I am answering this because my great-grandfather was adopted so I am kin to several people who may not even have him in there line. I did DNA to find out who he was related to. The DNA shows us related to alot of McDonalds. I know that people moved, people were born and died without records. I am not sure how to help just wanted to throw this out there. Virginia Parrr -----Original Message----- From: Paul Wright <[email protected]> To: autosomal-dna <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Feb 15, 2012 8:41 am Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] when is a match not a match? Still dealing with unphased data. One or both cousin could be related by ifferent ancestry than that you are related to them with. Not very ncommon when dealing with more rural populations with allot of ntermarrying. 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 _____________________________ or answers to Frequently Asked Questions about mailing lists, please see: ttp://dgmweb.net/MailingListFAQs.html ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message