Discovered that Barbara is not a child of Paul Ackerman Sr but was the wife of Paul Ackerman Jr. I have merged her with Barbara Dougherty which is listed as Paul’s wife.
Updated information: Anna Margaretha did have a child by the name of Barbara born 13 Jun 1789. Now it’s likely that Anna’s daughter was not the daughter of Paul Sr.
Anna’s first husband Archie Olewine died in 1789 the same year Barbara was born. I don’t yet have a date for Archie’s death except for the year but Barbara is surely his daughter.
Note: I have found many who have Anna Margaretha or as they have her Margaret Olewine with her death as 1789. However, they do not have any documentation showing her death. Most likely because she didn’t die but married Paul in 1800 and had another child Abraham. I suspect that any children born prior to 1789 were with Paul and Anna Maria. I am still searching for more information about Anna Maria. I am sticking with Anna Maria and Anna Margaretha being two different people.
It’s possible that 1789 may be Anna Maria’s death year.
In our documentation we only had Nancy Baird as John’s wife. Over the years of research we discovered that her name is Anna Nancy Baird. However, near as I can tell she never went by Anna.
In the birth record for Maria they list her as Anna.
During the early years of me researching Nancy, my thinking was that their son William and wife Keziah may have named their child Samuel Baird Ackerman after Nancy’s father. I have since gone away from that assumption.
Note: Thanks to Marsha Chadwick’s visit to Harrisburg and Lancaster we have more information and verification.
Now a bit about who I have as Nancy’s parents. John Baird and Rachael Beard. And John’s parents as Thomas and Agnes from Tyrone, Ireland. Thomas and Agnes emmigrated in 1753 to Colerain, Lancaster PA. Nancy had seven siblings.
John Baird married Rachael Beard
Francis – 1785
John Allen – 1787
Anna Nancy – 1788 -1854
Patience – 1789
Sarah – 1791
Thomas – 1793
Rebecca G. – 1794 – 1830
John Baird’s parents were Thomas b. 1730 in Tyrone, Ireland and Agnes.
Listed as Paul Aukerman Jr. Paul was born 18 Oct 1785 and died in 1877. He was baptised 4 Jun 1786 in Lancaster County PA. Paul is buried in Bear Graveyard Cumberland Co. PA.
Paul Jr married Barbara Dougherty 24 Dec 1812 • Salem Reformed Church, Harrisburg, Dauphin, PA.
Barbara Dougherty was born in 1790 in Pennsylvinia and died after 1860.
Paul Jr and Barbara had four children.
Phillip – 20 Feb 1806 – 5 Dec 1890 Shade Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania George William – 15 Feb 1807 – 12 May 1897 Shade Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania John – 25 Nov 1814 – 8 Mar 1895 Shade Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania Susan Ann (Lusk)- 1815 – 27 Oct 1876 Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Susan Ann Ackerman is verified by DNA match with me and Lusk. She married Robert Lusk III. Since this is a DNA match I figure we can call this line verified.
Some have Maria Sophia Stern (Gaelin/Gallie) as Paul Ackerman’s wife again with the same children as Anna Maria and/or Anna Margaretha. However I find no supporting documentation.
A great many family members have started a family tree on Ancestry. One thing you have to do with hints is view the supporting documentation/sources. If you just pull in info from member trees you may get wrong information and make a mess of your tree and information. I know because I’ve done it. When evaluating member trees in hints. Always, before inporting the information, check out the sources. I am not saying to always ignore the information. It may give you a “hint” to dig a little deeper. Also don’t just add a source without verifing the information in the source. Ancestry supplies hints based on “best available” information. I would say maybe 80% is accurate. But there is that 20% that may be wrong. Bottom line, check the sources.
A few observations about DNA testing. I am finding very interesting information via DNA. Here is a little overview.
I did the Ancestry DNA test. Ancestry tests your Autosomal DNA which is pairs of 22 X and Y-Chromosome’s and one Sex.
I may do the Y-DNA (Y-Chromosome) at some point, Ancestry does not do Y. Males pass down the Y-Chromosome in it’s entirety from generation to generation. Mitochondrial DNA tests trace people’s matrilineal (mother-line) through their mitochondria, which are passed from mothers to their children.
You will get thousands of DNA matches. And Ancestry & My Heritage will show you how much Chromosones are matched. The higher the percentage the greater the match. For instance for mom there is this.
Shared DNA: 3,470 cM across 32 segments
Unweighted shared DNA: 3,470 cM
Longest segment: 203 cM
A centimorgan (abbreviated cM) is a unit of measure for the frequency of genetic recombination. 1 cM = 1% chance of a split/match.
Don’t get me wrong you can get matches on the Paternal side as well. For instance I have a match for a cousin that was adopted out. Born an Ackerman and was adopted out in the first year. I didn’t know about this cousin until 2020.
Shared DNA: 493 cM across 23 segments
Unweighted shared DNA: 493 cM
Longest segment: 55 cM
This is pretty definitive that he is my 1st Cousin 1x removed (my cousin’s son) whom we recently discovered. However I am unable to research him any further without knowing his birth father.
It is said that any match with less than 20 cM is unreliable. So tread lightly on those as possible. The key would be supporting source documentation.
There are many things you can gleen from DNA and I encourage you to go ahead and do it.
Lititia was married to Andrew Carroll. There was a lot of inconsistencies with Lititia and Andrew and it seemed that nobody could agree. For instance, some had Beach, some had Beech and some had Gorman. For Andrew some had Carroll, some had Carrol, Carol, Carole and others. One document has Carvel or something like that. There are differences as to when Latitia was born and where. Some say Allen County Ohio even though Ohio wasn’t even a state let alone Allen County didn’t exist. I even had her born in Morgan County and I don’t think that existed yet. Some had her born in PA, some NY and some in Connecticut. Aside from that, there were some that had her parents born and died in Connecticut yet she was born in another location. I know it can happen. Including her getting married in Pennsylvania. Needless to say it made researching her difficult.
If you read my earlier post about DNA, I mentioned to tread lightly on DNA matches with less than 20 Cm. However I know Latitia would be a low score match so when I searched for matches for Beach I went to those around 10 Cm. Again I treaded lightly but found some success.
A note on the DNA search for a name in matches. It will show all who have that name in their tree. It may be one instance or a lot of instances. It doesn’t necessarily mean you share Beach DNA but it does mean you and the match share some DNA. They may not have any Beach DNA but still match your DNA in general.
After going through about 30+ individual matches. I found someone with what Ancestry calls ThruLines. Meaning you and your match can trace your lines back to a common ancestor. In this case we both traced Abijah Beach. This told me I was on the right track even though I discarded Abijah because of location. I have since discovered quite a few ThruLines matches. The trick here with the ThruLines is getting it back far enough.
I now have some documentation to go through and possibly search for other documentation.
Here is some info for you.
As you see, there are more hints to view.
Here is what I have so far, of course subject to change.
Latitia was 1 of 8 children born in Bridgewater Connecticut to Abijah and Abigail Beach.
Albert 1793 – 1873 Lucy Ann – 1795 Letitia – 1798 Issac Closson – 1802 – 1873 Elijah – 1804 – 1833 Emily – 1809 – 1858 Elizabeth – 1804 Laura Antonette
Lititia’s husband is Andrew Carroll and at first I didn’t know why so many people had Lititia as Gorman. Then it hit me. Andrew may have been married to two Latitia’s. There were issue of five girls. Why different spellings of Carroll? I have no idea.
Margaret Carrolle – 1808 – 1842 Keziah B. Carroll – 1814 – 1887 Margaret Carroll – 1816 Sabina Carle – 1818 – 1831 Ruth Carle – 1820 – 1875
Looking at the birth date of the first Margaret Carrolle, we see she was born in 1808. However, Latitia Beach was born in 1798 which would make here just 10 years old when Margaret was born which is unlikely.
Looking at Latitia Gorman she was born in 1786 which would make her 22 when Margaret was born, which is more likely.
Kaziah was born in 1814, Latitia Beach would have been 18. This may explain why she got the middle name of Beach.
Andrew Carroll
My thinking is that Andrew Carroll and Abijah Beach were both military men and possibly knew each other. Which may explain why they settled in different locations and how Andrew met Letitia since they we’re not is the same location.
Born in 1789 according to U.S. Army record of enlistments in PA or VA. However, in the article “A Portrait and biographical record of Allen & Van Wert Counties, Ohio” dated 1896 it states that Andrew was from PA.
Some have Andrew married to Letitia Gorman, most have him married to Letitia Beach. I believe he was married to both.
Translation of this has Andrew Carvel. Is it Carvel or Carrel. One thing I’ve learned is that Andrew’s last name is spelled many ways. This is from Washington County, Ohio, so the location is right. If this is in fact Andrew, it proves that he was previously married to Letitia Gorman.
Letitia Gorman was born in about 1786. To Andrew and Letitia Gorman was born Margaret Carrolle in 1808. Margaret F. married Abraham Birdsell. I do have a DNA match for Birdsell which surely goes back to Andrew.
We know that Andrew married Letitia Beach in Morgan County Ohio in 1813. Keziah B. Carroll was born in 18 May 1814.
I recently added Pro Tools to my Ancestry.com. This has put me on a course that is very interesting. When I looked at my DNA matches, those that either didn’t have a tree or have a private tree, meaning I can’t see it, I thought what’s the point. Yes, it’s a DNA match but now what? With Pro Tools you can take that DNA match and view Shared Matches. Anyone who is alive shows up as “Private” in their tree, if they have one. You may have a name for the initial match. Or you may have initials. And it will show you male or female. So there you have 2 clues. If you don’t have the last name in your tree, that’s where Shared Matches can come into play. A shared match may have the last name.
I will actually add that person to my tree as a floater. How do I do that? I add them as a sister or brother to me then go to their profile then to Edit Relationships and remove mom and dad. Now they are in my tree just sitting there all alone. So if I added Jane Doe, I can then add a father with the last name Doe with no first name. I may take a guess for a birth year. If a shared match has Doe in their tree, Jane is most likely a relative. Of course Doe could be a married name. So sometimes you may need to add a husband with the last name of Doe.
Then more searches. Maybe I’ll get a city and state from the shared match, so I’ll do a Google search for Jane Doe in that city. As you can see just because they have no tree, doesn’t mean I can’t find them. It just takes a bit of digging. Now if they have a basic tree with maybe grandparents, that makes things a bit easier.
So far I have added a bunch of family members this way. Adding the match and a bunch of the matches relatives.
Via DNA match Ada came up as Adelaide Ackerman married to William Bernard Cooper who died in 1897. I don’t believe Ada ever went by Adelaide. However she did go by Addie.
In the 1870 Census we have Ada N Akerman age 0 or 1 with a 17 year old Sarah Stephens both living in the Shrider household. Possibly Sarah’s grandparents.
Also in the 1870 census we find Albert living with William and Kezia. Albert is 17 at the time of the census.
Then in the 1880 census we find Adda age 12. This was a little confusing as they listed Adda as granddaughter. Usually related to Head of Household. Of course listing A. Akerman as Head of Household obviously isn’t the grandparent of Adda. So they listed her as granddaughter of Kezziah.
I believe A. is Albert. Albert was born in 1852 and would have been 17 or 18 in 1870. Also Sarah Stephens was 17 at the time of the 1870 census.
So it’s my belief that Sarah is Ada’s mother and Albert is Ada’s father. Ada being very young in 1870 was still with her mother then at some point went to live with father Albert.
According to the DNA match Ada or Adelaide was married to William Bernard Cooper from Nebraska. In the 1900 Census lists William and Addis (but could be Addie) were living in Crawford Nebraska.
As you notice her age is not listed.
In the 1910 Census we still find Addie and WM living in Crawford Nebraska.
In the 1920 Census it shows Widow Addie living with her son Lysle Winston Cooper therefore William Cooper died after 1910 but before 1920. Then moved to Colorado with her son.
The next Census I have is from 1940 Maryland which shows Lyle (Lysle) and family including Addie.
As you see Addie and son Lysle traveled a bit after William died. We know that Addie passed away in the 1940s as she is not listed in the 1950 Census.
