showing 22, 000 matches. You don't need to research all of
all of them. You really do want to start on the ones that
up here. Uh but if you want to learn something else about DNA,
little bit about how you can use those dots watch this video
that you can identify how you're related rather quickly.
of matches that they see there. Like I said on my wife's it was
match list and then start researching these people
get into the cousin list of extended family. So, there's
than follow the list down. You can see here it starts at full
are most closely related to you or the ones that have trees
relations. Now many people can get overwhelmed with the number
starting at the top and going down. That is your closest
Now if you saw those dots on there and you'd like to learn a
them. In fact you're not going to have time to research
maybe nieces and nephews, first cousins, and then it's going to
nothing you have to do for ancestry other than go to your
done it for you. You don't have to really do anything other
closest relations. With ancestry, this is easy. They've
siblings then it goes to close family which might be aunts,
focus on the way that ancestries actually outline the
matches. Focus on the close matches and really, I would
hours researching a bunch of people you're not related to, I
a sizable number of these that are false matches. In other
see here, there's 1, 271 of them and they share somewhere
matches. Now, you may be saying, well, there's 20, 000
this case, what it's going to do is it's going to filter the
going to be far enough distant from you that you're not going
to be able to identify how you're related unless you can
least. In the first couple hundred if you are able to
time frame. Let's say ten generations or or so. That
identify how the majority of those related to you, it's
going to be fruitless. You don't want to spend hours and
of them. Yes, there's 20, 000 of them. You're never going to
words, you're not related at all in any kind of genealogical
But should do. Well, you want to look at your closest matches
would guess. So, don't start by looking at these distant
means that the research that you're doing on those ones is
ones you're most likely going to be able to identify how you
first and so we could sort this by the closest matches. You can
link them with other close matches and there's going to be
between 20 centimorgans and 3, 490 centimorgans. So, these are
more distant than that then you can also put in a custom
identified that their tree matches your tree with these
your closest matches. Fourth Cousins are closer. They're the
this is with the shared DNA. Now, a shared DNA divides us up
be able to get through all of them plus Most of these are
verify that their tree is correct back to that person.
sorted down smaller to begin with. The next way to look at
excellent clue of where to look to determine if this really is
fourth cousins or closer and the distant matches which are
into two major categories the close matches which are your
that your tree is correct back to that person and you need to
list by those who have a common ancestors. So, they have a tree
access to their tree or they might just be willing to tell
setting. Now that really leads us to our next question. What
then, you might want to Email this person to either get
So, you can use the common ancestors to help get that list
the most recent common ancestor. You need to verify
and on that tree, the computer at ancestry is already
going to make identifying the others much much easier and
you some information that you're looking for from that
tree. Similar to the trees is the common ancestors and in
this case if you know that they have a tree and it's sizable,
question is how to best narrow down the matches to get the
from that you can also then go and I would look at the
list from the most that you share DNA with down to the
starting off, I wouldn't even bother looking at these distant
looking at tree and seeing if it matches up with yours now
are related to them. What should not do then? Well,
might be related to you then if they have a tree you can start
that you should do and something you should not do.
these first two people are the same because they're the
that they're a part of but the list now is only going to
should I not do? Because in this list there's something
closest relatives to my wife and she's already created trees
people. In other words, it's common ancestor. That is an
There's private-linked trees, there's public-linked trees,
linked trees is because these are the people who have had a
public-linked trees. Why you want to start with public
and there's unlinked trees. I would suggest you start with
their DNA to their tree simply because they did didn't know
based on their unlinked tree and that might help you
identify them and then finally there is the private trees in
how and so you can usually determine who that person is
up with you and so, one of the settings that you can do is
over in the trees category. There's three possibility.
getting started, you want to figure out where people match
some settings that you might want to try out. So, first off,
you to those that share the least with you but there are
unlinked trees in a lot of cases people haven't linked
include those people who have those trees. So, if you're just
getting started and trying to find how some of these people
tree created and it's linked to their DNA and you can look at
it which is great. That's what you want. So, in this case,
going to have this list with each person and how much they
share. It's going to start by those who share the most with
to help you. Now, like I said, in looking at this, you're
what settings you actually could change that might be able
though? Well, let's go over to ancestry and take a look at
you may be asking, okay, well, what settings should I use
into specific groups based on those relationships. So, even a
looking at the list that ancestry provides you. But then
novice can get started and find a lot of information just by
what relationship they're going to be in and even grouping them
they've pretty much optimized it by sorting your matches in
most down to least order and giving you some hints as far as
actually done a lot of this work for you. In other words,
thing that I think you need to understand is that ancestry is
over how to best do DNA matching on ancestry. The first
most success in my research? Well, today, we're going to go
people want to know, okay, what do I need to do to find the
Ancestry happens to be the biggest database and many okay, what is the best way to do matching on ancestry?
You might be new to genetic genealogy and you're wondering,
then take a look at this video down below.