I’m trying to visually phase my DNA as well as five other siblings’ DNA. It is taking a while.
Chromosome 13
Here is a quick try at crossovers. I didn’t see any obvious problem areas. If I did these crossovers right, then Joel (D) and Heidi don’t have any crossovers. None of the crossovers are too bunched up. I predict an easy solve.
Bring On the Cousins
I am seeing huge amounts of Hartley DNA in my first three cousin matches.
These point out three paternal crossovers. One is for Sharon and two are for Lori:
It seems safe to map out all the paternal DNA based on these three Hartley matches. The one exception is Jim’s (V) last segment as that is quite small.
Next, Carolyn is a Lentz (maternal) cousin. Based on her matches, I’ll make an attempt at finishing the Chromosome:
If I have this right, this could be the fastest Chromosome mapped yet. However, I see a mistake already. The person I mapped was actually Catherine who is a Rathfelder cousin, not Lentz.
I think that fixed it.
Note above that Joel (D) and Heidi both had full Hartley/Rathfelder Chromosomes. As a result, they have full D and H comparison FIRs (all green).
Summary and Conclusions
- Solving this Chromosome took under an hour – including the time to write this Blog. That makes Chromosome 13, the lucky one.
- All four grandparents’ DNA is covered except for a small segment of Frazer on the right-hand side of Chromosome 13
- As with all chromosomes, I can use this information to fill in a grandparent column on each of these six siblings’ match spreadsheet.