There is always the possibility that you are related to a DNA match in more than one way and those multiple ways may be in totally separate geographic regions. Don’t always assume that you’ve got the connection figured out just because you find a shared name in your tree. Look at your shared matches and make certain they are consistent with the connection being from those ancestors.

We’ve written about this in more detail in a post from a few years ago on my Rootdig blog.

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