The Power of the Missing Image: Tracing the Kinship of Sixes Mary
The Power of the Missing Image: Tracing the Kinship of Sixes Mary. In Sixes Mary: A Kwatami Ancestor's Story (Part 2) , we used a photograph of Julia Megginson to help visualize what Sixes Mary might have looked like—and since then, we've even uncovered a clearer, high-quality version of the image from Oregon Coast History . For the longest time, all we ever knew of her was the name Mary Wilson. Lacking a last name or any known family connections, I started calling her "Sixes Mary" as a fitting tribute—much like Sixes Julia—just to anchor her to her homeland. But now, a new piece of the puzzle has fallen into place, and the story has taken an incredible turn. DNA evidence has added a profound biological layer to the history, revealing that these two contemporary women from the Kwatami-Sixes band weren’t just sharing a community and an era—they were closely related kinfolk all along. When a new 15 cM DNA match popped up in my mom's dna results, it opened up a fasci...
