Crystal White

Ancestors

Daughter of [private father (1940s - unknown)] and [private mother (1950s - unknown)]

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Biography

Crystal was born in Iowa in 1975. She married in 1997, and had one son. (Details are left out for privacy of family members.)

She is (so far) a lifelong Iowan, an avid reader, and and a dedicated family historian. She hasn't traveled a lot but plans to start more... and you can at least partly blame a passion for genealogy, as some of the next planned trips include spots from her family origins!

Descendant of Scotland, Royalty.

Descendant of several Magna Carta Surety Barons.

Descendant of Charlemagne.

Crystal is a member of the US Southern Colonies' Virginia Team.

Connections

I've found some fascinating connections through WikiTree! The following are some of my famous ancestors and cousins... just for fun, of course, and using the best knowledge and resources currently available!

U.S. Presidents: Cousin to the Roosevelts, Jefferson, Madison, Fillmore, Nixon, John Quincy Adams, and more. (More are connected through a line that's currently in question, so I'll leave them out for now.)

Magna Carta Barons: Through my McCasland line, I have seven direct Surety Baron ancestors who signed an oath to the Magna Carta agreement, as well as many other Barons and "Illustrious Men" (counselors to King John) who are listed as distant cousins.

Scottish Royalty: This one is my favorite branch. :) I have eighteen direct ancestors who held the Scottish throne between the 9th to 15th centuries. The most recent is King James II of the Scots (Stewart-1166) as my 17th great-grandfather.

This category lists many more Scottish kings and queens as distant cousins. A personal favorite is that MacBeth is my first cousin 29 times removed. Yes, that MacBeth. :) (There are additional royal relations outside Scotland including Plantagenets, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Louis IX, and back to Charlemagne.)

Famous Women in History: I feel fortunate to count among my distant cousins some of history's strongest women, including Abigail Adams, Amelia Earhart, and some of the original suffragettes, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

It's fun to see a "Who's Who" version of one's ancestry, but it's also exciting to find much closer relations that I'd have never otherwise met. The closest is a new 3rd cousin with whom I've exchanged some emails!

DNA

Kits completed at Ancestry.com and at 23 & Me. I've confirmed DNA with my child, my parents, all four of my grandparents, and six of my eight great-grandparents, plus a few beyond.

• Parent-Child Relationship confirmed by Ancestry DNA between White-73032 and son with a match of 3489 cM across 24 segments.

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Crystal White and PA, her 1st cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Lorenz Klaffke and Elsa Ratzke, the great grandparents of Crystal White and grandparents of PA. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 1st cousin once removed, based on sharing 453 cM across 23 segments. Crystal is the daughter of White-73034 who is the grandson of the common ancestors Lorenz Klaffke & Elsa Ratzke.

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Crystal White and PG, her 1st cousin 2x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are Joseph White and Mary Taylor, the great great grandparents of Crystal White and grandparents of PG. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 1st cousin twice removed, based on sharing 144 cM across 9 segments. Crystal is the daughter of White-73034 who is the great-grandson of the common ancestors Joseph White and Mary Taylor.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Crystal White and RF, her 2nd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are Samuel Rutherford and Martha Jones, the great grandparents of both Crystal White and RF. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd Cousin, based on sharing 184 cM across 11 segments. Crystal is the daughter of Wilson-93589 who is the granddaughter of the common ancestors Samuel Rutherford & Martha Jones.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Crystal White and MA, her 2nd cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are John Trotter and Thursa Warne, the great great grandparents of Crystal White and great grandparents of MA. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd cousin once removed, based on sharing 122 cM across 7 segments. Crystal is the daughter of Wilson-93589 who is the great-granddaughter of the common ancestors John HW Trotter and Thursa Warne.

Sources

• First-hand information and family knowledge of my first four generations back. Entered by Crystal White at registration.

• DNA Matches (as confirmed above) through Ancestry.com and GEDMatch