New mtDNA match

I received an e-mail from FTDNA today telling me of a new mtDNA match.  And it happened that my day was not busy with anything pressing.  So I decided to look...And after looking a bit, I decided to write a blog post about my mtDNA matches.  I have seven matches.  I am not sure how people feel about their names being posted on the internet, so I printed out the list and I have numbered the matches and will refer to them by number.

I have written a blog post or two about my mtDNA in the past and I'll put the links here in case you have interest:

http://marshamoses.blogspot.com/2013/05/trip-to-blue-ash-ohio-in-april-2013.html

Everyone's mtDNA comes from their mother whether you are male or female.  The Males do not pass on their mtDNA.  Only mothers pass their mtDNA to their children.  And quite honestly I know less about my mom's mother's female ancestors than almost anyone in my tree...so this is a fairly interesting project.

Number 1, 2, and 3 are my closest matches with a genetic distance of 1.  #1 has listed Mary Ann Butcher b. 182? and d. 1902.  I opened Ancestry to try to put together a "quick and dirty" tree for Mary Ann Butcher.  Believe it or not there are several Mary Ann Butchers who died in 1902.  I chose the Mary Ann Butcher who was born in 1821 in Lancaster Co PA and died in Indiana in 1902.  Mary Ann's mother is said to be Anna Mariah Gruber in several of the trees connected to this person.  Anna Mariah Gruber is said to have been born in 1783 in Basel Switzerland.  This makes sense to me as my mother's mother line goes back Clara Margaret Hornberger Sammons>Maggie Schmitt Hornberger>Margarite Rauch Schmitt.

Margarite Rauch Schmitt says in the 1900 census that she was born in Germany, her father was born in Switzerland, and her mother was born in Germany.  However, I believe that the family was living in the Alsace Lorraine area that was sometimes in Germany and sometimes in France before the move to our shores.  

So it is the next generation earlier than Margarite Rauch Schmitt that is my earliest know female ancestor on this line:  Magdalena Baumert.  Her husband was born in Switzerland.  Magdalena and her husband Abraham Rauch married in 1826 in Strasburg, Alsace France.  I do not have documentation for most of this.   However, it is of great interest that the place of birth for Magdalena's husband, Abraham Rauch is said to be Mittloedi, Glarus Switzerland.  And here is a map of the geography that includes Anna Maria Gruber's birth place in 1783 in Basel Switzerland and the place of Abraham's birth.  I do not have a birth place for Magdalena....did they know each other in Switzerland?  Did Abraham move to Alsace  before they met?  

158 km is almost a 100 miles....But still what ever the truth we do know that our maternal lines started out in the same area of the world.  

OK....Match #2.  Earliest known ancestor is Rosine Fischer 1887, Caroline Wurth 1842, Beihingen.  The first tree I looked at on Ancestry with these clues had a tree owner who had done a great deal of research and collected many sources and he took this tree back to Margretha Bunttenschuch who married Petter Dreer.  If this person's research is correct this line live in Baden-Wurttemberg, Deutschland for many generations.

Oh, that is very interesting....guess where that is?  It is inside the red dotted lines below.

Some of the surnames in this tree after  Margaretha Bunttenschuch are Jorg, Betz, Seitz, Dublin, Herker, Strenger, Walter, Beuttenmuller, Hettich,  

So it would seem likely that my Magdalena Baumert was born somewhere near Strasbourg and her husband moved from Switzerland to marry her in Strasbourg

OK match #3 has not earliest female ancestor and her tree is not helpful.

Match #4 Has earliest ancestor Bertha Hirsch, 1893-1979.  The Bertha that fits our story best has a slightly different birth date:  

 

Bertha was very pretty.  

Born about 120 miles from Strasbourg.  The surnames with this tree are Drumm and Schug

Match #5 has earliest ancestor of Martin Sayes b.1813 d 1896.  Match #5 has a pretty decent tree, so I was able to go back his female line to Earliest female Adele Mayeaux b. c 1846 and died 1923 in Effie LA.  I could find nothing much about the earlier females on Ancestry except that Adele's mother was Mary Bordelon.

Match #6. Match #6's tree showed these to be the earliest females that could have passed down their mtDNA to him.

Match #7  No tree and no earliest female ancestor.