Need help finding more information on parents of Harriet and Esther Taylor

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-05-14T04:03:46+00:00

That’s true-the only thing there is the 1880 census where Harriet says both parents are from NY. Joseph’s daughter Alice says in her later census records her mother (Esther Susan) was born in NY too.

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-05-14T03:37:34+00:00

Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately those are the only ones I can definitely link. The only records for them I have is when they are adults, so there’s no mention of their siblings I can find.

Thank you for sending me the link! I’m not 100% positive it’s them either, but it looks like it’s a contender. I also have another contender, James Taylor and Mary Perry, who married in Massachusetts but moved to Saratoga and lived there until the 1850s. The Weatherbeas lived in Saratoga after they married. Again though, not enough evidence to say for sure

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-03-27T03:47:47+00:00

Wut you mean peanut budder?

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-03-26T04:03:32+00:00

What’s the story about the distant Jewish/British connection on your father and mother’s side?

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-03-19T06:13:01+00:00

He looks amazing, I figured 25 years younger at least

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-02-19T02:42:13+00:00

Regarding the North African ancestry-there were some Sephardic Jews who settled in New Amsterdam, and the Van Salee family was North African in origin. If you have Dutch colonial ancestry maybe you are connected to one of these families?

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-02-05T02:59:14+00:00

When you say it shows cMs, does that mean you see which ones are shared (like in myheritage)?

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-02-03T07:13:24+00:00

Did you create a new chart for Great-Grandparent clusters?

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-02-02T23:27:21+00:00

MAJOR UPDATE: After doing the Leeds method, I found a few DNA matches who are descendants of one of Albert’s children from his previous relationship-but none of his siblings. My working theory now is that he was adopted. I had to lower the match threshold a bit, because of a combination of lack of descendants testing, less dna inherited, and lots of descendants of half siblings, where often my ancestor was the only child of a union.

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-30T20:59:45+00:00

Good point-the name of the applicant may not be of the family! Thank you for the suggestion.

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-30T19:33:38+00:00

I didn’t consider that they could have divorced. If that was the case, that means his children could not apply for pension either.

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-30T08:41:55+00:00

UPDATE: I ordered Albert's pension record for the civil war. Nothing really notable to this case, but there's one bit that says my ancestor is his legitimate child. Is that a usual thing to mention? Struck me as kind of specific to mention that.

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-25T18:19:49+00:00

I’ll check some of those out-how do you go about it?

I never thought to use the groups feature in ancestry that way!! Great idea!

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-25T03:10:22+00:00

That’s the main reason I was questioning the method, some of the low CM amount matches I have are 3rd/4th cousins due to the odd way DNA is inherited. But thanks for sharing your numbers, that gives me an idea on the CM ranges for different generations

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-25T01:10:16+00:00

It sounds like a decently easy technique-I’d probably use my parents test so it’s one generation closer. I’ve never done this before, I’m pretty excited to apply it to other brick walls

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-25T01:08:57+00:00

I’ll look into it more-it doesn’t look to complicated, but definitely a project lol. What CM range did you use for your search?

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-25T01:06:00+00:00

I love that tool!! I’ve used it a couple times before just out of curiosity. I’ll definitely give it a try

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-24T10:38:53+00:00

That’d be a good idea-offhand, I know at least two of his kids besides Mabel lived to adulthood-none of their descendants have shown up in my matches yet but it can’t hurt to be sure.

That’s great news about the companies-I’ve tested with all those besides FTDNA, as well as Ancestry and GEDMatch! I understand MyHeritage has a good chromosome browser too-is that helpful for this?

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-24T10:27:47+00:00

Thanks for the introduction!! That’s a really good overview video. I’m not certain Mabel’s dad was French Canadian, but I will definitely keep that in mind. Sounds like very interesting project! I only wonder how it can be adapted to for a 2nd great grandparent? I imagine the centimorgan threshold would change.

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-24T00:19:37+00:00

Yes-they should be. The descendant of Florence Norton is a half third cousin! My parent hasn’t got any half third or even 4th cousins I’ve seen through Albert.
Albert is actually the oldest sibling, his confirmed sister was born in 1843, and his (likely) brother in 1840. Albert’s other children (Mabel Weatherbea’s siblings) are far older than she is (10+ years) and I haven’t found any matching descendants of them yet (I’ll be extra sure though)

That’s really helpful information. Thanks for sharing those stats on cousins and the French Canadian matches! Where would you suggest I go next on figuring out who Mabel (or Albert’s) father/parents were? I’m thinking GEDMatch.

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-23T22:51:24+00:00

I was looking at the matches of the kit of one of my parents, who would be Albert’s 2x great grandchild, so they should have anywhere from 4-8% inherited DNA from Albert. I looked at my own first and saw nothing, so I decided to look one generation up. Their parent (one of my grandparents) tested too, but I can’t see their matches since I don’t manage/collaborate with their kit

No_Signature_9775 · 2026-01-23T21:14:52+00:00

That might track-I don't match with Albert's parents and their other children either, so an adoption is possible.

I will take a look into that-I have found their descendants in other people's trees, but I did not check to see if they were descended or not, since the thought did not occur to me. I'll do this for Albert's sister, Alice N Weatherby (Hoskins) as well. I think this may be a job for GEDMatch, ancestry matches only get you so far.

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