Hi Tim, Ann, Jim and Melissa Thank you all for your help. I have been contact by a person who has been adopted as a baby and has no information about their biological family. The person lives in England and I live in Australia. The connection is on my paternal side as they match with my Dad. I have no idea how to go about sorting out how we connect. Dad is listed as a 3rd - 5th cousin[13.97cMs snp 3500] and I am listed as a 4th to remote [13.87cMs, snp 3400]. Dad had an English Great Great Grandfather who was married with a child [I have not found them] when he was sent to Australia in 1826. He remarried and had a second family which Dad descends from. This is possibly the line we connect on and that was the reason behind my question as I wondered if it might effect the cousin level. Karen On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Ann Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > On the average, a half-third cousin would share the same amount of DNA as a > third cousin once removed (i.e., between a third and fourth cousin). The > range displayed by FF should be bigger to account for the random element. > > Ann Turner > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Karen Hodges <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > With Family finder the results say what level cousin the match is > expected > > to be. What happens in the case of half siblings with what level the > cousin > > will show at? For example if a woman marriages twice and has a child with > > each father. The grandchildren are 1st cousins and the great > grandchildren > > 2nd cousins and great great grandchildren 3rd cousins. But when it comes > > to reading the DNA family finder result would it show the relationship as > > this or would it be more distant as the DNA shared is half to begin with. > > Would a half third cousin be shown as maybe a third to fifth cousin? > > > > Karen > > > > > ______________________________ > 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 >

Karen One idea, particularly for adopters, is to determine which long atDNA segment you share, and then both of you examine all of your other matches for overlapping segments, particularly long ones. Such long segments can only come from two of your Dad's ancestors, one one his paternal side and one from the maternal side. (this is based on such long segments being IBD, and not all of them will be, but it's a place to look). If you can find a Common Ancestor with a third joint match, there is a 50-50 chance that the adoptee will have the same one. The adoptees should be collecting and analyzing this kind of clue. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Mar 14, 2012, at 6:29 AM, Karen Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tim, Ann, Jim and Melissa > > Thank you all for your help. > > I have been contact by a person who has been adopted as a baby and has no > information about their biological family. The person lives in England and > I live in Australia. The connection is on my paternal side as they match > with my Dad. > > I have no idea how to go about sorting out how we connect. Dad is listed > as a 3rd - 5th cousin[13.97cMs snp 3500] and I am listed as a 4th to remote > [13.87cMs, snp 3400]. Dad had an English Great Great Grandfather who was > married with a child [I have not found them] when he was sent to Australia > in 1826. He remarried and had a second family which Dad descends from. This > is possibly the line we connect on and that was the reason behind my > question as I wondered if it might effect the cousin level. > > Karen > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Ann Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On the average, a half-third cousin would share the same amount of DNA as a >> third cousin once removed (i.e., between a third and fourth cousin). The >> range displayed by FF should be bigger to account for the random element. >> >> Ann Turner >> >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Karen Hodges <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> With Family finder the results say what level cousin the match is >> expected >>> to be. What happens in the case of half siblings with what level the >> cousin >>> will show at? For example if a woman marriages twice and has a child with >>> each father. The grandchildren are 1st cousins and the great >> grandchildren >>> 2nd cousins and great great grandchildren 3rd cousins. But when it comes >>> to reading the DNA family finder result would it show the relationship as >>> this or would it be more distant as the DNA shared is half to begin with. >>> Would a half third cousin be shown as maybe a third to fifth cousin? >>> >>> Karen >>> >> >> >> ______________________________ >> 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 >> > > > ______________________________ > 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