Well, this week was a write-off, in terms of the do-over. A couple of other genealogy things came up this week that I was spending a lot of time on, and didn't get a chance to even look at my do-over.
I was checking out my grandmother's dna matches, particularly those with trees attached, and ended up finding someone that had a death date for my 3rd great-grandmother that I didn't previously have. She has been a brick wall of mine for years, so needless to say I had to follow it up! I went looking for more information and stumbled upon a thread on a message board about her and her family! Obviously I wasn't about to consider the information in that thread to be proof, so I had to do more digging to find documentation to prove or disprove it all. I actually spent several nights this week looking into the information contained in that thread and I'm still not finished!
I've also been in fairly regular contact with a dna match distant cousin who was adopted. We know from GEDmatch that our most recent common ancestor is about 5 generations back. Through mutual matches, I was able to determine which side of my family she's on, but not specifically which line she's on. But based on new information she discovered this week, we think we now know which surname line the connection is on. The trick now is to get back far enough to prove or disprove it.
So even with no progress on my do-over, attempting to break a long-standing brick wall and helping an adoptee find her roots are valid reasons, as far as I'm concerned! Hopefully I can make some progress on all three projects this coming week!
Go dtí an chéad uair eile.
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