Speaker for the Dead: A Genealogy Blog
Ancestry® Pro Tools Furthers Research for a Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt – Part 2 or 2
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
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 […]
Sex versus Gender
Most people use the terms “sex” and “gender” interchangeably. They are the same thing, aren’t they? This confusion exists because we’re taught from a young age that our anatomy dictates our expression of masculinity or femininity. Society tightly weaves sex and gender together, teaching us that one influences the other. […]
Why I don’t sync RootsMagic with Ancestry, anymore.
Keeping my RootsMagic (RM) data and Ancestry data consistent is made simple by the TreeShare functionality in RM. Any work done on Ancestry, such as attaching documents to a profile or adding facts to a person, can be synced to RM without needing to manually reenter the […]
Finding the Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt with Autosomal DNA Matches – Part 3 or 3
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 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 […]
Finding the Mystery Father of Ernest Piatt with Autosomal DNA Matches – Part 1 of 3
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 […]
Evidence Explained: Third Edition vs. Fourth Edition
Upon discovering the imminent release of a new edition of Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifact to Cyberspace, I was filled with both eager anticipation and apprehension of change. The third edition (revised) was published seven years ago in 2017, and the prospect of a refreshed volume piqued […]
Poor Penmanship Confuses the Identify of Mary Yearwood Weast Rose
Samuel Rose married in Macon County, North Carolina on 16 April 1836.[i] His bondsman was Jonathan Phillip. Both Samuel’s and Jonathan’s names are legible on the document. However, the name of Samuel’s spouse is not written clearly and looks like this…
The first name reads as “May,” but […]
