AncestryDNA | What To Do With All Those Matches | Ancestry
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- You took the test. You got your results. You connected with that third cousin who has the same great-great-grandfather. But, what about those dozens of other DNA matches? What do you do when their tree is private and you can't compare results? What do you do when you've looked at their tree and can't figure out exactly how you are related? Join Crista Cowan as she shares some tips for using DNA cousin matches to grow your family tree.
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Very important point that everyone who takes the DNA test also publishes their tree.
I have SO MANY cousin matches, yet only four people have made their tree available!
I guess these folks are like the ones who got their test as a gift & were only interested in finding out their ethnicity.
I've asked them to share, but so far... crickets!
Dizzy Derwish same thing here. So frustrating when they have no published family trees! Most of them (I think) are paternal cousins, & that's the side where I'm having problems with information-gathering. Aaargh!
I have a lot of that too. Sometimes they don't even reply when you contact them. My adopted son's closest match (a 2nd cousin) wont respond at all to me or my daughter. Soooo frustrating.
I dont see the point of keeping it private. Isn't that the whole point? Not like I'm going ask my 4th cousin to borrow money 🤣
I always return to your videos when I jump back into my family research! Thank you Crista Cowan for the informative videos! I've learned very much from you!!
I'm just amazed to be able to prove scientifically the matches to my distant great grandparents 300-400 years ago with the help of other descendants that have also taken the DNA test! It helps if you get as many people in your family to take the DNA test, as we all inherit different amounts of DNA. I love being able to pieces together all the puzzle pieces - so exciting!
Thank you so much for being a part of our community for so long, Shawntel! We're thrilled to hear that you're still making such exciting discoveries. Have a lovely day!
One thing I found is, my brother has just done 3 generations. I did my DNA and now where to connect the dots with all of these cousins. It is daunting but so exciting as well. Years ago my mother connected me to my Italian cousins. There were 2nd, third, fourth, etc. cousins in California. I was flabbergasted. I lost touch but I know my family is huge.
Awesome information! This was very helpful. I didn't know what to do with my matches.
This was an excellent tutorial on what to do. It has made me excited to do some digging into the results. I had been disappointed that the results had seemed to be returning such distant relationships - but I misconstrued the distance and the confidence percentage to equate with whether we were related at all - so it was good to hear the DNA info and be reminded that all the results are related to me. So I may not find the connection but there is one somewhere!
Very helpful. Thank you Christie.
I think all these old videos need updated to the current tools.
I agree.
I agree,and also think they should update the site. It freezes up on me all the time.
There may be updated videos, and if there are, they should add a link to the newer ones in the description of the older ones.
Thank You. So much I still didn't know. I am learning so much.
Thank you for explaining so clearly.
I am looking at this almost 9 years later and WOW has the data grew! You said on average 20 4th cousins. Mine has 1000+ 4th cousins or closer! Wish I was as savvy at researching as you are! Thanks for all the info you have shared!
This is so awesome ..lots of information~! thank you!~ However, i can't seem to follow your pages...mine look different. I however was able to see the map you went over and found a 4-6th cousin here in my city! and many others nearby and i am not originally from here!~ lol Is there a chance you can start videos of how you got to certain pages? Perhaps i missed it..will keep trying!
Hi Debi - You can find newer videos with updates screen shots here: www.familysearch.org/rootstech/series/exploring-ancestrydna-for-more-family-discoveries
Hope all people will share info like you have. Cause if I would love to go further back as I can go
Great presentation. Thank you!
And here in 2018--I'm looking at 1000+ fourth cousin matches! a lot more than that actually. Interesting how that blew up. Partly it's because of my family but still that's a lot more than the 20 she talked about here!
Your family had ton of kids
My mum is adopted and I bought her the test for xmas... it has been really interesting! Mum found her biological mum years ago but unfortunatly they did not get along. We knew from her side that her ancestry was Dutch and Scottish. Mum has really dark tan skin, dark/medium blonde hair and blue/green eyes. She had always speculated her biological father was of some type of darker skinned ethnicity....interestingly mum was almost half scandinavian, irish and western european with only a trace amount of middle eastern/jewish.... I am hoping to use the ancestry cousins to broaden what I have managed to find from what we know of mums bio mum and possibly even connect to her paternal line. We get stuck on the bio maternal line at the point of immigration as naturalisation and immigration papers do not list next of kin :( so fascinating!
I am struggling what to do but now looking at your videos I will now get going thank you.
You can do it!
Wonderful video! Great tips that will really help. I have problems researching my mother's paternal side because of an unusual surname. So far I've found 4 different spellings; ugh! I think a lot has to do with census takers spelling phonetically, but it's very frustrating. BTW, I have 300 4th cousin matches, 25 3rd cousin, 20 2nd, & 1 1st cousin matches.
Hi Debi. Thanks for the comments. Congratulations on your success so far. Please look at the links that are in this post to help you with your research. We have many other great articles on our online Support Center. We also have many other videos on this TH-cam channel that may help move your research forward.
Any way to have all the Ancestry DNA matches & the matches’ matches downloaded and also sorted into a family tree or tree pile based on my Ancestry DNA matches without me manually doing this for each of my parent’s matches? For example to put together all my mom’s mom’s matches and have it figure out in which matching pile they belong to such as potentially a 3rd great grandparent. Thanks, might be an algorithm app opportunity here.
I am so happy, I connected with a girl who ended up being very close to me. She ends up being my 1st half cousin 2x removed and her grandmom was my 1st half cousin and her great grandfather was my half uncle. I end up discovering that my father had 2 half brothers through my grandma that I never knew well wasnt allowed to know. We have been speaking quite often since meeting on ancestry and were so glad to have met each other. She has other cousins she always knew about but I searched her out and she is so excited to have me in her life. She has two half siblings like me so I have more cousins. We even connected on video and will likely meet up one day. My life is changed by meeting her. I'm so grateful!!
That is so lovely. Thank you for sharing, Robyn.
@@AncestryUS it's was totally not expected but it has been an interesting journey so far.
We're so glad to hear it, Robyn! Thank you very much for taking the time to share this with us. We really appreciate it! Thanks again, and have an awesome day. 😊
Thank you so much for another excellent video. I binge watch these over and over. I have a question. I know you strongly recommend one tree, yet my mother is adopted, and I have created a separate tree for the biological line. What do you recommend in that case? I know it's throwing off some of my matches.
Creating a separate tree for biological and adopted families is certainly an option. Another option would be to add a second set of parents (under EDIT | Edit Relationships) on your mother's profile in your main tree. Then set them to be the "preferred" parents. That way, anyone that looks at your tree when viewing you as a DNA match will see the biological information. Hope that helps! (Crista)
It does, and I feel famous that you wrote me back! Thank you!
Great informational video.. Thx u !
This is awesome validation thanks. I'm doing the same thing into Roots Magic
This narrowed down and immediately identified 24 matches I share with my uncle. The amount of time, paper, and research it would've taken to do this is...well, it's "infinity!"
Definitely need an updated tutorial on this.
Thanks, Paula. We've got it on the list for a refresh.
Great video, thanks!
Thanks, very helpful.
This is super helpful, but has it been updated at all? Especially since Ancestry is directing us away from the desktop software.
Thank you. So helpful. How do we find more information on say a 3rd great-grandmother. It just ends. I have contacted other matches. They have not been able to proceed further either. Thank you.
Here are some quick tips for breaking through those genealogy brick walls: th-cam.com/video/9m2PwS6ZcSI/w-d-xo.html
One question I have...I appear to have 6X more shared ancestors with my paternal uncle--that I do with his daughter. Could this be due to different parts of DNA being passed on, or is it a deeper look/resolution?
As you keep adding people to your tree does ancestry update things like the shakey leaf in Ancestry DNA and DNA Circles?
Yes. As you add information to your family tree, the shared ancestor hints and DNA Circles are updated.
some very useful information. would be nice, now, if this could be updated (slightly) because, being in the UK means most of my matches are in the US at the moment, but I have not yet connected my family line to the US family lines!
If you are asking if you can tell by looking at someones tree IF they have submitted DNA: no. If someone chooses to state on their profile they have submittted to one of Ancestrys tests, than yes, that would be a way to know.
If you sent in a sample, than you will have a separate screen to click on, whereby you will see those matches to your DNA (or whomever is the subject) as well as their tree IF it is public.
If you looked up the history of the company that Ancestry acquired : Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation a few years ago and the basis of the DNA being compared with is not only THEIR databases, acquired over decades of research and sampling from all over the world, but they also used National Geographic databases.
As more people send in their DNA, they will continue to evaluate those samples as well as be able to ascertain if they hold enough DNA segments that match other Ancestry member
LOve ya', Crista! You have been SOOOOO helpful to my searches. Recently I took the autosomal DNA test at AncestryDNA and two of your main competitors. The Ancestry results came very fast, but a number of its matches have been problematic. The other companies' are fine. I checked each raw data file from each company using the GEDmatch "DNA file diagnostic utility," and discovered that only Ancestry's had "No-calls = 29081 = 4.2051243491174 percent. This kit has an unusually high number of no-calls, which usually results in a larger number of false matches." I deleted and re-loaded the file twice, in case the problem was me, waited the requisite time, and got exactly the same number of "n-calls." Is Ancestry aware of this problem? I assume I'm not the only one to experience it.
Hi Rob! I would love to have our DNA science team take a look at your test results. What is your Ancestry user name? (Crista)
Hi Crista -- Thanks for reading and getting back to me. (I'm impressed!) My Ancestry user name is rmbtoronto.
I know this is an older video and I found it VERY helpful ..up until the part about showing cousins based on "clues". For many years I have been trying to correct faulty trees on Ancestry website..because people add data from "clues" from Ancestry that are completely faulty. The"clue" recommended is on two totally separate and different families with similar first names..people do not do research realizing the differences in age and locations and mix this two different families. My issue is if Ancestry is going to call someone my "x cousin" based on this faulty research...how can it be accurate??? Besides that Awesome video!! Thank You
We had 3 Y-DNA37 tests done to answer one specific question. This was done through Family Tree DNA - Sicilian Project. Can this be linked as you described doing in this video?
Chris Garner
You should now see a link in the video description above.
where is that link to the other video you mention ??
I hope you get your grandmother tested love to see the results ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
lol. u don't see the bigger pic do more re church n see where it goes to a national data crime base by governing n world wide search
The tools in this helpful but out of date video seem a lot more sophisticated than the current ones. Do you now have to pay an advanced sub to get these?
I like it. Ots almost like a game to me to find out how I'm related to people
How do half sibling matches show up on your matches? Close Family- First Cousin match came up, just wondering is this typical for a half sibling match? Thanks!
That is typically the category in which we place 1/2 siblings. Click to view the match. Then click the little "i" in the circle in the header. This will tell you how many centimorgans of DNA you share with this individual. Half siblings share an average of 1700 cM. This is also the same amount of DNA you would share with a grandparent/grandchild or that an aunt/uncle would share with a niece/nephew. So, be sure you aren't looking at one of those relationships. Good luck! (Crista)
I d like to know how you tell the difference between mother or fathers side of the relatives
Thank Crista. I would be interested in how that goes for her. If I understand you correctly, she would probably take the 4th cousin or less (I haven't found 3rd or 2nd cousins yet) and expand the surnames of those matches, copying to a spreadsheet and then have the program rank all of them by frequency. From that result I assume it would give her strong hints to her likely ancestors. It would be great if I could ask ancestry to plug in those usernames and let it derive that result.
Excellent information, thanks so much for these lessons! My question: What are the chances that 4th cousins (possibly once or twice removed) are not recognized as DNA matches? I have met two such cousins. One is descended from my 2x great grandfather's sister, and the other, from his brother. All three of us have undergone DNA testing, and none of us are matches with each other. All of our trees appear to be well-researched and documented, except for the fact that there are no birth records to prove that the supposed siblings, born between 1785 and 1800, all had the same biological parents. My 3x great-grandfather followed the Baptist faith, so his children would not likely have left behind records of being baptized in infancy. All of his children were likely born in Dutchess County, NY, and I have not been able to locate any record of births there outside of baptismal records. Is it more likely that these siblings were adopted and not related by blood, or that the DNA connection between us has simply disappeared over time?
There is a possibility that 4th cousins share no detectable amount of DNA. It is also possible that there is no genetic relationship. Is there anyone in your family who is an older generation that could be tested (a parent or aunt/uncle)? If not, invite other family members (1st cousins on that side of the family) to test as they may have inherited the matching pieces of DNA needed to confirm the relationships with those 4th cousins and hence that set of 3rd great-grandparents.
As of last year, there are no more living members of the generation preceding mine. I do have siblings and many cousins, though, and I believe my sister has an interest in being tested. I will encourage her to get on it. Thanks very much for your guidance!
Let me see if I understand correctly...when I have a wavy leaf and it shows the chart of how we're connected, is this connection made from the info each of us has entered on our tree or is it because we actually share DNA?
If the person shows up on your DNA match list it is because the two of you share DNA. As a secondary step, if you both also have family trees attached to your DNA, Ancestry will show you that chart explaining how you are connected to a common ancestor found in both of your trees.
I would like to know why after submitting my DNA five times it comes back negative.
Does the DNA results only match you with a shared ancestor if it is within a certain range?
The reason I ask is that my mother and her sister have "hint" matches that appear on their results but they are not on mine. Their DNA tests are linked to my tree.
I have figured out my matches if they have a leaf with it. But how do you go about figuring out how you are related to someone if it just has their tree and common surnames?
Use the Shared Matches feature to help you figure out which branch of your family tree they connect to. Then, you sometimes you have to do some family history research and extend their family tree by a generation or two to find the connection.
Here are some tips: thegeneticgenealogist.com/2017/03/11/are-you-doing-everything-to-identify-your-matches/
Question about attaching DNA test to tree...is that what I did when I first registered my DNA test or do I have to do something else?
+Laurie Fugate
Registering the test simply links it to your account. You have to then link it to a tree in your account. If you didn't do the extra step, then you might not have linked it to your tree.
Go to your DNA page, then click on the gray 'Settings' button with the little gear icon on it.
On that settings page are several options you can change, including "Family Tree Linking", which lets you link the dna test to a tree in your account and to a specific person in that tree, whoever took the dna test.
I sometime wonder if I put my tree to "private" if I would get more messages from people.
OMG I have 100 2,3 and 4 cousin matches! And I just completed my DNA
Thank you for this presentation, it’ll help me weed through them all
how do is see their (matches) family tree (we are both subscribers to ancestry). Their name is not recognized in the member directory?
When you are viewing your DNA match, if their tree is connected to their DNA results, it will come up on the match screen. If it is not connected to their DNA results, you will see a little drop-down box that allows you to select to view the public trees on their account. If their family tree is private, you will need to message them to request permission to view their tree.
Your genetic ethnicity is a comparison of your DNA with known populations in specific areas of the world, using a database full of DNA reference samples from those populations. That ethnicity reaches back hundreds of, or even a thousand, years. The cousin matches are people who have very specific segment of DNA that is identical to yours. Their ethnic DNA signature may be very different from yours - in fact, siblings can have different ethnicity results.
Are you having any trouble getting AncestryDNA to load with Chrome? I have tried for the last week and can not get it to load with Chrome after having no problems for over a month. AncestryDNA does not work very well with Internet Explorer and it is the only way I can get in now. I spoke to someone a week ago and she said to go in through Explorer, but I assumed she was going to talk to the tech department about it, but I guess not. Just wondering if you were having issues as well.
Chrome sometimes has extensions or add-ons that interfere with the AncestryDNA pages loading correctly. If you open a Chrome Incognito window and login to AncestryDNA and have no problems, an extension or add on is likely the culprit.
I have a question. My shared hint matches jumped from 98 to 146. Two days later it fell to 133. I made no changes to my tree. What made that number fall to 133 in just two days before I had time to research?
Your matches could have changed information in their trees. Sometimes your matches will move their DNA from tree to tree. They can remove their DNA from a tree or from the match list entirely. And, of course, you get new matches every day. Lots of reasons why this list is not static.
I like the idea of using a Fact to copy a link to your matches' tree and dna page, but a lot of people don't use Family Tree Maker with Ancestry, and either use a different program or no program at all.
I changed it around just a bit so that it works even better on Ancestry, with or without FTM, and it makes the links actually clickable so you don't have to copy/paste.
I add 1 Fact with only the matches member name, and then I add 3 "Web Links" which are addable under the Sources column; one link to the member's tree, one link to their dna page, and one link to the common ancestor, like this:
i.imgur.com/NaQJFWB.jpg
then I add a reciprocal link on the common ancestor, linking back to the matches' person-page in your tree, like this:
i.imgur.com/UWwqzf9.jpg
and if they're a common ancestor for more than one match, then just add more links.
+Frank O. That's a clever way to keep track of your DNA matches. Thanks for sharing, Frank. (Crista)
would love to see a couple other filters added to the DNA results. One would be to search for those where you've created a note...the other would be to be able to search by the member name. I've emailed a lot of people and I've put notes on their results page but can't find them again without going through ALL the results and there's 54 pages!
+Susan Crayne I just started starring those I have added notes to and/or messaged to help me quickly find those people.
It would be great for adoptees if they could compare several trees to find common ancestors. Without having a known tree, the only way now is to look at each matched DNA tree to try & find those common links..
For my DNA matches (and there probable line of descent) I made a DNA Connection custom fact. For our MRC I put in Common Ancestor for both, the match has Match to XXX, and the tester's initials, and for the parent-child relationship between DNA Connection. Then I made a group for DNA Connection is not blank, and then color coded my group. So I can look at any view but pedigree and see what children's descendants I have matches with.
What is MRC?
Where I forget to put the A in MRCA in Most Recent Common Ancestor!
What’s the site I use that other family tree maker? I like the options it has from your video!:)
I have not had DNA testing. Does the DNA testing show on public trees? I could then find new people based on documented common ancestors. Thanks
Is it save to ask the distant cousin to have an online zoom call? Or even ask them to hang out together face to face if possible?
My oldest sister, her dad, and aunt took the test last year. Turns out, he's not her dad. Thanks to the test, they did find her biological father. He was tested, and showed parent/child. We're still trying to figure out who our mom's biological parents and siblings are. We think we found 1 half-sibling, but she passed away after Thanksgiving, and we weren't able to get much done with her.
I do not have a paid subscription to Ancestry but I have taken the DNA test. I am the only one in my family to take the test. Since I do not have a paid subscription, will I still be able to add the results to my guest account and from there will I be able to find matches and contact them?
Hi Dave, thanks for stopping by. We would like to reassure you that you are not required to have a paid membership to take advantage of the features the AncestryDNA test has to offer. You will have full access to your estimated ethnicity breakdown, DNA matches and will be able to contact your matches to collaborate with them.
I find these videos extremely helpful. I have a match that says, “first cousin.” I don’t know the man. He is about 15 years older than me. I have contacted him. We shared family names, but no matches. I’ve even asked my parents, who are in their late 80’s, and they don’t recognize names. Any tips on what else to do?
I just had the same happen. It turned out my grandfather appeared to have children with another woman. The cousin was the child of a previously unknown half sibling.
I just mailed back my DNA test, and I'm anxious to learn my results. I am adopted and my ethnicity was sketchy, so I wanted to have a better idea of my roots. I never even considered I may find people that share the same bloodline. Right now my bio family tree starts with me, and ends with my Daughter. I now have some hope to find blood relatives, and after many years of searching for my bio mother without much luck, I may now have some new clues in my search.
Mark Cunico hi just wondering if you found what you were searching for?
please re-narrate. this should be done better.
Any luck?
How did it go ?
Your DNA is matched to all the other Ancestry.com members who have taken (or will take) the DNA test. Then you compare what you each know about your ancestry to determine which line you are related through. I have some lines where I know more than the other person (thus I am helping them grow their family tree) and some lines where they know more than me (helping me grow my tree).
What's the family tree maker program that you use on this video
It is called Family Tree Maker and can be purchased through Software Mackiev here: www.mackiev.com/ftm/index.html
+Ancestry is that program available for Australia and mac
Yes. And, yes.
My question is once i get my dna how do you tell if the people you added to your tree prior to dna are correct or not
Start with your close matches. For example, do you have any 1st cousins who have tested? If you share around 800cM of DNA with them, that is genetic evidence that your parent and their parent are full siblings and that you share the same set of grandparents. Then, look at the shared matches with that 1st cousin. Do you have any second cousins listed there? If you share around 200 cM of DNA with them, that indicates that their grandparent and your grandparent are full siblings and that the two of you have the same set of great-grandparents. Work your way back one generation at a time, looking for cousins who descend from the siblings of your ancestors.
A question Iv searched my great gran fathers name in DNA search but it's coming up with no DNA matches and I know there shud be.
Hi there Ivan, thanks so much for stopping by! We appreciate this opportunity to clarify that only other Ancestry users who have taken the AncestryDNA test are able to appear to you as DNA matches, so please don't be concerned that past ancestors who would not have been able to themselves participate in AncestryDNA will not show up as matches in your lost of AncestryDNA matches. If your great grandfather is still with us and you know him to have taken an AncestryDNA test, it's possible that he's not currently allowing himself to be shown to matches, which is a privacy option you can read more about here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Choosing-not-to-be-Listed-as-an-AncestryDNA-Match
We hope this is helpful to you Ivan, and wish you the best of luck in your continued research!
I have 860 4th cousin matches feeling very overwhelmed!! Any Tips?
Deep breaths! ;-)
1. Do you have a public family tree attached to your DNA results? This will help you and your matches sort through things.
2. Do you have any close family members (parents, aunts/uncles, or 1st cousins) who have also tested? Comparing your match lists will help you sort out which line of the family tree your matches are connected to you through.
3. Filter by HINTS to see if Ancestry has discovered any shared ancestors in your family tree and the family trees of your matches.
4. Use the SHARED MATCHES feature on your match's page to see who else is likely connected through that same branch.
Hope that makes sense. Let me know if I can help further. (Crista)
has this been updated?
I have my test, my daughter, my son, my brother and I can't tell who my fathers family is. On several it shows that the cousins are my 2nd or 3rd cousin and it doesn't show my mom is related to them. BUT, then I see another that matches the same person and they are related to my mom with high DNA. I can't tell who is who. A lot of relatives are showing as my paternal and maternal are related to the same people. Yet, when I get on GEDmatch it shows my parents are not related and none of the people listed are connected on there. Family Tree DNA also divides them and shows that the results from Ancestry are not true or accurate. I called Ancestry but they have no idea how to help me and they state they can't decipher between who is who on my DNA results. HELP
Lisa, Has your mother tested at AncestryDNA?
You should still test yourself as well if you haven’t. Having as many people as you can take the test really helps to keep things cleaned up so to speak.
I bought an ancestry dna kit... Do I need to have a membership to contact any relatives I'm related to? Just wondering... if anybody could answer that would be great, thank you!
Great question, Luis. No. You do not need an Ancestry membership in order to contact your AncestryDNA matches. You do need a membership in order to view their public family trees without an invitation.
Amazing. Can't wait to begin when life settles down to a milder chaos.
Wondering how to go about find birth records pre 1900s. or birth records in general, vitalstats charges to much imo for something with just some names on it. I was told to check churches, but how would u find a church from 1887 or 1852?
Some birth records were kept at a county level prior to 1900. Use the Card Catalog (found under the SEARCH menu) and filter down to the state level and then by BIRTH to see what is available online. If the record is not available online (or only the index is available online), you would need to contact the county offices to get a copy of the original.
City directories, maps, and county/local histories can be great resources to determine which churches existed in the time and place your ancestors lived. (Crista)
i have a question to ask ...i am new at this and watching this so helpful I am adopted and wondering how to start my tree with name do i use my birth name witch i do know or my adopted name . if im looking for my biological family so i as of now have anyone to add to my tree .... and i did find a match on ancestry for a close family member with my birth name . but he has not singed in for a year i did send a message but i dont think he will be seeing it .
Hi I am adopted too and it is kind of pointless doing an "adoptive" family tree if you are looking for your birth family, as none of you are genetically related so you won't match in any case. If you know your birth surname then make your tree in that name and ake it public as the chances are you might find other birth family members with that name as you have already suggested.
I too was in the same position as you. I had a close family match with a lady (an aunt or cousin) whose account was being managed by her husband and he had not been online for a year so when I direct messaged him I got no response, but recently, his grandson showed up as my second cousin, so I messaged the grandson and he then spoke to his grandparents and the grandad remembered his password and we have been corresponding since and he has been very helpful.
I was adopted 57 years ago, so I may well still be a 'secret' as back in those days if a lady got pregnant out of wedlock, it was considered a very shameful thing so sometimes the ladies didn't tell anyone they'd had a baby even their close family. What I am hoping is if he is talking to the wider family about me, then maybe my birth mother might 'come out' and own up to me as she would probably be about 77 if she is still alive.
I don't know how old you are, but you might be lucky if the matched relative of yours does come on line or if you get another match in the future. Good luck in your search.
My Surname is a Norwegian or Icelandic Surname..it seems my Dad's D.N.A ancestors started out in Norway and then my dad and I also have Swiss D.N.A.on my dad's side and he has more Swiss and Norweigen D.N.A..is there information about how these things happened?...did the Swiss interact with the Icelandic and Norweigen..or could my 2% Norweigen and 3% Swiss origin come from Swiss and Norwegian ancestors intermingling elsewhere from Switzerland and Norway?..i' m not sure if the Norwegians would have traveled to Switzerland and intermingled because in my Tree it looks like that is the story...Vikings went to Switzerland then a few generations later that Norse D.N.A gave way to ancestors more Swiss ..can someone help me with this question?
30:26 where do you find this page an Ancestry?
If you have a SHARED ANCESTOR HINT with any of your DNA matches, you will see this chart directly below the header on the match page and directly above their family tree. To see if you have any shared ancestor hints, click the little leaf hint filter at the top of your DNA Match list.
so you have to buy premium to get this?
You do have to have a subscription to be able to view the family trees of your matches.
I can trace my paternal line to 1780s but that's it. Will a dna test help me go further?
Depending on how many generations there are between you and that 1780s ancestor, it could.
I too would like a way to search my DNA matches by User Name.
I ran a dna for both my mom and dad, as presents. My kids did this for me! But my dad isn't listed as my parent.
Yikes
I have 869 4C or closer..........I believe that some or many of those may be more distant. The reason is one grandmother is of French-Canadian ancestry, and my "Swedish" Great-Grandmother is of "Forest Finn" ancestry. Both groups were very insular for 200-300 years. I think it throws the algorithm off.
Have just come across this video - interesting the difference from 9 years ago - I have 585 4th Cousins or closer.
Wonderful to hear! Thank you for sharing with us.
Yes, 9 years and still no chromosome browser. Really interesting difference :D
Thank you Crista for more great information! I have never seen such a bunch of crybabies regarding this whole DNA thing. Somebody didn't get the result they thought they would, somebody else just got confirmation of what they already knew, blah, blah, blah. Get a grip people and stop complaining about every dang thing because it's obvious that you probably do this in every area of your lives anyway!
I'm adopted and my biological cousin did the DNA of my biological mother. I's still trying to figure out how to connect the link of my biological mother to her profile in my tree. i just wish that when a match is made that it indicated if it was maternal or paternal.
On her profile in your tree, add a Web Link. Then, copy and paste the URL of the match page with your bio mom into that space. Now that she has been tested, you can use SHARED MATCHES with her to determine which matches are maternal and which are paternal.
Someone at Ancestry Support gave me a great idea. I was having a problem with how do I separate maternal DNA results from paternal. Well, since my mother was tested, there is a button near the top that says 'MOTHER". If you click on it, it removes all that are not on my maternal line. So I clicked on the 'Star' to mark them. Then unclicked the 'Mom' button and I could now see who is on my paternal side.
I am a highly multiethnic person with many unknown family lines. My father was African American. Many African Americans have European ancestry without knowing where it came from. African American Genealogy is very difficult. Growing up not knowing my father nor his side of the family adds to the difficulty. Many of my matches have multiple ethnic backgrounds just like I do, and I cannot tell how I am matching them. A chromosome browser is strongly needed for me to figure out how I am related to these people. Many of the matches could be false positives. Without having a chromosome browser, I have no way of knowing if they are false positives or not.
My ethnic background:
On my father's side: African American and French Creole with discovered genetic ancestral connections to Acadians , Amerindians (USA,Canada or both) and British as well as possibly Dutch and Danes.
On my mother's side: Cape Verdean (Portuguese,West African), Madeiran Portuguese, Azorean Portuguese, Romanian Ashkenazi Jewish, Latvian Ashkenazi Jewish, Puerto Rican (Spanish,West African,Taino Indian), German, English, Highlander Scottish, Irish, Scotch-Irish, Dutch, Swiss, and Welsh with discovered genetic ancestral connections to Quebecois French, Acadians, Eastern Europeans, Swedes, and Finns as well as possibly Danes.
I cannot rely on people's family trees because I have many unknown family lines. I don't think AncestryDNA higher-ups take in consideration of adoptees, estranged family members, and African Americans who tend to have very little knowledge of their ancestral roots.
About 20 4th cousin matches? I have several hundred! I have no idea how /where to start!!
I think we may be cousins. I have almost all of your names in my tree also.
Susan Holmes I was going to say the same thing!! But I’m watching this video on my 60” tv and all the names are fuzzy. About 20 minutes in, is one of those common ancestors Henry Dismore? I have lots of Cowans in my matches. See if I’m a cousin! My username is melburch430 :)
on the matching dna results, why does the first name have a yellow star?
The star is a mechanisms that the user can turn on or off to help sort matches for their own purposes.
Alot of people related too have really small trees. While I have a pretty big n detailed. I had over 400 without any cousins from ancestry.
If someone has 171cm of shared DNA they listed as a 2nd or 3 cousin to my daughter's test. I didn't know this person and they lived in the area I was born. It's taken me a yr to sort out as they had no tree beyond 2 names. I'm looking for a birthfather and was so excited. But a yr later I hadn't heard from this person but reached out to other matches between us. I found two sisters married their line but these two sisters are very oddly related to my mother's family. It hasn't made sense. They only match to each other and none of my mother's relatives. I have a direct cousin same distance and she is 36cm match??
Could they be related through a birthfather but we just happen to have connection to my mother's side? I know this is old video but I have no way to locate other newer videos and I'm not in USA now. I'm hoping to send a DNA sample by a daughter traveling back to USA.
Hi Faiszah, thank you for taking the time out of your day to respond! We would be happy to assist! We understand it can be tough trying to connect the dots, but the most important thing for you to know is that we have an amazing customer solutions team prepared to guide you through your journey! You do not need to be within the USA to get in contact with us, we have support lines across the globe ready to assist.
In regard to solving this puzzle, it is definitely possible that this relationship has come about through a birth father, however, we would need to take a closer look to advise accordingly. Would it be possible to send us a direct message with your Ancestry username attached? We will then be able to give you a better idea of the route you need to travel!
We hope you have an amazing day Faiszah and if you need to get in contact, please refer to the following link: support.ancestry.co.uk/s/article/Contact-Us
Hello, I am 17 and about to try to find who my father is I am hoping a close relative has taken the ancestry DNA test so it will not be very hard to track him ..any suggestions on looking for my dad.. I am female does that make it harder to find my paternal relatives I also have never used this program before...ny test is in the last phase and now just waiting for results..
DeAnza C did U find him?
I'd love to see what she'd do with my 98,000 matches. I'm working on just trying to get through my 4,000 close matches. So many trees only have 3 to 4 individuals on them and they are still living.
thank you ! :)