{"id":1063,"date":"2016-07-03T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2016-07-03T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T01:35:09","slug":"52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-nos-19-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, nos. 19 &amp; 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/070416_0134_52Ancestors1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>I wish I knew the identity of my ancestors no. 19 &amp; 20. I wonder if they ever knew they had a little granddaughter named Grace born on the Nebraska prairie in August, 1896.\n<\/p>\n<p>Their son, my mystery great-grandfather, would have spent time with my great-grandmother, Laura Riddle, during the holiday season of 1895. Who was he? How well did they know one another? Did he know about his little girl?\n<\/p>\n<p>Other than his whereabouts at the end of 1895, my only other information about this man consists of a guess as to his heritage. The clue comes from an autosomal DNA test.\n<\/p>\n<p>My dad, one of the man&#8217;s grandsons, took a DNA test and learned that nearly a third of his DNA comes from northern Europe. Because all his known ancestors immigrated from the British Isles, the man who contributed 25% of his DNA must have been the source of most of the European heritage. German, perhaps?\n<\/p>\n<p>I keep hoping for an unexplained DNA match that points to a relative of my mystery man. If a close match to an unknown line ever turns up, I hope to discover his identity, and that of his parents. Until then, I will know them only by their numbers, 19 &amp; 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I knew the identity of my ancestors no. 19 &amp; 20. I wonder if they ever knew they had a little granddaughter named Grace born on the Nebraska prairie in August, 1896. Their son, my mystery great-grandfather, would have spent time with my great-grandmother, Laura Riddle, during the holiday season of 1895. Who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-ancestors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}