{"id":10013,"date":"2019-03-07T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T18:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T12:24:33","slug":"my-moms-myheritage-theories-of-family-relativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/2019\/03\/07\/my-moms-myheritage-theories-of-family-relativity\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mom’s MyHeritage Theories of Family Relativity"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom has two Theories of Family Relativity (ToFRs) at MyHeritage (MH). One is on her father’s German\/Latvian side and one is on her mother’s Philadelphia side. Let’s take a look.<\/p>\n

Mom and Wolf: A German\/Latvian Match<\/h2>\n

My mom’s dad was not Latvian, but was a German who lived in Latvia. I had written a Blog on Wolf here<\/a>. In that Blog, I had noted many German-Latvian connections, so I was interested to see what MH’s ToFR would show.<\/p>\n

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For some reason, in my Blog, I had a heading for Biedermann, but under it, I show a connection to Biedenbinder. It looks like I mixed up my Biedermann and Biedenbinder. I did mention problems in the Biedermann line later in my Blog. However, Wolf has two Biedermann Lines and the one above is not the one I mention in my Blog.<\/p>\n

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Wolf has an impressive tree. The four in the first row are Wolf’s maternal great-grandparents. Anna Biedermann is shown above in the ToFR. The problem with Elisabeth is that she would have been 15 when her son was born. However, I found a possible birth record for Elisabeth that showed she could have been born in 1854.<\/p>\n

Do My Records Match with MH Records on Biedermann?<\/h3>\n

First, it appears that MH agrees with Wolf’s tree – or more likely accepted his tree.<\/p>\n

Here is my mother’s tree at MH:<\/p>\n

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In the ToFR, Jacobine Lutke is shown as private for some reason. Then ToFR shows Anna E.J. Biedermann as the mother of Jacobine. I have her as the mother-in-law of Jacobine! Now I don’t feel so bad about mixing up Biedermann and Biedenbinder in my previous Blog.<\/p>\n

A Possible Fix for MH<\/h4>\n

If I see it right, if I replace Jacobine with her husband Philipp Gangnus on my mother’s side of the tree, this should work out.<\/p>\n

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I have the two common ancestors in my Ancestry Tree, but not in my MH tree, so I will say that I agree with this tree.<\/p>\n

A Gladys – Wolf Common Ancestor Summary<\/h2>\n

I found three common ancestors in my previous Blog and MH found another one (Biedermann):<\/p>\n

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You have a lot of common ancestors with someone when you need a spreadsheet to keep track of them all. I should note that it is possible that Biedermann is in there twice due to Wolf having two Biedermann Lines. Coincidentally (or not) Wolf matches my Mom at 5 segments at MH:<\/p>\n

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Three of the five segments are in the 6 cM range.<\/p>\n

MH Redeems Itself for My German Latvian Biedermann Ancestor<\/h3>\n

I had not previously noticed the highlighted hyperlink shown below:<\/p>\n

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This purple hyperlink leads to Theory 2 which agrees with my orange rendering above. Theory 2 was based on 5 Paths. That just means that 5 trees agreed with Theory 2. There was only 1 Path (or Tree) for Theory 1. I’m not sure why MH didn’t put the 5 Path Theory as Theory 1.\u00a0 Note to self: Pay attention to purple hyperlinks at MH in the future.<\/p>\n

Mom and Annette: The Philadelphia Connection<\/h2>\n

Let’s hope there are no bumps in the road for this ToFR.<\/p>\n

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One cool thing I notice is that Gladys and Annette’s mothers were both born in 1900. Another interesting thing is htat Annette’s grandfather is George Washington Slater. On Gladys’ side, Mary Baker was married to George Washington Lentz. It took me a long time and a lot of work to get a last name for my mom’s Mary. I just checked Ancestry and noticed this record that someone posted:<\/p>\n

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This record gives the name of both of Mary Baker’s parents. I may have already had this record. I have mentioned Annette previously in this Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Summary and Conclusions<\/h2>\n