Paul Thanks for you comments. Those were my thoughts. We all have a distant match to a cousin on Ancestry(who does not wish to do anymore with her Ancestry results) that I have paper documentation to my mother's ancestors and they have no matches with my paternal first cousin. Mike in Droitwich England On 07/01/2016 17:55, Paul Rakow wrote: > Mike, > > I had a peek at your gedmatch results. > > You've got a big match with the father, > 41.4 cM on chrom 12; 7.2 cM on chrom 18. > > These two segments also show up for the daughter, > 42.7 cm on chrom 12; 6.5 cM on chrom 18, > but the daughter also matches you on several small segments > (4 or 5 or 6 cm) where you don't match the father. > > The most likely explanation to me is that the chrom 12 match is > certainly genuine, probably the chrom 18 match is real too (it > is quite short, but it is in the same place in both cases). But > those other short matches that push the daughter's total up higher > than the father's total, are probably just matches by chance. > > It's good to see someone else from the UK posting here, > > Paul Rakow >