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<\/a><\/p>\nAlso The numbers are good, but it is the actual common ancestors that are interesting. I guess I should add the mother’s side also. Ironically, my mother isn’t listed as being on my mother’s side, but my siblings are. That’s OK. Also, I don’t know if the mother’s side works for distant cousins:<\/p>\n
Here is the filled out chart:<\/p>\n The comparison is interesting:<\/p>\n First, I went through my mother’s 4th cousin and Distant Relative Common Ancestor matches and put a colored dot with the ancestor to designate the branch. I have had trouble identifying Lentz ancestors previously, but now I notice quite a few, so I would like to take a look at those matches.<\/p>\n Here is the Lentz DNA matching chart I have so far:<\/p>\n The left part of the chart has Nicholson matches and there are a lot of them, so I would like to augment the right-hand side of the chart. Green means that the DNA match is listed in a place where I can tell where on the chromosome the match is. This is usually at Gedmatch.com. My mom’s top non-Nicholson match is Radelle. She linked her DNA results at Ancestry to her mother, so that is a little confusing. What that means is that Radelle is actually a 4th cousin to my mom instead of the 3rd cousin once removed that AncestryDNA shows. Radelle and my mom have one shared DNA match, so I sent a message to that match. The match had no Ancestry Tree.<\/p>\n My mom’s next match is with Deborah. She is also on the chart, though she has a lower DNA match. Deborah is on a branch with more connections. However, I didn’t see that Deborah and my Mom have any shared DNA matches.<\/p>\n Now that I have a purple dot for Lentz, I am able to filter by that dot:<\/p>\n Radelle and Deborah were the first two matches with Lentz common ancestors out of eight.<\/p>\n The next match is another Deborah and appears to be the mother of the previous Deborah. She also has no shared matches with my Mom.<\/p>\n I’ll need to add an extra level on my chart for the next match. Here is what AncestryDNA shows for the connection:<\/p>\n Of course Ancestry wants me to evaluate the connection. I notice that TL’s tree goes up to a Lantz instead of a Lentz, so that is a little suspicious. The other suspicious part is that by this tree, George would have been 13 years old when Sarah was born. I’ll leave TL off my chart for now. From another tree at Ancestry, here are Sarah’s parents:<\/p>\n There is a probably a connection somewhere, but it doesn’t appear to be here.<\/p>\n This tree seems more reasonable as it goes up to Eliza Lentz. I’ll be a bit lazy and I won’t evaluate this tree. It is consistent with my chart with the Glenn surname. Here is John added in:<\/p>\n So if this is right, John is Radelle’s second cousin twice removed. It’s nice to have some company on the Eliza Lentz line.<\/p>\n Betty appears to be related to the two Deborahs:<\/p>\n I had hope for these connections, but they didn’t pan out:<\/p>\n Mary Lantz was born when my ancestor George was 7 years old.<\/p>\n The last person on my list is Al who is already on my Lentz DNA match tree. So of the eight people I identified, 4 were already on the Tree. Two didn’t match by the AncestryDNA suggested genealogy and two were added.<\/p>\n Here is my chart so far:<\/p>\n In a sense my siblings and I are not as important as my mom should have more DNA than we do for these matches. Here is my mom’s top DNA match on that line:<\/p>\n The Baker family was large, so that means many descendants with DNA matches.<\/p>\n Now I’m up to four Baker Lines. Justin adds another generation going down.<\/p>\n I just looked up Annette. She was a match on MyHeritage. FL at AncestryDNA is on that Line also.<\/p>\n This is beginning to look like a real surname DNA project now.<\/p>\n Now I need to figure out how to get Lauren onto this tree. Actually, I need to build a new Faunce Tree:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
Looking At My Mother’s Common Ancestors<\/h2>\n
Shoring Up the Lentz Common Ancestors<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nBack to George Adam Lentz Born 1770<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nJohn to John<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nBetty on the William Lentz Line<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAnother Bogus George Adam Lentz Connection<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nMy Mom’s Baker and Faunce Lines<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nAdding Peter and Justin to the Baker DNA Tree<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nFL On the Catherine Baker Slater Line<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAn Older Faunce Match with Lauren<\/h3>\n
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