Jim.....remember there are lot of us not exactly up to your speed here. What do you mean 9 participants "with almost 2,000 matches."? 2,000 matches of what? Craig On Oct 19, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Jim Bartlett wrote: > David > > We're waiting for you and your sister.... Just kidding;>j > > As of this morning we have 9 participants with almost 2,000 matches (not all with NN of course). I'm sure we have more in the wings...

Craig, et al Pardon me - you are correct. I slipped into jargon, and anyone should call me one it. Each person gets a list of matches - typically between 200 and 350. These are all their cousins - they just don't know how yet. So I tallied up all those numbers. It shows there are a lot of possibilities out there. Some math: if your NN ancestors were 6 generations back, that's where your 64 4G grandparents are; and most of your matches would be 5th cousins. Suppose you had 4 such NN ancestors. Then, on average, 1/16 of your matches would be from the NN. With 2,000 matches in our "pool" we could expect 120 or so to be from the NN. The number would grow by 10-15 with each new person who joins our group. Yes some will be duplicates, but I think we have a good base to work from, with only the few who have already joined. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Oct 19, 2012, at 6:24 PM, Craig Kilby <persisto1@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim.....remember there are lot of us not exactly up to your speed here. What do you mean 9 participants "with almost 2,000 matches."? 2,000 matches of what? > > Craig > > On Oct 19, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Jim Bartlett wrote: > >> David >> >> We're waiting for you and your sister.... Just kidding;>j >> >> As of this morning we have 9 participants with almost 2,000 matches (not all with NN of course). I'm sure we have more in the wings... > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VA-NORTHERN-NECK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Jim, You skipped over this question. You have FIVE respondents so far, of which all or most were only Y-DNA or mt-DNA tests. How can there already be 2,000 matches? I am not getting this part, Craig On Oct 19, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Jim Bartlett wrote: > With 2,000 matches in our "pool" we could expect 120 or so to be from the NN.