{"id":9325,"date":"2019-01-18T15:49:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T15:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/?p=9325"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:39:40","slug":"heathers-jarek-line-at-ancestrydna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/2019\/01\/18\/heathers-jarek-line-at-ancestrydna\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather’s Jarek Line At AncestryDNA"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post<\/a>, I took a look at my daughter Heather’s autoclustering. The autoclustering included most of Heather’s 4th cousins or closer. I had trouble finding and identifying many matches on Heather’s Cavanaugh Line. In this Blog, I’ll look at her Jarek side which I could find through DNA matches.<\/p>\n

Heather’s Jarek Ancestry<\/h2>\n

Here is what I have so far on Heather’s mother’s father’s side:<\/p>\n

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Ancestry has a few ideas for a few of Heather’s ancestors on this line with green hints. In my first post<\/a>, I found Heather’s closest identifiable Jarek relative. This was H.G.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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I can draw a simple Jarek Tree for Heather and H.G.:<\/p>\n

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Next, I can look at H.G.’s and Heather’s Shared Match list. This should give me some more Jarek relatives. The next one on this list with a tree is Melanie. Melanie descends from Helen Jarek. I already have Helen on Heather’s tree:<\/p>\n

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Melanie is Heather’s 2nd cousin:<\/p>\n

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I had the wrong birth date for Helen in Heather’s Ancestry Tree above, so I corrected it from 1907 to 1917.<\/p>\n

M.W.’s Shared Match With Heather<\/h3>\n

M.W. has a shared match with H.G. and Heather and has this paternal side tree:<\/p>\n

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At first, I thought that the match was on the Wozniak side. Then I started to build out M.W.’s tree:<\/p>\n

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I noticed a Cecylia Jarek born in 1873 in Odrzykon, Rzeszow, Austrian Poland. She could be a sister to Francis Jarek, who was born in 1879. Here is Cecylia’s ‘Potential Mother’:<\/p>\n

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Marianna Rasz looks a lot like Francis Jarek’s mother Marya Ras.<\/p>\n

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M.W. is Heather’s 3rd cousin by genealogy and DNA.<\/p>\n

S.M. On the Matusik Side<\/h3>\n

Here is S.M’s tree on his paternal side:<\/p>\n

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This must be where Ancestry gave me the hint of Joseph Jarek and Marianna Ras for Heather’s tree.<\/p>\n

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All these people are in Heather’s tan Cluster 5:<\/p>\n

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Cluster 5 is at the top left. However there are links to some of the other clusters going down to the right. These links are indicated by the gray boxes outside the clusters.<\/p>\n

R.M.’s Bigger Tree<\/h3>\n

R.M. appears to be the brother of S.M. and has an expanded tree:<\/p>\n

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Assuming the genealogy is right, this pushes back the Heather’s Polish genealogy several generations into the 1700’s.<\/p>\n

Summary and Conclusions<\/h2>\n