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[Dabney Carr]

You just need to create an account and log in first before you try to transfer the DNA file....

[Dabney Carr]

I wouldn't trust anything this guy Reich says. He obviously has an agenda.

[Dabney Carr]

I'd say definitely half-sisters based on your matching one of your X-chromosomes nearly in its entirety. That would confirm that you have the same father (or that your fathers were identical twins).

[Dabney Carr]

I believe those TIP estimates are for matches who share the same surname....

[Dabney Carr]

Do you know who is your biological mother? Has she tested?

What about your match? Can she determine which side of her family you are on based on the matches "in common with" feature?

Likewise can you make any connection to matches in common with your match,...

[Dabney Carr]

559 shared cM is too much to be a 2nd cousin. I agree with Prarielad, the relationship is either 1st cousins once removed or half first cousins.

[Dabney Carr]

... or someone who matches your grandfather matches your grandmother.

I have a 2nd cousin once removed match here on FTDNA. She descends from two males on my mother's paternal side yet she shows as an X-match to me and my mother. Her father is not an x-match though. She is therefore...

[Dabney Carr]

Is it so hard to believe that someone who matches your father might also match your mother?

[Dabney Carr]

I guess that is why they call it Family Finder.

[Dabney Carr]

The closer you are estimated as a relationship the more likely it is a common ancestor IMHO. I mean if you are estimated as like a 3rd cousin then that MCRA seems more plausibly closely related to you than if you were estimated as 5th - 8th cousins.

When you click on Ls's profile and then...

[Dabney Carr]

It's definitely worth a shot. So yes you should have your brother take the Y-DNA test, and take advantage of the DNA day sale currently going on and get a big discount.

[Dabney Carr]

I would think because you matched that Posey with Family Finder, then you probably share a common ancestor within the past 300 years. If he had tested up to 37 markers on his Y-Dna test, I would think you would have matched him very closely at that level too.

[Dabney Carr]

What level is your Posey match (12, 25, 37) and at what generational distance (0,1, 2, 3.. etc)?

[Dabney Carr]

I don't think you can assume anything for certain although you have reasons to suspect there may have been a non-paternal event somewhere on your paternal line.

Are you able to determine where the earliest known paternal ancestor of your closest matches came from? Does that correspond...

[Dabney Carr]

You are probably not going to get any more matches at 67 than what you have at 25. It is possible that your match at 25 might not match at 37 but could match at 67, but then again 25 with a genetic distance of 2 is just barely a match, and this person may not have even tested at 67.

I...