Gregg Bonner's Smotherman Family
Gregg Bonner's
Smotherman Family
Family of Lewis Smotherman (1849-1914)
SMOTHERMAN DNA TYPE
DYS
3
9
3
3
9
0
3
9
4
3
9
1
3
8
5
a
3
8
5
b
4
2
6
3
8
8
4
3
9
3
8
9
i
3
9
2
3
8
9
ii
4
5
8
4
5
9
a
4
5
9
b
4
5
5
4
5
4
4
4
7
4
3
7
4
4
8
4
4
9
4
6
4
a
4
6
4
b
4
6
4
c
4
6
4
d
Value
13
22
14
10
14
14
11
14
11
12
11
29
15
08
09
08
11
21/22
16
19
28
12
14
15
16
Autosomal DNA testing of known cousins has allowed for the determination of the ethnographic origins of some of the matching DNA segments. What follows are derived from the revised Eurogenes K12b model, created by Davidski (Polako). The chromosome numbers and positions are shown. The matching segments run approximately from the arrows marked "A" to the arrows marked "B". Only the two largest matching segments are shown.

Chromosome 13: 88,927,914 - 104,843,848

Chromosome 21: 25,719,960 - 41,439,904

The top graphic shows some pretty typical European ancestry, though it is a little surprising in how much 'Finnish' DNA is in there. I take 'Finnish' just to mean Scandinavia more generall. The lower graphic shows that there is some reasonable probability that there is some Asian ancestry lurking in there. Whether this Asian ancestry is proxy for Native American ancestry I know not.

Because the two matches share more than one line of common ancestors, it is not possible to ascribe these matching segments to Smotherman alone. Both participants descend from the same Harris, West, and Smotherman families. So the two matching segments could have any combination of these origins. This is still is a genetic proof that I am a descendant of Lewis Smotherman, however, and that is why the graphics appear here.

The progenitor of this family is one Samuel Smitherman (by various spellings) of Whitechapel, London, England. He was sent to America as an indentured servant. For a partial list of his descendants, click this link.
Last update: 31 December 2012