Diana Are your "matches in common with" at the same Chr and close to the same segment, or are they just matched people? Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Feb 16, 2012, at 1:31 AM, "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I didn't frame my question correctly. I'm not asking for a > yes/no answer to the question of whether or not these individuals are > related - I know it's not that easy. I'm asking what the probability > is or, rather, what everyone's empirical experience is. In other > words, for the confirmed cousins you have tested (ones with a known > paper connection), how many mutual matches did you get (matches "in > common with")? > > In my case (one each): > > 1st cousin = 30 > 3rd cousin (1R) = 7 > 3rd cousin (2R) = 11 > 4th cousin = 6 > 4th cousin (1R) = 2 > 7th cousin = 2 > > I'm wondering what others have experienced along this line. > > What's bugging me, I think, is that, after nearly eight years of > managing Y-DNA surname projects, I have a pretty good feel for what is > and is not reasonable in terms of matching someone in genealogical > time. In contrast, with FamilyFinder, I have far too little > experience to even have a sense of what is or is not plausible. I'm > just looking for ballpark figures here of the typical number of mutual > matches at each level of cousin, so I know when to ignore something > and when to take a closer look. > > Or has someone already compiled something along this line? > > 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