Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Searching for the Swaffords



 So on my DNA test when I look at my list for Swafford relatives, the first one on the list is Jameswoolsey49. James E. Woolsey runs the account but the test is from a woman though, and with a little googling I came up with his wife, Sandra (or Samdra) Carolyn Fisher. Now Sandra is great grand daughter to Ida Mae Swafford. Her parents were Jay Fisher and Laverne Priest.  Nobody has found any records for Ida Mae except the marriage record, but I was able to find and Idea M Swofford 4 years before her marriage, in the same county Arkansas. I am 99% sure this would be the same woman.

Following the line back, even though the grandparent was born in Tennessee, I cannot connect them to the Swaffords and Lees I am looking for. I did notice a HOWARD surname as well.

I have tried to contact the Woolsey family with no luck.

UPDATE:

I did do some more work and traced these Swafford's back to our most recent common ancestor. This ancestor makes me and Sandra Fisher 7th cousins.  Ancestry tags Sandra as an EXTREMELY HIGH match at 4th-6th cousins.  Ancestry's description of the relationship is 4th cousin but could possibly vary to 5th or sixth cousin.

This means that either Ancestry is doing something very wrong in their analysis since they are citing this with their most definitive match category (the same one used for my sister), or we are somehow related more closely.

Unfortunately, until I can get the Woolsey family to upload the DNA results to GEDCOM I will not be able to look into exactly how we match. Perhaps we share more than one relative. Who knows?




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