All the DNA matches I have so far confirmed (in 18 months of fairly hard research into my DNA matches and having persuaded several cousins on that side to participate) have been on my paternal side, although not in Devon, the earliest shared ancestor back in the C17. They must be very robust genes. One cousin's DNA has a confirmed match in Devon on her paternal side in late C18. Susan Johnstone > -----Original Message----- > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 10:29:16 +0100 > From: "Jean Hodges" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [DEV] DNA testing > To: "'Michael Fisher'" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Totally agree Mike, I did an autosomal DNA test with FTDNA a few months ago > and have so far had two successful and verifiable results confirming my > ancestry in Devon on two different branches both being on my paternal side. > One which confirms a connection back in the 1650s to a common ancestor with > a 40% compatibility only, but he like me had a wide ranging tree and another > to a one name study via a common ancestor in another name, but all work in > progress. I have worked from verifiable sources the whole 16 years of my > research and in the majority of cases have numerous different sources to > back up my closest ancestors. The answer to finding matches in my humble > opinion is to follow both female and male lines and add in siblings and > their spouses and children, etc and their wider families for as far as it is > feasible or you wish to do. I shall use whatever sources, including DNA > which help me 'nail' down my ancestors wherever they are. > > Jean Hodges > > > >

I think our match to 8 x great grandparents Matthew Wreford and Bridget Chidley/Chudley with a compatibility of only 40% could be due to the fact that my family were in Morchard Bishop for some 300 years so the intermarriages are very many and very interesting and the trail goes back to 1440 in Hennock, Devon and the families of my match in Morchard Bishop is equally as long. We have a number of the names in Morchard Bishop in common and so there are perhaps many more connections that we have yet to find, his connection to Morchard Bishop is more recent than mine. However, in that time my ancestry has only 2 male surnames, obviously Wreford and also Elston, but the female lines are the interesting ones and it is through Johan Wreford who married Richard Elston in 1696 and Drusilla Elston's marriage to Henry Crocker in 1808, my 3x great grandparents, that my descent is now confirmed. All the hard work was actually constructing this tree using original records etc with the help of 'cousins' who worked in the same way as I and whose work I trusted. Jean Hodges -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Susan Johnstone via Sent: 12 June 2016 11:05 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] DNA testing All the DNA matches I have so far confirmed (in 18 months of fairly hard research into my DNA matches and having persuaded several cousins on that side to participate) have been on my paternal side, although not in Devon, the earliest shared ancestor back in the C17. They must be very robust genes. One cousin's DNA has a confirmed match in Devon on her paternal side in late C18. Susan Johnstone > -----Original Message----- > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 10:29:16 +0100 > From: "Jean Hodges" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [DEV] DNA testing > To: "'Michael Fisher'" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Totally agree Mike, I did an autosomal DNA test with FTDNA a few > months ago and have so far had two successful and verifiable results > confirming my ancestry in Devon on two different branches both being on my paternal side. > One which confirms a connection back in the 1650s to a common ancestor > with a 40% compatibility only, but he like me had a wide ranging tree > and another to a one name study via a common ancestor in another name, > but all work in progress. I have worked from verifiable sources the > whole 16 years of my research and in the majority of cases have > numerous different sources to back up my closest ancestors. The answer > to finding matches in my humble opinion is to follow both female and > male lines and add in siblings and their spouses and children, etc and > their wider families for as far as it is feasible or you wish to do. > I shall use whatever sources, including DNA which help me 'nail' down my ancestors wherever they are. > > Jean Hodges > > > > ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message