My current family research involves 28 shared matches in the eastern counties of the Louisville, KY area. I actually did a page by page look at the 1850 census for both Shelby and Henry County.
I have one match that shares 28 shared matches over three websites on the same chromosome. Ancestry (9), My Heritage (6), and Gedmatch (3). The Gedmatch are the Family Tree DNA and 23andMe. Four of the shared matches on Ancestry are close relatives.
Three of the top four cM matches have trees on Ancestry (Linda Dachsteiner and her brother Gary Ryan). I'm working with the fourth one (fishystuff42) who has the biggest tree. He is their cousin
The cM range from 44 to 47. We're pretty sure the connection is slave owner to slave. There is no shared Surname. The closest name is one letter off. Slave name Berry and Owner name Perry. We are focused on their 3xG grandfather William L. Perry (b.1802). We believe he may be the father of Lou Berry (b.1832) my 4xG grandmother.
It would be nice if my matches had trees on GENI, but they don't. At this point I'm thinking 4C2R. I had to rule out 4C1R when we realized that the person of interest wasn't in Kentucky at the time of ancestor birth. So now I looking at the mother. The dates work better.
Now of us live in Kentucky. At what point would you feel you have enough information to update your tree without a "silver bullet" document.
