Louis’ tree has Jacques Tessier as his ancestor. My tree has JJ’s ancestor as Jean-Baptiste Tessier. Louis also has Richard Tacy as an ancestor. He gives his birthplace as Helena, New York in 1859:
Here is Helena:
Here is JJ’s family in nearby Fort Covington in 1860:
Here is JJ’s tree:
I can draw a tree to see how it looks. This is the tree I have now:
It seems odd to add three generations to an already long tree. There appear to be possibilities:
- The connection to the 1600’s is correct
- The connection is on another line
- The genealogy may be wrong on one of the lines.
The other odd thing seems to be that Tessier would change to Tacy in two lines that are about 6 generations apart. Perhaps this was just the standard name change at the time. As I look at it, it is possible there is a Boudria connection also, so I will keep Louis off my Tessier DNA Tree for now.
Updating Maternal Trees by JJ
It appears that the Walter Line of my Jarek Tree has many missing matches. Here are JJ’s ThruLines for Walter:
Here is what I have:
Here is the update under Walter:
Kristina
Kristina does not show a common ancestor at Ancestry as she does not have a linked tree. I don’t see her on my Jarek DNA tree, but she shows a Jarek in her tree on her maternal side:
As this is her maternal side, that must mean that Kristina must be either a cousin or sister to Seth. I should be able to figure that out by shared matches. I’ll sort Kristina and JJ’s matches by those closest to Kristina. Seth shows up as Kristina’s 1st cousin or half uncle.
Seth must be a first cousin to Kristina.
JJ and Susan
JJ and Susan are 2nd cousins. And a lot of Kristina’s children have tested at Ancestry:
Here we see Kristina is a daughter, so I will go with that:
Next, I see that cat is a sister to Isabelle:
I have to pay to see these shared matches, so I may as well use them.
Charlotte and JJ
Charlotte and JJ are in the 2nd cousin range:
Using Shared matches again, I see that she is the daughter of Laurie:
So far, pretty easy for these 2nd cousin level relatives.
Richard and JJ
Richard has Polish ancestry:
Ancestry thinks the connection should be in the 2nd couisn range, but that does not seem possible. It seems like the connection should be here:
This tree in my hints has Joesf Jarek :
I believe that these two places are the same place. Ordrzykon is in SE Poland:
Here is Zarnowiec:
Lea maintains Richard’s tree. Here is another tree by Lea:
Here is JJ’s tree:
My conclusion is that Weronica Dziuria born 1861 is the sister of Anna Dziuria born 1869.
A Dziuria DNA Tree
I gave this tree a different look. JJ and Richard are third cousins once removed. According to Ancestry, Richard and JJ could be as close as 2nd cousins once removed. But the chance that they are 3rd cousins once removed is 13%:
This could also mean that Richard and JJ connect on other Polish lines. I would like to note that I do not have evidence currently that Anna Dziuria was the sister of Weronika, but the DNA strongly suggests that.
Now that I have made this change, it seems that Ancestry has changed.
New Dziuria ThruLines
Here are Richard and Beverly:
Lea seems to be the driving force behind the DNA and genealogy in the family:
The only issue seems to be that the DNA levels are higher than should be expected for the relationship of 3rd cousin once removed, 4th cousin and 4th cousin once removed. That means that there may be other connections. However, this is the earliest and only connection that I see right now.
Further DNA Proof for the Dziuria Tree?
I can now see special Clusters at Ancestry. Perhaps this will help. I will choose Richard as a match of interest:
Then I chose JJ’s sister, Robert who represents Jarek and Lea who represents Dziuria. Perhaps I didn’t have to choose Lea. That gave me this:
Next, I will try with just Richard. Actually, I chose Robert by mistake. He represents all the Polish relatives:
For some reason, I do not see Richard on this list. Next, I will choose Richard, but lower the upper limit to 150 cM as JJ matches Richard by 125 cM:
The 19 match cluster is interesting:
Here I see two clusters within this cluster. Richard of interest is about two thirds down the list. The first cluster has a lot of Lea’s family in it. In the second cluster, the last Richard has a good tree:
He shows that his mother’s mother’s mother’s mother was a Wozniak.
The 27 Match Cluster
This one is intersting:
Here I see two major clusters, but Richard does not seem to match the cluster in the lower right. It turns out that Liz has a great tree:
Liz has the Such family on her paternal side:
JJ’s third great-granmother was Marii Such:
This must be the connection. From another tree, I see that Joseph Jarek was born in 1841. That means that Marii Such could be a sister of Michal.
Summary and Conclusions
- Of the major DNA companies, Ancestry is the easiest to work with
- I was able to build a new Dziuria tree based on DNA matches mostly, but also previous genealogy I had done on my children’s Dziuria Line
- I see that Ancestry has now made their Clusters more flexible taking the level down to 20 cM. This resulted in findin