tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00The Ancestry InsiderThe Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger5582125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-26450927498346171442017-06-03T10:27:39.939-06:002017-06-03T10:27:39.939-06:00My connections are also on my mom's maternal s...My connections are also on my mom's maternal side as others have noted. My Davis line that Ancestry assumed, I have an extensive tree on Ancestry (nearly 7k people) interesting that it was correct in one of the links and incorrect in another. I know a number of famous folks I'm related to and none of them appeared. Several people posted here that there were 25 hits. I have 5 and they don't change. I won't slam this AP, heck, it's fun. I hope that the more people use it, the more accurate it gets. And if it gets others interested in genealogy, well, that's great! I hate it when people do the DNA and never post a tree. If this spurs some to share, that's better for all. N I C O Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08153817565574613795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-91212837236847550132017-06-02T06:35:01.746-06:002017-06-02T06:35:01.746-06:00Thanks so much for all you've contributed over...Thanks so much for all you've contributed over the past 10+ years. Best wishes for whatever is next for you--and enjoy those 6 hours a week you'll get back!Sunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18439595481324319596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-83558245325878147282017-06-01T09:05:20.767-06:002017-06-01T09:05:20.767-06:00And THANK YOU!! You gave many good ideas that made...And THANK YOU!! You gave many good ideas that made me think! You also let me know when I was on the right track. And I appreciate hearing your views on Ancestry and Family Search. Enjoy your extra time during the week!<br />Best wishes to you.......Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126833334495467313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-52963436888582676872017-06-01T06:21:59.785-06:002017-06-01T06:21:59.785-06:00Yep. Still working 6/1/17Yep. Still working 6/1/17ljennerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16659721237099182589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-18586108864981736232017-05-31T11:32:00.697-06:002017-05-31T11:32:00.697-06:00Totally agree. I'm related to about 16 presid...Totally agree. I'm related to about 16 presidents, which I found by comparing what was already in my tree and documented to presidents' wikitree entries. We're Related found none of them, but found 2 others -- Lincoln, by extending my tree through a dubious link that I can see in no one else's tree on Ancestry.com, and Washington, through the same dubious link and then through Francis Cooke's grandfather!! #1 -- don't they realize that Francis Cooke is famous? #2 Wikipedia's entry for Francis Cooke says that no one knows who his father is, and lists 2 possibilities put forth by historians, both of whom differ from the We're Related connection. SUCH HOGWASH!!! Whatever algorithm they are using is really not trying to match what's already in your tree or do an honest comparison. This is a data mining ap for them to use with their marketing.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13343993694405610258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-47043527469545066862017-05-30T08:51:28.261-06:002017-05-30T08:51:28.261-06:00Thank you, for advancing understanding and knowled...Thank you, for advancing understanding and knowledge of the Genealogy field. May the Lord continue to bless you in your genealogical endeavers, and everything else as well.<br /><br />Rodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06778204432931084020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-75249189481269570252017-05-29T18:08:25.258-06:002017-05-29T18:08:25.258-06:00I, too, will miss your always informative newslett...I, too, will miss your always informative newsletter; my favorite being the serendipity articles, they gave me goose bumps! Thank you.JoAnnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04320257962311036755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-12817891845877486122017-05-29T13:49:47.296-06:002017-05-29T13:49:47.296-06:00Best wishes, and thank you!Best wishes, and thank you!Jane E. Wilcoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17367811696107349542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-81271636811057577032017-05-23T17:54:55.391-06:002017-05-23T17:54:55.391-06:00I'll miss your emails. Thank you for all your...I'll miss your emails. Thank you for all your research & insights. God bless.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02298879373991545452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-37589006440181875932017-05-23T14:27:37.667-06:002017-05-23T14:27:37.667-06:00I agree wholeheartedly with Martha Reid's comm...I agree wholeheartedly with Martha Reid's comments.<br />Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02265819355583084625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-45153068969829389762017-05-23T12:37:16.264-06:002017-05-23T12:37:16.264-06:00Thank you!Thank you!Marie Lollo Scalisihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06625399350154075809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-60724890888348178502017-05-23T04:56:26.682-06:002017-05-23T04:56:26.682-06:00Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have ke...Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have kept me informed, and taught me much. I will certainly miss seeing your arrival in my inbox. Cyndi Beane Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15470984285863722669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-3283311617654720892017-05-22T19:48:15.782-06:002017-05-22T19:48:15.782-06:00Thank you.
Thank you.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08413329743758759252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-46950432476876384822017-05-22T17:54:50.001-06:002017-05-22T17:54:50.001-06:00Thank you so much. Enjoy your new found time.Thank you so much. Enjoy your new found time.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13236358932667870546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-509464875986935732017-05-22T16:11:29.751-06:002017-05-22T16:11:29.751-06:00Thank you for all you have done for the genealogy ...Thank you for all you have done for the genealogy community over the years! Enjoy whatever you chose to do next. You will be missed.Colleen G. Brown Pasqualehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16402783115333431440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-14072793647878842022017-05-22T10:02:20.978-06:002017-05-22T10:02:20.978-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079942965266025691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-40762378626936682362017-05-22T10:02:10.951-06:002017-05-22T10:02:10.951-06:00Thanks so much for this post. I have been trying ...Thanks so much for this post. I have been trying to decipher "potential ancestors" for my father, whose DNA is matching him with 14/14 in one DNA circle, 17/21 in another DNA circle, and 8/8 in yet another circle. From glancing through folks in those circles, it is evident they all hail from the same area/county in Alabama circa mid-1800's. Surnames Robbins, Williams, Cantrell. Ancestry.com suggests that he is descended from a certain Williams/Cantrell union.<br /><br />My dad does have an unknown great-grandmother whose name was Nancy (widow of Howard) and married his great-grandfather in Mississippi in 1885. Family history is that she brought to the marriage a daughter about 10 years old named Jennie Henretta. Nancy died in 1888 after giving birth to my father's grandmother. Her daughter by Mr. Howard was sent to live with relatives who lived in Arkansas. But we know from multiple census records that both the daughter (Jennie Henretta) and Nancy were born in Alabama.<br /><br />For 50+ years, our family has been looking for a Nancy Howard and daughter Jennie/Henretta Howard in the 1880 census in Alabama with zero luck. <br /><br />When I saw my father's VERY strong connections to these DNA circles, I narrowed my search to women named Nancy Williams, Nancy Robbins, or Nancy Cantrell. I looked for marriage records to a Mr. Howard. I found a Nancy Robbins married to a James Howard (signed by Nancy's father William Robbins) in the very county where all my father's DNA matches occurred. So I then looked for the couple in the 1880 census. No luck. My next step was to see if I could find Nancy Robbins in the 1870 census, same county. I did... with William Robbins listed as her father.<br /><br />Thinking that this may be the right family and perhaps Nancy, Mr. Howard, and Jennie Henretta lived nearby in the 1880 census, I followed William Robbins forward to 1880. And there it was... I think the smoking gun. In 1880, William Robbins is listed with his wife, known children from the 1870 census, and..... Nancy Howard, age 26. There is also a 6 year old "daughter" in the household named Henretta J Robbins. It seems likely that Henretta J Robbins is actually Jennie Henretta Howard, as William Robbins and his wife are 60 and 54 years old. My gut says that Mr. Howard had died early in the marriage and that Nancy and daughter Henretta Jennie moved back in with her parents, where they were recorded as "Robbins" on the 1880 census.<br /><br />It's taken some digging, and I'm not positive I'm right, but the evidence suggests I am. My concern was that the Robbins family I've found isn't in the pedigree of folks in the DNA circles my dad matches with. Same last name, same county, but no shared common ancestor (yet). <br /><br />But thank you so much for your post. I think the likeliest explanation is that the connection is a generation or two earlier.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079942965266025691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-47875482813146754932017-05-22T10:01:48.549-06:002017-05-22T10:01:48.549-06:00Thanks so much for this post. I have been trying ...Thanks so much for this post. I have been trying to decipher "potential ancestors" for my father, whose DNA is matching him with 14/14 in one DNA circle, 17/21 in another DNA circle, and 8/8 in yet another circle. From glancing through folks in those circles, it is evident they all hail from the same area/county in Alabama circa mid-1800's. Surnames Robbins, Williams, Cantrell. Ancestry.com suggests that he is descended from a certain Williams/Cantrell union.<br /><br />My dad does have an unknown great-grandmother whose name was Nancy (widow of Howard) and married his great-grandfather in Mississippi in 1885. Family history is that she brought to the marriage a daughter about 10 years old named Jennie Henretta. Nancy died in 1888 after giving birth to my father's grandmother. Her daughter by Mr. Howard was sent to live with relatives who lived in Arkansas. But we know from multiple census records that both the daughter (Jennie Henretta) and Nancy were born in Alabama.<br /><br />For 50+ years, our family has been looking for a Nancy Howard and daughter Jennie/Henretta Howard in the 1880 census in Alabama with zero luck. <br /><br />When I saw my father's VERY strong connections to these DNA circles, I narrowed my search to women named Nancy Williams, Nancy Robbins, or Nancy Cantrell. I looked for marriage records to a Mr. Howard. I found a Nancy Robbins married to a James Howard (signed by Nancy's father William Robbins) in the very county where all my father's DNA matches occurred. So I then looked for the couple in the 1880 census. No luck. My next step was to see if I could find Nancy Robbins in the 1870 census, same county. I did... with William Robbins listed as her father.<br /><br />Thinking that this may be the right family and perhaps Nancy, Mr. Howard, and Jennie Henretta lived nearby in the 1880 census, I followed William Robbins forward to 1880. And there it was... I think the smoking gun. In 1880, William Robbins is listed with his wife, known children from the 1870 census, and..... Nancy Howard, age 26. There is also a 6 year old "daughter" in the household named Henretta J Robbins. It seems likely that Henretta J Robbins is actually Jennie Henretta Howard, as William Robbins and his wife are 60 and 54 years old. My gut says that Mr. Howard had died early in the marriage and that Nancy and daughter Henretta Jennie moved back in with her parents, where they were recorded as "Robbins" on the 1880 census.<br /><br />It's taken some digging, and I'm not positive I'm right, but the evidence suggests I am. My concern was that the Robbins family I've found isn't in the pedigree of folks in the DNA circles my dad matches with. Same last name, same county, but no shared common ancestor (yet). <br /><br />But thank you so much for your post. I think the likeliest explanation is that the connection is a generation or two earlier.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079942965266025691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-78568281515845904852017-05-21T17:49:19.095-06:002017-05-21T17:49:19.095-06:00Thanks for your insights and predictions.Thanks for your insights and predictions.Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10881537096000975268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-2389585168268549102017-05-21T08:22:27.690-06:002017-05-21T08:22:27.690-06:00Almost choked on my coffee when I read your good-b...Almost choked on my coffee when I read your good-bye! Will miss your valuable information and can only imagine how much you'll discover with your new found 6 hours per weekGenealogyAtHearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02201897367193747855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-25174827239742626102017-05-21T07:20:51.374-06:002017-05-21T07:20:51.374-06:00Thank you so much for the informative and funny po...Thank you so much for the informative and funny posts. I particularly have learned much about documenting my research from some of your earlier articles. I will miss them, and wish you the best.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13110308767970580344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-29403321293153195902017-05-20T23:14:48.565-06:002017-05-20T23:14:48.565-06:00Please know that you have made a difference by wri...Please know that you have made a difference by writing this blog. Wishing you the best in all your future endeavors.Julie Monsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16237586214940841063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-85204679528448693812017-05-20T22:14:57.628-06:002017-05-20T22:14:57.628-06:00Thanks so much for all you've done over the ye...Thanks so much for all you've done over the years.TheLadyClairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380808353735270704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-15807660187294022192017-05-20T19:14:02.356-06:002017-05-20T19:14:02.356-06:00Yes, the intent is to leave everything on ancestry...Yes, the intent is to leave everything on ancestryinsider.org (or http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com).The Ancestry Insiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-43996777504698565192017-05-20T19:01:37.030-06:002017-05-20T19:01:37.030-06:00So sorry to see you go. Your information and insi...So sorry to see you go. Your information and insights will be greatly missed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10559926948494389990noreply@blogger.com