Category: DNA

Using DNA test results to find relatives and place them in the family tree.

  • Finding a place in the tree for a DNA match

    In November 2017 a new name appeared in my AncestryDNA matches. I’ll call him L. Ancestry rated him a first or second cousin with “extremely high” confidence, and my mother, a generation closer to him, shared even more DNA with him than I did. His shared matches were people on…

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