1. Using AncestryDNA For your Genealogical Research Robert E. Wells Jr.

2. About Me Robert E. Wells Jr.
Family ties to Gaston/Lincoln, Cleveland, Yadkin/Surry, Cumberland and York County.
Started genealogy journey in 2010
Started Genealogy to disprove family stories.
Had first DNA test May 2010.

3. Questions Who has Tested? Who wants to Test?
Who has no interest, and why?

4. Why should I Test Help break down Brick Walls.
Determine true Biological family lines.
Validate your research.
Identifying a Misattributed Parentage Event

5. Who should I Test Yourself Parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents
Siblings(if above is not available)
Cousins(if above is not available)

6. DNA Advantages DNA is not a Magic Wand
DNA is just another Genealogical Tool.
Complements your Research
Burned Courthouses or burned churches do not affect DNA.
DNA is not subjected to incorrect documents
DNA is not subjected to incorrect stories

7. What is DNA?

8. Base Pairs

9. Types of DNA
Y-Chromosome
X-Chromosome
Autosomal
Mitochondrial

10. Y-DNA
Males only
Comes from fathers direct line. Deep ancestry for thousands of years 12 25 37 67
111
Big-Y

11. Mitochondrial DNA Males or Females Comes from mothers direct line.
Only females pass Mitochondrial DNA.
Deep Ancestry for up to thirty thousand years
Not very useful for Genealogical research.
Exact match share common ancestor within 22 generations(about 550 years).

12. Y X and Mtdna Inheritance

13. Autosomal Males or Females Test all 23 pairs of Chromosomes
Good for around seven to eight generations
Helps to verify family biological lines.
Ethnicity Estimates

14. AtDNA Inheritance

15. DNA Companies Ancestry Family Tree DNA 23 and Me My Heritage DNA Land
Living DNA
National Geographic Genographic

16. Ancestry DNA Pros Family Trees linked to DNA profile
Access to Public Records
Shared Matches
Interface is user friendly
Raw DNA Data Download
Share Matches with other users
Ethnicity Estimates
Cons
Does not have Match data download
Does not have Chromosome Browser

17. Family Tree DNA Pros Does All Tests Chromosome Browser
Match data Download
Raw Data Download
DNA Transfer from other Companies
Cons
Ethnicity Estimates are flawed
Trees are not very useful and hard to navigate
No access to Public Records
Interface is not user friendly
FamilyTreeDNA is not in the Web Site business

18. FamilyTreeDNA Ethnicity

19. FamilyTreeDNA Ethnicity

20. 23 and Me Pros Cons Allows linking to Family Trees Health Information
Ethnicity Estimates
Chromosome Browser
Raw Data Download
Cons
User must be logged in to see their Family Tree
No access to Public Records

21. MyHeritage Pros Family Trees Access to Records Ethnicity Estimates
Cons
New to DNA = Small Database
Trees are hard to navigate

22. DNA Land Pros Provides Matches Has Chromosome Browser
Ethnicity Estimates
Free Upload
Cons
No Family Trees or Public records

23. Living DNA Offers Y-DNA, mtDNA, and Autosomual in one test
Ethnicity Estimates
Offer 80 World Regions
Claims 21 Regions in Britton and Ireland?
Will offer matches in the future.

24. National Geographic
Traces migration paths going back thousands of years
Ethnicity Estimates
Compare DNA with 60 regions of the World
Finds Neanderthal Ancestry
834,322 people in Database

25. Database Numbers

26. Why Ancestry DNA Larger Database = More matches More Family Trees
Access to records
Internal messaging system
Better to focus on one system.

27. AncestryDNA Basics Ethnicity Estimate Genetic Communities Settings
Share DNA matches
Download Raw DNA Data
View another Test
DNA Circles

28. AncestryDNA Matches Know your Family Tree
Do not make assumptions about Ancestry, follow the DNA trail.
If you are afraid of Skeletons don’t go into the DNA Closet.

29. What are Centimorgans A measurement of the amount of Shared DNA
One Centimorgan equals about 1 million base pairs

30. Match Basics Sorting matches Shared Matches Hints New Matches
Starred Matches
Mother/Father
Genetic Communities
Search
Notes

31. Working your Matches Sorting Matches Shared Matches Hints New Matches
Relation, Date, Hints, New, Starred
Shared Matches
Make plenty of Notes.
Sorting
Hints
Examine quality of trees.
Determine if there is more than one common ancestor.
Make notes of shared matches
New Matches
See most recent matches
Starred Matches
Mark matches as important
Mark as unread so they continue to appear in your new matches

32. Working your Matches Mother/Father Genetic Communities Search
Shared matches less than 20cM do not appear in the list.
Genetic Communities
Filters by shared Communities.
Search
Search by Surname or Location

33. Match Strategies Look for what you already know.
People you have collaborated with.
Known relatives.
If none of these apply look at closest matches.
Make Notes of shared matches once you have determined relationship
Determine reference matches
Matches that have been verified, look for them in list of shared matches.
Create Family Groups
Group your family lines by grandparents, great grandparents etc…, and location
Look for matches with spouses.

34. What I have Discovered Found my true Male line
Proved that Second Great Grandmother had child by sisters husband.
Proved Great Uncle, William Thornburg, fathered child while he was hiding from the Law.
Proved last name of a Third Great Grandmother.
Uncle Donald related to my Wife.

35. John S. Wells Father was Joseph Thornburg
Proven with Y and Autosomual DNA and paper trail.

36. John S. Wells Paper Trail
Family Bible list father as Lawson Wells
Obituary list father as Lawson Wells
1900 census list father as Lawson Wells
Listed as step child in step fathers obituary.

37. John S. Wells DNA Trail Y-DNA matched Thornburg Family
Father Matches known descendents of Joseph Thornburg
RichardWilliams - son William 56cM
William Hallman(W.H.) - son Daniel 55cM
Krmit510 - son Joseph Larkin 27.6cM
David Dameron - daughter Margaret 62cM
Summey DNA matches searched to eliminate Joseph Thornburg’s sons.

38. Joseph Thornburg cM
William Hallman
Richard Williams
Krmit510
David Dameron
Robert Wells Jr
19.6 55
12.5 30
Robert Wells Sr 56
27.6 62
David Wells
147
122
28.2 81
Paul Wells
112 91
20.2
16.8
Donald Wells
156 38
107

39. Mary Camp
True father was in question
Had child by sisters husband.

40. Mary Camp Paper Trail
Father was killed 27 June 1862 at battle of Gaines Mill.
Death Certificate reports birth year as 1865
1870 Census reports 1862
1880 Census reports 1864
1900 Census reports August 1865
1910 reports 1865
1920 reports 1866

41. Mary Camp cM T.P. (Abner Sr.) Qumela1 (Joseph Camp) Bcru1959 Kuhlkat56
Robert Wells Jr
39(14.8) belong to mother side
27.8
12.0
Robert Wells Sr
20.7
27.4 34
David Wells
11.2
10.4
19.8
27.2
Paul Wells
11.3
27.3
7.4
26.3
Donald Wells 33
14.3 31 47

42. Josephine Wells Thornburg story passed down to family.
Three descendents do not match Thornburg DNA.
Matches McCullough family of York and Chester Counties in South Carolina.
Matches families of spouses.
William McCullough was husband of mothers sister
William McCullough worked at Joseph Thornburg’s Distillery
William McCullough arrested with Joseph Thornburg in 1885 in Yorkville South Carolina.

43. McCullough-Camp cM Victoria Gaston Jo Foxx John Faile(Half Sibling)
Robert Wells Jr.
120 42
108
Robert Wells Sr.
148 38
127
David Wells
170 71
166
Paul Wells 55
28.5
103
Donald Wells
210
125
175
2nd Cousin Compare
Jskidmore52990
(Skidmore)
Lindsalou77
(Yount)
Robert Wells Sr.
425
293
David Wells
297
Paul Wells
366
178
Donald Wells
257
332

44. William Thornburg 62 81 16.8 107 Shot a man 30 June 1888.
Known to be in Gaston County in 16 August 1888, Sheriff afraid to arrest.
Reward put out for him and twin brother 9 Sep, 1888.
Daughter Margaret Selena Thornburg is conceived around December 1888.
Doubt William is father.
Known to have been in Missouri after 1888
Arrives in Montana in late 1894
David Dameron
Descendent of Margaret Thornburg
Robert Wells Sr. 62
David Wells 81
Paul Wells
16.8
Donald Wells
107

45. Jenkins or Summit
Martha Elizabeth Summit Thornburg listed as Martha Jenkins on many trees
No reliable paper trail for her maiden name.
Buried in Jenkins family cemetery.
Listed in fathers will as Martha Droneburger.
Many DNA matches pointing back to Summit/Sammet family.
Evidence convinced owner of FindAGrave record to change last name.

46. Johannes Frantz Sammet cM
A.P.
Lisa Daniels
Iclarke142
Robert Wells Sr.
29.5
16.2
David Wells 49
18.5
21.2
Paul Wells
22.3
15.6
Donald Wells 50
21.7
23.6

47. Uncle Donald matches my wife
My great grand mother was Sally Yount from Catawba County.
My wife’s grandmother was Lucille Yount, family was from Catawba County
Both lines have the surname Whisenhunt.
Our common ancestor Hans George Yount, shared 7th great grandfather
Wife, my father and I do not share any DNA segments.

48. Uncle Donald matches my wife

49. Advanced Topics and DNA Tools
Test ID/Match ID trick.
GedMatch.com
Triangulation
DNA GEDComm
Chrome Ancestry DNA Helper.
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Outlook

50. Martin-Glenn-Hopper DNA Analysis
GedMatch Example
Martin-Glenn-Hopper DNA Analysis

51. Family Tree of David Dubose

52. Family Tree of Robert Wells Jr. from Mother Patricia Williams

53. Family Tree of Robert Wells Jr from father Robert Wells Sr.

54. Family Tree of Brenda Boheler

55. GedMatch Chromosome Browser for David DuBose, Robert Wells Sr, Robert Wells Jr, Patricia Williams from Brenda Boheler

56. GedMatch Chromosome Browser Brenda Boheler , Patricia Williams Shared X-Chromosome Data.

57. Contact Robert Wells Jr.
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