Genea-Musings

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

AmericanAncestors Introduces American AncesTREES - Part I

The Weekly Genealogist newsletter (published weekly by American Ancestors, owned by the New England Historic Genealogical Society) reveals that they have added a family tree offering to their website for their members. The information in the newsletter says:

"American AncesTREES is a new, FREE online family tree experience for American Ancestors members. Members can create a tree from scratch, import an existing family tree, get hints to "grow" trees, and use social media features to share trees with friends and family. Higher-level plans with additional features such as DNA tools are available at a low cost. Make sure you're logged into our site and get started today! "

You can't keep me away from a family tree site, and I am an NEHGS/AmericanAncestors member, so I immediately decided to add my content to it.

1) So I clicked on the link to "Get started today." First, I logged into my AmericanAncestors account and saw:

2) Further down the screen is the list of three plans - a Standard Tree (free), an Advanced Tree ($19.95/year), and a Premium Tree ($34.95/year):

The three tree plans provide different features. The DNA Tools and Private Tree options require a Premium plan.

3) Further down the page, there is a set of "Frequently Asked Questions:"

4) I'm ready to start! I went back up the page to the gold "Access AncesTREES" button on the first screen above. That opened a Welcome screen, and I chose a username and clicked on the two buttons to agree to the Terms of Use, Privacy policy, and the weekly newsletter:

I clicked the gold "GO" button and saw the "Create Your Tree" page:

I chose a creative name for my tree ("Randy Seaver's AncesTree") and decided I would "Import a GEDCOM file" (the other two options are to "Start with an empty tree" and "Import people from FamilySearch." My guess is that if I start with an empty tree, that I will have to enter profiles one at a time by hand.

I clicked on the gold "GO" button and saw:

On this screen, I can "Import a GEDCOM" file to populate my AncesTree. I have to "Choose File" and then identify the Root person of the tree.

There is a note - "GEDCOMs up to 75,000 people and up to 75 Mb are supported."

5) My RootsMagic tree is around 52,000 persons and I don't know how many Mb, so I will stop here and make a GEDCOM file from my RootsMagic file.

This report will continue in a separate post after I work with my GEDCOM file.

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Disclosure: I am a longtime annual subscriber (1992?) of NEHGS/AmericanAncestors, and have received no material considerations from them ever.

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Copyright (c) 2019, Randall J. Seaver

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Randy as a Baby in 1944 -- Post 549 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

Several months ago, I discovered an envelope of small photographs saved when my mother died in 2002 - it was hiding in plain sight in the Genea-Cave!

Included in the photo cache was this oldie-but-goodie - a studio photograph of me as a baby:

A baby with 8 teeth, some blonde hair, and I could sit up and laugh or giggle, so that might be age 8 to 12 months? Perhaps a one-year-old photograph? So definitely in 1944 (I was born in October 1943).

I have no idea where this was taken, but it might be a photo taken for my father to have in his wallet when he entered the U.S. Navy in August 1944. The time is right.

Cuteness as a baby seems to run in every family. Who knows how a person turns out 75 years later?

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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Genealogy News Bytes - 15 January 2019

Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last four days include:

1) News Articles:

*   Third Of Americans Can’t Name All Four Grandparents, Survey Finds

* Genealogy Guys and Vivid-Pix Partner to Recognize Genealogy’s Unsung Heroes

*  Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) Registration Opens Soon!

*  23andMe Adds 1000+ More Regions and 30+ New Reports for the Most Refined View of Ancestry To-Date

2) New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 6 to 12 January 2019

*  New Historical Records Added in December 2018 (MyHeritage)

*  Advantage Preservation Adds 1.2 Million Historical Newspaper Pages - December, 2018

3) Genealogy Education - Webinars:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for January 2019

* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 16 January, 11 a.m. PST:  What Would You Do If You Had Five Days in Washington, DC?, by Pamela Boyer Sayre

* Upcoming SCGS Webinar - Wednesday, 16 January, 6 p.m. PST:  Pandemics & Epidemics: Issues of Politics, Economy, and Religion,  by Jean Wilcox Hibben

* Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Visualizing Information for Genealogists, by Margaret R. Fortier

4) Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

* Genealogy Gems Podcast:  Episode # 356 Introduces New Sponsor Vivid-Pix AND Announces the "Unsung Heroes Awards"

* Research Like a Pro Podcast:  RLP 27: Personal Genealogy Software

* Genealogy Journeys Podcast: #65 - Museums, Part 1: Military, War

* Genealogy Connection Podcast: #051 - Kenyatta Berry, Author of the Family History Toolkit

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast: #36 – Squeezing The Most Out Of Digitized Newspapers

5) Genealogy Education - Video:

*  WikiTree Scan-a-Thon YouTube Videos:  Channel (many more over the weekend)

* Ancestral Findings YouTube: AF-214: Tips for Doing Middle Name Research

* BYU Family History Library YouTube: Adding 3rd Party Sources in FamilySearch Family Tree - Kathryn Grant

* Family History Fanatics YouTube: AncestryDNA Test Ethnicity Update - A Segment of DNA

* Genealogy Gems YouTube:  Audio Only: Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 225 with Kenyatta Berry of Genealogy Roadshow

6) Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, January 15, 2019

7) DNA Success Stories

*  Blonde woman who 'stuck out like a sore thumb' in her Orthodox Jewish community learns her real dad is a STRANGER after fertility doctors in the 1960s mixed two sperm samples 'to spare her infertile father's blushes'

* FERRIER FILES: Man never quits on finding dad, reunites after 50 years in Cookeville

8) Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 11 January 2019?

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23andMe Adds New Features to Ancestry Composition Estimates

23andMe announced new features today to its autosomal DNA Ancestry Composition feature (which includes ethnicity estimates) - see their blog post 23andMe Adds 1000+ More Regions and 30+ New Reports for the Most Refined View of Ancestry To-Date.

I wondered if my Ancestry Composition had changed since I last posted about it on 1 January.

1) Here is the top of my Ancestry Composition page on 23andMe:

2) Scrolling down, I can see my complete ethnicity estimate:

Nope, it hasn't changed a bit. Disappointing, but then I'm "almost" 100% European.

3) Further down the screen, here is my "Ancestry Timeline:"

The article said this may have changed. I agree with the British and Irish" time frame, but the "French and German" time frame is probably too late (all of my known German lines came before 1750), and I have no clue from the paper trail who my "Scandinavian," "North African and Arabian," and "Native American" ancestors are.

4) Down the screen, the next section concerns how much I inherited from my parents. This is really an ad to entice you to test your parents. Mine are deceased.

5) The next section is about "My Connections." I can see the same "Ancestry Composition" for one of my DNA Matches. I didn't bother.

6) Scrolling down, here is the "Ancestry Composition Chromosome Painting" (two screens shown):

The screens above use the assigned colors for each ethnicity group and paint them on the 22 pairs of autosomal chromosomes and my X chromosome (from my mother). This useful information to me.

a) By running my mouse over one of the ethnicity sub-regions, I can see which part of each chromosome was derived from that sub-region.

Here is the top of the "British and Irish" ethnicity region:

I can see from this that both of my parents had British and Irish ancestry on most of my chromosomes, but not all of them. I'm not surprised since my paper trail says my father is about 100% British and my mother is about 50% British and Irish.

b) And the top of the "French and German" ethnicity region:

I was surprised that there are several chromosomes where both my mother's and father's has French and German ethnicity. My paper trail indicates that my mother has about 45% French and German ancestry, but my father has none.

c) Here is the Scandinavian ethnicity region:

Chromosomes 4 and 6 have some Scandinavian segments. My paper trail shows my mother has one Scandinavian ancestor from the 1600s.

d) Some of the French and German and Scandinavian may be derived from the Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Vikings, Normans, etc. that invaded the British Isles over thousands of year.

e) My "North Africa and Arabian" ethnicity segment is on one of my Chromosome 6, and I have no clue who that may be. However, it is on the other Chromosome 6 from my Scandinavian segment.

f) My "Native American" ethnicity segment is on one of my Chromosome 12 which has British and Irish and no French or German. I think that this may be on my mother's Canadian ancestry from the 1700s.

I really like this type of presentation, but I can't see all 23 chromosome pairs on my screen when I highlight an ethnicity. I could reduce the screen to about 75% I guess.

Obviously, identifying the ethnicity of a chromosome segment is based on the reference groups that the testing service uses. GIGO.

7) It appears that the "new" Ancestry Composition features on 23andMe don't add much new to my own composition. The ethnicity estimates haven't changed, but there are other new features in the blog post that provide explanations and stories to explain the composition to users.

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Disclosure: I paid for my 23andMe autosomal DNA test back in 2011, and have received no material considerations from 23andMe.

The URL for this post is: https://www.geneamusings.com/2019/01/23andme-adds-new-features-to-ancestry.html

Treasure Chest Tuesday - 1840 U.S. Census Record of Cornelius Feather Household in New Lyme, Ohio

This week's Tuesday Treasure is the 1840 United States Census record of the Cornelius Feather household in New Lyme, Ashtabula County, Ohio:

The Cornelius Feather entry is the third from the bottom:

The extracted information from this record is:

* Head of household: Cornelius Feather
* 1 Male, aged 60 to 69 [certainly Cornelius, born in 1777]
* 1 female, aged 0 to 4 [perhaps a granddaughter]
* 1 female, aged 5 to 9 [perhaps a granddaughter]
* 1 female, aged 30 to 39 [perhaps a sister or a niece]
* 1 female, aged 40 to 49 [perhaps an unknown wife, or a sister or a niece]

The source citation for this marriage is:

1840 United States Federal Census, Ashtabula County, Ohio, population schedule, New Lyne township, Page 220, Cornielis Feather household, online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M704, Roll 376.
I don't think that the female aged 40 to 49 in the 1840 census is Cornelius' first wife or the mother of Sarah Feather.

Cornelius Feather (1777-1853) is my 4th great-grandfather. He married --?-- --?-- (about 1785-before 1830) before 1804 when they had my 3rd great-grandmother, Sarah Feather (1804-1848) who married Henry Carringer before 1825. Cornelius married (2) Mary --?-- (1792-1855) in about 1850.

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Copyright (c) 2019, Randall J. Seaver

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Monday, January 14, 2019

Monday Genea-Pourri - 14 January 2019

Here is a summary of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past two weeks:

1) Moderated the CVGS Research Group meeting on Wednesday with 16 in attendance. I highlighted Finding Your Roots on Tuesdays, Genealogy website rankings and benchmarks, DNA match AutoCluster tool, my 10 Best research finds of 2018, and the RootsTech 2019 livestreaming opportunities. The attendees shared their activities over the past two months.

2) Attended the SDGS Winter Seminar on Saturday with Curt Witcher, who talked about Doing Effective Research in Libraries, Mining Periodical Literature, Using Government Documents, and Best Practices for the Internet. I left after the third talk because I needed a nap.

3) Transcribed another deed for Amanuensis Monday - 1798 Deed of Isaac Kidder to Zachariah Hildreth in Townsend, Mass. I have several more to do in this series.

4) Watched one Family Tree Webinar this past week - A Nose for News: 20+ Tips for Getting the Most Out of Newspapers, by Mary Kircher Roddy.

5) Ran the Genetic Affairs AutoCluster for my 23andMe matches and received no results - apparently there weren't enough people for a cluster. Wrote a blog post about the process - see Using GeneticAffairs.com to Create DNA Match AutoClusters - Part I.

6) Created a spreadsheet for my AncestryDNA AutoCluster analysis, and sorted it by cluster and shared cM. Then I added a column for known relationships and known common ancestors.

7) There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and other ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 28,672 of my RM persons with FSFT. I continue to use Web Hints from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles. I now have 52,078 persons in my RootsMagic file, and 100,082 source citations. I TreeShared two times during the last week (about 200 profiles), and resolved about 500 Ancestry Hints. I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 90,777 waiting to be resolved, but I work on them weekly.

8) I decided to cover the DNA statistics monthly rather than weekly in my Genea-Pourri post.

9) Wrote 17 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which two were press releases. The most popular post last week was Genealogy News Bytes - 11 January 2019 with over 230 views.

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Amanuensis Monday - 1798 Deed of Isaac Kidder to Zachariah Hildreth in Townsend, Mass.

This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is the 1798 deed of Isaac Kidder to Zachariah Hildreth of Townsend in the Middlesex County, Massachusetts Land Records:

[Volume 148, pages 336-337]

The transcription of this deed is:

[Volume 148, page 336, starts at top of left-hand page]

[in left-hand margin]

Isaac Kidder
to
Zac^h Hildreth

[Body of text]

Know all Men by these Presents that I Isaac
Kidder of Townsend in the County of Middlesex and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts ^yeoman^ in consideration of
Two hundred Dollars paid by Zachariah Hildreth
of the same Townsend aforesaid gentleman, the receipt
whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give grant
sell and convey unto the said Zach. Hildreth a certain
peice of land in Townsend afores^d, and a part of two lots
No. fifty four and fifty five, said lots situate on Bay-
berry Hill, containing forty acres be the same more
or less bounded as follows, viz. beginning at a stake
and stones, the southeast corner of one of the above
said lots, thence west twenty nine deg^s north about
one hundred rods by Jonas Farmers land to a stake
and stones for a corner, thence north twenty nine deg^s
east sixty four rods by Daniel Fosters & Joseph Walkers
land to a stake and stones for a corner, thence east twen-
ty nine deg^s south about one hundred rods by s^d
Kidders land to a stake and stones for a corner in the
line of said Farmers land, thence south twenty nine
deg^s West sixty four rods by said Farmers land
to the bounds first mentioned. To have and to
hold the aforegranted premises to the said Zach
Hildreth his heirs and assigns to his and their
Use and behoof forever. And I do covenant with the
said Zac^h Hildreth his heirs and assigns that I am
lawfully seized in fee of all incumbrances that I have
good right to sell and convey the same to the said Zac^h
Hildreth And that I will warrant and defend the
same premises to the said Zac^h Hildreth his heirs
and assigns forever against the lawful claims and
demands of all persons. In witness whereof I the
said Isaac Kidder with my wife Sarah she

[Volume 148, page 337]

releasing her right of Dower or thirds to the above granted
premises have hereunto set our hands and seals this
twenty seventh day of December in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight. Isaac
Kidder and seal. Sarah Kidder and seal. Signed
sealed and delivered in presence of us Enoch Kidder
Sally Kidder. Middlesex Ss November 15, 1800. Then
the above named Isaac Kidder personally appeared and
acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and
acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and
deed before me Daniel Adams Just. of Peace.
Middlesex Ss Cambridge 16^th Decem^r 1802.
Received and Entered
by Samuel Bartlett Regr.

The source citation for this recorded deed is:

"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 23 December 2018), Middlesex County, "Deeds, 1802-1803, Vol. 148," Volume 148, pages 336-337 (image 183 of 288), Deed of Isaac Kidder to Zachariah Hildreth, executed 27 December 1798, recorded 16 December 1802.

This deed is for forty acres of land on Bayberry Hill in the southwestern part of Townsend, adjacent to land owned by Jonas Farmer, Daniel Foster, Samuel Walker, and Isaac Kidder. Zachariah paid 200 dollars in 1798 for this piece of land, which measures 100 rods (1650 feet) in one dimension (northwesterly and southeasterly), and 64 rods (1056 feet) northeasterly and southwesterly, in a rectangular shape.

Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829) "gentleman" is my 4th great-grandfather, who married Elizabeth Keyes (Hannah Sawtell (1759-1793) in Townsend, Massachusetts in 1777. I am descended from their son, Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) who married Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857 in 1810.

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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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Sunday, January 13, 2019

Best of the Genea-Blogs - 6 to 12 January 2019

Dozens of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*  How to Connect with Your Pilgrim Ancestors and Join the Mayflower Society by Kate on the Legacy Tree Genealogists blog.

*  Sharing Scanned Family Documents and Photos Online: Pros and Cons by Laura Hedgecock on the Treasure Chest of Memories blog.

*  #FamilySecrets — Wife and Children Missing by Bethany Maddox on the Root Stalker Genealogy blog.

*  How to make the most of your AncestryDNA matches: Part 4 – How to quickly, and effectively, use GEDmatch by the writer of An American Genealogy blog.

*  The 2018 International Genetic Genealogy Conference – A Review: Day One by Rachel King on the Toll Genealogy blog.

*  The Archive Lady: 3 Tips for Organizing Your Genealogy Records by Melissa Barker on the Abundant Genealogy blog.

* Mitochondrial DNA Bulldozes Brick Wall by Roberta Estes on the DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy blog.

* Ultimate Challenge by Marcia Philbrick on the Heartland Genealogy blog.

* Back to the Basics With Tax Records: Part 1 by Diana Elder on the Family Locket blog.

* 10-Minute Genealogy Tasks You Can Do by DiAnn Iamarino on the Fortify Your Family Tree blog.

*  Immigrant example: Researching Hiram B. Ferverda (1854-1925) by Yvette Hoitink on the Dutch Genealogy blog.

* Finding Cousins at 23andMe by Kitty Cooper on Kitty Cooper's Blog.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  Friday's Family History Finds by Linda Stufflebean on the Empty Branches on the Family Tree blog.

* Friday Fossicking - 11th Jan 2019 by Crissouli on the That Moment in Time blog.

* This Week's Creme de la Creme -- January 12, 2019  by Gail Dever on the Genealogy a la Carte blog.

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and read their articles, and add their blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another RSS feed, or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I am currently reading posts from over 900 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

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Using GeneticAffairs.com to Create DNA Match AutoClusters - Part I: Getting The Clusters

One of the latest autosomal DNA match analysis tools is the AutoCluster at GeneticAffairs.com. Several genetic genealogists have already written about it, so I'm late to the testing party, but for those who have not heard of it, or tried it yet, I want to share it with my readers.

I registered with GeneticAffairs.com and tried to perform an AutoCluster with my AncestryDNA DNA match results in early December. It failed for many users for some reason, but by the end of December it was working for AncestryDNA so I tried again, and had success. I will share my AncestryDNA AutoCluster results in another post.

I have also tested or uploaded my autosomal DNA on 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA, LivingDNA and MyHeritage. At this time, GeneticAffairs can work with AncestryDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe DNA test results.

1) Here is the Genetic Affairs home page before signing in:

The home page says:

"Genetic Affairs automates the retrieval of new genetic matches for 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA and AncestryDNA and presents all updates in a single email."

The process to automate the retrieval of your genetic matches is pretty simple as shown on the screen above -- Register with the site, Add website (your credentials - username and password - for your profile on the DNA site, Select the profiles you want to show in an Autocluster, and Receive results in mail.

2) After registering and/or signing in, I went to the Websites page. In the screen below, it shows I have already added AncestryDNA to my list of DNA websites.

I want to add 23andMe as a new website.

3) After clicking on the blue "Add New Website" link on the screen above, I was offered the choice of the three DNA testing sites available:

4) I chose the "Add 23andMe Account" button on the screen above, and then added my username and password for my 23andMe account:

5) After clicking the blue "Add New Website" button on the screen above, I got an on-screen message:

They are double checking to make sure I want to add the site. I do, so I clicked on the "Yes, add Website" button:

It took just seconds to check my 23andMe credentials. I clicked on the blue "Close" button on the screen above.

6) The AutoScan settings appeared on the screen,

The default settings are on the screen above, and the user can change them. As the screen above notes, these settings are meant for regular updates and not used by AutoCluster. I didn't change them here.

7) I clicked on the small blue "AutoCluster" button on the screen above, and saw:

Here is the screen to actually perform the AutoCluster analysis for my 23andMe DNA matches. I edited the AutoCluster settings in "Approach A" to be a maximum of 250 cM and a minimum of 25 cM. There are other approaches if a user wants to use them. I've used the cM range to date.

I clicked on the blue "Perform Analysis" button on the screen above and saw:

Again, they want to make sure that the user is aware of what's about to happen. The message above says:

"Would you like to perform a AutoCluster analysis using Approach A based on cM thresholds for profile? The cost of this analysis is 25 credits."

It costs? Yes, but the user gets the first 200 credits for free. See their "Prices" page at http://geneticaffairs.com/prices.html.

8) I decided to do it, and clicked on the blue "Yes, perform AutoCluster analysis" button.

In seconds, the message above appeared on the screen. I expect to find an email in my system within 30 minutes. Sure enough, it appeared within 5 minutes.

All of the above, from log in to finish, took less than five minutes.

I will report on the 23andMe results in a separate post.

9) My tentative plan is to not get an AutoCluster every month, but perhaps every 6 months on the sites that produce a lot of new matches.

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Disclosure: I have no material connection to Genetic Affairs and am "just a user" of their service.

The URL for this post is: https://www.geneamusings.com/2019/01/using-geneticaffairscom-to-create-dna.html

Copyright (c) 2019, Randall J. Seaver

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