I just noticed something that has me perplexed. I have now FF tested three cousins on my father's side of the family and one on my mother's side. I just noticed that that there are two people in common with the me and with a cousin on each side of my family. What has me perplexed is that there is nothing in my parents' paper genealogies to even suggest they have any recent ancestors in common. The relationships suggested here are 3rd and 4th cousin to 4th-remote and 5th-remote. What is the probability that someone matching at these levels is *not* actually related in genealogical time? And what is the probability of two people matching the same two people at these levels and still not be related? Diana
Still dealing with unphased data. One or both cousin could be related by different ancestry than that you are related to them with. Not very uncommon when dealing with more rural populations with allot of intermarrying. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Diana Gale Matthiesen <[email protected]>wrote: > I just noticed something that has me perplexed. I have now FF tested > three cousins on my father's side of the family and one on my mother's > side. I just noticed that that there are two people in common with > the me and with a cousin on each side of my family. What has me > perplexed is that there is nothing in my parents' paper genealogies to > even suggest they have any recent ancestors in common. > > The relationships suggested here are 3rd and 4th cousin to 4th-remote > and 5th-remote. What is the probability that someone matching at > these levels is *not* actually related in genealogical time? And what > is the probability of two people matching the same two people at these > levels and still not be related? > > 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 >
Diana Do the matches have the same large segment on the same Chr? I was trying to triangulate for an adoptee, based on matching ancestors of of different atMatches - but it turned out the large segment was usually different, meaning they didn't really match on atDNA. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Feb 15, 2012, at 2:58 AM, "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <[email protected]> wrote: > I just noticed something that has me perplexed. I have now FF tested > three cousins on my father's side of the family and one on my mother's > side. I just noticed that that there are two people in common with > the me and with a cousin on each side of my family. What has me > perplexed is that there is nothing in my parents' paper genealogies to > even suggest they have any recent ancestors in common. > > The relationships suggested here are 3rd and 4th cousin to 4th-remote > and 5th-remote. What is the probability that someone matching at > these levels is *not* actually related in genealogical time? And what > is the probability of two people matching the same two people at these > levels and still not be related? > > 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