Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:
It's Saturday Night again -
Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):
1) Have you done an autosomal DNA test? If so, which testing company/ies?
2) Of your Top 10 DNA matches on any site, how many are a known relative, and are they in your family tree? No names...but give a known relationship if possible.
3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post. Please leave a link in a comment to this post.
Here's mine:
A) On AncestryDNA, I have 36,503 matches. My Top 10 matches are:
* First cousin, father's side, 779 cM, in tree
* First cousin 1x removed, father's side, 266 cM, in tree
* Second cousin, father's side, 266 cM, in tree
* First cousin 2x removed, father's side, 183 cM, in tree
* First cousin 2x removed, father's side, 182 cM, in tree
* Second cousin 1x removed, father's side, 175 cM, in tree
* Second cousin 1x removed, father's side, 168 cM, in tree
* First cousin 2x removed, father's side, 166 cM, in tree
* Second cousin 1x removed, father's side, 130 cM, in tree
* Second cousin 1x removed, father's side, 129 cM, in tree
The first match on my mother's side is the 19th on my list, a 3rd cousin. This reflects my mother and both grandparents having no siblings, and my great-grandparents having few siblings.
B) On 23andMe, I have 1,522 matches:
* First cousin 2x removed, father's side, 2.33%, in tree
* Second cousin 1x removed, mother's side, 1.62%, in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side. 1.54%, not in tree - an adoptee
* Third cousin, mother's side, 1.40%, in tree
* Third cousin, father's side, 1.40%, in tree
* Third cousin, mother's side, 1.24%, in tree
* First cousin 3x removed, father's side, 1.22%, in tree
* Unknown cousin, father's side, 1.22%, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side, 1.16%, not in tree
* Second cousin 1x removed, father's side, 1.04%, in tree
C) On MyHeritageDNA, I have 9,602 matches:
* First cousin 1x removed, father's side, 512 cM, in tree
* First cousin 2x removed, father's side, 184 cM, in tree
* Second cousin, 1x removed, father's side, 139 cM, in tree
* Third cousin, mother's side, 76 cM, in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side, 72 cM, not in tree
* Third cousin 1x removed, father's side, 58 cM, in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side, 55 cM, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side, 55 cM, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side, 49 cM, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side, 48 cM, not in tree
D) On FamilyTreeDNA, I have 4,038 matches:
* Unknown cousin, probably father's side, 96 cM, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, probably father's side, 87 cM, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side, 83 cM, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side, 83 cM, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side, 82 cM, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, probably father's side, 79 cM, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, probably father's side, 75 cM, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side, 72 cM, not in tree
* Unknown cousin, unknown side, 72 cM, not in tree
* Third cousin, father's side, 71 cM, in tree
The 1st, 2nd, 6th and 7th matches are all siblings with English ancestry and no trees.
E) What does this indicate?
* I haven't done enough work on my FamilyTreeDNA top matches.
* I haven't done enough work on my MyHeritageDNA top matches either.
* I have very few close matches (third cousin or closer) on my mother's side.
* I have done a lot more tree work with AncestryDNA matches than the others because they have more users with trees.
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