I have a long title for this Blog. I see in a recent email that some in my family have a match with Francis at MyHeritage Here is Francis’ match with my second cousin Paul:
Here is the maternal side of Francis’ Tree:
I can look at my McMaster DNA Tree to see what I have there. My guess is that the connection is through James and Frances (Fanny) McMaster. Here is my Ancestry Tree:
Francis’ tree matches with my McMaster Web Page:
My McMaster DNA Tree
This tree already has Francis’ ancestor Jane McMaster:
It looks like I already have Francis’ mother on my Ancestry tree, so I just need to add Francis. That should be easy. I think that I even met Francis’ parents in England one year. I believe that his father was a shepherd in Ireland and had a collection of shepherd staffs.
I’ll add Francis to my chart above:
Francis is Paul’s third cousin once removed as predicted by MyHeritage.
DNAPainter
I can ‘paint’ Francis onto Pauls DNA profile using DNAPainter. Here is the DNA match between Paul and Francis:
By default, DNAPainter does not use the matches under 7 cM. So that leaves matches on Chromosomes 6, 11, 12, and 16. All the small matches probably indicate matches on multiple family lines. We know there are two McMaster Lines connecting Francis and Paul (James and Fanny).
Here is the match on Chromosome 6:
Note that the match overlaps with the Abe McMaster Line. That tells me that the match is actually from James McMaster and not Fanny McMaster. That is because James was a son of Abraham McMaster. Fanny was a daughter of William McMaster and Margaret Frazer (more little DNA segments).
Francis adds new DNA to Chromosome 11. On Chromosome 12, the DNA must be from Fanny as she is the daughter of William McMaster and Margaret Frazer (shown in orange).
The match on Chromosome 16 is new also.
My Sister Lori, My Brother Jim, and Francis
Lori and Jim show up on Paul and Francis’ shared match list. My sister Lori has this one match with Francis that Paul and Francis do not have:
I suspect that Francis and Jim share the same segment.
Here is what Lori has currently on her Chromosome 13 – paternal side:
Here is the new segment painted onto Lori’s DNA profile:
As James is the son of Abraham McMaster and Margery, the match between Lori and Francis must represent James McMaster’s DNA. This is true because the matches overlap. Note also, that I didn’t have James and Fanny McMaster on Lori’s profile previously, so I added it here.
It looks like I haven’t mapped as much for my brother Jim:
Here is Francis’ match with Jim painted on Jim’s DNA profile:
This shows that Jim’s matches with Emily and Faye are on the Margaret McMaster side rather than the Frazer side. Further, the same should be true as with Lori, that the McMaster match with Francis should be on the James McMaster side rather than the Fanny side. My assumption is that this is true because Lori and Jim are siblings. The reason it doesn’t show that way is that I have not mapped as many matches for Jim.
For example, here is how Jim matches Ronald:
The overlapping segments are what is called triangulation.
Summary and Conclusions
- A new match that showed up sounded like a familiar name.
- It is likely that I should be able to identify a third cousin DNA match and I usually can.
- Due to the intermarriage of the Church of Ireland minority families in Ireland, the DNA relatioinships can be complicated.
- It is helpful having the results from my 2nd cousin Paul who is a generation older than me in the Frazer Line.
- In areas of overlap in DNA Painter, it is possible to tell more exactly where the DNA comes from. For example, instead of knowing the match is from one of the couple, it is possible to identify which spouse the DNA match comes from.
- It is important to test different siblings if possible. Jim and Lori had matches that I do not have with Francis. This is due to the way that DNA is inherited.
Here is a map of how my siblings and I inherited our DNA on Chromosome 13:
Note that Jim and Lori show Frazer DNA (blue) while the other siblings inherited Hartley DNA (orange) on the paternal side of their Chromosome 13 in the are of the DNA match with Francis.