Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It’s Saturday Night again –
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision.
1) Were your parents related to each other? Do your paternal and maternal lines have any surnames in common? Are they related or is there no known connection? Are there possible connections?
Are my parents related to each other?
I’m not aware of any relationship. However, the Smith surname is found in both sides of my tree. Thus, it is possible that my parents are distant cousins.
Ancestry DNA’s “by parent” screen shows 379 matches to both sides.
Since I have color coded most of my matches I can scroll thru matches I share with my mother looking for green or blue shades of the dots since these colors are associated with my dad’s side of the tree. Thus, when I find a match in Crawford and Currey groups along with Mentzer and Wells groups, I know I have come across someone who shares DNA with both sides of my tree.
Because this possible relationship is quite distant, I doubt I will ever figure out how my parents might be related.
It looks like you do have some overlap. Maybe the connection will come in early colonial records.
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