G2G: Relationship finder: from Comments on Philip (Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg) Mountbatten

Question

On 12 Aug 2021 Jonathan Ward wrote on Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg-1:

I was curious to know if the relationships are through a tree or DNA matches?

This may be a question that other new WikiTreers would also like answering.

The Relationship Finder uses some amazing software written by Aleš Trtnik which examines thousands of possible paths through the connections which have been created between profiles. Once the software has done its thing, you are presented with one or more pathways between you and the other person

However it's always worth checking the Relationship Finder (for blood relatives) or Connection Finder (for relations by marriage) pathways for yourself. Not every connection is automatically reliable and you will be making the Global Tree more accurate if you find and correct a connection error. 

The DNA test indicators on a profile show that the person has been tested and what test was used. This may help with confirming some relationships if you come across other descendants, but the tests are not used to develop the relationship pathway on WikiTree.

Answer 1

My understanding is, that Relationship Finder is through the tree.

To do it through DNA, may require checking every persons DNA along the relationship path, to make sure with DNA, that the connection is good, which is really difficult to do with people who have been dead for many years. Maybe this isn't the case, because the genetic similarity also suggests a relationship, but you do still need to have at least two people tested for DNA, and my understanding is, perhaps the more people tested, the better the accuracy.

Answer 2

Maybe, way back in the way back, I might maybe could have some relationship to Lord Mountbatten. He was from Battenberg, Germany, and changed the surname to sound less German. My 6th GGPa, Johannes Staubus, was born in Germany, possibly Germuden, 13 September 1671. By 1681, when he was confirmed in the Evangelical Church in Battenberg, he was living with a cousin, Johannes Engel. From all appearances, but not yet proven, his parents died in a plague about 1676, and the surviving children went to live with an uncle.

From what I have gathered about this plague: In a typical year, about 30-36 deaths were recorded in the area of Germunden an der Wohra. But in 1676, around 350 deaths were recorded. This is what a distant cousin who lives in Germany was able to learn, much of it from a historian in Battenberg.

In any case, since my people were in Battenberg prior to 1700, and Phillip did not leave there until what? 1940? it seems there is a good chance his family rubbed shoulders with the prolific Staubus family.