Chances of 4th cousin match

[bm_ftdna]

These responses are all helpful in answering my question - thanks very much!

[bm_ftdna]

A and B are first cousins. C is their known fourth cousin. A and C have a DNA match (at a level that would be typical for fourth cousins), but B and C do not show as a match.

Can someone tell me the percentage chance of this situation occurring?

My understanding is...

[bm_ftdna]

Feature request: Sort matches by tree revision date

I agree - this would be a useful feature.

[bm_ftdna]

I logged this as a question with customer support and received this answer: "I can confirm that this is an issue that the engineering team is aware of. I do not yet have a time frame as to when it may be corrected. I am sorry for the inconvenience this causes."

[bm_ftdna]

Thanks everyone for your replies.

dna, feel free to suggest it as an improvement. If it can't be accomplished, even the ability to jump to a particular page of matches would be helpful. Then one could for example review several pages of results starting at page 70, without having to...

[bm_ftdna]

Probably 10 - 15% of my FF matches have a tree posted on FTDNA. I would like to identify these matches so I can review their trees. Is there a way to do this without scrolling through the 100+ screens of all of my matches? Thanks.

[bm_ftdna]

I'm so new at this I don't even know what privacy concerns one might have, hence the question.

Thanks for the comprehensive reply - it's very helpful.

[bm_ftdna]

Thanks to both of your for your helpful replies. I've had a look through that presentation and the blog posts, and will do so again a few more times, as I'm sure I will absorb more information as I go along.

[bm_ftdna]

I have done the Family Finder test myself. I have about 1000 matches.

If my parents are of similar ethnic backgrounds, is it reasonable to assume on average I would have 500 maternal matches and 500 paternal matches?

If my mother does the test, that will help me identify...

[bm_ftdna]

Pardon the newbie question, please.

I understand that if I upload my DNA data to Gedmatch, I can compare with results of those who’ve tested with other companies, and generally do more flexible calculations, including comparisons with any test kit in their database, not just those that...