I was also able to use the “Search by Surname” tool on the
Ancestry DNA website (see my last blog) to identify the parents of John Nicholas
Dell’s wife, Eve Dorothy. According to an entry in a Dell family Bible, Eve
Dorothy’s maiden name was Yingling, and she was born 1 Oct 1751.
Years ago, I came across information about a man named
Christian Yingling who immigrated to Pennsylvania about 1710. This man had many
children, including 4 sons. Several of his sons eventually moved down into
Maryland, so it seemed possible that Eve Dorothy might be descended from one of
the sons.
However, there was no mention of an Eve Dorothy among any of
Christian’s descendants. I had no way to prove her connection to this family;
that is, until I got my DNA results and began learning how to use the tools
available through Ancestry.com.
A few months ago, I decided to search my DNA matches for the
surname Yingling. The search engine returned 27 matches containing that
surname.
Four of the matches had private trees. To view those, I
would have to obtain permission from the owner of the tree, so I removed those
from my search for the time.
Three of the remaining matches I already knew to be part of
my Yingling line through Eve Dorothy. That left me with 20 matches to
investigate further.
As I looked through each of the 20 matches individually, I
began to notice a pattern: almost every one of the matches was descended from
the immigrant Christian Yingling. It was pretty evident from this that Eve
Dorothy was one of Christian’s descendants, but I still wasn’t sure where she
fit in.
In my next blog, I’ll share what I discovered
about Eve Dorothy and her family through AncestryDNA.
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