Saturday 23 February 2013

Maternal side DNA

A string of Family Finder results have finally made it through the system, one long shot didn't expand our knowledge of the RUNCIMAN dna that may have been shared with the remote RUNCIMAN/RICHARDSON match we found a while ago, but two of the other tests resulted in matches to explore further, refining which bits survived the inheritance process down from the ANDREWS in particular.
The pic above is of the Family Tree DNA chromosome browser tool and shows my matches with three of my maternal relations with the key showing which surnames may be involved in the resulting matches, the newly received data being from a third cousin once removed whose closest shared ancestors with me are Simon ANDREWS and Jane GIBSON.

Another set of results shows some data shared with my BAIN fourth cousin but that part of my tree is not well represented with FamilyFinder results as yet.

Thursday 21 February 2013

HENDERSONs again

Lack of recent posts doesn't mean no activity.
It's been HENDERSON time again, with contacts from descendants of at least two different children of Archibald and Margaret (McEWAN) HENDERSON - one in British Columbia, a descendant of their daughter Margaret, the other a descendant of their son John.