I think AncestryDNA uses "crowd sourcing" - when they get enough folks to agree they raise the confidence level. Jim Bartlett On 10/30/15, Peter J Richardson via<genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: -----Original Message----- From: g[1]enealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com [[2]mailto:genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Patti Easton via Sent: 30 October 2015 13:05 To: 'Doris Wheeler' <[3]doriswh@gmail.com>; [4]genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DNA] Matches on Ancestry Circles > I have 6 circles, all with verified connections. Interesting. How does a connection become verified? Is that something that I as a user do? Regards Peter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to G[5]ENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. mailto:enealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com 2. mailto:genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com 3. mailto:doriswh@gmail.com 4. mailto:genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com 5. mailto:ENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com