Revising research goals

 

James Tissot. Emigrants. 1880.

My original plans from last month have been scaled back, with celebrating milestone achievements and family visits, plus upcoming work travel. I have also been working my way through the approaches in Diahan Southard's Your DNA Guide (the book) to use DNA matches to try to identify some of the gaps on my parents side of the tree.

The approach works. I was able to connect three of the close DNA connections on my Mom's Campuzano side of the tree to a brother of my Granny who had I failed to put in my tree. A coincidence is that this brother shared the same birth date (19 September), with another brother born three years earlier, but who had died a year before this brother was born. As I am still in the process of reaching out to these matches, I'll hold off on further writing about this part of the Campuzano tree.

So far, I do not have enough confidence in the DNA results that my 3rd-great-grandmother Bridget was a daughter of Timothy Hanley, a fellow immigrant from Roscommon & Longford, Ireland. Perhaps once Ancestry rolls out their enhanced results from DNA communities, this may show a connection. Before I leave behind the Hanleys for later consideration, I do want to share some of Timothy's fascinating story. This will follow in another post.