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Offline CelticMom

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No match on DNA ancestry
« on: Friday 01 June 18 15:02 BST (UK) »
What would be the explanation for no ancestry DNA match, with a pretty definite match of ancestors? Is it possible to have no DNA match?

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Re: No match on DNA ancestry
« Reply #1 on: Friday 01 June 18 21:55 BST (UK) »
How many generations back are you looking at?

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Re: No match on DNA ancestry
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 02 June 18 01:38 BST (UK) »
Quote from: IJDisney on Friday 01 June 18 21:55 BST (UK)
How many generations back are you looking at?

My 5xgreat grandfather is his 4xGreat grandfather
Anderson & Marr - Midlothian & East Lothian
Bennett - Devonport
Catleugh & Shiells - East Lothian
Galvin, McLaren, Cullen & Dowling - Waterford, Ireland
Littlejohns - Plymouth & London
Mansfield - Benfleet & St Pancras
Michelin - London
Newlands - Midlothian & Fife
Paterson - Canongate, Midlothian
Rutherford and Johnston - Roxburghshire
Taylor - East Lothian & Berwickshire
Thomson - Leith & Muthill
Thorney, Hawkin, Lewis - Herefordshire
Small & Paulin - Northumberland
Varrall - Kent

Offline hurworth

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Re: No match on DNA ancestry
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 02 June 18 04:26 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Shevy on Saturday 02 June 18 01:38 BST (UK)

My 5xgreat grandfather is his 4xGreat grandfather

You have about a 50/50 chance of being a DNA match with a 4th cousin (so you'd be sharing gtgtgt-grandparents) and this relationship is more distant than that.  Sometimes you will match a 5C1R though, but it's not unusual that you don't match.

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Re: No match on DNA ancestry
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 02 June 18 13:28 BST (UK) »
Quote from: hurworth on Saturday 02 June 18 04:26 BST (UK)
Quote from: Shevy on Saturday 02 June 18 01:38 BST (UK)

My 5xgreat grandfather is his 4xGreat grandfather


You have about a 50/50 chance of being a DNA match with a 4th cousin (so you'd be sharing gtgtgt-grandparents) and this relationship is more distant than that.  Sometimes you will match a 5C1R though, but it's not unusual that you don't match.

Thanks that makes sense.
Anderson & Marr - Midlothian & East Lothian
Bennett - Devonport
Catleugh & Shiells - East Lothian
Galvin, McLaren, Cullen & Dowling - Waterford, Ireland
Littlejohns - Plymouth & London
Mansfield - Benfleet & St Pancras
Michelin - London
Newlands - Midlothian & Fife
Paterson - Canongate, Midlothian
Rutherford and Johnston - Roxburghshire
Taylor - East Lothian & Berwickshire
Thomson - Leith & Muthill
Thorney, Hawkin, Lewis - Herefordshire
Small & Paulin - Northumberland
Varrall - Kent
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