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The music is annoying. You don't need music for your presentations.

It always wants me to log in when I pick myheritage. It constantly gives me an error even though I am using the right login. I use the link that it sends me to log in without a password, and from there and on it just brings me onto MyHeritage and doesn't do anything..

Ancestry has a large database because of very big number of US users... so this ”size” its not very relevant for europeans

This is the best description of clustering I have seen. Thank you.

What if your dna match doesn't know who their birth father is ? How do you figure this all out without knowing a birth father is?

Please nix the music. Can barely hear your voice above it at times!

What is the overlap criteria for combining columns?

How the Hell , do we hear you with that racket going on for what reason can this possibly be ?,

I feel so inadequate in grasping this information!~!!

I don’t see a browse raw data on 23and me

I don’t understand the combing the groups? How would that be shown?

Another excellent video!

Hi, Ryan. I’m the creator of the Leeds Method. You did a great job of explaining the process. Thank you!

I have over 600 relatives in my tree. I have been stuck on my great Grandfater for 30 years. Got my great grandmother back to about 1750. I have no siblings of his just Him. I have looked in church records both books dont show his parents for some odd reason. Church books from Russia where destroyed. I had Thru lines for all my great grand parents except him. Wondering if he is adopted thats why I am stumped. I could use help please.

This video is really clear and easy to understand, but I feel that the 90cM lower threshold is probably a bit too high for people in the UK, as families tended to be smaller here in the last 150 years or so than they were in the US, so there are less available cousins to find in the first place. Using my test I come up with just 5 people in the 90-400cM threshold, and they fall into two groups, which turn out to be one group for each of my paternal grandparents. I have literally nobody within the threshold that is on my maternal side. Using my father's test I find 9 people that fall into 3 groups, of 5, 3 and 1 respectively, of which two of the groups are equivelant to the two groups from my own test, as the group of 5 people is entirely through my paternal grandfather's mother and contains the three people that my own test grouped together as being through my paternal grandather, and the group of 3 people is entirely through my paternal grandmother's mother and contains the two people who my own test grouped together as being through my paternal grandmother. The third group contains only one person, whose precise relationship is unknown to me, but a couple of our shared matches have common ancestors that mean that this person must be related through my paternal grandmother's father. Using my mother's test I find 9 people that fall initially into 5 groups, containing, in order of their group number, 4, 1, 2, 3 and 1 people respectively. There is a person in common between groups 1 and 4, and a different person in common between group 3 and group 4, so these collapse into a single group with 7 people in, whose apparent connection is only that they are all paternal relatiives of my mother. Group 2 has a single person in it who happens to be descended from my mother's maternal grandparents, but who is two generations lower than her. Group 5 contains a single person who is related through my mother's maternal grandfather, but who apparently did not have a large enough match with the single person in Group 2 who is actually descended from the same maternal grandfather (and of course from the maternal grandmother too). So using my mother's test there would be three groups, of which one jointly represents two grandparents, whilst a different grandparent is represented simultaneously in two groups (in as much as a single person can even be described as a group) once alone and once alongside another grandparent. An additional complication is that my mother's largest match within the 90-400cM is related twice over, because my mother's paternal grandfather (Bill) had a mother Mary, whose brother William married Madeleine, who in turn was the sister of James, who was the father of my mother's paternal grandmother (Nell). As far as I know none of the other 8 people in any of the groups are descended from William and Madeline though, so even if I exclude this largest match due to the double relationship, I still get the same groups, but with only 6 people in the largest group, of which 4 are all definitely related through my mother's paternal grandfather, and the relationship of the other two are unknown to me, but based on 'common ancestors' within their shared matches both must also be related through my mother's paternal grandfather. with one being a descendant of her paternal grandfather's own paternal grandparents, and the other being, at the very least, descended from her paternal grandfather's own paternal grandfather's own parents. Hopefully that all made sense, but apologies if not, as it's a very hot and humid day here in the UK, and I'm a nightshifter trying to type a coherent comment at noon when I ought to be asleep.

@cliftonwarren1693 8 hours ago I found your videos very helpful. I have. 8 groups on my Leeds chart, however, I can see the connections with the four main groups. When this happens should you add another row above showing great parents or combine them into one of the four main colours?

I found your videos very helpful. I have. 8 groups on my Leeds chart, however, I can see the connections with the four main groups. When this happens should you add another row above showing great parents or combine them into one of the four main colours?

I cant find a way to do this using the coloured dots on Ancestry. Is there a recent video on this?

Could you do a video on comparing the difference between two different scenarios. Scenario 1: 2nd cousins with the MRCA being identical twins. Scenario 2: instead of being 2nd cousins, they are instead half 1st cousins? I have all the shared match data in a Wato tree, but there doesnt seem to be a way to designate identical twins.

I was interested in this video until the stupid music took over. Why in the heck you thought it was needed is beyond me but i am going to find a different person on this subject now.

Can you cluster by great grandparents instead? I've got a grandmother whose father is unknown.

Whose is the target name

I have 5 groups but only 1 person in group 5

I like the music, but it is extremely annoying when trying to follow the narrative. Otherwise, the presentation is excellent and well presented.

I love the music 😊😊 helps engagement

It's wonderful to find a really clear explanation! There really are some confusing videos out there.

How does it work when tested myheritage?

I’ve tried to contact you through your website, I never received a response.

Why is it telling me to enter a birthday of 1900 or later, when the target person was born in 1889? Please help!

The best video I have ever seen for genealogy and how to cluster matches. Thank you so much 👍

So at the 2:31 mark, do we only list 5 of the surnames for each one? Mine have several, but I only write down 4 or 5 generations giving me 8-10 surnames for each person. I'm trying to follow this video step by step as I'm doing my Leeds all over and I'm thinking this is a step that I normally do in my Leeds charts listing all the names.

Thank you for this video. I'll be starting a new wato tree. The way you explain it is actually easy to understand. I built one before but don't think i did it right. I've been trying to figure out who my dad's birth father was and i think I'm close, but the wato tree should help me.

You ROCK! Thank you for making this clear, simple, and brief! Appreciate this oodles! Ready to cluster!

I dont think 90 - 400 is good for endogamy though? Do you have a video on that???

I have hit a brick wall. I have done Ancestry Dna . On there it shows which people have common ancestors with you. The only common ancestors I am coming up with are from my Grandpas brothers an sisters. Nothing from my great grandpa other than what I know already. Have common ancestors for my great grandma his wife and my other set of great grand parents. On the bible records I have found it does not say who his parents are. Beginning to think he was adopted. Can you help Me where to go from here

I only have two connections above 90 cm, damn

Just came across this video. Although i originally clusted all 3c matches on ancestry to get 8 great grandparent groups, i decided to give this method a try. In my 90-400, my matches are between 100 and 283ish. I got 7 groups, but i can't see any more than 2 legit overlaps, bringing me down to 6 groups. I've got 2 groups with only one individual in each. All i know is they are both paternal matches. 🤔

Ancestry now makes it easier by telling you whether your matches are on your Paternal or Maternal side (it would be great if they could go one step further and split them up among our four grandparents). They also have Thrulines, which compares your family tree with that of your matches to find common ancestors. But Thrulines is only as good as the family tree you give it. For Thrulines to work well, you need to have a very detailed family tree that goes back several generations and includes not just your ancestors, but also their siblings, and the siblings' children.

What is with the freaking background music??? It makes this totally unusable.

Is it beneficial to extend your cM range if you don't have too many matches within the 90-400 range? Or is there a distinct reason why we wouldn't do this? Mine split into 6 groups currently. 1 - my paternal grandmother's mother's side - 3 people 2 - my paternal grandmother's father's side (much more mystery and chaos there) - 3 people 3 - my maternal grandmother's side - 1 person 4 - my paternal Grandfather's side - 2 people 5 - Unknown - 1 person 6 - Unknown - 2 people My thought was to incrementally move the filter range to sort more matches, but if there's a reason not to I'd love to know why

Yeah it’s just you’re 4 grandparents

Great info ❤

Great information ❤

Ciao sono Kevin ho fatto test DNA myheritage e ho corrispondenze molte dai paesi europei orientale e ovest e balcanici e finlandesi.io sono italiano sud puglia.le mie etnie sono greco e italiano meridionale sardo e medio orientale.ho un gruppo di persone dai Balcani 11 che non tutti hanno le mie due etnie greco e medio oriente.ma loro hanno anche ebrei poi europei orientale e balcanico e altre etnie.qualcuno di loro hanno italiano .però tutti loro hanno Asia meridionale e gruppi genetici dei rom cosa vuol dire? Le percentuali sono tra 8% 9% 13,7 14,8 15% e myheritage dice prima diceva che avevamo trisavolo in comune ora myheritage dice che sono cugini di quarto grado e abbiamo in comune i quartisavolo e qualcuno i qui tavoli.cosa significa.?co loro questo gruppo ho una triangolazione su cromosoma 16 stessa posizione.non riesco ha capire chi e questo antenato che abbiamo in comune.io nel mio albero non ho la parte materna perché mia nonna non si sa chi era il suo padre e anche sua madre mia bisnonna non ave un padre e possibile una connessione?grazie

This clear explanation of WATO makes me want to dance, so bring on the music!

thank you i found your explanation of this very helpful. Only problem is im only showing 5 matches between the 90-400 mark you stated?

How can I see my results(not matches) on gedmatch after I uploaded kit from myheritage?

My tree is based in the UK and is backed up with every possible birth, marriage and death certificate for my pedigree lines back to 1837, every available census return from 1841-1921 and a vast amount of pre 1837 parish registers together with over 1500 news cuttings back to the very early 1700's. The 90-400cM range gives me a grand total of 14 matches, three match my maternal grandmother's line, one to my paternal grandmother but nothing on her paternal line, it seems her birth certificate is one of many that has some suspect information where the name of the father is concerned. . The remaining ten don't come up as shared matches with either grandmother and all are either private or no tree affairs, I've messaged them all but only had two replies. I think the two replies are from a mother and daughter at 155cM and 95 cM respectively, both claim that as I don't have the common ancestor in my tree we are not related and not to contact them again!

Hi, I sorted my mother's matches. But, I only was able to sort down to 2 set of colors (clusters). 15 people above the 90 cm threshold Can I use below that to find the other set of people??????

ok, what if your grandparent is an only child and his mother died when he was 10 and his mother did give him any info on her family? Only census record in 1910 show her listed as step-daughter in-law. She appears no where else.