Good idea--thanks, Debbie. (Now we'd better end this tangent!) Karla On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Debbie Kennett <debbiekennett@aol.com>wrote: > You can use an Adblocker extension on your browser so that you are not > bothered by all these ads. I use Adblocker Plus with Google Chrome. > > Debbie > > > > ______________________________ > For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about mailing lists, please see: > http://dgmweb.net/MailingListFAQs.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUTOSOMAL-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Dear Elizabeth, I posted some instructions at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GENEALOGY-DNA/2013-10/13807471 83. Let me know if those instructions are insufficient for you. Sincerely, Tim Janzen -----Original Message----- From: autosomal-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:autosomal-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 5:22 PM To: autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] Triangulation on FTDNA How does one use the new Triangulation feature that replaced IN Common With? I have read the FTDNA help but found nothing. Thanks to all.

Ann, Thank you! Ann In a message dated 06-Oct-13 17:13:32 Pacific Daylight Time, DNACousins@aol.com writes: In Excel 2007, position your cursor anywhere in the table. Click on the Data tab, then Remove Duplicates. If you have added some custom calculations or comments, select just the column with the match name to check for duplicates. Ann On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:33 PM, <AGilchrest@aol.com> wrote: > Ann, > I am using an Excel spreadsheet. How do you tell Excel to delete > duplicates? > > Ann G > > > In a message dated 06-Oct-13 15:23:26 Pacific Daylight Time, > DNACousins@aol.com writes: > > Are you using a spreadsheet? You could append your 3-month match list to > your work file and have Excel delete the duplicates. > > Ann Turner > > > On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:31 PM, <AGilchrest@aol.com> wrote: > > > With a specific date option I could download just my new matches. The > way > > it is set up now the smallest amount of matches to download is 3 months. > > This means more work. > > > > Ann G. > > > > > > In a message dated 06-Oct-13 11:15:06 Pacific Daylight Time, > > karincorbeil@gmail.com writes: > > > > You can also sort your matches by date by clicking on the "Match Date" > > in the headings above your list. The first list with the "down" arrow > > gives you the most recent first. Click again for the "up" arrow to get > > the listing going from oldest to most recent. > > > > Karin Corbeil > > > > On 10/6/2013 2:07 PM, autosomal-dna-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Message: 1 > > > Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 11:08:52 -0400 (EDT) > > > From:AGilchrest@aol.com > > > Subject: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] New Family Finder New Since > > > To:autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > > > Message-ID:<d4b4c.64b29e1b.3f82d704@aol.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I just took a look at the new Family Finder. In the old I would view > my > > new > > > matches from a specific date. The only choices I am seeing is new > > since 3 > > > or 6 month. Did they really take away the specific date option? > > > > > > Ann G >

Diana, Thanks for the thoughts on targeted advertising. It's true I tend to keep sites I use a lot open. Still, up to now most of the clearly targeted advertising I see is right on Gmail (or on Facebook where it's clearly targeted only to my age and gender and not to anything very specific about me--I don't give Facebook much to work with as far as shopping interests). I'm less hostile than bemused by the targeted marketing I see. I can't escape it since I'm online a lot, but I'm not really the ideal target for most of what's being sold. Of the four ads I see right now, two are genealogical (big surprise), one is for skin tighteners (? unlikely ever to interest me) and one for a chauffeur tour of Italy (if I ever get to Italy again I doubt I will want a chauffeur)! Karla On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen <DianaGM@dgmweb.net>wrote: > > From: Karla Huebner > > Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 2:57 PM > > To: autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] once removed etc. > > > > This is off-topic, but I was a little startled when I went to Diana's > > cousin page and saw an ad for the local plumber who just did an estimate > > for my new bathroom. Google must really be selling its search input data > > heavily! (That's not a reflection on Diana, just on the online world.) > > Yes, Google does keep track of your interests. > > About two years ago, I remember doing extensive searching to find a new > bedroom > set. I soon found bedroom furniture ads popping up on sites everywhere I > visited. Then I spent some time searching on table lamps (for my new night > stands). Lamp ads started popping up. The phenomenon has not only > continued, > it has increased, and it often includes ads for local businesses, not some > distant web retailer, as you discovered. Searches at eBay seem to have > the same > effect, not just at eBay, but on other sites as well. > > At first, this "intrusiveness" alarmed and angered me. Then I found that > a lot > of the ads really interested me. They were right on target to my interests > though I sometimes wanted to be able to tell someone I'd *found* the > bedroom set > I wanted. No more bedroom furniture ads, please!! > > I now have a totally different perspective on "targeted advertising." I no > longer view it with hostility, and I no longer feel guilty that visitors > to my > sites see an advertising banner. My sites need to pay for themselves, and > this > seems, to me, to be an innocuous way to do it. > > By the way, if you want to reduce the amount of "tracking" that's done on > you, > *don't* stay logged in to sites all day just for the convenience of not > having > to log in again, especially not the social network sites and search engine > sites. Log out when you're done, and if you don't like the nuisance of > repeatedly logging in, get a password manager that will do it for you. I > don't > know how much real difference it makes, but it makes sense that being > logged in > to Google would make it easier for them to track you. > > Diana > > > > ______________________________ > For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about mailing lists, please see: > http://dgmweb.net/MailingListFAQs.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUTOSOMAL-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

How does one use the new Triangulation feature that replaced IN Common With? I have read the FTDNA help but found nothing. Thanks to all.

Ann, I am using an Excel spreadsheet. How do you tell Excel to delete duplicates? Ann G In a message dated 06-Oct-13 15:23:26 Pacific Daylight Time, DNACousins@aol.com writes: Are you using a spreadsheet? You could append your 3-month match list to your work file and have Excel delete the duplicates. Ann Turner On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:31 PM, <AGilchrest@aol.com> wrote: > With a specific date option I could download just my new matches. The way > it is set up now the smallest amount of matches to download is 3 months. > This means more work. > > Ann G. > > > In a message dated 06-Oct-13 11:15:06 Pacific Daylight Time, > karincorbeil@gmail.com writes: > > You can also sort your matches by date by clicking on the "Match Date" > in the headings above your list. The first list with the "down" arrow > gives you the most recent first. Click again for the "up" arrow to get > the listing going from oldest to most recent. > > Karin Corbeil > > On 10/6/2013 2:07 PM, autosomal-dna-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 11:08:52 -0400 (EDT) > > From:AGilchrest@aol.com > > Subject: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] New Family Finder New Since > > To:autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > > Message-ID:<d4b4c.64b29e1b.3f82d704@aol.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > > Hello, > > > > I just took a look at the new Family Finder. In the old I would view my > new > > matches from a specific date. The only choices I am seeing is new > since 3 > > or 6 month. Did they really take away the specific date option? > > > > Ann G

> From: Karla Huebner > Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 2:57 PM > To: autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] once removed etc. > > This is off-topic, but I was a little startled when I went to Diana's > cousin page and saw an ad for the local plumber who just did an estimate > for my new bathroom. Google must really be selling its search input data > heavily! (That's not a reflection on Diana, just on the online world.) Yes, Google does keep track of your interests. About two years ago, I remember doing extensive searching to find a new bedroom set. I soon found bedroom furniture ads popping up on sites everywhere I visited. Then I spent some time searching on table lamps (for my new night stands). Lamp ads started popping up. The phenomenon has not only continued, it has increased, and it often includes ads for local businesses, not some distant web retailer, as you discovered. Searches at eBay seem to have the same effect, not just at eBay, but on other sites as well. At first, this "intrusiveness" alarmed and angered me. Then I found that a lot of the ads really interested me. They were right on target to my interests though I sometimes wanted to be able to tell someone I'd *found* the bedroom set I wanted. No more bedroom furniture ads, please!! I now have a totally different perspective on "targeted advertising." I no longer view it with hostility, and I no longer feel guilty that visitors to my sites see an advertising banner. My sites need to pay for themselves, and this seems, to me, to be an innocuous way to do it. By the way, if you want to reduce the amount of "tracking" that's done on you, *don't* stay logged in to sites all day just for the convenience of not having to log in again, especially not the social network sites and search engine sites. Log out when you're done, and if you don't like the nuisance of repeatedly logging in, get a password manager that will do it for you. I don't know how much real difference it makes, but it makes sense that being logged in to Google would make it easier for them to track you. Diana

In Excel 2007, position your cursor anywhere in the table. Click on the Data tab, then Remove Duplicates. If you have added some custom calculations or comments, select just the column with the match name to check for duplicates. Ann On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:33 PM, <AGilchrest@aol.com> wrote: > Ann, > I am using an Excel spreadsheet. How do you tell Excel to delete > duplicates? > > Ann G > > > In a message dated 06-Oct-13 15:23:26 Pacific Daylight Time, > DNACousins@aol.com writes: > > Are you using a spreadsheet? You could append your 3-month match list to > your work file and have Excel delete the duplicates. > > Ann Turner > > > On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:31 PM, <AGilchrest@aol.com> wrote: > > > With a specific date option I could download just my new matches. The > way > > it is set up now the smallest amount of matches to download is 3 months. > > This means more work. > > > > Ann G. > > > > > > In a message dated 06-Oct-13 11:15:06 Pacific Daylight Time, > > karincorbeil@gmail.com writes: > > > > You can also sort your matches by date by clicking on the "Match Date" > > in the headings above your list. The first list with the "down" arrow > > gives you the most recent first. Click again for the "up" arrow to get > > the listing going from oldest to most recent. > > > > Karin Corbeil > > > > On 10/6/2013 2:07 PM, autosomal-dna-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Message: 1 > > > Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 11:08:52 -0400 (EDT) > > > From:AGilchrest@aol.com > > > Subject: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] New Family Finder New Since > > > To:autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > > > Message-ID:<d4b4c.64b29e1b.3f82d704@aol.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I just took a look at the new Family Finder. In the old I would view > my > > new > > > matches from a specific date. The only choices I am seeing is new > > since 3 > > > or 6 month. Did they really take away the specific date option? > > > > > > Ann G > > > > > ______________________________ > For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about mailing lists, please see: > http://dgmweb.net/MailingListFAQs.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUTOSOMAL-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Dear Karen, I don't have much data for half-siblings and the other relationships you mention. In any case, you simply cut in half the percentage you would have for full relationships. For instance, half-siblings should in theory share about 25% of their autosomal DNA and half-first cousins should share about 6.25% of their autosomal DNA. Sincerely, Tim Janzen -----Original Message----- From: autosomal-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:autosomal-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Karen Hodges Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 4:09 PM To: autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] once removed etc. Hi Tim I found the link very helpful but noticed for close relatives there was no inclusion of half siblings, half Uncles and Aunts or Half nephews or nieces and half first cousins. Is it a matter of just halving full numbers? Karen

I've added some more statistics for "once removed" cousins to the autosomal DNA statistics page in the ISOGG Wiki: http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_statistics I wonder if there are any clever programmers out there who might be able to create web tool or spreadsheet that will allow people to input a relationship and generate the average percentage. Debbie

With a specific date option I could download just my new matches. The way it is set up now the smallest amount of matches to download is 3 months. This means more work. Ann G. In a message dated 06-Oct-13 11:15:06 Pacific Daylight Time, karincorbeil@gmail.com writes: You can also sort your matches by date by clicking on the "Match Date" in the headings above your list. The first list with the "down" arrow gives you the most recent first. Click again for the "up" arrow to get the listing going from oldest to most recent. Karin Corbeil On 10/6/2013 2:07 PM, autosomal-dna-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 11:08:52 -0400 (EDT) > From:AGilchrest@aol.com > Subject: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] New Family Finder New Since > To:autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > Message-ID:<d4b4c.64b29e1b.3f82d704@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hello, > > I just took a look at the new Family Finder. In the old I would view my new > matches from a specific date. The only choices I am seeing is new since 3 > or 6 month. Did they really take away the specific date option? > > Ann G

Are you using a spreadsheet? You could append your 3-month match list to your work file and have Excel delete the duplicates. Ann Turner On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:31 PM, <AGilchrest@aol.com> wrote: > With a specific date option I could download just my new matches. The way > it is set up now the smallest amount of matches to download is 3 months. > This means more work. > > Ann G. > > > In a message dated 06-Oct-13 11:15:06 Pacific Daylight Time, > karincorbeil@gmail.com writes: > > You can also sort your matches by date by clicking on the "Match Date" > in the headings above your list. The first list with the "down" arrow > gives you the most recent first. Click again for the "up" arrow to get > the listing going from oldest to most recent. > > Karin Corbeil > > On 10/6/2013 2:07 PM, autosomal-dna-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 11:08:52 -0400 (EDT) > > From:AGilchrest@aol.com > > Subject: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] New Family Finder New Since > > To:autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > > Message-ID:<d4b4c.64b29e1b.3f82d704@aol.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > > Hello, > > > > I just took a look at the new Family Finder. In the old I would view my > new > > matches from a specific date. The only choices I am seeing is new > since 3 > > or 6 month. Did they really take away the specific date option? > > > > Ann G > > > > ______________________________ > For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about mailing lists, please see: > http://dgmweb.net/MailingListFAQs.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUTOSOMAL-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

This is off-topic, but I was a little startled when I went to Diana's cousin page and saw an ad for the local plumber who just did an estimate for my new bathroom. Google must really be selling its search input data heavily! (That's not a reflection on Diana, just on the online world.) Karla On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen <DianaGM@dgmweb.net>wrote: > Shamelessly touting my own "cousins" page: > http://dgmweb.net/Resources/Misc/CousinsChart.html > > Diana > >

Shamelessly touting my own "cousins" page: http://dgmweb.net/Resources/Misc/CousinsChart.html Diana > From: Joseph Lake > Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 1:38 AM > To: autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] once removed etc. > > Barton .... Wiki Pedia has a good explanation of 2nd, > 3rd cousins etc as well as "once removed, etc".

I should have added that Sardinia still has a very high I2a y-dna. and "cousins matches" should be my "McHaffie cousin's matches.."

I have no Sardinian in my Population Finder and neither does my 2nd cousin D. McHaffie who is y-dna I2a2b, and my source for my long dead father's y-dna. My Pop Finder is about 95% W. Europe (including Orcadian) and 5% Eastern Europe. His Pop. Finder is about 96% Orcadian and 4% Mid-Eastern. I2a2b developed in Britain thousands of years ago with the earliest I2a being there right after the Ice Age and originally out of the area of Croatia. Sardinia's first people apparently were y I2a and would have come from Croatia. What has been exciting is that when I look at my cousins matches with me at GedMatch, our biggest matches on chromosomes when checked using Admixtures, Chromosome Painting, will have often Sardinian for that block, or be Northern Europe Sardianian in the color painting. Another interesting thing is that in my genealogy research, I found one American Indian ancestress, d. 1823, young, and though I seem to have no other American Indian ancestry, when I look at Admixtures Eurogenes K-36 and similar choices, there "she" is, a red stripe in several places throughout the chromosome painting, so her Whiting family, and her one child's Durkee kin will surely be showing up around those spots as I'm able to tell which of my matches fall at those spots. Mary Lou

You can also sort your matches by date by clicking on the "Match Date" in the headings above your list. The first list with the "down" arrow gives you the most recent first. Click again for the "up" arrow to get the listing going from oldest to most recent. Karin Corbeil On 10/6/2013 2:07 PM, autosomal-dna-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 11:08:52 -0400 (EDT) > From:AGilchrest@aol.com > Subject: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] New Family Finder New Since > To:autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > Message-ID:<d4b4c.64b29e1b.3f82d704@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hello, > > I just took a look at the new Family Finder. In the old I would view my new > matches from a specific date. The only choices I am seeing is new since 3 > or 6 month. Did they really take away the specific date option? > > Ann G

Jim, I'd never before heard "if you don't know where you're going, any path will get you there" but that's a good one. On the negative side, it means you could end up nowhere of interest. On the positive side, it leaves the researcher open to the unexpected and amazing. Karla On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Jim Bartlett <jim4bartletts@verizon.net>wrote: > Barton > > What are your objectives? You may have heard the old saw "if you don't > know where you're going, any path will get you there." > > So, as a facilitator, I often spend a little time up front writing a 1-2 > sentence mission or objective sentence. You can then test your process or > plan or aletrnatives to see if they will get you there. > > Your objective may focus on your parents' genomes vs yours, and this would > lead you to balance cousins between them. Or you may have some particular > area you want to focus on - surname, or a particular brick wall - that > would lead you to select appropriate new cousins to test. > > Or like some of us, you want to ply in this new sandbox and see what > happens. > > That's how I started. Now my objective is to map my chromosomes as finely > as I can, so that at some point I can tell any/everyone who matches me who > the Common Ancestor is based on our shared segment - a genealogist's dream. > > Fast forward 10 years, and think about the genealogy hobby... (Almost like > before and after cell phones) > > Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! > > On Oct 6, 2013, at 10:56 AM, BARTON LEWIS <bartonlewis@optonline.net> > wrote: > > > hi Jim, thanks for all your suggestions. I only yesterday purchased > > Family Finder for myself, having finally become convinced as to the > > usefulness of my testing. I've already tested both parents, my mom's 2 > > surviving siblings, 2 of my father's first cousins (he's an only child), > > and an assortment of both parents' 2nd-5th cousins. I've decided to > > either test more of my parents' first or second cousins next, and am > > leaning to second cousins, but still on the fence somewhat, since > > testing first cousins could isolate a big chunk of their other, more > > distant matches. I especially appreciate your instructions in your last > > email about GEDMATCH utilities for mapping once you have the > > parent-child trio. > > > > Barton > > > > > > ______________________________ > For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about mailing lists, please see: > http://dgmweb.net/MailingListFAQs.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUTOSOMAL-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks, that was about the only thing I could think of. I have some similar oddities within larger groups of mostly matching people, but this was the most straightforward example as both matches look identical on 23andMe apart from not matching each other or my brother. Karla On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Tim Janzen <tjanzen@comcast.net> wrote: > There could be a genotyping error that is preventing the person from > matching your brother or your other match. There is a possibility that one > of the matches is IBS, but that is not very likely when you are talking > about an HIR that has 30 million base pairs in it. > Sincerely, > Tim Janzen > > -----Original Message----- > From: autosomal-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:autosomal-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Karla Huebner > Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2013 8:44 AM > To: autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > Subject: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] quirky matching > > A new 23andMe match just responded, and I'm not sure what's going on. She > matches me at 115,000,000-145,000,000 on Chromosome 1. She doesn't match > the other person who matches me at that point, which would be okay EXCEPT > this is a place where my brother and I are HIR and neither one matches him. > > Thoughts? > > Karla > > > > ______________________________ > For answers to Frequently Asked Questions about mailing lists, please see: > http://dgmweb.net/MailingListFAQs.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUTOSOMAL-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I've been playing around with FT DNA's new features, and discovered a strange chromosome browser/segment matching result. Hoping someone can help or provide some "next step" suggestions. My brother matched 68cM (longest segment 39cM) with B in FT DNA, a woman whose mother (if I recall) was adopted so she didn't know much about that line. But her roots are in KY, which is where our father's paternal line is from. But B did not match with my paternal uncle. I recently tested with AncestryDNA and transferred my results to gedmatch and see that I also match "B" (55 cM total, longest 38). Verified that "B" does not match with my paternal uncle who is also in gedmatch. I had not been using B as a FT DNA "In Common with" cousin, as we didn't know much about her family. However, since it's so easy to triangulate and chromosome browse now, I triangulated and browsed with "B", and am seeing quite a gathering on Chromosome 15, with HallA as my brother. NAME MATCH Chrom START END cMs SNPs HallA B 15 24885965 58819261 38.97 8775 HallA BxxxkD 15 27025865 67617062 48.15 10661 HallA C 15 30875030 58819261 31.90 7595 HallA D 15 34397922 66415197 35.67 8366 HallA E 15 35226156 58455135 23.30 6000 Match BxxxkD had already been identified as a probable 3rd to 4th cousin to both my brother and paternal uncle, also descending from a fairly well-researched Ancestral Bxxxk Couple, whom my uncle (HallB) is a 2ggrandson, my brother a 3ggrandson. Five (the magic number with FT DNA's chromosome browser!) other DNA cousins who match with this Ancestral Bxxxk Couple and my uncle, HallB, are below. I've included the sole match on Chromosome 15, which is not significant. None of the above Chrom15 matches, except for BxxxkD are matching with my uncle, HallB. NAME MATCH Chrom START END cMs SNPS HallB BxxxkA 1 18237480 36938054 24.84 5200 HallB BxxxkB 1 91934579 102085436 8.84 3100 HallB BxxxkC 2 187211471 220214766 30.31 6984 HallB BxxxkD 2 193669238 212798254 16.10 3900 HallB BxxxkD 2 213095634 218362333 6.62 1300 HallB BxxxkE 14 82163486 89464267 10.05 1894 HallB BxxxkB 15 52912672 55423011 3.00 500 What do I make of this clump of matching DNA on Chrom 15? Clearly my Uncle received different DNA from this Ancestral Bxxxk Couple than my father did. But is the commonality of BxxxkD in both enough to make a guess that these cousins might also descend from this couple, or even be related to one another? I should add that this Bxxxk family lived in a fairly "closed" (endogamous) hollow in KY, and there were a lot of intermarriages amongst family. I should also add that B and I share X chromosome DNA, according to gedmatch. Not sure what to do with that info. I'll be transferring my results to FT DNA. Any other advice or suggestions? Mary E Hall