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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Triangulating and ruling out family lines
« on: Tuesday 29 August 17 10:50 BST (UK) »
Through using both Ancestry and gedmatch, I have found a person (I shall call them Mrs A) to whom my DNA sample links with (ancestry gives 4 - 6 generations, gedmatch gives 4..
We have both searched out trees, but can't find a suitable connecting person (or even name), so acknowledging that there might have been duff research or illegitimacy etc we have looked for others who are shared matches to both of us. Whilst we try to make contact with those, can I start to rule out family lines where I have a match with someone, but Mrs A doesn't? e.g. Miss B and I have a shared gt gt gt grandad but Miss B and Mrs A don't show up as a connected (on either Ancestry or gedmatch).
Ouch, this hurts
We have both searched out trees, but can't find a suitable connecting person (or even name), so acknowledging that there might have been duff research or illegitimacy etc we have looked for others who are shared matches to both of us. Whilst we try to make contact with those, can I start to rule out family lines where I have a match with someone, but Mrs A doesn't? e.g. Miss B and I have a shared gt gt gt grandad but Miss B and Mrs A don't show up as a connected (on either Ancestry or gedmatch).
Ouch, this hurts