DOES ERNEST LLOYD LUZADDER HAVE BARUCH LOUSASDA ANCESTRY VIA HIS MOTHER?

Ernest Lloyd Luzadder and hence all the Midwest Luzadders descending from Aaron #1226, are linked to the USA Lousadas via a common Y-ancestor with Bob Leuzarder. This Y-ancestor is not a male-line Lousada, but the possibility remains that Ernest Lloyd Luzadder has Baruch Lousada ancestry via his mother. An example of what we have found in our DNA studies is shown here:

We have used Qmatch settings comparable to those which allow us to observe the matches B/Je and Je/TP - 5cM and P=7, and B/TP 5cM and P=3. Originally Bob Leuzarder gave us advice of the relevant Ancestry.com 7cM matches, but when they did now show up on Qmatch at 7cm and P=7 (default settings) we went to the lower quality settings indicated. From the chart can be seen matches with 9 of 12 relatives, matches at the Cr8 indicator (once) and Cr18 indicator (twice), a stronger match with Je than B (even though B has a proven connection with ELL through their Y-match) and 3 further higher-quality matches (apart from Je). After many previous failures to find evidence (see last paragraph below), it was surprising to find all this, and we can now consider that such a connection exists.

We suggest that Aaron #53 rather than being the father of Aaron #1226 as has been widely assumed, must have been a grandfather. By this means Jewish naming rules are satisfied and also the unclear but supportive relationship Aaron #53 had with Aaron #1226's mother (who is referred online as Sophia Barnes and whom we thought may have been a relative of Mary Griffin #1292 - see here note 10) was that of father and daughter. Our USA Lousada chart suggests she was a sister-in-law or servant of Blume Michael the very young wife of Aaron #53. We considered the possibility that she was a Myers in-law (but rejected the possibility that she was a widow of Michael Michael who died in 1736, the year his sister Blume married Aaron #53, as Michael's will in ref 326 shows no wife or son). But if she was indeed a Baruch Lousada descendant (being Aaron #53's daughter in difficulty because widowed, a single mother or illegitimate) - then our description could apply to her. She may have been 5 or so years older than Blume as Aaron #1226 was born in 1731 while Blume was probably 12 or 13 when she married Aaron #53 in 1736.

 In Feb 2025, using the complete set of 12 probable Lousada descendants, and using Qmatch (3cM, P=7), we found that the increased number of single matches gave no enhancement of the inconclusive Ernest Lloyd multiple matches found with 7 Lousada descendants (Ju, JG, SW, B, Je, Ed and MD) on Cr2, Cr6, Cr12 and Cr13 as reported in our 2023 8 by 8 study, while creating 2 new inconclusive strong triples - on Cr1 (with none of the 5 new Lousada descendants) and on Cr21 (with 2 of the 5 new Lousada descendants). The 5 new Lousada descendants (RF, RM, Allan, J and TP) in fact generated only 19 additional single matches which is about half the rate of the older 7 who produced 49. The 3 strong ELL triples on Cr1, Cr12 and Cr21 showed inconsequential results when examined at P=3. The collection of studies referred to in this paragraph is retained only for completeness and for possible later reference.