Off Modal matches Map
One piece of Advice was to find off modal matches. These are people who match me at my off modal markers. Basically, they have the same mutations from modal R1b that I have at specific points, but could be different…
Category DNA
Jumbled Mess of Analysis
Along the way, I had to give up on matching any Thompsons. I just don’t. Not within 500 or more years. So I won’t be finding any relatives this way. So I moved on to finding a place. Where do…
16 slow markers map
After I made my 9 slow markers map, I decided to push it out to 16 FTDNA slow markers to see what pattern would emerge. This map takes the person’s word for it unless they didn’t know, then I used…
Google Maps 9 slow markers
Working from the other end…the DNA end, I decided to change things up. I noticed that a lot of people are not like me. I have no matches on more than 36 or so markers. I don’t match any of…
The “Other” Thompson Family
I need to come clean about my Descendant list. I may have mentioned this earlier, but it bears repeating. The family tree I’ve picked to be “my” family tree is really just one possible tree among many. The problem stems…
Ambiguous Results
As a person with one of the most common names in the world, it’s difficult to track anything down. Since I ordered my DNA test to help eliminate variables and dispell some of that mystery, I’ve been sorely disappointed by…
Bits and Pieces
So in the absence of a definitive DNA match I have to put things together the best I can based on some “close” DNA matches, my own amateur ancestry.com paper trail and broad generalities about “Thompsons”. So I’ll start here…
My Thompson DNA
I keep putting this disclaiming “My” in front of Thompson because there are a lot of Thompsons. The closest Thompson to me at the Thompsons DNA Project are Robert Thompson before 1775 Scotland (we mismatch on 6 markers) and Benjamin…