Family History by Sid

       Rochelle Joan Carlton was born February 6th, 1951 in Philadelphia, PA. The daughter of John J. Carlton and Gertrude Snyder, she was an artist, an art teacher, and a social worker. Rochelle attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls and graduated in 1969. At age 3 she became an older sister to Arlene Carlton who I married in 1978. Here is a picture of Rochelle and Arlene.                                                                                         Rochelle was an artist and explored many mediums. She dabbled in ceramics and the craft of batique (the dyeing of fabric by a specific process.) She was also a jewelry artist and had quite a following in the Delaware Valley. Her pieces were sold in upscale jewelry shops in New Hope, PA and some other shops in the area. Later in her life she produced some outstanding mosaic pieces. Pictured below are some examples of her work.          In 1980 she married David Young. They resided in the East Oak Lane area of Phi

       I had my DNA tested by Ancestry.com. I then uploaded my results to 3 other programs and regularly check those sites to see how many new relatives I have. One site, Family Tree DNA says I have 29,203 matches. Could they really all be cousins? Doubtful because of endogamy which will be explained later in the post. My Heritage, another service claims I have 21,244. Gedmatch Genesis shuts off their analysis at 3000 matches. Ancestry doesn’t give me the number of total matches but it has the largest database and I would estimate that it shows me to have well over 35,000 matches.       Each service also offers different services and search options. You can search by surname, names of towns, and by how many cMs you share. You can compare your DNA segments on each chromosome to those of somebody else to see what segments you actually share. You can also check to see what matches you have in common with another person. There is enough data out there to make your head spin.