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Jillian L. Kern
Born 1990s.
Ancestors
Daughter of
[private father (1960s - unknown)]
and [private mother (1960s - unknown)]
and [private mother (1960s - unknown)]
Sister of
Dean Kern
[children unknown]
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| Created 3 Dec 2014 | Last significant change: 16 Jan 2022
19:10: Jillian Kern uploaded Kern-731-3.jpg for Jillian Kern.
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Jillian Kern has German Roots.
Jillian Kern has French origins.
Research Interests
Jillian is working to flesh out the biographies and sources for her extensive family tree, originally imported from Ancestry.com. Her primary focus is determining the degree to which sources exist for "mythological" Ancestry.com and FindAGrave ancestors and providing DNA verification for more recent ancestral connections.
Additionally, she has an interest in California history, especially the migration to and settlement of Shasta County and the building of Shasta Dam. She is also working on a personal project of populating the "Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford" category.
She is a trained medieval paleographer and can assist in deciphering historical handwriting and primary source documents.
Biography
Childhood
Jillian was born in Redding, CA to Steven Kern and Cinnamon Kern at Mercy Medical Center on 9 April 1993. The Kerns resided in nearby Shasta Lake, CA at the north end of Montana Ave on the family property previously owned by Jerry Kern and Janice Kern, where Steve and siblings were raised, with one brother, Dean Kern. As children, she and Dean travelled frequently with their parents and Kern grandparents, often vacationing in the Nevada/Oregon/Wyoming desert region and rockhounding. They were close playmates with their Luzier cousins who attended all family holiday events and moved to the same street as Janice/Jerry and Steve/Cinnamon in the early 2000s.
Education
Jillian attended Toyon Elementary School, Shasta Lake Middle School, Central Valley High School, and Shasta College, before moving to Davis, CA and attending the University of California, Davis while studying English and Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She graduated in 2014 with honors in MEMS and highest honors in English. She attended Oxford University 2016-17 to receive her Master's degree in medieval literature.
Currently
Previous employment in education and public health fields (drug and alcohol awareness). Hobbies and sometime employment as a portrait and wedding photographer, writer/ghostwriter, activist, and numismatist. Her longtime interest in history and heritage led to interest in genealogy research in her free time, and the rest of the time she channels that into her PhD research in medieval literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently resides in Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Jillian Kern at registration.
- Maternal relationship with Cinnamon Kern confirmed by Ancestry DNA tests with 3,458 CM shared across 62 DNA segments.
- Paternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Jillian Kern and Janet Johnson, second cousins once removed. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 2nd Cousins based on sharing 205 centimorgans shared across 10 DNA segments; Confidence: Extremely High.
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Jillian's formal name
- full middle name (L.)
- nicknames
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (6)
- private siblings' names
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Jillian or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jillian:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Jillian or other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jillian:
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100.00%
Jillian Kern:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A685186 [compare], Ancestry member jilliankern
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50.00%
Cinnamon (Kimbel) Kern
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A548568 [compare], Ancestry member ckkern96
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Jillian is 33 degrees from Bob Saget, 21 degrees from Victor Borge, 38 degrees from Graham Chapman, 28 degrees from John Clarke, 35 degrees from John Cleese, 18 degrees from Phyllis Diller, 27 degrees from Gösta Ekman, 39 degrees from Whoopi Goldberg, 22 degrees from Bob Hope, 29 degrees from Barry Humphries, 37 degrees from Norman Wisdom and 29 degrees from Joan Hollander on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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I sent you a message a while ago on behalf of the England Project Leaders and have yet to heard back from you. I hope you are well.
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~Russ
Your medieval study is impressive. Studied English/British history over the last few years. It seems my decadent ancestors worshipped rocks and themselves, basically.
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Isabelle
I see that you have a 5.4 cM segment in common with my mother BY3843687 (100 yrs old yesterday). Isn't that better than 8C? Tim
Congratulations on being Pre-1700 certified!
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