J ohan Daniel Schlappich, my 6G-Grandfather Today I took a look at some of my grandmother Alma's matches on MyHeritage. I feel fortunate that she allowed me to swab her cheeks for a DNA test last year, as her matches are essentially two generations closer than my own would be to the same people. Alma was born a Lingle, and I've followed the Lingle line backwards, but I haven't spent as much time on her other lines, including her Schlappich/Schlabbig line, 3G-grandmother Elizabeth Schlabbig Seaman, born in Upper Bern Township, Berks County, in 1754. A small match of 25.8 cM in a cluster with a known Seaman descendant caught my eye as I reviewed matches. This match had a medium size tree with 80 people on MyHeritage, and I immediately saw the name Schlappich, a variation of the same spelling, and a hard name to forget. This match clearly didn't match further down their tree, so the shared ancestor had to be further up- earlier in time. Here is where that two ge...