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Here is my family tree.Ancestors
Katherine Ann Johnson, the daughter of Douglas Johnson and Phyllis Smith, was born September 27, 1943 in Schenectady, New York.
DNA
Paternal and maternal relationships are confirmed with a GEDmatch test match between Kay (Johnson) Wilson GEDmatch T596586 and her sister Lynn (Johnson) Andrews GEDmatch T408316. Their most MRCAs are their parents Douglas Johnson and Phyllis Smith. Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 1.2, based on sharing 2654.8 cM across 46 segments.
Sources
United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Schenectady, Schenectady, New York; Roll: 218; Sheet Number: 267; Enumeration District: 70-110
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Kay or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
Kay (Johnson) Wilson:
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup H10e, FTDNA kit #95490
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Kay:
Maggie, I appreciate that you agree that the two profile should be merged, but I'm afraid that I can't complete the merge for you. That has to be done by the profile managers.
Hi Kay! Just wanted to say thank you for finding some documents on my ancestors William Cope-3109 and his wife Elizabeth a while back. I'm an amateur sleuth, and the things you found and updated on their profiles was very helpful and interesting. I really appreciate it!
Hi Kay, I noticed that you had entered information for Samuel Combs (Combs-3536). I was wondering if you had any source information for this? In particular, his marriage to Martha Langdon? I descend from his daughter Caroline Combs. Thanks!
Hi, thank you for so patiently explaining what I needed to do when I didn't take the time to look and research it myself first. That was very kind of you.
and since I know nothing about DNA testing and note that you had posted a DNA comment 2 yrs ago, could you help me understand your edit? I can't find the Father Status Indicator or even find the word "confident " on his page.
Is your edit regarding Stephen as a father or Stephen's father(John William Burt)?
"11 Feb 2022
06:02: Kay (Johnson) Wilson edited the Father Status Indicator and Data Status (Father) for Stephen Evan Burt (abt.1854-1919). (marked parent(s) 'confident' instead of confirmed with DNA because there is insufficient documentation) "
Thank You
The profile for Stephen Evan Burt-1666 previously showed that his relationship to his father, John William Burt-3656, was 'confirmed with DNA'. Two years ago, in February 2020 I left a comment indicating that there wasn't sufficient information on the profile for that relationship status, provided a link to the instructions about marking a relationship to a parent 'confirmed with DNA' and offered to help. Then recently I came across the profile again, saw that the relationship was still showing as 'confirmed with DNA', but that the necessary information to document that relationship still had not been added to the profile, so I changed his relationship to his father to 'confident'.
The Father Status Indicator is found on the 'edit' page for any profile. On the right hand side, near the top, in the 'edit family' section, you can choose from 4 different relationship statuses for the person's relationship to his/her father, and also to his/her mother: non-biological, uncertain, confident, or confirmed with DNA. To the right of each choice there is a question mark in a small black circle. Clicking on that question mark takes you to a page explaining more about that relationship status.
I hope that answers all of your questions. If it doesn't, please let me know. Thanks!
(Wes Collinwood) I have just left a message for the profile MGR of Baumgardner 142, of the proposed merge. I have checked & the 2 are the same person. I have urged him to go ahead with the merge. Or you could do it, just let me know the results. Eve is my 5X great grandmother!
Hi Kay. Thanks for your comment. However, the DNA confirmation statements you are using are much different from the statements I just created per your request, via the new DNA Confirmation Citation Maker that I used to create appropriate statements: https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/clarke11007/DNAconf.php
Your DNA Confirmation statement reads:
Paternal and maternal relationships are confirmed with a GEDmatch test match between Kay (Johnson) Wilson GEDmatch T596586 and her sister Lynn (Johnson) Andrews GEDmatch T408316. Their most MRCAs are their parents Douglas Johnson and Phyllis Smith. Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 1.2, based on sharing 2654.8 cM across 46 segments.
My statement was created before the DNA Confirmation Maker was developed, but I believe it is consistent with the format of the "Simple DNA Match" which is to be used when the matching test takers are third cousins or closer.
You still need to complete the merge. On either profile, scroll down to the lower left of the page, in the "Matches and Merges" section, and click on the "merge" link just below Don's name. That will take you to a page where you can complete the merge. Let me know if you don't understand, or if you still have questions. Thanks!
I'll definitely approve your merge of your record and mine of Louisa Tenney. Before I do it, I want to hear from you, and I want to update my WikiTree information about Louisa Tenney - I have her parents' names, for one thing.
People almost never reply to my WikiTree comments. I prefer to correspond by e-mail - I'm rsrichmond on gmail.
Louisa Tenney is my great-great-grandmother. How are you related to her?
I am trying to find out history for David Davis (b:@1771-1772 and died 4/1834 in Lewis Co., Kentucky. How do I search of Wiki Genealogy Feed to see if anyone is entering anything about this David Davis? It appears you added some info for David Davis.
Regards, William ("Bill" Davis [email address removed]
Both Susan DeFoe and Gershom Manchester are direct maternal line descendants of Mary Paine-49 (1616-1687), and would have inherited her mtDNA. (Note that both men and women inherit their mother's mtDNA, but only women can pass that mtDNA down to their children.)
You can see how Susan and Gershom are related by clicking on the small green box, with the two arrows facing one another, that is just to the right of Susan's name (in the DNA Connections section) on Gershom's profile .
Hi Kay, I just noticed the work you did on my many times great grandfather Walter Scott Cowan. Thanks so much! My biggest mistake when I first started at Wikitree was uploading a gedcom. And I was early in my genealogy search and didn't realize the value of sourcing and following established processes. It is volunteers like you who make Wikitree a great place to collaborate! Thank you.
Thanks for contributing to Puritan Great Migration profiles over the last six months. Every little bit helps, so please keep those edits coming!
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If you'd like to tell me about a particular project or family you're working on, I'd love to hear about that as well.
Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. I look forward to hearing from you.
Yes I do think these two are the same, sorta new at this, so I will try to merge on my end. Have much more to add. I have all his childrens names and birthdays. He was my grandfather on my mothers side. Thank you for the comment!
Thank you. I am in the process of learning how to do this.All help is greatly appreciated. I haven't had much extra time to really learn what is what. I won't add anymore to my tree.
Thanks for your note, Diane. You've created a lot of duplicate profiles, and also confused a couple of generations of one family.
Please complete the merges that have been proposed, and before creating any new profiles for people, look around a bit on WikiTree to see if there isn't already a profile for the person on WikiTree.
Since you have been so strict with my profiles ;-)..............I see that you have your parents marked as DNA-confirmed based on a match with your sister. This match only confirms that you share the same parents but not necessarily both these parents. Your parents can only be marked as confirmed based on a test match between you/your sister and your parents.
However, I do see you have more confirmations higher up in the tree. I like to advise you to copy them to the child's profile because they do confirm the DNA trail. I have many examples were the father did not supply the DNA. Had to tell my father and uncle a few years ago that their stepfather was their biological one. Them being 100% brothers, did not confirm the official father.
Hi Kay, You corrected the DNA match information on my ancestors recently. You changed maternal to paternal and maternal. The match was from a MT test. Does that confirm the paternal ancestry as well? Beth
Hi Beth, Are you talking about the change I made on the profile of Amanda Jane Canterbury-456? You're correct, that if the match is from an mtDNA test, only the maternal relationship can be confirmed. But the DNA confirmation statement on her profile refers to a match on GEDmatch between you and your 3rd cousin. GEDmatch can only be used with autosomal DNA, but not mtDNA. Amanda Jane's parents are the MRCAs for your match with your cousin, and it is appropriate to mark her relationship to both of them 'confirmed with DNA'. If you still have questions, please let me know.
Thanks for the updates on the DNA confirmations. I started that work a while ago and forgot to go back with the revised guidelines concerning third cousins versus third cousins once removed. I've been making headway on DNA Painter and Chromosome mapping for Triangulation confirmations.
Thank you for helping me merge my grandfather's profile. As time goes by and the more I visit where he lived with my newly married grandmother, I feel so much closer and really have a need for the file to reflect my love of him.
Thanks Kay for the merge proposal of Martha Barnes.
It appears we are 8th cousins twice removed thru: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barnes-775
I checked GEDMatch and found that you match my Dad with about 7.3cM on Chromosome 18 and lesser amounts on 5 other Chromosomes.
My father also matches at a very low level with Waugh Smith GEDmatch, who is listed on Barnes-775.
Thanks for your merger suggestions. When I was entering my ancestors some of them did pop up and I accepted them. I didn’t realize there was another method. Thank you.
Terry, When the profiles "did pop up" I'm afraid you mis-read the instructions. The box you checked indicated that the profile was NOT a match, and by checking that box you rejected the match and created a new profile.
Thank you for your help with my tree. I am learning slowly but surely. I do not have very much time to work on my tree just a few minutes here and there. I appreciate any and all suggestions and tips. I will be adding some more of what you suggested just as quickly as I can.
Hi Wayne, That's great that you've found the time to add profiles for more of your ancestors! I strongly encourage you to enter birth and death locations when you create a profile. If you don't know the exact city, a county, or even the name of the state can be extremely helpful. Let me know if I can help. Thanks!
Kay, you understandably posted a comment on many of my profiles a statment sayin I needed to add a statement explaining how DNA was used. I am trying to correct those. But I do not understand what is wrong with the one on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Little-3775/
Jane, Your DNA confirmation statement on the profile for Meryle Little looks fine. It was added after I left the comment. Thank you for adding it! I've removed my comment.
Thanks for the comment in the DNA. Sorry about the miss I'll get the other one removed this weekend and rework it when I have time and headspace to focus on DNA. Out if curiosity is there a tool In the works or exists in wikitree where you can put the info in of the three matches to confirm they count for seperate enough lines ? Keats thought it would be neat then it could auto fill in the confirmed as appropriate..
Before you use triangulation for DNA confirmation, if two people are 3C or closer and share a MRCA, just use the regular method of DNA confirmation, using those two tests. If the relationship is >3C, then you need to look for one more distant cousin match to the same MRCA who shares the same >7.0 cM segment on the same chromosome. If you're using GEDmatch, compare the three GEDmatch IDs, using the 3D Chromosome Browser tool. At the very top of the resulting page, there's an indication of how much DNA the test takers share with one another. At the bottom of the page you can find the shared segment data, by chromosome. It doesn't auto fill the DNA confirmation statement, but provides all the information you need to write the statement yourself. If all three of the test takers don't have visible profiles on WikiTree, it's a good idea to name the MRCAs of the three, and how they're related.
Yes, Elizabeth, it really does matter about duplicates. Please re-read the Honor Code that you signed on 23 April 2020: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Honor_Code The first item says we collaborate. Click on the link to "same ancestor profiles" which takes you to this page https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Collaboration and look at item #2: Collaboration means "one profile for every individual". "Every person who ever lived should have one and only one profile on WikiTree. If a duplicate profile has been created unintentionally we merge them."
Can you explain to me why "References" are being moved under "Sources"? References are not sources. They are footnotes. It clutters up the sources and makes reading very awkward if not down right difficult, especially when there are a lot of references. When I first joined seven years ago they were classed correctly. The reason I ask is every time any one of the team leaders or group leaders edits one of the profiles on my watch list they always move the references up to the first thing under sources. It seems to be a formatting rule. Until a year or so ago there was always a "= Footnotes =" section.
Thanks for the edit on some of my pages. I’ve been doing a lot of adopting of pages. It’s to bad though, it would have been someone who was related to me.
Kay, Thanks for your help...I am having problems trying to get Ellen Florida Wilder Whitlock to show on her husband's family tree page...I suppose I need to move her family to the same page, but I have the Whitlocks and the Wilders on separate pages, and Florida's profile is a Wilder +#, and not a Whitlock. Is there any to fix this? I'd just as soon delete pages, and start over. Kathy Wingate
I merged George Randolph Joseph Maule (Maule-273) and Joseph Randolph Anthony Maule (Maule-264) as you suggested, but I have no idea what it should really look like. If you do, please clean it up.
Hi Chris, Thanks for completing the merge. I can't clean it up for you because of the privacy level on the profile (private with public biography). I can see that when you completed the merge you kept everything from each of the two profiles, so that half of everything in the biography should be removed just because it's duplicate information. What is in the biography is from a gedcom you imported in 2017. It would probably be a good idea for you to re-write it in a more user-friendly format. Unfortunately gedcom imports don't create very readable biographies.
LOL -- I give up and will merge the two John Lloyd Howell ... decided that my dec'd cousin William Cozby (former Mayor in Coppell, TX) may have been confused or that I confused what he said .... so now there is only one John Lloyd Howell
Thanks Kay for fixing Rebecca Wells Turley and... I forget who else, but thanks! Sadly, it's just a reminder of how much work I have yet to do on my profiles (sigh).
and since I know nothing about DNA testing and note that you had posted a DNA comment 2 yrs ago, could you help me understand your edit? I can't find the Father Status Indicator or even find the word "confident " on his page. Is your edit regarding Stephen as a father or Stephen's father(John William Burt)? "11 Feb 2022 06:02: Kay (Johnson) Wilson edited the Father Status Indicator and Data Status (Father) for Stephen Evan Burt (abt.1854-1919). (marked parent(s) 'confident' instead of confirmed with DNA because there is insufficient documentation) " Thank You
The profile for Stephen Evan Burt-1666 previously showed that his relationship to his father, John William Burt-3656, was 'confirmed with DNA'. Two years ago, in February 2020 I left a comment indicating that there wasn't sufficient information on the profile for that relationship status, provided a link to the instructions about marking a relationship to a parent 'confirmed with DNA' and offered to help. Then recently I came across the profile again, saw that the relationship was still showing as 'confirmed with DNA', but that the necessary information to document that relationship still had not been added to the profile, so I changed his relationship to his father to 'confident'.
The Father Status Indicator is found on the 'edit' page for any profile. On the right hand side, near the top, in the 'edit family' section, you can choose from 4 different relationship statuses for the person's relationship to his/her father, and also to his/her mother: non-biological, uncertain, confident, or confirmed with DNA. To the right of each choice there is a question mark in a small black circle. Clicking on that question mark takes you to a page explaining more about that relationship status.
I hope that answers all of your questions. If it doesn't, please let me know. Thanks!
Hi Kay. Thanks for your comment. However, the DNA confirmation statements you are using are much different from the statements I just created per your request, via the new DNA Confirmation Citation Maker that I used to create appropriate statements: https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/clarke11007/DNAconf.php
Your DNA Confirmation statement reads:
Paternal and maternal relationships are confirmed with a GEDmatch test match between Kay (Johnson) Wilson GEDmatch T596586 and her sister Lynn (Johnson) Andrews GEDmatch T408316. Their most MRCAs are their parents Douglas Johnson and Phyllis Smith. Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 1.2, based on sharing 2654.8 cM across 46 segments.
Best! Richard J.
You still need to complete the merge. On either profile, scroll down to the lower left of the page, in the "Matches and Merges" section, and click on the "merge" link just below Don's name. That will take you to a page where you can complete the merge. Let me know if you don't understand, or if you still have questions. Thanks!
Thank you so very much for helping me with my family tree. As a newbie I appreciate all the help I can get! Karla Goddard
I'll definitely approve your merge of your record and mine of Louisa Tenney. Before I do it, I want to hear from you, and I want to update my WikiTree information about Louisa Tenney - I have her parents' names, for one thing.
People almost never reply to my WikiTree comments. I prefer to correspond by e-mail - I'm rsrichmond on gmail.
Louisa Tenney is my great-great-grandmother. How are you related to her?
Regards, William ("Bill" Davis [email address removed]
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Manchester-505
Thanks again...
Both Susan DeFoe and Gershom Manchester are direct maternal line descendants of Mary Paine-49 (1616-1687), and would have inherited her mtDNA. (Note that both men and women inherit their mother's mtDNA, but only women can pass that mtDNA down to their children.) You can see how Susan and Gershom are related by clicking on the small green box, with the two arrows facing one another, that is just to the right of Susan's name (in the DNA Connections section) on Gershom's profile .
Thanks for contributing to Puritan Great Migration profiles over the last six months. Every little bit helps, so please keep those edits coming!
Like all WikiTree projects we check in with team members twice per year and it's that time again. Please respond within the next two weeks to let me know:
If you'd like to tell me about a particular project or family you're working on, I'd love to hear about that as well.
Please respond to this message by posting a reply below or sending me a private message on WikiTree. I look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks!
Brad Stauf, PGM membership coordinator
Cindy Bourque Cooper, co-leader Acadians Project
Please complete the merges that have been proposed, and before creating any new profiles for people, look around a bit on WikiTree to see if there isn't already a profile for the person on WikiTree.
Since you have been so strict with my profiles ;-)..............I see that you have your parents marked as DNA-confirmed based on a match with your sister. This match only confirms that you share the same parents but not necessarily both these parents. Your parents can only be marked as confirmed based on a test match between you/your sister and your parents. However, I do see you have more confirmations higher up in the tree. I like to advise you to copy them to the child's profile because they do confirm the DNA trail. I have many examples were the father did not supply the DNA. Had to tell my father and uncle a few years ago that their stepfather was their biological one. Them being 100% brothers, did not confirm the official father.
edited by Remko Stift
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Thank you for helping me merge my grandfather's profile. As time goes by and the more I visit where he lived with my newly married grandmother, I feel so much closer and really have a need for the file to reflect my love of him.
It appears we are 8th cousins twice removed thru: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barnes-775 I checked GEDMatch and found that you match my Dad with about 7.3cM on Chromosome 18 and lesser amounts on 5 other Chromosomes. My father also matches at a very low level with Waugh Smith GEDmatch, who is listed on Barnes-775.
Please clarify.
It's the standard now. See this page: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Biographies
edited by Alice (Galligan) Glassen
I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by "It's too bad though". What is too bad?