Hello all,
Last year I had my dad submit a Family Finder test puls a 12 marker Y-DNA test.
I may have found the connection to one of his matches through FF. If the paper trail is correct, then my dad and him are 7th cousins once removed. Now FTDNA suggests that they are 4th cousins with a range of 3rd to 5th cousins with these values:
Longest block = 15,75 cM
Shared cM = 41,04 cM
Also, a distant relative of of my dad's has also tested her autosomal DNA and we have compared through Gedmatch, and the result is this:
Longest block = 31,7 cM
Shared cM > 3 cM = 40,2 cM
Estimation of MRCA: 4,2 generations
Through traditional genealogy we know that my dad and this relative are "double" 6th cousins once removed (she has two lines to their MRCA because of a marriage between two 1st cousins).
So, now I am wondering... The estimations don't seem to fit with what our research show. I realize that estimations are based on statistics and that there can be large individual differences. But what are the chances of results as the ones above? Anything else that I should take into account?
Thanks for any input,
Jacob
Last year I had my dad submit a Family Finder test puls a 12 marker Y-DNA test.
I may have found the connection to one of his matches through FF. If the paper trail is correct, then my dad and him are 7th cousins once removed. Now FTDNA suggests that they are 4th cousins with a range of 3rd to 5th cousins with these values:
Longest block = 15,75 cM
Shared cM = 41,04 cM
Also, a distant relative of of my dad's has also tested her autosomal DNA and we have compared through Gedmatch, and the result is this:
Longest block = 31,7 cM
Shared cM > 3 cM = 40,2 cM
Estimation of MRCA: 4,2 generations
Through traditional genealogy we know that my dad and this relative are "double" 6th cousins once removed (she has two lines to their MRCA because of a marriage between two 1st cousins).
So, now I am wondering... The estimations don't seem to fit with what our research show. I realize that estimations are based on statistics and that there can be large individual differences. But what are the chances of results as the ones above? Anything else that I should take into account?
Thanks for any input,
Jacob
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