It helps that I've been at this since 2004. It has taken all these years to find these three, and I had to pay for their testing to get them. Sometimes I feel like I'm trying to roll a dozen eggs down a football field with a toothpick. You make progress, first with this egg, then with that one, but it's sooooo slow! I will shortly have another group of four on my mother's side of the family (the ones I just did were on my father's side), but we're all first cousins (or 1st 1R), so no suspense here. But it will be interesting to see how many mutual matches we get. The most frustrating thing is how few people have uploaded GEDCOMs. Diana > From: Dwight Holmes > Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:31 AM > > Seems to me you're on the right track, Diana. > > I only have one such comparison, my 2nd cousin. > He & I only have 4 matches-in-common. A few > others here have much larger such family > databases. > > But I don't know how many people in the world > have "done this before", this exact thing you've > done. Very few of us are blessed with both the > energy, diligence, AND success rate that you've > got here in recruiting relatives to test. > Congratulations! (Sheesh, it took me 6 months > of obnoxiously persistent reminders and followups > with my own 1st cousins on my mother's side just > to get 1 of them to agree to do the test that I > sent to him...)