I'm still awaiting results, meanwhile, I'm curious on how related ancestors affect results on the Family Finder test.
In my case, my grandfather's parents were half 1st cousins. Also, my grandfather's father's parents were 1st cousins. There are more complications, I could keep on telling for a while... What can I say, many of them come from a small place. ;-) If you go back five generations before my grandfather you would expect 32 different persons, in this case, some of them are "duplicates" and only 20 different persons can be found at this level. To be precise, one couple is repeated 5 times and two other couples are repeated 2 times.
I suspect FTDNA to exaggerate matches from this branch of my family tree, that is, maybe a 4th cousine will be predicted as a 2nd cousine etc. Is this a correct assumption? Could there be any other unexpected results?
In my case, my grandfather's parents were half 1st cousins. Also, my grandfather's father's parents were 1st cousins. There are more complications, I could keep on telling for a while... What can I say, many of them come from a small place. ;-) If you go back five generations before my grandfather you would expect 32 different persons, in this case, some of them are "duplicates" and only 20 different persons can be found at this level. To be precise, one couple is repeated 5 times and two other couples are repeated 2 times.
I suspect FTDNA to exaggerate matches from this branch of my family tree, that is, maybe a 4th cousine will be predicted as a 2nd cousine etc. Is this a correct assumption? Could there be any other unexpected results?
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