Posts in March 2, 2025

There’s only so much time and one has to prioritize where they are likely to get the most bang out of their genealogy time. That’s where I tend to put DNA matches like this one. Not because of just one reason, but really because of three. We only share 9 centimorgans of DNA. This means, probabilistically speaking, that the match shares nothing closer than a set of third great-grandparents. That’s not bad and it’s not the real problem. We also have no shared matches. That gives me no way to put the match into a pull or cluster of other shared matches whose common ancestor is known or reasonably known. There is no linked tree and the public tree the account has is lacking in details. In terms […]