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 […]
by Stewart Blandón Traiman, MD
[This article was originally published in The California Nugget, Spring 2024 edition.]
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 […]
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 […]
When I discovered my son’s biological paternal line connected to Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke and Samuel Warren, I was thrilled and overwhelmed at the same time. I was happy to have made the connection to a seminal historic event while also thinking this was an awful lot of people to […]
