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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: odbsmith on Wednesday 06 October 21 23:45 BST (UK)
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I have just realised my husband and I share a mutual DNA match. I can see a link in my and the matches tree at my gggrandparents Robert and Mercy Turner. But struggling to see where my husband links into her tree. And would my husband and I pop up as matches in each others trees. My eyes and brain hurt so I am going to bed. If anyone has suggestions I would be grateful to hear them.
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How much DNA do you both share with the match and with each other?
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I have 9cM across 1 segment to "FA", Ancestry says "FA" could be your 3rd cousin 2x removed through my gg grandparents Robert Hudman and Mercy Turner
My husband has 10 cM across 1 segment.
The only common shared surnames in ancestry trees between all 3 of us are Bennett, Smith and Williams AND husband is a Smith!
And there is no indication on Ancestry of a Dna link between myself and my husband.
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They're very low proportions. Although I have a few proven links with those amounts. It looks as if you and your husband are probably related to FA through different ancestral lines.
Have you looked at the shared matches (if any) that you and your husband have with FA. This should give some indication of the lines to examine in more detail.
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I think i need to do more work on husbands tree that is attached to his DNa test as at the moment there are no shared matches with FA. Thanks. I will update you if I work it out!!
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Also, check through FA's tree. He/she could have made errors or not followed all the lines that far back. With that amount of shared DNA, it could be a connection at 5-6 grt grandparent level or a half relationship (descended from only one shared grandparent).
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Advice noted, I think I will be extending husbands Smith line first!
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I had something similar where a cousin matched someone in fathers line which matched same person on my mother also his mothers line it was very distant and thru marriage .
So for example your husband could descend from matchs ancestor who married the person you are descended from . Have you looked at locations you have in common ?
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As gadget has said, the cM numbers look low (but not impossible) for 3C xR matches.
My wife and I share descent from the same couple (she is my 4C2R) but the match only shows on Gedmatch as it is <5 cM. I've seen no common matches yet but have seen different matches for us from children of my wife's 5xG GM
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Have similar on Ancestry .
I match a known 3rd cousin on my paternal side at 63cM whilst the same lady shows up as a match to my wife of 21cM and her son shows up as sharing 22cM with my wife .
Her son doesn't show up on my match list at all .
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I gave myself a rest from that one for a while as need time to really concentrate as I then found that i had a "Sandoz" b.France in a dna links tree, and "Sandoz" is the name of hubbys 3gggrandfather b. Switzerland. Said 3 gggrandfather married in Gloucestershire where some of my Dads side of the family came from including previously mentioned Robert and Mercy. It could take time!!
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DNA expert Turi KING said we're often only a number of steps away from a member of royal family so it stands to reason that we'd also be a number of steps away from our partners especially if born and bred in same locality for generations
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I pretty much assume my OH and I have common ancestry centuries ago as we both have a different 19th century ancestor from Chipping, Lancs., not a big place, born about 20 years apart. I haven’t turned up anything specific, but we do share at least one match in common. His family line left Lancashire for Canada around 1842, mine left in the 1920’s.
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My Dads father born in Gloucestershire, married in Plymouth during WW1, all his children born in Plymouth as was I, and had very little info about any other family members.
Although Hubbys 3xgggfather married a woman from Dymock they had lived together in Birmingham for several years and had 4 children before they married. In Fact he was married when he came to England, I havent as yet found what happened to his first wife.