tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91325768565883235862024-03-14T19:44:46.072+13:00GenBlogLorna's Research Diary - what changed, when, sometimes why.LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.comBlogger772125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-80324258041569728442023-04-09T19:30:00.009+13:002023-04-16T19:08:25.964+13:00Those magic three words: "New Relative Found"Intro
When you have a yDNA disconnect in a tree, those three words "New Relative Found" followed by "We found 1 new Big Y match(es) for ..." are indeed magic.The match was with my very first DNA testing guinea pig, 2nd cousin Bill, helping out to explore our Henderson brickwalls. That was back in 2007. Since which time he had no matches beyond y25 other than our own 2nd cousin roped in to check LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-74595883003260118732023-01-06T21:18:00.003+13:002023-01-06T23:45:49.681+13:00jan 2023 StocktakeFirstly, a big thank you to all of you have humoured me over the years by testing your DNA, and those who help this Genealogy & DNA obsessive - yes I'm still obsessed!I wish you all a happy and healthy 2023.Time for the snapshots.Progress over the last couple of years?Have I actually made any progress on my main goals?Progress is never as much as hoped but this one takes my prize as most LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-25682778080801944052022-11-07T00:57:00.002+13:002022-11-07T18:28:35.712+13:00ToFR / ThruLinesTo the uninitiated, the title of this post:ToFR / ThruLinesrefers to the tools offered by MyHeritage and Ancestry DNA respectively to aid you in exploring how you might be connected to your matches.ToFR: from MyHeritage - Theory of Family RelativityThruLines: From AncestryBoth take your DNA, your linked tree, and those of your DNA matches, then trawl their respective family tree and record LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-26973211617820977392022-11-06T23:33:00.007+13:002023-09-30T12:04:11.148+13:00Lurking in (almost) plain sightRevisiting my John Davidson Brickwall.The descendant list of my 2* great grandfather, John Davidson has grown rather unexpectedly lately and this growth prompted this renewed attention on John's mysterious parents.Despite the best efforts of transcribers of records planting confusion, I believe I have finally found the origins of his mother, the mysterious Ann Collins. And as a result am LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-64632203466800291672022-06-10T03:20:00.002+13:002022-06-10T17:54:14.255+13:00Families uniteNot that this is an earth shattering revelation, but this one solved two puzzles.Ann McAdie is a newfound (May 2022) member of the family of Donald McAdie & Catherine MacKain brought to my attention thanks to a "follow" on Donald on FamilySearch. I was initially sceptical as the profile showed an unverifiable baptism, subsequently proven to be an Ann to a different couple.I cannot find aLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-65692835260944413092022-06-09T20:20:00.007+13:002022-06-12T16:11:27.885+13:00The Power of the XThe players:A chap curious what he'd learn from testing his DNA at Ancestry.Someone who regularly monitors new matches on Ancestry over 20cMs and any with suggested Common Ancestors, ie me, a self confessed genealogy and DNA obsessive.Assorted tested cousins who all share the suggested common ancestors, Isaac Smith Dawe and Betsey Metters (married 1818 in Devon), plus several sharing earlierLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-22086534406365842892021-03-16T15:49:00.002+13:002021-03-16T15:49:46.549+13:00LivingDNA update I don't pay that much attention to the "ethnicity", aka Bio-geographical, estimates from the assorted companies I and many cousins have tested with as I'm having way too much fun comparing trees and mapping chromosomes to ancestral lines in order to focus on those matches that just have to be from somewhere on one or other of my brickwalls.But a recent question on the DNA-Newbies list at LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-77288373325017285642021-02-21T23:55:00.005+13:002021-03-01T13:08:43.229+13:00Maximise your investment in your DNA testIf you've tested your DNA somewhere other than MyHeritage and have not also uploaded your file to there, get in quick for free, offer applies for a week to 28th Feb, offer extended to 7 March.The advanced tools will be unlocked for free, forever - and you may well find a whole different set of cousins to swap info with.Read all about it at their latest blogpost.Full instructions on how to LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-73036032459286238462021-01-25T00:20:00.001+13:002021-01-25T00:20:18.222+13:00The danger of assumptionsFrom looking at the tree attached to a DNA match, I hoped / presumed / assumed that I'd found yet another piece of corroboration for our connection to the Jenkins/Buchanan family we have so many matches to. Which got me quite excited. These brickwalls (Archibald Henderson and and his daughter-in-law Amelia Millar) have been standing a long time.So I spent a happy day or two researching and LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-12901587196139045742021-01-02T23:03:00.007+13:002021-01-06T20:42:58.439+13:00What you can find when you aren't even looking...... or I hope this stroke of serendipity portends other breakthroughs on the gaps in my tree in 2021starting the year as I hope to go on - well apart from interrupting the chat on our Talking Family History zoom session last night with an excited "I've just cracked a new DNA match". Thankfully for the group, which I admit I was listening to rather than watching, my internet connection LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-63530133991266374702020-09-21T23:33:00.001+13:002020-09-21T23:33:23.096+13:00Who visited Porters Photographic Gallery in Perth in the 1870s?I'd
dearly love the carte below to be a wonderful clue to the mystery family of
Amelia Millar - so I am posting this in the probably vain hope that
someone will recognise it from their family album and say that's xyz
and get in touch.It was found in the effects of my great aunt Nellie FLETCHER, aka Elizabeth Helen Sinton HENDERSON (1885-1981) and it is past time I published it in the LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-33947407734253032992020-09-05T17:13:00.002+13:002020-09-06T00:12:38.793+13:00Amelia Millar brickwall review Cracking this brickwall was one of my main aims for entering DNA testing way back in 2007.And still is.I've never been brave enough to tally
up the $$ for kits I've sponsored for descendants over the years, particularly as the initial tests were so much more expensive than now. Many of these people are no longer with us, but their DNA lives on in our match lists to provide excellent clues LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-4480519479773078282020-09-04T12:59:00.002+13:002020-09-04T13:36:24.599+13:00Progress on y_mt_DNA haplogroups? This post was written back in March 2020. Six months down the track, having explored many many related, and un-related rabbit
holes it is time I actually published it. Not a lot of progress has been made since then!I've finally also made time to explore the new addition to the DNAPainter tree tools, the part that allows you to input y_ and mt_ DNA haplogroups and watch them propagateLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-13848398616014885152020-03-31T17:07:00.000+13:002020-03-31T17:09:40.736+13:00Tree completeness/genetic confirmationCovid-19 has a lot to answer for but one good thing is that we can work around the unexpected limitations imposed.
The DNA Discovery 2020 tour of New Zealand by Blaine Bettinger and Angie Bush could no longer take place, but thanks to the organisers, and of course the presenters, who are in widely different timezones from us, and each other, the 2 day set of lectures were changed to online LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-48764144768299023232020-02-16T14:03:00.000+13:002020-03-02T16:36:04.587+13:00Sarah, not Charlotte; DNA strikes againDNA has done it again.
I've come up with a new theory about the parentage of my 3*great grandmother Jemima Parker thanks to a set of DNA matches to my maternal 2nd cousin.
This has led to a review of known, and believed, information about Jemima
and a fairly easily reached conclusion that a Jemima baptised 1788 in
Saffron Walden to a Sarah Parker is a much better fit than the previously LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-984988228893193142020-01-11T12:05:00.000+13:002020-01-11T12:05:04.006+13:00New year, new updates2020 is starting off a lot better than 2019.
Not that I make resolutions for a New Year as I'll only break them within the first few days (no chocolate? pay more attention to housework?) I do tend to check what hasn't been updated lately.
My gateway web pages (LornaHen) the related more detailed family website (BigBrother) and the basic BDM snapshots of the deceased rellies and their connectionsLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-25360327788820087032019-03-16T23:45:00.001+13:002020-12-05T10:00:07.446+13:00I do so love a mystery or three....... particularly when it looks like a new lead may have appeared.
My one remaining brickwall mystery at the 2* great grandparent level is William Austin (this page will get updated hopefully soon as it reflects an old theory that is looking to be supplanted by the following, even though the mother's suggested name of Caroline is still possible, just not the one currently shown.
Courtesy LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-7780220269850365962018-12-29T13:11:00.002+13:002018-12-29T13:11:37.470+13:00and for the downside....For the second time on FamilySearch the same person has (re)merged my paternal
grandfather with his namesake born in the same month and year, despite my
collaborative note - which is now yet more detailed as to why NOT to
merge them.
They were born a fortnight apart, one registered in Oamaru, the other in Palmerston North, ie separate islands of New Zealand.
The separate NZ Historical BDM LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-49613858755006378922018-12-29T13:06:00.002+13:002019-01-01T15:21:52.387+13:00Collaborative trees - the upsideMany of you may already have realised I'm a great fan of collaborative trees, WikiTree and FamilySearch in particular.
The downsides (enthusiastic newbies connecting up families with the scantest of evidence, or agin the evidence without a thought) are far far outweighed by the benefits of sharing.
Examples of both hit home strongly last night. (See next post for yesterday's example of the LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-75223286579712404272018-12-17T02:11:00.000+13:002018-12-17T17:21:27.346+13:00Mapped chromosomes down to 12cMsHere's my 2018 end of year snapshot overall chromosome map, down to 12cM segments, by assigned Grandparent to give me as good a picture as I can as at now - both for ease of reference and as a measure of progress at the end of 2019.
It was a bit easier than I thought it might be to update the chromosome maps from yesterday down from the 15cMs used for those to the 12cMs minimum segment size usedLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-20225680790079786212018-12-15T18:40:00.000+13:002018-12-15T18:40:26.563+13:00And now for the Paternal Chromosome MapThat didn't take as long as I thought to produce!
I've obviously kept up with my mapping down to 15cM segments reasonably well, with only one to assign, although it has been a couple of years since I last did one of these.
Reducing the segment size included down to 12cMs looks like I've not much work needed to redo both the Maternal and Paternal maps to see what increased coverage of my LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-52619409110122260992018-12-15T13:26:00.000+13:002018-12-15T13:26:22.482+13:00Apples and orangesI'm really concentrating on my (paternal) Amelia MILLAR's brickwall's matches, honest.
But I'm also trying to snapshot my chromosome mapping "progress".
Which appears to be woeful.
Must try harder.
Here are two snapshots approximately about 18 months apart of the Maternal segments I've allocated to a grandparent. (Unlike last time I posted a chromosome map update, this time a paternal mapLornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-14105739960857079212018-12-11T13:20:00.000+13:002018-12-11T13:20:05.926+13:00What is Elizabeth CHRYSTAL's mtDNA haplogroup?Well I now know a lot more about assorted MILLAR and CHRYSTAL families from around Kippen, Stirlingshire and environs.
We also have a few more DNA matches to add to the web of clues that might eventually lead to cracking the Amelia MILLAR brickwall I'm trying to keep focussed on at the moment.
Her WikiTree Brickwall page has a few more families of interest linked to it.
One family I believe to LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-38703171662672397582018-09-12T15:06:00.000+13:002018-09-12T15:06:57.392+13:00Archibald Henderson brickwall hints?It may have been Amelia's turn, but somehow Archibald seems to be getting more attention as a result.
Keep an eye on my Archibald Henderson brick wall page on WikiTree for updated info on potential connections, including links to the trees of interest where they are also on WikiTree.
Families of particular interest that are popping up in assorted DNA matches to descendants of James LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9132576856588323586.post-73838280719365072712018-09-05T13:33:00.000+13:002018-09-05T13:33:03.956+13:00What do Sarah, Emma and William have in common?Not a lot other than all three have been long pegged in my database as potentially being one and the same person as their namesakes in their respective potential "home" families.
Also that in the last few days investigating DNA matches, AND the matches of the new match, has led me to re-evalutate sources, search for more information, and in all three cases, merge the namesakes as I've finally LornaHenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199921559356749656noreply@blogger.com0