>From working on the DNA results for the guests on "Finding Your Roots", I have learned that this low number of matches in Family Finder is not at all unusual for African Americans. I am currently working with a kit with the same admixture percentages as you mention and the number of matches is comparable to what you are reporting. It appears to be directly proportional - the less European admixture that an African American has, the less matches they have in Family Finder. Apparently, this is because Family Finder requires, not only a longest segment of around 7 cM, but a total cM count of 20 cM to be reported as a match (total of all shared segments of 1 cM and above). African Americans tend not to share these very small segments with their matches, so many of their matches with segments under 20 cM do not get reported. What would be the presumed level of cousinship between the descendants of the slave owner and the slave descendants? If it is further out than 2nd cousins, then it would be expected that some will show matches and some will not. CeCe Moore www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com > From: Rvsailor@aol.com > Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:18:02 -0500 > To: autosomal-dna@rootsweb.com > Subject: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] Family Finder Matches > > I just got the results back from a FF test kit that I sponsored for a man > that believes he shares ancestral lines with a white slave owner. His > population finder indicates 84% West African (Yoruba) and 16% European. He is > matching three other test participants known to be descendants of slaves > owned by this same white slave owning family but he does not match any of the > known white descendants of the slave owners. Two of his matches do also > match several of the white descendants. The third is a close relative (his > aunt from his paternal line and the last living in that generation) that had > the same none matches with the white descendants. His aunt's population > finder indicated 66% West African (Yoruba) and 34% European. > > > What is very odd is that he only had a reported 14 matches TOTAL. His > aunt had over 60 total matches. I have never seen a FF test have so few > matches and am wondering about the quality of his test sample. Has anyone else > seen the number of total matches this low? Thanks. > > Connie Bradshaw >