Shared DNA Matches - the only DNA Tool You will Ever Need

I did this! I made a huge discovery. Thank U!

makes no sense.... wish i had never watdched this.

One of the primary problems leading to 19th century genealogy gaps for most American descendants of slaves is the impact of slave breeding farms. Many women trapped in those environments didn't know who the fathers were of their children. And the fathers especially if they were white didn't care to know.

Appalachians need some other way to know our family!

I have been using this same method of researching the trees of shared matches on Ancestry looking for common ancestors for many years. It really does work! but it takes time and patience. To hear you say that chromosomes and snps don’t matter was validating; I’ve been thinking that for years now.
The biggest limitation I find is Ancestry’s threshold of 20cM for shared matches - I learned from experience that there are numerous valuable matches below 20cM that have important trees with important information.

I am searching for 3x great grandparents and beyond in an endogenous family. Any success I have had at this level has been because I have had numerous 2, 3 and 4th cousins who have graciously allowed me to “collaborate” and work on their DNA matches, using this shared matches method. Only through combining the results of numerous testers from a specific branch of my family have I had any success that far back.

Anyone have a link to the video from the walled garden? Broken links is all I find.

Why do you sound Pd off ?

The most I've reached on FamilySearch are my great-grandparents. It's completely useless for you to have all the documents of my ancestors and for them to be inaccessible. I'm not going to leave my house at night, the only time I have available, to go to a Mormon church to research.

Thank you for giving me another way to look at my DNA results. I have basically been treating them as find a name and match. I will be trying to break these down into the dots and seeing what kind of results I get.

A lot of great truths in here. Matches shared matches can also confirm (but not dis-confirm) bio-parents. And if you embrace that, then off to a spreadsheet for you, and then viola! You can now free your dots! ... But... "Can I still keep JUST my 'quadrant' dots?" ;) :)

Does the largest segment data hold true even if the largest segment is the only segment? I have a group of matches who share around 50 cm's and share only that 1 segment with me. Many in the group trace back to a certain couple, or their surname.

Excuse me please. People were not/are not slaves. They were/are ENSLAVED. There IS a difference. Thank you. 🙂

If there are no thruline matches there is the rub😅. Then what?

Ma'am I'm third degree of domingo amarado he is my grandparents

A constant frustration is that the vast majority of matches I have are 1 or 2 person trees. I suspect this is the result of marketing ethic profiles.

On Wednesday 10/25/2023 I sent an email to ALL the Presidential Candidates of which NONE OF THEM RESPONDED TO ME about Jill Rosenthal missing since 1963; I believe I'm her and was kidnapped, abducted, and/or sold by the mob/mafia, demanding a DNA Test that guarantees the Government can't clone the sample and have u noticed Mike Pence just dropped out the race and some how Joe Biden is not on the 1st Primary for the Democrats? Hmmm
Karma doesn't miss an address!!!! LMMFAO!!!

Ask Donald Trump if his Dad was involved in illegally adopting the Daughter (born 10/09/1946) of Al Capone Brooklyn NY to a Jewish Family, Louis Hollander-Gelb founder of the AFL-CIO and paying hush money to the Hospital Staff to tell the birth mother the baby was "born in pieces" when she was sold under the table for profit! The start of the black market!

My mother Roni MICHAEL Hollander Gelb (10/09/1946 born in Brooklyn NY, possibly Al Capone illegitimate and illegally adopted by the help of Donald Trump's Dad lives in Waupaca, WI) added the MICHAEL later in life. Ask her if she did that out of memoir of the greatest kidnapping that took place out of the MICHAEL Reese Hospital Chicago 4/1964 only to have that baby boy replaced w the boy twin of Jack and Jill Rosenthal (or Pole depending on what newsclip you read); of the missing twins 1963 or 1965 again no two articles say the same thing. Baby Jill is still missing-my mother knows who and where baby Jill is!!!

Then ask Paul "Jack Pole Rosenthal" Fronczak, the boy twin 1963, that after I (the possible girl twin Jill 1963) reached out to him he asked me to provide supportive reasons why I thought I was Jill, I did and with pictures; that after and upon receipt of this information he has taken down, deleted, rejected every, any, and all ways to contact and/or communicate with him again!!!

*Update, yesterday 10/29/2023 I received an email from one of Paul's associates apologizing for the delay (was no delay! I was cut off!) and wants me to go thru ancestry23 for DNA test. HOWEVER!!!! NO ONE IS GIVING ME A GUARANTEE THAT MY DNA WON'T BE USED FOR CLONING!!!

I cc'd my lawyer even he ignores me! What is going on????

Is there anyone here that could confidently give me advice for what I’d like to accomplish????

I have very limited funds. My father was killed at the age of 30. I was only eight (8) years old when he died. Here’s where it gets interesting (FOR ME, AT LEAST). He was adopted by a biological grandmother on his maternal side because his birth mom died at 18.

To make a long “Jerry spring story” short, here is BOMB that was dropped on me this week. My father that has been dead since 1977, allegedly fathered a SON while serving in WWII, which would be my HALF-Brother!! I have NO IDEA what country he served in because he died before I could ever get to know shit about him. I know most of what I need to know yet if there is some long lost brother on this planet, he’d NEVER find any of us most likely because of the adoption and what few of us with DNA matching my Dad are few and far.

Basically how the hell could I try to find a half brother if I provided DNA and what site should I try???

I have a lot of generations and everyone I could find in that family. I go back in one section to 50 + generations but I have 2 problems. Ancestry doesn’t have a way to mark my royal linage. Other than that there is a section where it seems like both of her parents were murdered and it looks like she was an only child. Others just used name that were not their legal name and changed them at will. This same person (1900’s) ditched a husband and married so me one else with no paperwork either. They also turned out to be quite the lier later in life on top of it all! It have notes from my parents but there are lots of problems in those sections. I think what you are talking about might help me find out if my dad has a 1/2 brother or any siblings on his dads side.

Very much US-centric as usual, but I expected that. What bugs me is the discussion of matches from about 500 down to 150cMs as being most useful..... My top mystery match is 138. I'm not American and I don't have 70,000 matches to play with, I have 16,000 total.

Diahan wrote a book.I can't find her last name to find the book. Any help out there? Did I miss it somehow?

I feel so excited...I was doing this without even knowing that was what I was doing 🎉

Ya know, I'm 10 months in and this lady makes good sense. I've had to watch this video several times to really comprehend what she's saying, but it makes sense to me.

What dreadful accent, she sounds like a strangled cat.

I want to watch this but had to stop 8 mins in. I feel like her tone of voice was that of an annoyed parent, and i was getting a telling off. She was pleasant but stern at the same time.

This works for most people it seems like... but, it can be extremely hard to break out groups when there are double/triple etc cousins that cross over both sides of the families and cross over between best first matches. It's basically a nightmare if you have families that stayed in tight nit groups like in the Appalachians or if siblings married neighbor siblings of another family... It is very hard for me to break out other "leftovers" when generally the whole groups leads back to the same people... and everyone has the same information and thus we all have the same brick wall.

This is all fake, controlled opposition. The DNA will be used to make another bioweapon. America was whitewashed in the 1800's. Melanated people are the indigenous Americans.

My husband's grandfather was adopted in the 1890s. I am in a southern state & he was in Michigan Detroit's surrounding area. So I don't have much opportunity to go there. So I kept thinking he might have been an orphan train baby. My husband is passed but if still like to solve the mystery for his children.

You talk toooooo much

Do they share DNA information with third parties?

My brick wall is my maternal great grandmother. The thing of it is, she's also my paternal great grandmother because my parents are 1st cousin 1x removed. My research is about 25 years in and still have not broken through that brick wall! My test was done at Ancestry, and I manage 25 DNA kits. This great grandmother is the 2nd wife of great grandpa so there are also half cousins!

I’m confused. I can’t find Kepper, Young or Wilson on mine. 🤔🧐😉🤣😂🤣

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How do the dots work for cousins that came from different partners?My grandfather was married twice, and his mother had a child from a previous marriage..

Also my grandfather married cousins. How do I sort those out?

I've done it, it works!😃

Is there a study sheet to print out anywhere?

I'm 23 minutes in and excited because I had already used the dots to mark my 3g ancestor couples in 15 DNA tests. Now to listen further to see what Diahan has to say.

I am trying to find your complete dot video. I was so unsure to delete my dots and start over but I have them typed in spreadsheet. I have 2 first cousins, one second cousin all adopted as is my birth mother and client I am doing this for. So I have only 5 with 90-400 cM. All other matches are less than 41 cM gg grandparents. My question is I need to match at farther group and do not see how to do it. Linda

One to two percent is probably a haplogroup match.

Q - Is ANONYMITY (privacy) guaranteed?

I used Ancestry for my DNA test and I get matches a wide range of countries. So I'm not quite sure of the validity of the comment about indicating international if there are small numbers from one side of the family. I was born in NZ, my ancestors came from Scotland and England, and I get matches from USA, Canada, and Europe because that's where some ancestral links migrated too.

how do you color code your 2nd great grandparents? I am getting this. I seems to me I have to do a lot of paper work beforehand and always keep it handy.

How do you delete the dots? Or ... How do you re-assign the colors of the dots to a different ancestor pair?

Problem I have with this is I have over 2,000 matches (maybe more) that have no shared matches at all.(We're talking DNA that is anywhere between 2% and less than 1% of shared DNA with me)

I am trying this! Exciting. Thanks Diane!

Thank you will be working on this !😊

Interesting first ti knows