Kristi (Pendleton) Brantley

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I ran your kit number on Gedmatch were you can see other Gedmatches that are close to you and have both a Report and a Tree. It's a good tool. It's (tool) is at the very end of the choices you are shown.

Walter

I searched your gedmatch number on GedMatch and found a strong connection "Pendleton" but its a name of a town in Lancashire, England. Lancashire is where my Smith family orginated in England. The KIT is A498404 and has an associated tree. It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibilites that a last name was changed to the town the family came from.

Examine the Concentration of SNP per cM. High in a number of Segments. Shows me that a chance of a Connection. More later. Click Edit to See it in Normal Layout.

Chr B37 Start Pos'n B37 End Pos'n Centimorgans (cM) SNPs 1 213,924,960 216,214,996 3.2 403 2 7,080,792 8,212,939 3.9 271 2 130,082,114 133,066,044 4.0 222 2 229,768,415 231,896,979 3.4 437 3 130,539,871 133,243,896 3.3 399 4 31,157,943 37,382,184 5.1 712 4 71,025,548 75,282,847 3.8 458 4 187,680,241 188,953,780 3.1 238 10 2,743,333 3,523,872 3.8 248 11 69,840,586 71,923,542 3.4 307 12 18,339,880 20,719,629 3.6 469 12 128,937,687 129,520,927 3.1 197 13 37,456,241 39,355,842 3.2 311 13 111,243,736 112,333,649 3.2 259 14 86,755,632 89,759,896 3.8 474 15 28,179,603 29,338,502 3.2 74 15 89,548,106 92,569,957 5.7 645 15 93,802,166 94,576,409 3.1 264 16 1,134,818 2,204,835 3.0 194 16 10,088,149 11,511,725 3.2 386 17 52,842,531 54,812,871 3.8 410 17 75,797,212 76,611,797 3.0 225 17 76,639,714 77,368,153 3.9 236 19 29,520,289 31,962,296 4.6 347 20 52,673,296 54,140,339 3.1 312 21 14,601,415 15,650,119 3.2 63 21 41,073,378 42,265,286 4.0 345 22 22,427,023 23,996,463 4.3 216 22 27,977,562 30,601,243 3.1 354

Kristi,

You and I are 3rd cousins twice removed, mutual descendants of John Frederick Lowe and Mary Sawyer of Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas. We share either 113 or 90 centimorgans, depending on the testing method.

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