From Randy (my cousin) over at Genea-Musings:
it's Saturday Night -
time for more Genealogy Fun!!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) How many autosomal DNA matches do you have descended from your eight 2nd great-grandparents (they would be your 3rd cousins)? Do you know how they are related to you? Have you corresponded with them? Why are your numbers high or low?
2) Share the number of your autosomal DNA matches for each of your 2nd great-grandparents, and answer the questions above on your own blog, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook or other social media post. Please leave a link to your post on this blog post so readers can respond.
Here's mine:
The number of autosomal DNA matches I have on AncestryDNA (using the numbers from ThruLines) with a known common 2nd great-grandparent is:
* George Washington Tapley (1814-1880) & Elizabeth Hicks (1824-1880): 64
* Solomon Page (1800-1860) & Elizabeth Caroline Scoggins (1802-1880): 288
* James William Drake (1829-1908) & Mary Ann Brantley (1837-1891): 13
* William Robert Harrell (1838-1908) & Catherine M Odom (1841-1875): 15
* James Madison "Jim" Tapley (1847-1912) & Elizabeth Rebecca 'Becky' Page (1844-1924): 49
* George W Schwalls (1837-1908) & Lincelia E "Celia" Claxton (1839-1882): 13
* Comfort Ranney (1838-1920) & Mary Margaret Hesser (1842-1920): 1
* Charles Kelso Carter (1843-1916) & Sarah Schoonover (1840-1918): 0
TOTAL = 443 (380 paternal; 63 maternal)
I am sure that there are many duplicates in the Tapley line.
A1: I have traced the lines from my 4th cousins (and closer) back to our common ancestor and entered them into my family tree in Family Tree Maker. However there are many matches that that I have not been able to trace back to a common ancestor. There are a lot of matches without family trees or I can trace only so far down but some generations are a black hole.
A2: I have tried to correspond with many of my matches, but I haven't had much luck. Most never respond. I seem to have more luck with finding cousins through my blog.
A3: The numbers are high or low for many reasons... some families have larger families than others (Tapley vs. Page for instance); some families have had more members test their DNA; my great-grandmother Carter was adopted so there are no matches on that line; and like I mentioned, a lot of DNA matches do not have a family tree or a very small family tree.
I did not include matches I have at MyHeritageDNA because I could not figure out how to find matches per generation in an easy way like ThruLines.
I'm jealous that you have one line with 288 matches! They must have had quite a few children.
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