Autosomal Testing
Services provide Ethnicity Estimates, Matches and Tools. This is just about matches.
Two methods of
working with Matches: Ancestor and Cousin
Ancestor Method: Ask a question and look for a common
ancestor. Such as: who are Charlie’s parents?
Cousin Method:
Find a cousin whose relationship you know and find others who are
related in the same way.
Ancestor Method Overview
1.
What is the question?
2.
Who is the best match?
3.
What is focus person’s relationship to the best
match?
4.
Find common or shared matches between focus
person and “best match”.
5.
Find shared matches for the shared matches to
build a genetic network or circle.
Contact matches or work on their tree.
6.
Contact matches or work on their tree.
7.
If you are stuck, build a mirror tree and attach
your DNA.
Ancestor Method Detail
1.
What is the question?
2.
Who is the best match? Someone with greater than 15 cM or more,
shared surname, shared location/date, and ethnicity matches for certain
situations. Consider if a match has a
tree.
3.
What is the focus person’s relationship to the
best match? Find age of match or match’s
parent. If not the same as focus person,
estimate how many Is that generation removed from the focus person’s age? Use a Relationship Chart to determine the
relationship.
4.
Find common or shared matches between you and
“best match”. Look for family groups (1st
cousins or closer, shared administrator).
Limit to 4th cousins.
5.
Find shared matches for the shared matches to
build a genetic network or circle. Find
the most likely generation. Repeat,
repeat, repeat.
6.
Contact matches.
They may already know the answer.
To just work on their tree may be quicker.
7.
If you are stuck, build a mirror tree and attach
your DNA.
Cousin Method in
AncestryDNA: Go fishing and see what you find
Actions
|
Comments
|
Set up personal information
|
Use settings button at the top of the DNA home page. Especially attach a tree to your DNA. Ask a relative if you can use their
tree.
|
Record everything about 2nd cousins
and closer
|
|
Decide on a record keeping system
|
Spreadsheet, index cards for Matches & Correspondence. Could Use Ancestry “Note” feature but it is
limited.
|
Set a cutoff for best matches
|
You won't know this at the beginning, EH,VH, centiMorgans
|
Circles (not New Ancestor
Discoveries)
|
Identify branch of family for all of them
|
Shared Ancestor Hints
|
Use filter for shaky leaves, record all of them
|
Search for common surnames on match
list
|
Filter at top of the List of Matches. On the Individual Match
Page scroll to the bottom to see all the surnames. Look for common surnames and alternate
spellings.
|
If no tree, look to see if it's
just not attached
|
This will be tedious, but sometimes worth it.
|
Shared Matches on indiv match page
|
Use to make your own "circles", does not require that
your match has a tree. It only goes
back to 4th cousins
|
Use Filter to see Genetic Communities
|
|
Build your tree back in time and
add descendants for ancestors
|
|
Build mirror trees
|
|
Mark speculative entries
|
Kitty Cooper uses ?? In suffix field
|
Look for Shared Locations on indiv
match page
|
|
Look for Ethnicities on the
continent level
|
Blaine Bettinger says they are not reliable on the country or
regional level yet.
|
Communicate with selected matches
|
Use tan button on profile page (not green button on indiv match
page)
|
Log all your correspondence
|
|
Next Steps
|
|
Test selected family members from
older generations or from specific family lines
|
Probably use FTDNA to test.
|
Transfer raw data and tree to FTDNA
|
|
Transfer raw data and tree to
GedMatch
|
|
Transfer raw data and tree to My
Heritage
|
|
Consider working with X chromosome
matches
|
In certain situations
|
Decide about using Third Party
software
|
Cousin
Method in Family Tree DNA
Set up personal information
|
On
Dashboard "Manage Personal Information". Go to Personal Profile. You need to add surnames and Earliest Known
Ancestors. These are not automatically
picked up from your tree.
|
Upload raw DNA data from another
testing service.
|
Click on DNA tests in main menu bar. The click on Autosomal Transfer.
|
Upload family tree gedcom
|
Go to My Family Tree in main menu bar. Click Upload Gedcom on upper right.
|
Decide on a record keeping system
|
Spreadsheet, index cards for Matches & Correspondence
|
Set a cutoff for best matches
|
You won't know this at the beginning. Maybe the top 10. CentiMorgans for FTDNA are significantly higher
than AncestryDNA so you can’t compare them.
|
For your best matches, get a valid
cM number.
|
Ask for help if you want to do this.
|
Record everything about 2nd cousins
and closer
|
|
Make genetic networks
|
Use ICW filter, record all of them to make your own networks or "circles"
|
Search for common surnames on match
list
|
Surnames that match yours will be bold followed by the rest in
alphabetical order. Click on the
surnames to see the full list.
|
Build your tree back in time and
add descendants for ancestors
|
|
Build mirror trees
|
Can’t do this at FTDNA.
|
Look for Ethnicities on the
continent level
|
|
Communicate with selected matches
|
|
Log all your correspondence
|
|
Next Steps
|
|
Test selected family members from
older generations or from specific family lines
|
|
Transfer raw data and tree to
GedMatch
|
If you have tested with multiple services, only move one to
GedMatch
|
Transfer raw data and tree to My
Heritage
|
For certain situations
|
Connect to Geni.com
|
On Dashboard at bottom, click on Partner Applications
|
Consider working with X chromosome
matches
|
|
Decide about using Third Party
Software
|
No comments:
Post a Comment