Mary, Very high probability but not 100% It all comes down to how scientic/academic you do this hobby. I'm not worried about people like you who know what they are doing but I'm worried about people claiming their wrongly clicked together family tree is proven by DNA when they only used Ancestry. We can already see the human error in WikiTree were lately people assigned DNA tests to their ancestor who die 150 years ago (instead to themselves). Can be obviously easily fixed via software check. But what happens on Ancestry's "click it and lick it " is almost impossible to fix or correct! Andreas > On 16 Dec 2015, at 09:24, Mary E Hall via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > If you're lucky enough to have a parent (or both) tested with AncestryDNA > there is a Mother and/or Father icon after "Hints", "New", "Starred". > > Personally I've had very good results keeping track of shared match groups, > and building out those "DNA Trees" and running into common ancestral > couples. Sure, it would be interesting to also see the segment data. But > if 5 of us have the same ancestral couple in our trees and seem to share > 4th cousin or better quantity of cMs in common, I'm fairly satisfied we're > on the right track of confirming a line with DNA. > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Margo Lurvey via < > genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> What icons does Ancestry have that show you which side of the family a >> match is on? I have not seen that one!! >> Margo >> >> ---------- Original Message ---------- >> From: Taryn Flock via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> >> To: genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [DNA] Basic ICW Questions: >> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 18:21:38 +0000 >> >> Dear Mike, >> >> The catch with ancestry's shared matches list is that they only list of >> your shared matches above the "4th cousin" level. >> >> As example, I have a DNA cousin we'll call Mary. Mary and I share 17.2 cm >> across 1 segment. Mary and my father also share 17.2 cm across 1 segment. >> As 17.2 is apparently "distant cousin", the shared matches lists turn up >> empty. >> >> ( Because the second person is my father ancestry does have little icons >> that point out that Mary is in fact a paternal match, but the shared match >> would be at least as interesting if the second person were a more distant >> relative than my father, and without access to their match list and some >> effort, I'd have no idea that Mary was a shared match. ) >> >> Taryn >> > > ------------------------------- > 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