Hello List, What is the chosen method to search for the common ancestor on an "in common with" match between 5 people about whom you know nothing to connect them? Only one of the 4 gives GEDCOM and surnames and I cannot relate my McKee husband to those surnames although several "could be related". (A 5th name turned up on the in-common-with list but showed zero match on the chromosome bar with anyone. I assume that is not meaningful ---?---) The match they all share is on the 9th chromosome as follows: McKee-Walters........2155758--8555148----13.9 cM--2795 snp McKee-Dismukes.......1950788--9337789----16.38----3295 McKee-Moore..........2155758--7810080----12.42----2395 McKee-Uloth..........2155758--8387775----13.73----2695 Other small hits: Moore, Dismukes, McKee on the 2nd chromosome Moore, Uloth, McKee on the 3rd Dismukes, Moore, McKee on the 5th Dismukes, Moore, McKee on the 6th Walters, Uloth, McKee on the 10th Moore, Walters, McKee on the 16th Perhaps this could be my first Family Finder success story with the List helping out..........Please. Any suggestions, comments appreciated. I have had very little luck in attempting to communicate with matches to find the common grandparent as it seems they all have less info than I do. Linda McKee On 1/5/2012 2:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Back to 'Fundamental Autosomal DNA Question' (Amy Martin) > 2. Re: Back to 'Fundamental Autosomal DNA Question' (Ann Turner) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 09:57:48 -0500 > From: Amy Martin<[email protected]> > Subject: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] Back to 'Fundamental Autosomal DNA Question' > To: [email protected] > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 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? > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 07:39:15 -0800 > From: Ann Turner<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] Back to 'Fundamental Autosomal DNA > Question' > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]om> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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 >> > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of AUTOSOMAL-DNA Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1 > *******************************************