Ann, I am adding your suggestions from Message 6 to my plan and will make this my new atDNA goal for working with these four matches. Only one of the four has replied to the four emails I sent yesterday. I sent him a copy of one of these Digest mode emails we are working on now and he says it is more than Greek to him. So we have no way to go but up. Thanks. Linda Message: 6 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 07:22:34 -0800 From: Ann Turner<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] SUBJECT: How do you work a 5 way FF match with few clues ? To:[email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]om> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Not quite. I'd phrase it differently. For #1, you need to demonstrate that the segments are true IBD from a single ancestor, and one way to filter out IBS segments is to do #2, then compare every possible pair out of the set of five A matches B,C,D,E B matches C,D,E C matches D,E D matches E Ann On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Linda<[email protected]> wrote: > > For me, just now, I take away from this thread: > > 1. My GEDMATCH.com results are results that are true IBD and would be > the best choice for working on in the immediate and foreseeable > future. Am I understanding this correctly? > > 2. So, my initial query would be resolved by requesting those other > four matches to upload their results to GEDMATCH.com. Is this correct? > > 3. If there was still a match with any of the four it would remain to > determine all other info such as from mother or father DNA and to look > for surnames in common. > > Neither my husband nor myself have living parents and only one living > child who is not willing to do any DNA testing at all at this time. So, > unless new technology is found for working with atDNA am I correct in > thinking my best results would always be from a program such as GEDMATCH? > > > >