DNA Origins Corroboration
Where Ancestry's DNA Origins Journeys — an entirely separate method — independently confirm the paper-trail research.
Independent genetic evidence (Ancestry DNA "Origins Journeys") cross-checked against the paper-trail research. This is a strong piece of content because it's evidence from a completely different methodology agreeing with the genealogical record.
"Early Connecticut & New York Settlers" (5+ ancestors connect to this)
Matches the Norwich/Stonington cluster almost exactly: Thomas Minor, Walter Palmer, Thomas Tracy, William Hyde, Thomas Bliss, Thomas Sluman, Thomas Leffingwell, Stephen Post — plus the Dutchess County NY Palatine German cluster (Barthel, Hack, Lutz, Rauch, Lott) and the Barrett militia line.
"Rhode Island, Southern New York, and Northeast Pennsylvania Settlers"
Matches two confirmed clusters: the Newport/Westerly RI Baptist community (Angell, Crandall, Hubbard, Peckham, Clarke, Saunders) AND the Barnes/Reeves frontier corridor at Lackawaxen, PA and Orange/Sullivan County, NY.
"Southern Ontario, Northern New York & Northern Pennsylvania Settlers"
Matches the Fellman/Bachmann family's move to Waterloo, Ontario, plus the repeated pattern of families relocating to northern NY late in life (Angell → Cortland/Broome Co.; Barnes → Wayne/Broome Co.; Winthrop Roe → Cortland Co., NH to NY move in old age).
"Northern Sicily" — "Palermo & Northern Sicilian Islands" (5+ ancestors)
Map markers cluster precisely on Palermo city and the area southwest toward Carini — exactly matching the documented 300-year Mineo/Taormina/Cusimano/ La Fata/Lo Grasso lineage in Carini, and the later Domilici/Tomasello/Mineo concentration in nearby Bagheria. Timeframe shown (1700–1975) matches the documented parish-register-to-emigration window almost exactly.
Not yet checked
- An Ireland-specific DNA Origins journey almost certainly exists on the same Ancestry account, given the volume of confirmed Dowling/Curry/Kelly/ Gilroy material (Dublin, Westmeath, Cork, Tyrone) — not yet pulled and compared.