Ancestry® Pro Tools Furthers Research for a Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt – Part 2 or 2

By |2025-07-09T07:46:13-07:00July 9th, 2025|

Continued from Part 1

[This article was originally published in The California Nugget, Spring 2025 edition.]


157 New Cousins

The next step in the analysis was to review each of the new cousins. This […]

Ancestry® Pro Tools Furthers Research for a Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt – Part 1 or 2

By |2025-07-02T09:31:49-07:00July 2nd, 2025|

Low Centimorgan Matches (cM < 20) find a purpose in research.

An update to The California Nugget Spring 2024 article.

by Stewart Blandón Traiman, MD

[This article was originally published in The California Nugget, Spring 2025 […]

Finding the Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt with Autosomal DNA Matches – Part 3 or 3

By |2024-06-16T14:41:09-07:00June 30th, 2024|

by Stewart Blandón Traiman, MD

[This article was originally published in The California Nugget, Spring 2024 edition.]


The DNA Connections

We have successfully verified the relationships of eleven DNA matches within the mystery line and have identified common ancestors. These relationships fall within the statistically expected range of shared centimorgans (cM) and have a […]

Finding the Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt with Autosomal DNA Matches – Part 2 of 3

By |2024-06-16T14:33:06-07:00June 23rd, 2024|

by Stewart Blandón Traiman, MD

[This article was originally published in The California Nugget, Spring 2024 edition.]


Searching for a Common Ancestor

Our next focus was to research the eleven matches with connections to the mystery line to determine how they related to each other. [See Genogram]

Cousin 08 – This cousin was the known […]

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Finding the Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt with Autosomal DNA Matches – Part 1 of 3

By |2024-06-16T14:38:55-07:00June 16th, 2024|

by Stewart Blandón Traiman, MD

[This article was originally published in The California Nugget, Spring 2024 edition.]

In my son’s (J.T.) paternal lineage, there is a persistent mystery surrounding a third great-grandfather whose identity was thought to be unknowable. Ernest Richard Piatt, J.T.’s biological second-great-grandfather, was raised not knowing who his father was. Ernest’s […]

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