large scottish families .how many DNA matches would you expect ?

[brigidmac]

I had a similar problem with another tree top

Wrong Walter MCFARLANE as father to Agnes

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=861911.msg7312687#msg7312687

Now have 28 matches on thru lines  to Agnes maternal gparents . Many more with private or unattached trees.

[brigidmac]

Although I gave examples from my family .it's still a general question .

How many matches do you have to  each of your Scottish great grandparents that show up on thru lines ?

part 2 of the question do you have thru lines that show up to one great grandparent and not the other .
& Any explanation for it 

[frankie-d]

Hi Brigid

My tree is mainly Scottish and I get wildly varying numbers of matches on the different lines. I presume it's down to the number of children they had going down the generations and also how many of them emigrated, I think relatively more people in the States have been tested, a lot of my matches are there.

A lot of my Common Ancestors matches also show the match as being to one ancestor when it should be both of a married couple. I presume that's just a bug in the software which is still relatively new.

Overall ThruLines/Common Ancestors has been a real game-changer in my research, gave me one huge breakthrough and a few smaller ones. I call my Ancestry tree FDPossible to reflect that I'm adding potential ancestors in the hope of getting Common Ancestor matches.

[Biggles50]

Not exactly Scottish but your query is applicable to all Ancestry DNA tree dwellers.

I have shown the image below before but it may be useful to see it here

I printed out a pedigree chart and against each common xGGP pair I placed the mark between them.  Where the common ancestor pair is beyond the last pair on the chart the mark for the DNA match is against the appropriate person descended from the common pair.

For an age I had zero DNA matches that I have been able to link to.

For me in all cases Thrulines has been useless.

[brigidmac]

Very interesting biggles

Don't you have any single mothers or remarriages where only one of the couple is a common ancestor .