Mary Clopton (Jarratt) - Connections

My Fugate line on Geni got cut at some point a good while back. I don't remember when or why.

Anyway, I have many Fugate DNA matching cousins on Ancestry. And this evening I came across a new Fugate-descendant DNA match who Ancestry shows as my 5th-8th cousin and the only matching line in his tree to me is the Fugate line.

The reason I have Fugate DNA cousins is because I have this Mary (Jarratt) Clopton as the daughter of Robert Jarratt II and his wife Ann Fugate. I've always had them connected that way, and my DNA matches bear it out. I have several ThruLines connections that go back to Peter Fugate and his wife Frances Mould as our common ancestors.

Those connections are the only way I'd have proven DNA-matching Fugate cousins. I trust the DNA more than I do what some trees show, such as how they're connected here on Geni.

I have DNA matches with descendants of James Fugate who married Anne Hooper. He was also a son of Peter and Frances.

And I have DNA matches with descendants of Capt. Josias Fugate who married Mary Martin. Another son of Peter and Frances.

The common ancestry always goes back to Peter and Frances.

I have a total of 8 DNA 5th-8th cousins just on Ancestry with the surname Fugate. And MANY more with the surname in their trees - more 4th-8th cousins with Fugate ancestry than I can get into a screenshot or even want to try to count. And Fugate isn't a common name like Smith or Jones. So it's unlikely given my other connections that my connections to these is from some other Fugate family.

Even on the ones that show a common ancestry for our match but that doesn't go back enough generations to show Fugate, it goes the exact route it should to go to my Fugate; i.e., up my Ainsworth line:

Ann (Fugate) Jarratt
mother of
Mary (Jarratt) Clopton
mother of
Elizabeth (Clopton) Ballard
mother of Martha (Ballard) Finch
mother of Sarah (Finch) Ainsworth

So all those many Fugate cousins on Ancestry may not show back to Fugate in ThruLines because they're too far back (since Ancestry only does ThruLines thru the 5th grandparents), they do show straight to Elizabeth (Clopton) Ballard, my 5th great-grandmother but they're up to my 8th cousins because of the Fugate common ancestry just two generations back to Ann (Fugate) Jarratt.

So, with all those Fugate-descendant cousins showing up in my matches, it's frustrating that my lines aren't connected on Geni.

Ann Fugate 'should' be connected as my direct ancestor, based on the DNA evidence.

As we all know, tree info can be incorrect and sites used to validate the changes in connections may have errors. DNA is never wrong.

Just sharing this in case someone wants to trust the DNA results on this, as I do, and reconnect them so I'm connected on Geni to my Fugate ancestry.