ICW = InCommon With; TG = Triangulated Group; IDs = Identification Codes (names for TGs); Jim Bartlett [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Gail Schinnerer Jorgensen <[email protected]> To: genealogy-dna <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Sep 27, 2017 12:57 pm Subject: Re: [DNA] Difficulty understand Ancestry's shared matches - covered entensively in my blog: www.segmentology.org which has recent posts about AncestryDNA Shared Matches; Notes; Uploading to GEDmatch; Getting Starting with GEDmatch; etc. Jim Bartlett ICW = ?TG = ?TIA (thanks in advance) Gail~ Gail Schinnerer Jorgensen ~On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Jim Bartlett <[email protected]>wrote:> Andreas>> Shared Matches = ICW. Some may be on the same ancestor, but most will not.> The way I do it is with the Notes - and when the same group of folks wind> up in each other's Notes, it's much more probable that they are from the> same Ancestor. I'm linking AncestryDNA and GEDmatch kits and putting TG IDs> in the Notes. When one TG shows up in several Shared Matches it's very> positive.>> Jim Bartlett