Say you have a DNA match that you cannot figure out your connection with. You determine some of this match’s ancestry and some of their relatives. You just can’t see where it connects to you, but you put these people in your database. They are all connected to each other, but the genealogical connection to you (evidenced by DNA) has not yet been determined. That match and their relatives are called by some a “floating branch.”
Basically it’s relatives in your database whose connection to you has not been yet determined even though they share DNA with you.
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