techteach;37274 wrote: Except Mary Lovina Potter is not related unless so distant that it fails to show. I did not lower numbers on Gedmatch though to look at that.
Techteach
That’s true. Although, the ancestor that Linda and I share is too many generations out to show on GedMatch I believe. I have not tried a GedMatch with her to verify that though. I’m in the process of getting DNA samples into GedMatch from the generation before my mother to try and have a closer link for comparison.
The thing with some of these names is they are associated but not necessarily related families. So many of my ancestors had multiple spouses. I am a descendant of Benjamin Brower and Elizabeth Bechtel – but not Isabel Buck who was his second wife.
Did any of your ancestors come through Delaware County Indiana?
The associated families I’m looking at here all came through there. The Browers were assoicated with the Hoovers who were associated with the Goings.
This website has a list of some early families to Delaware County: http://www.ingenweb.org/indelaware/Surnames/query002.htm This list includes Pontius which is the link I have to Linda.
The families the Brower children married into were Wood, Hoover, Downing, Cross, Paul, Keene, Sisk, Riley, Wooters and Smith (mine)
I have no choice but investigate associated families because the Brower, Bechtel, Potter and Buck ancestors from this era are all brick-walls.
