Posts in January 5, 2020

When you don’t know much about the ancestry of a DNA test kit, the results may appear confusing. Sometimes they appear confusing even when you do. A recent new match to my own DNA kit initially confused me. It had shared matches with known relatives of: my great-grandfather Trautvetter, my great-grandfather Neill, and my great-grandmother Neill. This new match was not a close relative to me at all. The new match had a very short tree that luckily I was able to trace further back. Then the seemingly confusing matches made sense. The new match was: A descendant of my 3rd great-grandfather Trautvetter (explaining those matches). The match had an ancestor whose cousin married a cousin of my great-grandfather Neill (explaining why we had some Neill matches in […]