1000
Almost
2 weeks ago, 15 May 2017, I wrote about my DNA circles on
Ancestry.com. I noted that I had over 950 matches of 4th cousins or
closer. As of 2 days ago, 26 May 2017, I had 1000 matches and right
now on 28 May 2017 I have 1006. So it seems new matches are being
added every day.
Some
of these are people that I already know are related to me. However,
many of them are not. And most of them don't have their DNA results
linked to a family tree so I can't be sure just how we are related.
Ancestry
does give another number which they call "shared ancestor
hints." Yesterday I decided to check how many of that number
were part of the 4th cousin or closer group. The number given by
Ancestry was 153. So I just looked at that group and found that 2
were marked as 2nd cousin, 6 were marked as 3rd cousin and 36 were
marked as 4th cousin. That totals 44. Of those 44, 5 had private
trees so I wasn't able to check our relationship, leaving 39 matches.
So 39 out of 1000 would be 3.9%. That's not a very large percentage,
still that gives me 39 cousins where I should compare and share
information. As I wrote on the 15th, I need to get busy and send
some messages.
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