You got it backwards, Wjh--they're more related to him than to each other.  The confusion arose since he said "lower genetic distance". The answer to Andreas' question most likely is: They triangulate to your mum, but do they all triangulate with your mum's mum or your mum's dad, and then on to your mum's mum's mum, mum' mum's dad....?  So presumably at least some of them became their most related to each other through you by marriage. JAL Wjh wrote From: Wjhonson <wjhonson@aol.com> Subject: Re: [DNA] Why is it that my U.S. cousins all shares less DNA amongst them but more with me? To: ahnen@awest.de, genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <150b4471367-69a-8824@webprd-a16.mail.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 The most likely case would be that they match each other on some other line as well. So they might be ninth cousins to you, but actually fifth cousins to each other. -----Original Message----- From: Andreas West via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> To: DNA Genealogy Mailing List <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Oct 29, 2015 1:43 am Subject: [DNA] Why is it that my U.S. cousins all shares less DNA amongst them but more with me? Hi everyone, I hope to hear some of your views on the following: I'm seeing for a lot of my triangulated groups for my maternal side (they triangulate with both my mum and me, that's how I know which side) that the U.S. based (and been there for many generations) cousins have lower genetic distance and SNP's (hence shares less DNA) amongst themselves (means within the other U.S. based cousins) than they do share with us (and my mum is basically 99% German with

Oh I took "lower genetic distance" to mean "closer" not "smaller" -----Original Message----- From: jlerch1 via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> To: genealogy-dna <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Oct 29, 2015 10:02 am Subject: [DNA] re Why is it that my U.S. cousins all shares less DNA amongst them but more with me? You got it backwards, Wjh--they're more related to him than to each other. The confusion arose since he said "lower genetic distance". The answer to Andreas' question most likely is: They triangulate to your mum, but do they all triangulate with your mum's mum or your mum's dad, and then on to your mum's mum's mum, mum' mum's dad....? So presumably at least some of them became their most related to each other through you by marriage. JAL Wjh wrote From: Wjhonson <wjhonson@aol.com> Subject: Re: [DNA] Why is it that my U.S. cousins all shares less DNA amongst them but more with me? To: ahnen@awest.de, genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <150b4471367-69a-8824@webprd-a16.mail.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 The most likely case would be that they match each other on some other line as well. So they might be ninth cousins to you, but actually fifth cousins to each other. -----Original Message----- From: Andreas West via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> To: DNA Genealogy Mailing List <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, Oct 29, 2015 1:43 am Subject: [DNA] Why is it that my U.S. cousins all shares less DNA amongst them but more with me? Hi everyone, I hope to hear some of your views on the following: I'm seeing for a lot of my triangulated groups for my maternal side (they triangulate with both my mum and me, that's how I know which side) that the U.S. based (and been there for many generations) cousins have lower genetic distance and SNP's (hence shares less DNA) amongst themselves (means within the other U.S. based cousins) than they do share with us (and my mum is basically 99% German with ------------------------------- 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