Today, Shirley Becker and I went to the SDGS Fall Seminar and listened to Daniel Horowitz with his terrific knowledge in doing Genealogy and DNA.
She picked up a tip that may help her to work with her newly discovered distant cousin, about 5 - 6 out in distance that is the generation she is frustrated with. DNA connected them. They are both stuck in the same place.
Daniel explained some of the linking where my brain could accept and understand it. Listened to him in Grand Rapids and in San Diego before and Jamboree before.
I wrote some tidbits down that I felt were vital and I have almost always used that method.
He did give a couple more tips that I want to encourage all to try.
1. Always contact the potential match person especially about sources and family further information.
2. Always scan to bottom of the match page so you can do Consistency Checks. It will show errors.
3. Make sure matches are based on names, dates, places and facts and relationships.
4. A Sun Chart will hold the most families of the past.
5. He has a blog page you can follow.
6. He is also on Facebook.
7. My Heritage does not do Y DNA testing.
8. It does do the other tests, Autosomal, etc.
9. Some countries do not allow tests to be given or taken.
10. Indogamy is the inter close marriages of two families that change the amount of ancestors you have.
endogamy definition: the fact or custom of having marriage only between members of the same group: .
These are only some of the highlights I found very much worth passing on to readers.
I like to think of endogamy as when a brother and sister of one family marry the sister and brother of the other family. Which happened more than once in my Duvall lines. Also other lines.
Mayflower group has this as do many other small groups whom have few choices for marriages.
Suspecting Jamestown was the same, even early San Francisco could probably qualify.
More to come.
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