Ancestry/Genealogy

Thanks for the links. These families were Scottish but it sounds like this kind of thing wasn't limited to the Germans.

This man would have left the area of my ancestors right around when the youngest of his three children (if they were his children) was married. He seemingly left those married children (and a buried wife) behind and moved about 100 miles west, into Ohio where he married a second woman and proceeded to have five children with her. She was quite a bit younger than he. I found one of their descendants in my autosomal DNA matches but of course that's no proof, only a clue.

And yes the two batch of kids would definitely have been separated although one of the clues I found on this family was that a grandchild from each batch of his children migrated to Iowa in the mid-1800s possibly in the same wagon train, lived in the same town and were buried a block away from each other.