On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 4:20:05 PM UTC-7, Darrel Hockley via wrote: > I did find a distant relative at the 12 marker level with Family Tree DNA > by looking at who on the list was looking for what families and we found > our common Lightfoot surname ancestor of about 1650. Whether that > Lightfoot DNA was a factor or not in the matching, I do not know. I didn't want to leave the impression that a 12-marker match wouldn't match a close cousin. It is just that a 12-marker match may match a million people, including close cousins but also including people descended from brothers who butchered a mammoth together. taf