Mapping the DNA matches across platforms

Last Friday's post featured some simple family maps, built using free tools with Diagrams dot net (formerly Draw.io). This is similar to working in LucidChart, without Lucid's AI tools and no account is (currently) required to use it.

Family mapping in Diagrams.net.

What is helpful is that I can scroll across and build out the trees for both families, keeping the two families grouped above, and then "offscreen" on the left of the chart add DNA matches descending from the children of Vicente Antonio Campuzano. I can then color code those, and show centimorgans in common from the known testers at Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, 23andme, or uploaded to Gedmatch.

This is a manual process for me, but I'm finding it useful to see where there are gaps, groups of closer matches, and then I can use the chart to try to make sense of segments in common from those testers not Ancestry (or who have also uploaded kits to FTDNA or Gedmatch).

Maybe there's a different way to do this, but so far this works. 

Looking for YDNA testers

I'm at a stage where additional testers would be helpful for this ongoing Campuzano DNA mystery. We need to have a few more testers descending from both the first family of Vicente Antonio Campuzano and the second. There is not currently a Campuzano DNA project at FTDNA, but I think there needs to be one.

If you're in the direct male path from one of the branches of the family, and you've stumbled onto this blog from a Google search, please reach out.

Spring in the marsh

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Ithaca, NY. 15 May 2026.

Year Two in the Books

College move-out is underway. A mostly rainy drive north today, with the time on the road aided by some fascinating podcast episodes to keep the drive interesting. I highly recommend the One Song podcast (available on Spotify and YouTube). Now I need to read the new memoir from Fab 5 Freddy called Everybody's Fly. Freddy's host duties on Yo! MTV Raps were hugely influential, especially as the show overlapped with my own years as a high school student. I know his show, and his efforts overall opened up a lot of minds to hip hop beyond the roots of the genre.

Crista Cowan's Stories That Live In Us podcast series (available on Spotify, also YouTube) covering the family history stories connected to the states ahead of the America 250 anniversary has also been good and I listened to a few of those as well on the drive.

This week Spotify also released a 20 Year Anniversary feature, covering a personalized recap of my (or your) own Spotify listening history based on their annual Wrapped recap. I was a little surprised to see my Spotify history goes back to 2011. While I think I have an eclectic mix of most streamed songs on my 20 year playlist, I was also impressed to see the number one most streamed by me since 2011 was Blind Melon's Change. 

Released in 1992, the song still holds up strong - ignore the video if you look it up on YouTube, listen to the music. The band's lead singer Shannon Hoon, born in Lafayette, Indiana (also the stomping grounds of Guns N' Roses legend Axl Rose), died in 1995 during my senior year of college. The band had a brief life but continuing legacy, and is underrated as an important band of the 90s.

Tomorrow is a day of packing, cleaning out the dorm and preparing for the drive home.

RootsTech 2027 Call for Presentations

 

RootsTech 2027.

The call for presentations for RootsTech 2027 is open. As seen in the screen capture above, the submission deadline is 29 June 2026. Last year I submitted a proposal for a 20 minute online topic, knowing I would be following remotely while in India for my March 2026 meetings. RootsTech 2027 aligns with my planned travel later in the month so I can attend in person in Salt Lake City and then continue on to Europe for meetings.

I think I have a better concept for a talk this year and have already started to build the format along with relevant sources and images.