Peter, The rules for assigning circles are rather fuzzy. I think you'll find most people have few or none. I have just one, despite heavy colonial ancestry, and it is a total mystery to me. View them as "suggestions," nothing more. On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Michael Fisher via < genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi Peter > > " I also notice that Ancestry seems to have "DNA circles" for Charles > Aldous, and also for his parents but does not seem to have any "DNA > circles" for the ancestors I have in common with the new match I have > found and I wonder why not. Regards Peter" > > If you go onto each of you Circle members and view match and click on > "shared matches" and follow that line you can find more links. > > Mike Fisher in a now dry Droitwich. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Doris I've found that Circles depend primarily on the basic info for each ancestor: name, dates, places. If you and another Match list the same info, you'll get a Circle. If either of you inserts an asterisk (or an Ahnentafel number, or a middle name, or rank, etc) in the name field, it probably won't match = no Circle. I have 11 Matches in a Circle, but no Circle for her one and only husband because some people insert a rank or false middle name or guess differently on the place of birth (even tho they all use the well known/copied bible DOB), and so no Circle for him. Jim - www.segmentology.org > On Oct 30, 2015, at 8:47 AM, Doris Wheeler via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Peter, The rules for assigning circles are rather fuzzy. I think you'll > find most people have few or none. I have just one, despite heavy colonial > ancestry, and it is a total mystery to me. View them as "suggestions," > nothing more. > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Michael Fisher via < > genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Hi Peter >> >> " I also notice that Ancestry seems to have "DNA circles" for Charles >> Aldous, and also for his parents but does not seem to have any "DNA >> circles" for the ancestors I have in common with the new match I have >> found and I wonder why not. Regards Peter" >> >> If you go onto each of you Circle members and view match and click on >> "shared matches" and follow that line you can find more links. >> >> Mike Fisher in a now dry Droitwich. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message