I’ve spent a lot of time with my own Y and it’s amazing how foreign another Y result can seem when you’re used to staring down your own pattern. So I decided to get a handle on what the 23 and me Haplogroup results for my U152 Thompsons might mean. So I begin..sort of at …
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As I talked about in three balls in the air and my Y breakdown post. I have been waiting for an autosomal match with my Indiana Thompsons trying to identify if we can find Ida Williamson in our shared DNA. I have a lot of autosomal matches that seem to float around the same locations …
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As usual, I’m waiting for DNA test results. Impatiently of course. This time there are three tests I’m excited about seeing the results of for a multitude of reasons. One of my Elmer friends has convinced person on a different branch of the Elmer family tree (descending from Edward) to run the Y 37 test …
Take it. Okay. So in my Thompson hunt, I have two tracks…well three, maybe four. Lots of tracks. We’ll just leave it at that. Major questions for me are: Who are my grandfather’s parents? Are we in any way related to the Indiana Thompsons by blood (will our DNA tests help define the family)? Can …
To help explain these Y suggestions, I ‘ve made a different Y chart coming from Albert Thompson. On the left you’ll see Ray Thompson, my line with my grandfather his only son. Middle is Francis Thompson confirmed by Y tests from his two sons and on the right is Cuba Thompson and a blue marker …
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To try to help explain the Y testing I’ve done, I have a man chart of the men involved in our family Y testing extravaganza. At the top is patriarch Albert Thompson born in 1870 followed by his sons Ray Thompson and Francis Thompson. The dapper looking boy on the left is my grandfather. This …
The results are in from my rounds of DNA testing. To confirm my grandfather (who has no brothers or sisters to test) I tested my first cousin and to confirm my grandfather’s uncle, two of my father’s second cousins tested. They were first cousins to each other and so confirmed their grandfather (my grandfather’s uncle) …
The Y DNA test results came in for the other male Thompson branch and we’re not a match. What does that mean? Well, at the most basic Y test we’re very dissimilar. My results are odd and as I’ve been told there are 10s of men like me. My distant cousin has one of the …
Tonight I ordered a Y test of another descendant of Levi Thompson’s son Albert. This person branches off from my family at Albert’s son Francis Pearl. I am down the line of Albert’s son Ray Bishop. It’s a twelve marker test. The lowest possible test from Family Tree DNA and not one they offer anymore …
Things I should do without DNA: I want to make some kind of list of Thompsons who emigrate from England before 1835, but it may not be worth it because there are many of them and their point of entry into the U.S. may not be telling. Also even though my Y seems to be …