Was contacted yesterday by a DNA match of a friend who has actually done some research already and has a family tree. Their ancestor, who left Ireland and went to Canada, is 6 generations back and ours (probably a brother) is 5 generations back. Not a close relationship so was surprised to see My Heritage shows 66 cM but since friend's father & mother were related (1st cousins once removed) thought that might explain the high number.
However, then discovered we are both also on FTDNA which shows match as 16 cM (estimated 3rd-5th cousin which is not unreasonable).
Now, they share 1 mutual match on My Heritage who I'll call SME. My Heritage has friend & SME sharing 48 cM and yesterday's match shares 29 cM. However, on FTDNA friend & SME only show 14 cM.
Can anyone explain this?
Strangely enough, friend and my OH (who are related) used to appear as matches on FTDNA until they did that big updating in the summer and now they no longer show as matches for each other.
