That is a very robust segment, and I would infer that the connection is through the paternal side. Ann On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Amy Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > In posting my original question: "If both my mother and myself have > tested, can I match with someone from a known ancestral line of hers while > she does NOT? OR, would the match mean that I MUST be related to this > person through my paternal line?" I generated some disagreement from the > experts and much discussion. Unfortunately, I'm still confused. Recently, > I've gotten a 'strong' cousin match with a 'cousin' who does NOT match with > my mother. In this case, we have a cM chain of 23.88 and 4575 matching > SNP, for an estimated 3rd cousin match. When examining his family tree, > everything overwhelmingly points to a MATERNAL connection so far (but no > real smoking gun, so to speak). It IS possible I'm missing a paternal > surname, however. I'm having this situation turn up occasionally with > other cousins as well. Does this mean that Mom and Dad have cousins in > common? OR, am I to understand, as you all have tried to explain, that it > is NOT possible that genes 'skip' a genera! > tion, so I must be missing the paternal connection? Since we are a > strong match, the whole IBS issue is moot, right? > > > ______________________________ > 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 >