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Understanding Shared Ancestor Hints + Video

Understanding Shared Ancestor Hints + Video

Understanding Shared Ancestors & Shared Ancestor Hints In order for you to really take advantage of genealogical DNA testing – especially at Ancestry, you need to understand what shared ancestors and shared ancestor hints are, how they can help in […]

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Confusing Shared Ancestor Hints

Confusing Shared Ancestor Hints

Shared Ancestor Hints Recently, I linked my mom’s DNA profile to someone in a mirror tree and I got more shared ancestor hints than what I was expecting.  I had already confirmed this person’s maternal family is related to my […]

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What is a Mirror Tree?

What is a Mirror Tree?

I’m getting a lot of feedback and I keep seeing the same thing.  The same question keeps coming up.  What is a mirror tree?  I’ve answered some questions about mirror trees in the Five Questions Answered post and went over […]

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DNA Overlaps Among Cousins

Ok. I’m having to write this out because my brain is just not processing it and I need to see it- if anyone reads this and has a suggestion, PLEASE comment below or contact me. Soo.. my mom’s predicted second […]

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Lehr, Stigler, Oliphant – New Connections

Lehr, Stigler, Oliphant – New Connections

I got stuck tracing records back on the potential lead that I wrote about in the last post so I decided to give my brain a break from that and work on creating a 4th cousin tree that had the […]

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Finding Shared Ancestors – A Walk Through

Finding Shared Ancestors – A Walk Through

Finding Shared Ancestors I was telling my sister how I’ve made some progress recently and I quickly realized that she had no idea what I was talking about.  I think it’s because she’s not on Ancestry.  So I’m going to […]

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Adopted Family Linked to DNA – Bad Practice

Adopted Family Linked to DNA – Bad Practice

My mom has a bunch of 3rd cousin DNA matches that we have been unable to find a common ancestor.  A “DNA expert” suggested that I create a mirror tree of a DNA match’s family tree and link my mom’s DNA results […]

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