It surely has been awhile since I posted.I have
been managing 5 genetic genealogy DNA accounts which is very very time
consuming.This will be a brief return and I will try to do
better.
Two of the biggest mysteries I wanted to solve with autosomal DNA was first to
ascertain my Grandfather's identity and that has been done. This week 23andme introduced an
"Ancestry Finder" program that is both exciting and informative. It shows the 23
chromosomes and our matches, even those who decline to contact. l It is a bit
like a crystal ball and shows my ethnic background in a nutshell as # 1 Ireland
and #2 Norway. (well it varies a bit but I said a nutshell)
Very wonderful experience for me.
The number two
mystery I wanted to unravel was the family of my mitoDNA ancestor Margaret Lynch of Cork who is
born in 1841 and marries Charles Rementer most likely in 1860 in Rhode Island. I
have known of her existence for almost 30 years and have
gotten no further than that.
Enter DNA and I
have a very close match with a full sequence Mitochondrial test which shows 2 of
us as being almost 2 peas in a pod with J2b1a1 mutations. Our ancestors both
hailed from Cork around 1840. We have hung in THAT spot for almost 2
years..
My buddy and I have tested first our own autosomal DNA and then a
host of cousins and siblings ( I have but
one).My sister Carol, bless her, spit for the family cause and with that we
miraculously got two matches on her DNA.My DNA apparently did not take this
excursion.
Having been recently told by a cousin that our Lynch
family was said to be cousins with the noted John L.Sullivan, I pounced on both
a Lynch and a Sullivan cousin match when they "came in". Apparently my Margaret
was born to a Jeremiah Lynch and a Mary or Margaret Sullivan from the Beara peninsula near Bantry Bay.
I definitely have a general location and also know that
THIS generation at least came to Newport Rhode Island and stayed in New England
for keeps. Later generations of Sullivans may not have done so.
I am
content.
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