The Virtual Reunion has been pretty quiet. We are ordinarily at our cabin outside Yellowstone at this time, and it's the first time in 50 years that we are not in Montana. On Memorial Day is fell on steps twisting my right knee. Xrays were read as negative, and we went off with a walker to CT to be at our last GD's HS graduation. We made it through the trip OK, but after getting home the R knee suddenly couldn't bear weight and the xray now showed a fracture of the femur into the joint. I was scheduled for surgery, and if that had happened I'd probably be fine now, but before the planned surgery I tripped with the walker and fell hard. A spiral fracture completed the earlier fracture and I got a fifteen inch plate and 16 screws ...
I just got home from three weeks in rehab, and have at least another four weeks of no weight bearing ... so I can't even get to my main computer and all my 'stuff'. It turns out that the bad fall was caused by the fact that the walker had been incorrectly set up and was off balance ... bummer.
I am trying to keep up with the DNA matches that are coming thick and fast. There are many dozen that are described as 'extremely probable' to 'likely'. Most of the promising ones are from Telemark. It turns out that the DNA test is so sensitive that most matches are 5-8 generations away ... with the 'Closest Common Ancestor' (CCA) dating from the 1600s. I think that most of the matches are 'real' but it is rare that both parties have complete data over the many generations getting to the CCA. I have invited persons for whom the connection to the Naas/Drangedal lines can be identified, and have heard from a few. But ... I'm astonished how few people respond to my offer to share data and try to connect ... and even more amazed by the people who don't post even a portion of the tree that they are presumable curious about.
Recently I finally uploaded my AncestryDNA data to GedMatch ... which accepts data from a number of the DNA systems. Several other of the VR have done the same, and indeed our data matches. This generates a lot more matches. Just today I sent off an email to a person whose DNA matches mine, with an estimated 4.5 generations between matched samples. My suspicion is that they will turn out to be related via Ole and Petra Thygesen's descendants, some of whom remained in Wisconsin.
I would welcome hearing from any of the Cousins, and wish you all well.
I just got home from three weeks in rehab, and have at least another four weeks of no weight bearing ... so I can't even get to my main computer and all my 'stuff'. It turns out that the bad fall was caused by the fact that the walker had been incorrectly set up and was off balance ... bummer.
I am trying to keep up with the DNA matches that are coming thick and fast. There are many dozen that are described as 'extremely probable' to 'likely'. Most of the promising ones are from Telemark. It turns out that the DNA test is so sensitive that most matches are 5-8 generations away ... with the 'Closest Common Ancestor' (CCA) dating from the 1600s. I think that most of the matches are 'real' but it is rare that both parties have complete data over the many generations getting to the CCA. I have invited persons for whom the connection to the Naas/Drangedal lines can be identified, and have heard from a few. But ... I'm astonished how few people respond to my offer to share data and try to connect ... and even more amazed by the people who don't post even a portion of the tree that they are presumable curious about.
Recently I finally uploaded my AncestryDNA data to GedMatch ... which accepts data from a number of the DNA systems. Several other of the VR have done the same, and indeed our data matches. This generates a lot more matches. Just today I sent off an email to a person whose DNA matches mine, with an estimated 4.5 generations between matched samples. My suspicion is that they will turn out to be related via Ole and Petra Thygesen's descendants, some of whom remained in Wisconsin.
I would welcome hearing from any of the Cousins, and wish you all well.
Marc, I am aghast at your misfortune. So sorry that you have been disabled with the multiple knee and leg injuries. I had a nasty skiing injury in 2000 and had a tibial plateau fracture and was left with a permanent plate and 8 screws in my right leg. Be sure to do all the PT religiously. it make a big difference in your recovery. Meantime, I just sent away for the Ancestry.com DNA test kit so I will be having my DNA evaluated soon.
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