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April 20, 2021 by karen

DNA. It’s amazing how three letters could so completely change the field of genealogy. What’s a discovery you’ve made with DNA? What about a brick wall that DNA might help break down?

I am just starting to build my understanding of using DNA to solve genealogical questions – a topic I intend to attack full-force upon retirement! The one I’d really like to solve is to figure out the parents of my 3x-great-grandfather Andrew Fraser.

I am convinced that I’ve hit the end of the line as far as finding any more evidence in the records. I traveled to Scotland in 2016 and got hands-on help and consultation from experts. I even hired some Scottish researchers to go to a couple of archives for me and follow up on a few clues that I found after I got home.

However…there is an intriguing Y-DNA match to my cousin Bruce that points to a Highland Scot connection in Inverness. These distant DNA-cousins ended up in Canada. Our common ancestor is likely just a generation or two beyond where each of our family trees ends. 

A fantastical and unlikely theory about my distant Fraser ancestry can be found here.

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Comments

  1. Chris Williamson says

    April 21, 2021 at 1:10 pm

    Which Alexander Fraser are you stuck on? There must be more than I have in my tree, as of yet, because I don’t think I have one that died in 1872. I think I have a big mess in my tree….lol. Hurry up and retire!!!!
    Chris Williamson

  2. David Whitehouse says

    April 21, 2021 at 1:17 pm

    Karen, I’m retired now and hope to spend more time on genealogy too. I have taken the Ancestry DNA test and it would be interesting to see how we match up. I think we figured out once we were 4th cousins. Our common ancestor is Duncan Campbell.

    Talk to you later,
    Dave Whitehouse

    • Bruce Frasier says

      May 3, 2021 at 12:10 pm

      Nina Campbell was a dinner guest
      She said there was a long standing feud between Campbells and Frasiers
      We patched that up LOL as well as our Frasier ancestor married Ann C ampbell

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