{"id":2478,"date":"2023-05-11T11:03:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T18:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2023-05-11T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T18:03:37","slug":"wikitree-finds-a-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"WikiTree Finds a Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/Some DAR chapters run book clubs, and mine has one. This month we read a new biography, The Revolutionary, Samuel Adams<\/em> by Stacy Schiff. During our discussion, one member of the club reported that she is an Adams descendant.\n<\/p>\n

With Massachusetts ancestors myself, I wondered if I, too, might have a connection to this illustrious family. I turned to the Connection Finder tool on the WikiTree website to find out.\n<\/p>\n

I had set up a family tree on this site a few years ago when I began corresponding with some relatives in Finland. They used this site to post our Finnish family tree. I have added other lines since then. Doing so gave me the clue I needed to identify my Mayflower ancestors.\n<\/p>\n

When I ran the WikiTree search for a connection to Samuel Adams, I found no match. I am not related to him.\n<\/p>\n

Next, I queried for a connection to Samuel’s cousins, President John Adams and his son President John Quincy Adams. There I did find a connection, not through the Adams family but through the family of Abigail Adams, the wife and mother of the Presidents.\n<\/p>\n

She was born Abigail Smith. WikiTree located our common English ancestor several generations before Abigail. Our kinship is quite distant, but WikiTree does claim one. It also found a relationship by marriage in a later generation. Whether these connections are valid or not depends on the accuracy of the genealogical work done by the people who posted the family trees.\n<\/p>\n

I hope I am related to this famous First Lady. She seems a worthy family connection to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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