{"id":9738,"date":"2020-02-12T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9738"},"modified":"2024-05-14T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:01:07","slug":"a-complete-relative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9738","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Complete&#8221; Relative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/evelyn-grass-engel.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9739\" width=\"464\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/evelyn-grass-engel.jpg 736w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/evelyn-grass-engel-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><figcaption>All of &#8220;Evelene&#8221; Grass&#8217; ancestors are my ancestors because of our triple relationship. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The phrase &#8220;complete relative&#8221; is one that I made up because it seems to fit the situation. E. Grass (1886-1935) is related to me in three ways. The relationship is such that when one gets to her great-grandparents every one of her ancestors is one of my ancestors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason is fairly simply (or maybe not depending upon your perspective). Her father and her mother&#8217;s parents are all siblings of one of my ancestors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bertus Grass&#8211;her father (1851-1886) was a brother to my second great-grandmother Noentje Lena (Ufkes). <\/li><li>Garrelt Fecht&#8211;her maternal grandfather (1829-1913) was a brother to my third great-grandfather Hinrich Jacobs Fecht (1823-1912).<\/li><li>Feke (Janssen) Fecht&#8211;her maternal grandmother (1828-1913) was a sister to my third great-grandfather Johann Christopher Janssen (1823-1889).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fecht and Janssen families were from Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany. The Grass family, originally from Backemoor, moved there some time after Bertus and Noentje Lena were born. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain if any descendants of this relative have done a DNA test or not. If they have, their tree is non-existent and looking at their shared matches will be a challenge since there are other double connections I have to the Fecht and Janssen families. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On paper, E. Grass&#8217;s tree represents 1\/8th of my genealogical tree. That&#8217;s because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>My great-great-grandmother Noentje (Grass) Ufkes represents 1\/16 of my paper tree.<\/li><li>My great-great-great-grandfather Hinrich Fecht represents 1\/32 of my paper tree.<\/li><li>My great-great-great-grandfather Johann Janssen represents 1\/32 of my paper tree.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Just because E. Grass&#8217; tree represents 1\/8th of my tree does not mean that if she had tested that 1\/8th of my DNA is also hers. That&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> how DNA inheritance works, particularly since her relationships to me are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>first cousin three times removed through the Grass relationship (she was a first cousin to my great-grandfather Ufkes).<\/li><li>second cousin three times removed through the Fecht relationship (she was a first cousin to my great-great-grandmother Habben).<\/li><li>second cousin three times removed through the Janssen relationship (she was a first cousin to my great-great-grandfather Janssen).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The nature of our relationship does mean that if a descendant of hers tested, I&#8217;d have to analyze those results very carefully and would make no initial conclusions about any shared matches that we had. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we certainly would have shared matches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8220;complete relative&#8221; is one that I made up because it seems to fit the situation. E. Grass (1886-1935) is related to me in three ways. The relationship is such that when one gets to her great-grandparents every one of her ancestors is one of my ancestors. The reason is fairly simply (or maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11149,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions\/11149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}