Modoc County, California

Funny coincidence.....I heard from a lady that I had sent a message to a long time ago yesterday via Ancestry.  She lives in Modoc County, California.    I had never looked at Modoc County before.  It is in the very far northeast corner of California just above Lassen County.  Google maps says it has a population of only 8700 people in the entire county. 

The Lady is a dna match to me. Ancestry had suggested that our connection is that we share ancestors:  John A. Slater and his wife Louisa M. Redmon.

Then this morning Ancestry sent me a hint for the granddaughter of  this Slater Couple:  Helen Louise McKinsey who married James McGregor.

The hint from ancestry is a census record for James McGregor and his wife, Helen Louse McKinsey McGregor in 1900.  They are renting a home in Modoc County when the 1900 census was taken.  They did not have children yet.  James was 30 while Helen was only 18.  James is a teacher.  The home they are living in is in Cedarville which is on the far eastern side of the county.  Neither Helen nor Jim were native to the area.  Helen was from Susanville in Lassen County and Jim had been born in Cherokee CA in Butte County, CA.

                   

 

Because our dna match is autosomal, the segment on which we match could be from either the Slater side or the Redmon side.  My match says that she descends from John and Louisa's son, John Chapman Slater who was a brother to my Louise B. Slater.