I decided to post yet another map of matches. These are my 25 marker matches at FTDNA and my lone 37 marker match along with several people at the U106 project who seem to follow my pattern of DYS390 = 25, DYS385b = 11, YCA2a and b = 19 and 22. Within the spreadsheet for …
So now I have another ball in the air. These Berks PA Thompsons. Without more details on where their information comes from, I can’t say what to do with them. Is it a story, does it come from a church record, are there siblings for Levi? With a birth and death date for Albert E …
This is a fools errand. The whole thing really, but especially this track of trying to find John Thompson from Centre Butler PA. Given my options, I thought it would be good to review my notes on John Thompson (listed here as a pioneer of the Pittsburgh area and moving into Butler county from Washington …
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I have two good Thompson fronts to work on genetically. One is with a person who has Elizabeth Thompson born in the late 1700s who marries Daniel Mickey around 1785 in Washington County PA. The Mickeys end up in Ohio. Unfortunately there is quite a bit of blurriness surrounding these Thompsons and Mickeys as evidenced …
My dad was recently tested at 23 and me as well, which has been a great tool for finding both relatives on his side and on my mom’s and there were a few surprises. One of the people that I could definitely match trees with on my father’s side turned out to be a …
I did a search of the Indiana State Digital Archives and found a civil war record for Levi Thompson. His civil war records have been the most effective way to track him (as in the 1890 veteran’s roll in Ohio). Unlike his other documents from the National Archives or his online indexes, this one listed …
The long haul to figuring out my Y DNA results has left the playing field for Thompson ancestors more open rather than closing it up. I’m R1b-U106 which is pretty popular anywhere around the North and Baltic Seas. My closest Y DNA matches at Ancestry.com are from Denmark and England. YHRD has Denmark and Germany, …
A bit of a warning here. When analyzing the genome of a person like me, it helps to realize that this is not the genetic analysis of a single person but the combination of everyone I’m related to for several hundred years. Everyone..even the ones I don’t know about. 23 and me provides some of …
Genetically anyway. I’ve been using my 23 and me account along with the vast sources of the internet to contact and confer with genetic relatives. It’s been awesome and eye opening. I was spoiled by success right away. My first contact through 23 and me was related to the Hathaways and I was able to …