Some goals may seem do-able, while others seem to keep us running as fast as we can. Today's goal was one of the latter: I wanted to complete the review of the sixty DNA matches linked to the descendants of Nicholas Snider's son Simon.
Reviewing those sixty matches brought up some thoughts. The prime observation had to do with pedigree collapse. In my mother-in-law's case—and this exercise is solely because of her history in Perry County, Ohio—her roots were quite tangled. I know the proper term for that might be pedigree collapse—think cousin marrying cousin, for instance—but in her case, I prefer to call it "endogamy lite."
In the case of some of these Snider DNA matches, they are cousins several times over. Some of them were related to my mother-in-law's line through five or six different surnames from her past. That's just what happens when a small community stays in one place for two hundred years.
The purpose of reviewing these Snider DNA matches involved not only the process of linking each DNA match to my mother-in-law's tree, but updating each relative's profile page with links to documents. Some of these people, for instance, had been added to the family tree long before the 1950 census had been released, so an update was necessary. Then, too, marriage announcements in newspapers and other records found during this process allowed me to make many more profiles in my mother-in-law's family tree current.
With that goal completed, it's simply on to the next goal. While I've already added all the DNA matches for Nicholas' children Jacob, Lewis, Joseph, Maria, and Simon, there are three more categories of Snider DNA matches yet to conquer. The good news is that the remaining number of Snider matches is seventy seven—a far less daunting number than the 268 that appeared on my ThruLines readout when I first began this process.
With that, I'll move on to the DNA matches linked to Nicholas' son Peter tomorrow—a mere forty matches after all that's been done so far.
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