I think it was Christmas 2018 I found out my granddaughter and her mom (ex-daughter-in-law) had their DNA done at Ancestry. Her mom brought a computer laptop to the gathering and was showing me things as I was the only one doing family tree things years ago there. She was shocked at the weird names coming up for my granddaughter and said look at this one Saalfrank. I laughed and said that is my mom's maiden name. My granddaughter had lots of matches with that name.
So I activated my Ancestry account buying a world account. They gave me access to their tree and my granddaughter's DNA so I could fill in her dad's side of the tree. Her mom was doing her side of the tree. The Ashkenazi showed up in her and was at 7% which I knew would as I had my brother and husbands dna done, but theirs not on Ancestry. It opened a new way to search for ancestors. So I worked on things for quite a while with just her DNA. Later in 2019 I believe I decided to do my DNA, wanting to prove the 2% Ashkenazi in my brother at familytreedna. I chose Ancestry because of the family tree I had there.
Results Ancestry plus software update 8-14
The picture is labeled update, the other was my first results. I was disappointed no Ashkenazi was listed but continued on my tree with the new information. Contacted a cousin from Switzerland also. I was interested in trying to find the paternal side of my family. Ehrman was the way we spelled it here in USA but I did know growing up they were from Switzerland and the name was Ehrmann. When I contacted my cousin Schaad my Great Grandmother Helen Bringolf's parents I knew from records were George (Geo) Bringolf and Barbara, his noticing that name immediately made a comment about Hallau where George was from which I didn't know. I was related to him with my Ehrmann side Philipp Ehrmann married Elezabeth Schaad. Of course he looked at my tree. He was on vacation and would contact me when he returned.
My other cousin related to Ehrmann's, she had great great I think Verena Ehrmann that was my great grandpa's sister. She had them with wrong families had them German. I told her Switzerland. Well, she happened to find the Swiss church records and started putting info on wikitree her favorite place plus started updating things on her Ancestry also. I told her about Theo Schaad and here when Theo contacted me he had all the church records and had been using them for years. Theo being born and raised in Switzerland spoke German and things on the records were German and English. He also was a known genealogist by Ancestry and had even had articles written about him.
Well Beth on wikitree ended up having all this wrong information from the beginning. First she had them German out there, changed those records to then being the wrong Swiss records because of marriage to wrong woman. Well Theo and I found that so all those records wrong. They are all flying around wikitree somewhere and all the German, when people find things they just add them to their family trees, so even if you delete the record on your account, it is still tied to many trees. It was a mess. Theo said he would help me and asked me what I wanted. I told him the Ehrman paternal bloodline and mentioned the DNA and Ydna I had on my brother. So I began working with Theo keeping an eye on Beth. Beth finally contacted him and we all three worked on things. Ancestry then had Theo 100% German, the 8-14 update did change that on him. Beth had found a marriage record of Verena Ehrman in Germany I think naming her parents Phillip and Elizabeth Ehrmann. So she made them German as she did marry a German. What you find out working with records back then is that women married in the man's town and where they will live.
