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[mkdexter]

At least you know half your tree, if not the DNA tests. If you happen to have any 2nd cousins or closer in the FTDNA or Ancestry test - that might help you narrow down common ancestry on your father's side even without your maternal side DNA results.

[mkdexter]

I went back and re-read your post. For some reason I thought you found a match on your unknown father's side but now I see it was to your mother's side.

Yes this person is probably your aunt, half sister to your mother based on the 879cM and the X.

[mkdexter]

You have made it half way there then, congratulations on finding your mother. I was in this same situation (father not known) until recently. I hope if she is able, that you tested her in Ancestry and FTDNA in order to be able to determine who your maternal matches are, vs. not maternal.
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[mkdexter]

This person is probably a 3rd or 4th cousin match based on what you said about three segments. I'd have to see the chromosome map to tell you for sure, but I have found that FTDNA predicts too close in the 3rd to 4th cousin range. A 2nd cousin match will usually have more than three segments shared,...

[mkdexter]

I just helped my half sister (same mother and me) find her birth father. Now she has another half sister neither of them knew about until I reviewed the DNA results.

I also helped my cousin find her late husbands family. He was adopted in 1943. We are in the process of verifying what...

[mkdexter]

You didn't understand what I said. I was talking about comparing the BGA/MyOrigin reports of the grandparents. Those are not gene reports, they are SNP based reports.

The SNPs only come from four grandparents; they actually come from two parents but to drop the 2-layered information...

[mkdexter]

Expanding on what DaveInGreece said, Family Finder is a test of 22 pairs of chromosomes plus the X. One half of each chromosome pair is paternal and one half is maternal, thus 50% is 22 chromosomes matching one parent and 50% is the other 22 matching the other parent; plus either an X or a Y depending...

[mkdexter]

I've been answering and posting here and failed to even answer your original post.

I have the book. I got it to review as I have done with all of the books. Until now, I had not even read the title until I re-read the posts here. Sorry.

It is beginner/intermediate level...

[mkdexter]

I helped my friend confirm his birth father with DNA tests as well. We found a link via a 3rd cousin (autosomal), then with some leg work he found a possible first cousin so we tested him both autosomal and Y, and he matched confirmating both the paternal side in common and the cousin relation. Both...

[mkdexter]

Both were autosomal.

Y DNA has not been helpful for me. I found my birth father with autosomal as well. Because of the lack of good YDNA matches and no patterns or similar sounding names, I thought my YDNA markers must be a little off or something so I tested my grandson and found out...

[mkdexter]

My Deal ancestry brick wall. Johannes Hans Diehl 1645 - 1698.

also
Johannes Gohn 1718 - 1769....

[mkdexter]

Yes, any person found in a DISTANT COUSIN category of Ancestry to another person won't be a shared match between multiple people, only one on one comparison. It is not that they don't share between multiple people (say like a 3 way match), it is that Ancestry does not track them and won't show them...

[mkdexter]

Ancestry and Family Finder are the same type tests. FTDNA has more tools, a chromosome browser for example, and the benefit of having your test in their database too. Ancestry and FTDNA are two separate databases.

The question is something you need to answer for yourself. If you want...

[mkdexter]

congratulations!

[mkdexter]

Really?

I've thought about it before, but I wanted to focus on finding my birth father first. Now I'm ready to make a book my next project.

Matt....