The purpose of the following series, “Shared Chromosomes”, is to discuss and demonstrate how using shared matches between multiple family members can be useful in discovering on which side of one’s family, paternal or maternal, a common match resides. Once identified matches can be compared on the Chromosome Browser and …
In this part of the series I will show how a family of DNA testers can collectively give guidance as to which side of the family a match emanates. A friend and member of one of the projects I administer was kind enough to allow me to use his …
This segment of the blog will address my own matches. As stated earlier I have a total of seven siblings and other relatives grouped together. First, there is my siblings-my sister, Fran, and my brother, Cliff, plus, myself, Mic. Second, I have two 1st cousins-Cousin Peggy, a daughter of …
In Shared Chromosomes Part 2 we saw how easy it was to discover on which side of the family a match was when parents are included in DNA testing and how it is even better when grand-parents are tested. In Shared Chromosomes Part 3 we saw how testing 1st and …
Would you like to know how your Family Finder matches match you? It is simple but complicated to learn. It takes work, creativity and luck on your part and a lot of cooperation on the part of your matches. Family Finder has a place for adding one’s ancestral surnames and …
Do Full Siblings Match Ethnically? One of my students asked in a recent class if siblings were exact matches to one another in DNA tests and did they show the same ethnicity percentages in ethnicity charts and maps. The answer is unequivocally NO! To demonstrate that answer, it just so …
Extraneous Informational Websites-All Free ISOGG.org http://www.isogg.org/ International Society of Genetic Genealogy is a non-commercial non-profit organization with over 8,000 members in over 75 countries. There are no dues or fees to join. It is entirely self-supporting by its members. One donates time to giving presentations or …
James M. Cobb was born about 1797 in Baldwin County, Georgia and died after the 1860 Census possibly in Chattahoochee County, Georgia. He probably married about 1830 in a county whose courthouse records are missing, possibly Baldwin or Houston County, Georgia. I suspect he may have married a Guy, a …
Ancestor 504 and 505 Ancestor 504 is an unknown Cobb and Ancestor 505 is his unknown wife: Neither Ancestor 504 or 505 would have passed along their X-Chromosome to Mic. To this couple there were two known male descendants: Jacob Cobb born about 1778 in Georgia? And died about 1861 …
Ancestor 504 and 505 Ancestor 504 is an unknown Cobb and Ancestor 505 is his unknown wife: Neither Ancestor 504 or 505 would have passed along their X-Chromosome to Mic. To this couple there were two known male descendants: Jacob Cobb born about 1778 in Georgia? And died about 1861 …