I think I have successfully traced a fair amount of my X DNA back to my great X 5 grandmother. Magdalena Van Voorhees (1756 NJ - 1810 KY). She was married to Albert Banta. They are part of the Dutch NY community, which was endogamic to some extent.
I have picked up 5 matches in same area, from three different sons of Magdalena. Because they are sons, that eliminates Albert as the source of the X DNA
Here are their matches in Start/End (Millions of Base Pairs) followed by the cM
1. 98-124, 30cM
2. 70-125, 48cM
3. 98-123, 29cM
4. 95-111, 13cM
5. 95-124, 34cM
I am calling myself #6
1,2,and myself desc from son Jacob, 3 and 4 from son Peter, 5 from son Jacob.
I have not been in contact with #4, but identified her from the DNA match, and then was able to piece together her lineage.
I have also identified two other possible matches. But I have not had any contact and I cannot find any linking trees or lineages.
7. 97-114, 17 cm
8. 93-125, 33 cm
#8 has a second block of 70-89,8cM that matches #2 above (and me of course).
#7 has contacted me and given me a tree but I do not see any connection to Magdalena or Dutch NY. Brick wall I guess.
I dont have any conflicting data other than I cannot place #7 or 8.
So I have identified three separate lines back to Magdalena, and in most cases used blocks of over 30cM.
These tests were done by FTDNA, and 23andMe and many were posted at GedMatch. I had to use all three for comparisons, which fortunately were very consistent.
Does anyone see a flaw in my logic? Or am I pretty solid?
I have picked up 5 matches in same area, from three different sons of Magdalena. Because they are sons, that eliminates Albert as the source of the X DNA
Here are their matches in Start/End (Millions of Base Pairs) followed by the cM
1. 98-124, 30cM
2. 70-125, 48cM
3. 98-123, 29cM
4. 95-111, 13cM
5. 95-124, 34cM
I am calling myself #6
1,2,and myself desc from son Jacob, 3 and 4 from son Peter, 5 from son Jacob.
I have not been in contact with #4, but identified her from the DNA match, and then was able to piece together her lineage.
I have also identified two other possible matches. But I have not had any contact and I cannot find any linking trees or lineages.
7. 97-114, 17 cm
8. 93-125, 33 cm
#8 has a second block of 70-89,8cM that matches #2 above (and me of course).
#7 has contacted me and given me a tree but I do not see any connection to Magdalena or Dutch NY. Brick wall I guess.
I dont have any conflicting data other than I cannot place #7 or 8.
So I have identified three separate lines back to Magdalena, and in most cases used blocks of over 30cM.
These tests were done by FTDNA, and 23andMe and many were posted at GedMatch. I had to use all three for comparisons, which fortunately were very consistent.
Does anyone see a flaw in my logic? Or am I pretty solid?
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