My DNA Statistics from Ancestry.com Updated

On 14 Sep 2017 I posted some statistics from my AncestryDNA. Now 3 months later I'm sharing more statistics.

	March 2017	9 August 2017	6 September 2017	15 December   2017
Shared Ancestor Hints	139	152	158	161
Starred matches	50	60	61	85
4th Cousins or Closer	835	1209	1260	1414
DNA Circles	22	25	26	27

The starred matches are marked by me, so that is my own doing. I mark those who I believe I know how they are related to me.

The others are calculated by Ancestry. Both Shared Ancestor Hints and DNA Circles require that my DNA matches also have a tree that matches mine and they have linked their DNA results to their tree. You can see that those numbers are not increasing all that rapidly.

The 4th Cousins or Closer numbers are strictly from the amount of DNA that we match. These numbers do continue to go up. From Christmas sales they will probably continue to keep going up.

My major goal for working with DNA matches is to make cousin connections so we can share and compare information, sometimes including photos. Having over 150 shared ancestor hints gives me lots of opportunities to try to connect with cousins, so it is now up to me to do that.