I would like to see what there is of the new expanded Clusters at Ancestry on my Frazer Line. Here are some choices to cluster with:
Mabel is not my closest match by DNA, but she is my closest Frazer relative. George Frazer married a McMaster, so some of them should show up.
Creating a Custom Cluster with Mabel
First, I chose Mabel as a person of interest. The I added a few more Frazer relatives good matches. This gave me 6 custom clusters:
Here is the first 7 match cluster:
Matthew, Mabel and Faye are on my ThruLines.
I see that John’s DNA is managed by Dawn. She has a tree and her father appears to be John:
John is already on my Frazer DNA Tree:
Rebecca is on my tree. She descends from the branch that returned to Ireland from Massachusetts.
Whitney is on my tree already. She descends from my great-grandfather’s brother Richard Frazer.
That leaves Stephen. According to my shared matches, Whitney is his niece. Here, I added in Stephen next to Lisa on my Frazer DNA Tree:
I also added Stephen to my Ancestry Tree.
I was able to place each person in that cluster, so that is good.
The next 8 person cluster adds one more Matthew:
Strangely, Matthew is in the cluster and not his mother Karen. That must be because he shares more DNA with me than his mother. That makes me want to add in Matthew on my Frazer DNA tree:
This was the branch that went back to Ireland.
Frazer Cluster 3
The previous cluster is on the bottom but a few people dropped out of it. The new people are on the top.
Gladys is easily identifiable:
Gladys brings us back a generation on the Frazer tree. Richard Frazer was one of my earliest finds by DNA. In other words, he was discovered first through a DNA match from one of his descendants and then connected by genealogy. It is clear that it will be more difficult to get all the relatives at this level of relationship.
Kathryn and Others in the Cluster
Kathryn has no tree, but it is clear from shared matches that she is also from the Richard Frazer Branch. I sent an email to see if she has any information on her tree.
I looked at all others and they were in the same group – descending from Richard Frazer. However, I could not figure out easily how they fit in easily. Here is what I have now on my Frazer DNA Tree from the Richard Branch:
Cluster 4 and 5
Cluster 4 is very similar to Cluster 3, so I’ll skip to Cluster 5:
The top three are on the McMaster side.
mtrent is on my McMaster DNA Tree already as son of Robert Trent:
Here is BV:
As far as the bottom right group in Cluster 5, I am not sure. Clif is related to Gladys, who descends from Richard Frazer, but there is another connection that I cannot identify.
Cluster 6
Cluster 6 just adds some more matches to the groups:
The DNA is likely messed up as Frazers married Frazers, McMasters married McMasters and Frazers married McMasters. Also, some of my Frazer ancestors do not have the spouses identified. That makes for some genealogial uncertainty.
Summary and Conclusions
- It was interesting to see how my Frazer ancestors grouped together in clusters
- Matches were either easy or difficult to identify
- The easy matches were already in my Frazer or McMaster DNA trees
- I feel like some of my other siblings or matches have better DNA connections to the Frazer family, so it may be best to use them in the future. For example, Gladys would be a good choice as she is a generation older than me on the chart and I can access her DNA results.