My Mom and Grandma taken 1950s.
Two first cousins of my mother had autosomal DNA tests done. One was the child of a full sibling of her mother. The other was the child of a full sibling of her father. While I can use them to help sort out my maternal matches, I cannot assume that all of my maternal DNA matches will match one or the other of them. It’s very possible that I have DNA from one of my maternal ancestors that the two first cousins of my mother do not.
And someone else could match me on that DNA.
The two first cousins of my mother should help me filter out a significant number of my maternal matches, but they will not help me sort out all of them.
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Love the snapshot! Especially the old Studebaker.
This almost sounds like a riddle! I feel the need to get pencil and paper to sketch this family tree.
Googling autosomal, but wondering gender of cousins and their pertinent parents…? Thanks for the “project”!
Autosomal DNA is the genetic material inherited from parents that does not determine gender.
Thank u, that explains some things I’ve wondered about.