Ancestry Dna Matches

Contacting your dna matches can also help you discover how you re related to them.

Ancestry dna matches. We compare your dna to the dna of every other person in the ancestrydna database and based on how your dna matches up we estimate how closely you re related whether you are siblings first cousins distant cousins or not related at all see figure 1. To learn more about match categories visit the dna match categories page on the ancestry site. From any page on ancestry click the dna tab and select dna matches. If you ve taken an ancestrydna test the site s shared matches tool can help you home in on who made you.

Last month ancestry s lawyers sent cease and desist letters to every third party tool that i know of that their dna customers can utilize in order to perform activities such as clusters downloading a match list and downloading a list of direct line ancestors for your matches into a spreadsheet so that you can search for common surnames. Since ancestry dna and any other company can t really tell you how you are related to most of your dna matches they have to use the amount of shared dna in order to estimate your relationship. Don t be too concerned if a sibling s test labels a shared genetic relative with a different relationship. When dna matches contradict family trees.

In this post you will learn how to find shared matches on ancestry dna and what it really means. What will my results tell me. Filtering matches by maternal or paternal side. As you can see from the centimorgan chart a centimorgan range of 575 to 1330 could mean the dna match is a first cousin half aunt or even a grandparent.

Ancestrydna can also help identify relationships with unknown relatives through a dynamic list of dna matches. The shared matches feature is one of the most helpful features available to you from your dna match profile page. Your ancestrydna results include information about your geographic origins across 1 000 regions and identifies potential relatives through dna matching to others who have taken the ancestrydna test. Ancestrydna member matching identifies other ancestrydna members who might be related to you.

On the match compare page click the shared matches tab to see which matches you share with that match. In your list of dna matches click the name or username of a match. To see your shared ethnicity click the ethnicity tab from the match s profile page. Using shared matches you can figure out how other dna matches might be related to you.

As you investigate your matches you can find dna matches that you and a match have in common by clicking the shared matches tab. Viewing the matches you share with another match. You can also review the public family trees created by your shared matches which may contain shared. At times knowing how you re related who gave you the common dna segments can be frustrating.

At a 4th cousin level the range of average shared dna overlaps with that of other relationships.