If you are fortunate enough for a DNA match to have a family tree associated with it, there are several reasons why there are no name “matches” between your trees, including the following:
- one of you does not have the tree back far enough to see the match
- one (or both of you) has a mistake in your tree that is only compounded as the lineage is extended
- there was an adoption in your lineage that no one told anyone about
- the stated father of a child was not the biological father
Sifting through these possibilities takes time and may require more extensive research.
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