Wrap-up of DNA Matches with Lee South's matches Complete

Finished up this morning with adding Lee South's matches to the database and the document on Common Ancestors by line--South, Vestal, Wright, or Rosenbalm. This means that the document now represents all current matches as of today for me, my brother Bob, Michael Wilson-South, Elaine Lee, and Lee South.  ggf = great grandfather

Here is the breakdown:

Common Ancestor and Relationship

South Line

Joseph Davis & Hannah Cobb 8xggf  (Four Matches)    this is one generation back thanks to Lee South Nicholas Bonham & Hannah Fuller  (Two Matches) Samuel Dimmock & Hannah Davis 7xggf   (Two Matches)

John Stearns and Elizabeth Barnes(7xggf) Dimmock-Sweeney-Wilson-Souths   (Four Matches) Robert Bradshaw 7xggf  Bradshaw-Lambert-Houlder-South  (THREE, all EL)

John Pugh Price & Hannah Carter Williamson 7x ggf Houlder-South (Nineteen matches)

Samuel Hull Sr. 7xggf     (Five matches) John Thomas & Susannah?  7xggf Houlder-South (THREE)

Massey John Thomas 6xggf Thomas-Lambert-Houlder-South (Twenty-two matches) William Wilson & Sarah Rust 6xggf --connects to Jesse Columbus’ mother (ONE)

Samuel Hull & Margaret Mundy 6xggf SOUTH BRIDGE **** (Fifteen matches)

Thomas South & Dorothy Lippington 6xggf MAYFLOWER BOOK*** (Eight matches)

Edmund South and Johanna Hull 5xggf  SOUTH BRIDGE***(Seven matches)

Edmund South 5xggf  (Four matches )

Stephen South & Hannah Swinney/Sweeney Wilson  4xggf  (Three Matches) Jesse Columbus South & Mary Eliz. Houlder 3xggf  (Four Matches)

Clark Albert South & Priscilla Adeline Vestal 2xggf  (Twelve Matches )

CE South & Virginia Caroline Wright ggf (Fifteen matches)

Wright Line

James Glenn & Martha Borland 7xggf  Wrights (Three matches)

James Buchanan 7xggf Edmiston/Edmundson- Wrights (ONE)

William Snodgrass & Cathrine Patterson 7xggf Wrights  (Thirty-two matches)

Samuel Carpenter & Mary Yeates 7xggf Wrights (ONE)

David Turk Edmiston & Isabella Thompson 7xggf Wrights (Five matches) John Baley 6xggf  Baley-Hand-Wright (Two matches)

Elizabeth Barnet 6xggm Baley-Hand-Wright (Four)

Francis Kincannon & Elizabeth Summers 6xggf Wrights (Thirty-four matches)

David Snodgrass and Margaret Glenn 6xggf Wrights (Fifty-one matches)

Margaret Buchanan 6xggm Edmondson-Hand-Wright (ONE)

Margaret Glenn 6xggm Wrights (ONE)

Elizabeth Edmiston 5x ggm Wrights (Seven matches)

Francis George Kincannon & Martha Snodgrass 5xggf Wrights (Seventy-seven Matches) Jacob Wright & Elizabeth Montgomery 5xggf  (Two matches)

John Montgomery Wright 4xggf Wright (Six matches)

John Montgomery Wright& Mary Kincannon 4xggf Wright (Ten Matches) John Peter Hand & Rachel Baley 4xggf (Eleven matches)

James Hand & Sarah Edmondson 4xggf  Wright (TWO)

David Snodgrass Kincannon Wright & Rebecca Hand 3xggf Wright (One match)

James Hand Wright 2xggf Wright (Nine)

Vestal Line

John Nation & Bethia Robins 7xggf Vestal (Thirty-one matches)

John Jay and Mercy Bartlett 7xggf  Vestal  (One match) John Buckner & Sarah ? 7xggf  Vestal (Thirty-eight matches) Thomas Mustain & Mary Haley 7xggf  Vestals  (Nineteen )

Elisha Robins/Robbins 7xggf Vestal (TWO)

Thomas Mercer & Mary Greenaway 7xggf Vestal (Twenty-two matches)

William Abel Teague & Isabella Loftin Pennington 7xggf Vestal (Fifty-nine matches)

William Swaim/Sweem & Mary/Marya  Lageler/Larzelere 7xggf Vestal (Five matches)

Anna Phillips 7xggm [mother to Ann Orchard]  Vestal (TWO)

Samuel Cox & Hannah Wierman 7xggf Vestal (Eleven matches)

Thomas Roy and Judith Beverly 7xggf Vestal  (Three matches)

Thomas Durham & Mary Smoot 7x ggf Vestal (Sixteen matches)

Jane Chew 7xggm Vestal (Eleven Matches)

John James Johnson 7xggf  Vestal (Six matches)

Elizabeth Betty LeMaster 7xggm Ferguson-Cox-Buckner-Johnson-Vestal (TWO)

Mary Johnson 7xggm Vestal (Five)

William Glover Vestal & Elizabeth Mercer Woodward 6x ggf Vestal (One hundred sixteen matches)

Joseph Mathew Robbins& Bethia Nation 6xggf  Wrights  (Nine)

James Johnson & Catherine Durham 6xggf Vestal (Seven matches)

John Jacob Cox & Mary Margaret Ferguson 6xggm  Buckner-Johnson Vestal (Two matches)

George Durham & Winifred Lindsey 6xggf  Vestal (Sixteen matches)

William Buckner 6xggf Vestal (Four matches)

John Jay and Ann Orchard 6xggf Vestal (Twenty-Three Matches)

John/Johannes Swaim/Sweem & Charity Teague 6xggf Vestal (Forty-Six matches) Nancy Cox 5xggm  Cox-Buckner-Johnson-Vestal (Four Matches)

William Swaim & Nancy Ann Robbins 5xggf Vestal  (Eleven matches)

Elizabeth Jane Durham 5xggm Vestal (Nine)

George Presley Johnson & Elizabeth Jane Durham 5x ggf Vestal (Six matches)

James Mercer Vestal & Mary Jay 5x ggf Vestal (Forty-four matches)

Presley Buckner & Nancy Cox 5x ggf Vestal (Four matches)

James/Jesse Vestal & Nancy Ann Swaim 4xggf  Vestal (Seven)

George Johnson & Nancy Buckner 4x ggf Vestal (ONE)

John Buckner 9xggf (Nancy's Grandfather) Vestal (TWO)

Jay Vestal & Hannah Wirrick/Wyrick Johnson 3xggf  Vestal  (Eighteen matches)

 Rosenbalm Line 

There appear to be fewer matches, but that’s because the CE South tree needs updating with folks from the far reaches; therefore there can be no matches for some of these people from Elaine Lee or Lee South who are connected to the CE South tree.

Hans Michael Happes & Elizabeth Zimmerman 7xggf  Rosenbalms   (Four matches)
Michael Faber & Sarah Meinhert 7xggf  Rosenbalm   1 match
Johann Adam Reichert &Anna Catharina Kobler   Rosenbalm  (Two matches)
Anthonius Conradus Rosenbaum & Barbara Baumann  6xggf  Rosenbalm (Three matches)
Jacob Salomon Reichert & Anna Elizabeth Happes 6xggf  Rosenbalm  (Fourteen matches)
Johann Christopher Sprecher & Maria Ernestine Beck 6x ggf  Rosenbalm  (Twenty-six matches)
Alexander Rosenbaum & Charaty Gertrude Miller 5xggf  Rosenbalm (Forty-Five matches)
Johann Christopher Sprecher & Elizabeth Catharine Reichert 5xggf  Rosenbalm  (Fifty-three matches)
John Rosenbaum & Catherine Spraker  4xggf  Rosenbalm (Eighty-Two Matches)
David Rosenbaum & Catherine A. Rosenbaum 3xggf  Rosenbalm  (Six matches)


If the matches seem uneven, this probably has to do with differences in trees. For more trees than one would think, the common ancestor is the only point of congruence between the two trees Ancestry's computers analyzed. After all, if our trees matched up completely we would be close cousins!

I was quite surprised that the two matches to Lee South who have Hannah Fuller, a direct connection to the Fullers who were on the Mayflower, did not even have her parents or grandparents on their trees.  When I have time, and every time I am "stuck" on something in the tree, I go straight to the DNA matches who had that sticky person as a common ancestor and look at their trees. I strike gold sometimes, with trees that have some sources I have not yet found or leads I can follow, and then sometimes their trees are not helpful at all. 


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