{"id":22440,"date":"2023-08-25T19:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T19:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/?p=22440"},"modified":"2023-08-25T19:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T19:24:11","slug":"checking-new-potential-nicholsoncommon-ancestors-matches-at-ancestrydna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/2023\/08\/25\/checking-new-potential-nicholsoncommon-ancestors-matches-at-ancestrydna\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking New Potential NicholsonCommon Ancestors Matches at AncestryDNA"},"content":{"rendered":"

After perusing AncestryDNA matches lately, it seems that I am showing some potential Common Ancestors for my family.<\/p>\n

Heidi and Chris<\/h2>\n

This match with my sister Heidi is on our maternal side:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris and Heidi show as potential fourth cousins. I have Lydia in my onlline Nicholson genealogy:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Bernard also shows up. However, so far, I show no matches from that line on my combined DNA match\/Nicholson Genealogy Chart:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For some reason, I have Henry Nicholson with no descendants, then William Nicholson. Let’s do a quick check on Chris’ genealogy. I was able to find Gladys in the 1911 Census:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunatley, Driver was transcribed as the less likely Drivas.<\/p>\n

Here I have added Chris to the DNA\/Genealogy Tree and taken out Henry Nicholson:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris and Heidi correctly show as fourth cousins. This fills in a gap on the Nicholson tree.<\/p>\n

More on the Henry Nicholson Line<\/h3>\n

Perhaps I took Henry out too soon. I see that Heidi shows DNA matches to two descendants of Henry Nicholson at Ancestry ThruLines:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Checking the Genealogy for Nancy<\/h4>\n

Nancy does show her maternal grandmother as Mary Ellen Nicholson:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nancy also has her grandmother moving to New Jersey:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is Warren to the West of New York City:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m too lazy to build a tree for Nancy, so I will try to build down from Henry Nicholson and his son Walter. Here is the 1891 Census:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here we have 5 year old Clara. I am guessing that Joseph was perhaps out of the house or away then? He would be about 17 in 1891. For some reason, I don’t see Joseph in the 1881 Census:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m guessing that this is why I did not add Henry earlier. That means that I do need to create a tree for Nancy. Turns out I already did:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here my tree gets away from what Ancestry ThruLines had. I will skip Nancy for now as I cannot clearly see how she connects to my Nicholson Tree.<\/p>\n

A Tree for Louie<\/h4>\n

My top down analysis showed that Walter did have a Clara Nicholson. I’m happy to borrow from this Tree at Ancestry:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are Clara and Samuel in 1911:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now I just need to add Henry Nicholson and Louie into my Chart:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It took me a while to get this chart right. It is still a mystery as to how Nancy fits in at this time.<\/p>\n

Summary and Conclusions<\/h2>\n