Found a match for McGuire DNA on the 11th chromosome.
I think.
I am still taking baby steps when it comes to genetic genealogy. I think, "Yay!" I've found a match for this brick wall or that brick wall," only to discover that it's a match by coincidence. Or my fragrant cousin who really understands gg cautions me, "It might be a match."
You still have to prove it using DNA triangulation or historic documents.
Well, here's one I can prove with both.
Three of the relatives in my line match one relative in another line of descent from Timothy McGuire and Mary Finney. Timothy was born about 1740 and died about 1790 in Greene County, GA. Mary Finney was born about 1740, died about 1796 also in Greene County, GA. These two are the most recent common ancestors for all three in my line and the one in other cousin's line.
I ran the DNA data for all four people through Gedmatch.com and got exact (gg-speaking) matches on the 11th chromosome. Four people--there's the triangulation, though it will be stronger when we can get another line to share test results.
My line is descended from Davidson McGuire and Margaret Kelley. Cousin's line is descended from an additional Timothy McGuire (so many Timothys...). All of this can be proved using historic documents from AL, GA, and PA.
SO...THUS...HENCE...my assertion that McGuire DNA has been found!
HURRAY!!!
Unless, of course, it's Finney DNA.
The search continues.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Exciting DNA news
Maybe we've identified some of the DNA that comes from Britta Ann Green or John L. McGuire. Maybe. But we need more cousin samples to be sure.
My fragrant cousin showed me how to create a DNA map. It can be tedious to enter long lists of numbers, but the results can be verrrrrrrrry interesting. In essence, you create a database with chromosome start and end locations and compare matching centiMorgans and SNPS. Numbers that are similar to each other likely indicate that the chromosome is inherited from the MRCA (most recent common ancestor). The more distant cousins (3rd - 8th) who take part, the more you can triangulate and hone in on those pesky buggers.
The tools on GEDmatch.com are the easiest to use. I think it took me five minutes to upload my data from Ancestry and FtDNA.
We've uploaded at least a dozen kits from our branch of the family to GEDmatch. This is great, but what it tells us is that we're all closely related. Luckily a fourth cousin descended from Britta and John recently uploaded a kit.
Hooray!!!! Thank you!!!!
By comparing which chromosomes match with ours, we can start to find Britta and John's DNA. If we can find Britta's DNA, we may be able to find her mother using mitochondrial DNA. So exciting!!!!
I've found spots on two chromosomes that seem like a pretty close match. I will not go out on a limb and say that this is Britta or John's DNA. What I will say is that if we can get a few more distant cousins to upload to GEDmatch, we might be able to triangulate and prove in a statistically meaningful way that this is definitely Britta's/John's DNA.
This method allowed us to break through a brick wall and prove that Polly Pinson Peters was indeed born a Dennis.
When Britta died in 1919, she was survived by 104 living descendants. Any cousins out there got a DNA test—and a sledgehammer????
My fragrant cousin showed me how to create a DNA map. It can be tedious to enter long lists of numbers, but the results can be verrrrrrrrry interesting. In essence, you create a database with chromosome start and end locations and compare matching centiMorgans and SNPS. Numbers that are similar to each other likely indicate that the chromosome is inherited from the MRCA (most recent common ancestor). The more distant cousins (3rd - 8th) who take part, the more you can triangulate and hone in on those pesky buggers.
The tools on GEDmatch.com are the easiest to use. I think it took me five minutes to upload my data from Ancestry and FtDNA.
We've uploaded at least a dozen kits from our branch of the family to GEDmatch. This is great, but what it tells us is that we're all closely related. Luckily a fourth cousin descended from Britta and John recently uploaded a kit.
Hooray!!!! Thank you!!!!
By comparing which chromosomes match with ours, we can start to find Britta and John's DNA. If we can find Britta's DNA, we may be able to find her mother using mitochondrial DNA. So exciting!!!!
I've found spots on two chromosomes that seem like a pretty close match. I will not go out on a limb and say that this is Britta or John's DNA. What I will say is that if we can get a few more distant cousins to upload to GEDmatch, we might be able to triangulate and prove in a statistically meaningful way that this is definitely Britta's/John's DNA.
This method allowed us to break through a brick wall and prove that Polly Pinson Peters was indeed born a Dennis.
When Britta died in 1919, she was survived by 104 living descendants. Any cousins out there got a DNA test—and a sledgehammer????
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