Gothard DNA reveals mystery
Upon submitting DNA for our Gothard line we have learned that we are a match to a Graves family rather than the Gothards. We have another cousin who descends from James Gothard and Susannah Lea who got the same match. The mystery therefore is 1) did a Gothard daughter give birth to a boy fathered by a Graves, yet the child carried the Gothard name or 2) did our Gothard ancestors adopt/raise a Graves boy giving him the Gothard name. We have no idea how far back this occurred, only that it was prior to James Gothard b. 1805 in SC because two of his children's lines got the same DNA match. If anyone can shed some light on this mystery...please share.