Monday, July 30, 2018

AncestryDNA Statistics Update - July 2018

Since I last reported on my AncestryDNA match data in Updating My AncestryDNA Status and Statistics (15 September 2017), I have received a significant number of additional DNA matches.

Here were my statistics on 15 September 2017:

*  The same ethnicity estimates as before
*  238 Shared Ancestor Hints
*  577 4th cousins or closer
*  488 pages of matches (over 24,350 matches of 6 cM or more)
*  15 DNA Circles
*  9 New Ancestor Discoveries


Today, on 30 July 2018, here are my statistics:

*  The same ethnicity estimates as before
*  296 Shared Ancestor Hints
*  944 4th cousins or closer
*   pages of matches (over 24,350 matches of 6 cM or more)
*  23 DNA Circles
*  9 New Ancestor Discoveries



In the past ten months, I have:

*  Made a note on each Shared Ancestor and many 4th cousins that are not Shared Ancestors.  My notes are along the lines of:

"24.7 cM in 2 segments - 3rd cousin 1x removed, common ancestors are 3rd great-grandparents John Rich and Rebecca Hill, line added to RootsMagic"

*  Added to my spreadsheet for the Shared Ancestor entries including the above note information.

*  Clicked on the "Shared Matches" button on the Shared Matches screen to see which other testers match me,, and the person who is my Shared Match, to see if I can determine a shared ancestor.

The 23 DNA Circles are for (new circles in bold, lost circles crossed out, separated into grandparent groups):


*  John Rich (1798-1863, my third great-grandfather) - 15 members, 3 groups, I match all 14 other members
*  Rebecca Hill (1790-1862, my third great-grandmother) - 14 members, 3 groups, I match all 14 other members
*  James Richman (1821-1912, my second great-grandmother) - 13 members, 3 groups, I match all 12 other members
*  Hannah Rich (1824-1911, my second great-grandmother) - 13 members, 3 groups, I match all 12 other members

*  John Richman (1788-1867, my 3rd great-grandfather) - 5 members, 2 groups, I match all 4 of the other members
*  Ann Marshman (1784-1856, my 3rd great-grandmother) - 5 members, 2 groups, I match all 4 of the other members
*  Henry Arnold White (1824-1885, my 2nd great-granfather) - 12 members, 2 groups, I match all 11 other members
*  Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1870, my 2nd great-grandmother) - 12 members, 2 groups, I match all 11 other members
*  Joseph Champlin (1758-1850, my 4th great-grandfather) - 3 members, 3 groups, I match 1 other member
*  Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872, my 3rd great-grandfather) - 16 members, 4 groups, I match 13 of the other members

*  Amy Champlin (1798-1864, my 3rd great-grandmother) - 16 members, 4 groups, I match 13 of the other members

*  Zachariah Hildreth (1793-1857, my 3rd great-grandfather) - 6 members, 3 groups, I match only 1 other member
*  Hannah Sawtell (1768-1857, my 3rd great-grandmother) - 6 members, 3 groups, I match only 1 other member

*  Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1828, my 4th great-grandfather) - 4 members, 2 groups. I match only 1 other member
*  Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793, my 4th great-grandmother) - 4 members, 2 groups, I match only 1 other member
*  Aaron Smith (1765-1841, my 4th great-grandfather) - 5 members, 3 groups, I match only 1  other member

*  Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850, my 4th great-grandmother) - 4 members, 3 groups, I match only 1 other member

*  James Abram Kemp (1831-1902, my 2nd great-grandfather) - 4 members, 3 groups, I match only 1 other member
*  Mary Jane Sovereen (1840-1874, my 2nd great-grandmother) - 4 members, 3 groups, I match only 1 other member

*  Abraham James Kemp (1791-1881, my 3rd great-grandfather - 7 members, 3 groups, I match all 6 other members
*  William Knapp (1775-1856, my 3rd great-grandfather) - 4 members, 2 groups, I match all 3 other members

*  Maria Magdalena Hoax (1768-1850, my 4th great-grandmother) - 5 members, 2 groups, I match all 4 other members
*  John Daniel Spangler (1781-1851, my 3rd great-grandfather) - 5 members, 3 groups, I match 3 other members
*  Elizabeth King (1796-1863, my third great-grandmother) - 5 members, 3 groups, I match 3 other members.

I now have nine New Ancestor Discoveries for (new additions in bold):

*  Alonzo Howland Cook (1855-1933) of Utah, I match 6 of 18 members in his DNA Circle
*  Mary Elizabeth Thomley (1866-1910), of Alabama,  I match 3 of 9 members in her DNA Circle
*  Milton Arthur Hartley (1854-1932), of Alabama, I match 3 of 9 members in his DNA Circle
*  John Gabriel Deal (1833-1908), of Ohio, I match 4 of 14 members in his DNA Circle
*  Almeda Gregory (1833-1910), of Ohio, I match 4 of 14 members in her DNA Circle
*  Margaret Van Petten (1805-1873), of New York, I match 4 of 13 members in his DNA Circle.

*  Alfred Newton Bills (1815-1898), of West Virginia, I match 4 of 16 members in his DNA Circle
*  Margaret Tate (1825-1876) of West Virginia, I match 4 of 15 members in her DNA Circle
*  Jonathan Robbin Pettit (1799-1874) of New York, I match 4 of 13 members in his DNA Circle

However, I do not have these persons in my pedigree chart.  They may be descended from some of my known ancestors, but the connections seem to be 3 to 8 generations back from them.  These New Ancestor discoveries are not useful to me at all.


The great advantage that AncestryDNA has over the other autosomal DNA testing sites is that many of the testers have an Ancestry Member Tree with enough entries that a common ancestor can be found, and therefore a relationship can be determined.  

The major problem I have with AncestryDNA is that I cannot download the chromosome segments for the persons that I match with in the DNA Circles, the Shared Ancestors list, or the Shared Matches list.  If I could do that, then I could do the chromosome painting that I'm doing with my matches on 23andMe, FamlyTreeDNA, MyHeritage and GEDMatch.  Fortunately, a few of my AncestryDNA Shared Ancestor matches have DNA test results on one of the other services.

As before, he great majority of the latest new matches (perhaps 95%?) have not attached their DNA to an Ancestry Member Tree.  

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