Diana - another thing you can do is establish the FF "known relationship" link between all of you and your cousins wherever there is a FF match. Then you can easily see if there is a roundabout link between you and your cousin who doesn't match. It's perhaps unlikely, but worth a shot. On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen <[email protected]>wrote: > > From: Mary Guler > > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:24 PM > > > > We have tested 4 siblings, a first cousin once removed, two second > > cousins and one third cousin from the same line. The last person > > tested was the third cousin. All of us match one another, except > > for the third cousin. She and I do not match each other. > > (I am the one who paid for her test....LOL!) This is > > the perfect example of the randomness of autosomal DNA inheritance > > :o) > > > > Mary Mitchell Guler > > Does this last third cousin not match just you? Or does she not match > *any* of the other seven? Are all of the seven mutually matching all > of the other seven? If not, how many of the seven does each one > match? > > I paid for all four of these tests, so I can look at the matching for > each of the other three, individually, from their perspective as well > as mine. The three of us are mutually matching (each of the three of > us matches the other two, from each individual perspective). The > fourth matches none of the other three. > > I'm not trying to be argumentative. I truly want to understand how to > view my situation compared to what others have experienced. I > understand that, at this distance, random variation can mean a > non-match. I guess what I'm asking is at what point does the number > of non-matches take us beyond the tails of the probability > distribution and into the realm of "there ain't no underlying > relationship here." > > 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I have access to all three accounts, in addition to my own, so I have confirmed the relationship among the three of us. I can't confirm the relationship between the oddball and the rest of us because he doesn't show up as a match to any of us, at all, even distantly. I'm not certain I understand what you mean by "roundabout link." Diana > From: Dwight Holmes > Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:40 PM > > Diana - another thing you can do is establish the FF "known > relationship" link between all of you and your cousins > wherever there is a FF match. Then you can easily see if > there is a roundabout link between you and your cousin who > doesn't match. It's perhaps unlikely, but worth a shot.