> <gneolog@aol.com> wrote: > > > One of our Thomas family has a match on family finder DNA with a > > Germanna Snyder family. I know there is talk of Mary Tanner being > > the wife of Hans Thomas and if I understand correctly, Henry Snyder > > had some Tanner grandchildren. It is a long shot BUT if there any > > possibility that the Mary Tanner suspected as the wife of Hans > > Thomas was a relative of Henry Snyder and descendants for both might > > still share DNA. Thanks for any help. Marilyn > > Hi Marilyn, > > The common thread here may somehow involve the AYLOR family. (Or, this may be a wild goose chase!) > > Henry Snyder only named one child in his will, Anna Magdalena Aylor, mother of Henry Aylor Sr and his sister Elizabeth (who married Christopher Tanner). It was Elizabeth and Christopher who gave Henry Snyder (at least) 8 Tanner great-grandchildren. The will is the sole source of this conclusion that Henry Snyder only had one child, as far as I know. As you mentioned in another context recently, just because someone is not named in the will doesn't mean they are not a child. It cannot be conclusively stated that Henry Snyder had no other children. Just none that we know of. > > Including the Aylors here would not explain a direct blood relationship between Thomas and Snyder through the Tanners, since it was Henry Aylor who married Margaret Thomas. There could be a link from Thomas to Snyder through the Aylors if one of Henry Aylor's descendants married a Thomas. I am unaware of any such marriage. The only one I know of that comes close was when Eliza Carpenter (daughter of Aaron Carpenter and Elizabeth Aylor, daughter of Henry Aylor Jr) married Rueben Thomas sometime before 1842 in VA. [There may be others I don't know of yet]. > > I hope somehow this is helpful. Sorry I don't know anything about Mary Tanner and Hans Thomas. > > Jeff Aylor > jaylor@jaylhouse.com > "A problem well stated is a problem half solved." - C.F. Kettering > >