Genea-Musings: 08/07/16

Saturday, August 13, 2016

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- How Many Autosomal DNA Matches Do You Have?

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1) Have you had you autosomal DNA tested by a genetics company? Which companies?

2) How many autosomal DNA matches do you have at each company, by approximate relationship?

3) Tell us about them in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook or Google+. Please add a comment to thisp ost so folks can find your information.

Here's mine:

1) I have had an autosomal DNA test done on AncestryDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe. I have also uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to GEDMatch.com.

2) Here is a summary list of my matches down to the approximate 4th cousin level:

a) AncestryDNA (about 80% with trees, many back 5 generations):

* 1 second cousin (1 with a Hint)
* 3 third cousins (2 with a Hint)
* 254 4th to 6th cousins (14 with a Hint)

b) FamilyTreeDNA (very few with trees back at least 5 generations):

* 65 2nd to 4th cousins
* 178 3rd to 5th cousins
* 243 4th to Remote cousins

c) 23andMe (very few that share, or have trees at all):

* 1 2nd to 3rd cousin
* 3 3rd to 4th cousins
* 44 3rd to 5th cousins
* 303 3rd to 6th cousins
* 1209 3rd to Distant cousins
* 2 4th to Distant cousins

d) GEDMatch (some trees):

* 1 with less than 4 generations (> 64 cM)
* 58 with 4.0 to 4.4 generations (64 ==> 32 cM)
* 388 with 4.5 to 4.9 generations (32 == > 17 cM)

I'm not sure of the value of any of this.

As you can see, the four websites measure things based on different criteria. But it was interesting.

I do recognize the names of some of the same testers in the different systems. Some have data in only one website, and a few have data in all four of them. I should do a comparison between the websites for some of those persons that I match with.

I have not done any triangulation yet trying to find matches on the same chromosome the way others have. This is made more difficult because AncestryDNA doesn't provide a chromosome browser, but has the most know matches (Hints). The GEDMatch chromosome browser can be used if an AncestryDNA has uploaded their autosomal DNA data to GEDMatch. Not all have.

Unfortunately, I don't have any really close family members tested. The closest known relatives I have a match with is a second cousin, and then her son and her mother.

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Surname Saturday -- DANIELS (England to colonial Rhode Island)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.

I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1453, who is Sarah DANIELS (1654-????) [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through one generation of this DANIELS family line is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

10. Thomas Richmond (1848-1917)
11. Julia E. White (1848-1913)

22. Henry Arnold White (1824-1885)
23. Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864)

44. Jonathan White (1805-1850)
45. Miranda Wade (1804-1850)

90. Simon Wade (1767-1857)
91. Phebe Horton (1772-1820)

180. Simon Wade (1731-1800)
181. Deborah Tracy (1731-1800)

362. John Tracy (1695-1751)
363. Mary Hawkins (1710-1767)

726. William Hawkins (1676-1744)
727. Mary LNU (1688-????)

1452. John Hawkins, born about 1643 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States; died 1727 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. He was the son of 2904. William Hawkins and 2905. Margaret Harwood. He married before 1674 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
1453. Sarah Daniels, born about 1654 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Children of John Hawkins and Sarah Daniels are:
* William Hawkins (1676-1744), married 1710 Mary LNU (1688-????)
* Elizabeth Hawkins (1678-????), married 1699 Joseph Smith.
* Edward Hawkins (1680-1741), married Lydia.
* Mary Hawkins (1681-1735), married 1705 Hosannah Brown (1680-1769).
* Sarah Hawkins (1685-1727), married 1708 Richard Evans (1680-1726).
* Lydia Hawkins (1690-1739), married 1713 Elisha Knowlton (1678-1757).
* Abigail Hawkins (1695-????), married Jonathan Salisbury.
* Pateince Hawkins (1698-????), married (1) 1692 Joseph Smith (1692-1778); (2) 1718 Benjamin Spencer.
* Phebe Hawkins (1700-????), married 1721 Richard Clemence (1698-1789).

I don't have any ideas who the parents of Sarah Daniels are. I could find no records for her birth or marriage in New England. There are many family trees on Ancestry.com with her name and birth year and marriage to William Hawkins, but there are no parents names. There are no parents shown on the FamilySearch Family Tree.

Sarah Daniels (??) is a complete mystery to me! I have no clue where I found her surname.

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Friday, August 12, 2016

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