Hi Jim Thanks Chromosome 11 - 4 matches on Dad's list plus Adoptee and 3 on mine. But only one looks IBD Adoptee to me 61922748-76029213 segment 13.87, SNPS 3400 Adoptee to dad 61594120-76029213 segment 13.97 SNPS 3500 3rd Match [to dad and I] 70559577-76029213 segment 5.32 SNPS 1200 The adoptee won't be able to check their record for a few weeks so I will contact the other match. Karen On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Jim Bartlett <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > > ______________________________ > 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 >