But I think the couple perhaps is a descendant of Lorenzo and then more likely a grandchild of James Grantham. As both are born much earlier that William I have to look to each of the descendants of those men. So in one case, Lorenza Johnson is a key person, and in the other, it’s James Grantham. There are ancestors in between, but here you see the common ancestor. That’s why I’ve turned to Scapple.Ībove you’ll see several of my DNA matches and how we connect. So as I said, with disconnected or floating branches, these DNA connections aren’t as visible. Although I have matches that connect to my mystery many of them are small amounts of DNA, so the tree is getting larger, but I feel that I’m getting close to figuring this out.Īgain it’s that time thing sometimes you have to sleep. After all, you have 16 great-great-grandparents. When you look at the tree view, you can’t always see those DNA matches as they are spread out over generations.īecause William Beaton is my great grandfather finding out who his parents are can be a bit more involved. I’ve been adding floating branches for quite some time, so I do know that I have people who have shared ancestors, but I decided I wanted something a bit more visual.
Scapple for genealogy update#
As I update all my Ancestry dots, my process will be different, but for now, this is what I do.
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I did this before Ancestry created their new dots and I’m using the “middle name DNA” to search for my DNA matches so I can add the dots now. When I add my DNA match, I enter their name or username, and as a middle name, I call them “DNA” and in their suffix, I put the number of centimorgans and segment information. How that works is that even if they only have a few ancestors in their tree, I add them, and then I work their genealogy and see if I can connect them to another floating branch on my tree. I believe I also told you that I have a tree that I call my ICW Tree (in common with tree) where I have floating or disconnected branches and as I find someone who’s connected to the mystery I add them to my tree. Perhaps I’ll be able to work on the rest of my ancestors. I’m sure if I ever figure out who William Beaton’s parents were I don’t know whatI’ll do with my time.
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As you know, I’m working on the Beaton/Batten Mystery (sometimes it feels like all my genealogy moments are spent on it).