I have had a DNA match with John for a while at Ancestry, but haven’t figured out the connection until today. Here is the match:
John does not have a searchable tree. However, note that John’s test is managed by Dawn. She has a tree and in that tree, her husband John descends from a Frazer.
This is an easy connection, because I know who Hubert Frazer was:
Hubert was my great-grandfather’s younger brother:
My great-grandfather James Archibald Frazer is sitting down on the left. Hubert is standing on the right. James was about 11 yeaers older than Hubert.
Here, I’ll just add in John to my Frazer DNA/Genealogy Tree:
Assuming I have the right John, he is Paul’s first cousin. I had Paul’s DNA sent to FTDNA where he was tested for YDNA which is the male Frazer line. That makes John my second cousin once removed. This is a big discovery, because, as Paul was tested at FTDNA, John is a good representative of this line of Frazers at Ancestry where there are many more matches than at other testing companies.
My Shared DNA Match with John
My last Shared DNA Match with John is with Dianna. Dianna has a basic tree:
The top part of the tree is Belgian and the bottom favors Ontario. As I have traced one part of my ancestry to Ontario, that would be the place to look first.
Building Out a Tree for Dianna
Turns out that there is a marriage record for Abraham Brandon which is helpful:
This brings us back a generation:
Dianna’s ancestors got added as living, so I need to change that. The death record for Kathleen (or Catherine) gives her parents’ names:
This record mentions Ireland, so that puts us in the right part of the World. This is as far as I got with Dianna’s tree:
Many of these ancestors seemed to be from Northern Ireland. I was getting to the point of diminishing returns, so I may come back to this tree later.
Shared Matches Between John and My Siblings
Shared matches between John and my siblings may give more clues. On one sibling’s shared matches, I saw a Johnston in a tree. I don’t know if I am related, but Johnstons did marry Frazers in the area of Ireland where my Frazers came from.
My sister Lori has a much larger DNA match with John compared to me. Lori matches John at 95 cM. Lori shares a match with John and Glen. Ancestry shows that Glen has two Frazers in his direct ancestry:
That saves me building out Glen’s tree. Glen has Maggie from Scotland and Australia:
Here is what I have in my tree:
This Richard Frazer was born in Ireland and died in Glasgow. Glen’s Maggie was from Glasgow. Glen and I share a DNA match with Jane. Here is Jane on my Frazer DNA/Genealogy Chart:
I got in touch with Jane and she has that Margaret Frazer was the daughter of Archibald Frazer and Winifred Conlon. That came out as Winifred Collins on Margaret’s death certificate. This record is from Jane’s tree:
Also from Jane, here is Margaret’s baptismal record:
I’ll add Glen to my Frazer DNA/Genealogy Tree:
That brings us out to 5th cousins through Richard Frazer and an unknown wife.
Summary and Conclusions
- I was glad to figure out a Frazer match based on the tree of his administrator.
- That gives me a hint to try other matches I’m not aware of based on the administrator’s tree
- Checking into shared DNA matches is always a good idea as it may bring up new connections
- John fills in a gap in my DNA/Genealogy tree – especially with respect to AncestryDNA matches as I tested his first cousin at FTDNA.
- Thanks to imput from Cousin Jane, I was able to add my 5th cousin Glen (and shared match with John) to my Frazer DNA/Genealogy Chart.