1) What was your father's mother's name?
2) What is your father's mother's patrilineal line? That is, her father's father's father's ... back to the most distant male ancestor in that line?
3) Can you identify male sibling(s) of your father's mother, and any living male descendants from those male sibling(s)? If so, you have a candidate to do a Y-DNA test on that patrilineal line. If not, you may have to find male siblings, and their descendants, of the next generation back, or even further.
4) Tell us about it in your own blog post, or in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook or Google Plus post.
2) What is your father's mother's patrilineal line? That is, her father's father's father's ... back to the most distant male ancestor in that line?
3) Can you identify male sibling(s) of your father's mother, and any living male descendants from those male sibling(s)? If so, you have a candidate to do a Y-DNA test on that patrilineal line. If not, you may have to find male siblings, and their descendants, of the next generation back, or even further.
4) Tell us about it in your own blog post, or in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook or Google Plus post.
1)
My Father's mother was Margaret Hansen, later
Margaret Hansen Hillinger. She was born in 1919 to Holger and Oline Hansen in
Cleveland, Ohio.
2)
Holger's line:
* Holger was born 1891 and died in
1977.
* His father was Jens Christian
Hansen (1858-1919), who married Else Katrine Larsen (1865-1934).
* Jen's father was Hans Knudsen
(1824-1902), who married Christine Jensdatter (1834-1918).
* Hans Knudsen was born to Knud
Knudsen (1794-1866) and Ane Marie Hansdatter (1797-1876).
* Knud Knudsen was born to Knud
Madsen (born about 1730, died unknown) and Karen Pedersdatter (born about 1752,
died unknown)
* Knud Madsen's father was likely
Mads something, but we have no actual information about him or his wife, so
Knud Madsen is the end of the information I have on this line.
3)
Nana (my grandmother) had one brother, who is
now deceased. He did, however have two sons, both of whom are still alive, or
were last I heard.
I have to say, I haven't considered the DNA testing yet
because I still have so much to go through with all the papers that I do have.
Moreover, I probably wouldn't test this line as this one goes pretty far back
(18th century is better than several lines I have…) The one I
am interested for Nana is her mother's line, so I'd have to go one generation
back on her mother's side. I do think there are some there, but I don't have
any contact with them at this time, so that would take a little doing. Still,
it could be interesting.