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- Many of you have taken the AncestryDNA test for the sole purpose of discovering more about your biological family. Some of you have been contacted by cousin matches who are hoping you can help them in their search. Join Crista Cowan to learn some of the tips and tricks for working with your AncestryDNA results and connecting with your DNA cousins to narrow in on those biological ancestors.
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I hit the adoptee lottery !! April 29, 2017 I received my Ancestry DNA results. My top match turned out to be my Uncle on my Father's side. Lots of 1st and second cousins on his side. We have been talking since mid May and will be meeting in September !! On my BioMothers side I had a second cousin match. Through messaging and digging I found my BioMother and halfsibling and cousins. We too will be meeting in September !! Thank you Ancestry DNA !!!!!
I sincerely pray that all of you find happiness in your searches. I'm getting excited for each of you as I read your stories. To have been adopted & having these nagging questions hanging over your heads all these years & then thru DNA you are suddenly able to locate a close blood relative is amazingly awesome! Who would have known? It makes you wonder "whats around the IT corner?" (I'm still riding high considering my results when they do come in.)
Wow! That's great stuff:). Hope your meetings were successful Kirsty.
Wow, that's awesome! I spoke to one adoptee on Ancestry who said his closest matches were approximate 3rd cousins. I hope your meeting went well!
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Thanks to Ancestry! I found my Birth father by accident via DNA! He isnt the man I was told was my father, so at age 45 this is shock! but thanks to back tracking via DNA matches, I've found him! and he and his family have full accepted me with open arms! Had I not taken the DNA test I'd of never known and my father wouldn't have either as he never knew about me either!! Thank you so much Ancestry!
I hope this happens with me
Can you please help me understand the app I please
So did I. He had died but I found 4 siblings I didn't know I had. My BF wasn't who I thought he was. My BM gave a wrong name to the social worker. Either he lied to her or she lied to the social worker. I am just glad to know. I'm friends with one sibling on FB.
I found my brothers biological father. How wonderful.
I need help. Imso confused
Can you find my biological father
Hoping to do the same for myself.
This video is several years old but very helpful to me. My biological niece recently found me through taking the Ancestry DNA test. She's an adoptee and was looking for her birth father. It turns out that her birth father is my half-brother who was also given up for adoption. It's a fascinating story and I'm glad that we all found each other.
Hello
About 6 years ago I set up a separate tree for my husband and entered all of the information I had on his biological family. Then last year I attached his DNA, and two weeks ago I was contacted by his first cousin and now he has connections to brothers and a sister. It took a long time, a lot of patience, and the fact that other family members were looking for him too and gambled on submitting their DNA. Very Cool.
Discovered at 56 that I was not an "only child."
Whoa!!! That's intense.
its a shocker..same with a lot of people...
😱
Mona Biehl I’m so so so happy for you! I found out when I was in the 8th grade at 13 that I have 2 siblings I’m 19 now Turing 20 and I still haven’t met them yet but hopefully soon.
congrats bro
Hi, Kent. It's great to hear about your discoveries, thank you for reaching out to us. Unfortunately, we do not have too much advice to offer however, the best thing when reaching out to other members is to have compassion and understanding.
Love the idea of spreadsheets to help make sense of matches. Thank you!
Crista, your presentation and personal knowledge added tremendous value to this topic for me and others! Your explanation of your {cousins grandparent common surname chart}, and the other examples of you cited on triangulation matching was enormously useful. The search for biological family is a very sensitive topic in family history research for adoptees. Thank you for presenting it with such thoughtfulness and compassion.
Adopted and waiting on my ancestryDNA results. Anticipation is killing me!
We promise, it will be worth the wait, Ginger!
Was the most surprising and unexpected results. I'm still in shock. I've lived my whole life being told I was American Indian....
My 75 year old friend who was adopted knew no one in his family until the dna test...Now he knows hundreds of family including his parents Good luck
@@bamagin7768 and what are you really?
Thomas The Lucky Catt so did you get to contact your family??? I’m interested in taking one to find my family
Yes I have done the DNA test, but my mother hasn't. I received my results and I'm working on finding my paternal side. Thank you for all that you do!! This is amazing!!
Hi Shannon. Make sure you have your Mother tested ao that you can separate her matches out from your Father's. I discovered who my bio dad was and though he passed years qgo, I am in contact with several cousins now. It took over 4 years , but I did it! Good luck!
Crista your so very helpful. Thanks for all your hard work...Its good that you are doing it and still have holes like the rest of us!
With my dad I lost all contact with him and never even met his family from a young age. I always hoped there would be a way I could even find one of his family, but I don’t have a lot of hope I ever can. I get sooo excited though for people when they do, especially with ancestry and similar because I know how it feels to have so many questions and trying to find lost family. Ive done the ancestry dna test though because I’m just thankful to hopefully get some information about possible ethnicities I have. Eagerly waiting on my results.
Kristen thank you for doing these videos, they are very informative.
Thank you so much for this! This was very helpful in organizing my work and going back to look at it later will make more sense.
Smiling. Love your videos, I'm learning even more & I take notes ; )) But sometimes I get lost EVEN in my own tree ... lol ... How I feel is, how you explained your second spread sheet ... lol ... Hope you don't mind I said that, all in fun ... for a laugh!
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!! I somehow have overlooked the Surname Search Feature! It is what I have been looking for! Thank you! :) I hope the surname search will help me locate my father's biological family!!
This is so helpful as an adoptee !! Thank you thank you !!!
I´m so glad i found xour channel, I love your videos
This video was very well done and easy to understand. Thankyou so much.
Very helpful info..thank you
I want to thank you for suggesting setting up tree with Biological mother and biological father as parents. Will do that right away. Also from watching I will remove my entry from my adoptive parents tree, as I patiently await the results from ancestrydna. I have 23&me already (V4) and submitted FTDNA FF about same time. But the most exciting would be ancestrydna, since it may be able to connect me with some birth family
Thank you for this. I’m adopted and don’t know anything about my bio parents or bio family so I’m waiting for my results rn
How did it go
@@Austin.8150 found and met my bio dad and uncle and cousin
@@jaeortiz5878 that's good!, still looking for mind
I wish I had you in my family tree, you seem like you would be so helpful! I have a 1st or 2nd cousin match that I reached out to in an attempt to find my dads birth parents (he was adopted) and they were NO HELP, at all!
OMGEE-- THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO- I GET IT NOW. I HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING
Great Video!! Thanks!
Love the spreadsheet!
Thank you Barefoot Genealogist, Crista Cowan....this video was very informative and quite useful. I will try to incorporate some of these tools in my research. Thanks !
I was adopted when i was little. Never even seen a picture of my dad. I know very little about him. Try searching for a Mexican American named Johnny Martinez lol. Anyways I sent in my dna sample yesterday. I cant wait for the results. I'm excited and nervous all at the same time. I hope I find something.
I'm very excited for you. Have you received your DNA results back yet? Any discoveries?
I know right !!!! Try a Cuban named Jimmy Rodriquez!!!! I kid you not . Though it looks as though through a fluke, I think his name is actually Fernando Rodriquez , he’s no longer alive but he has a son
What happened? Did u find any family?
What did you find?
Thanks Christa - for the encouragement l
My grandmother pretty much raised me until I was 6, & regularly visited or wrote to her siblings. I've only recently realized that these were actually her aunts & uncles- she'd been raised by a grandmother. I do share DNA with that family, & am in contact with another descendant- a 3C.
(I have reason to believe that Gram had no idea of this til she was 63 - i remember the change in her. )
It w a seem that one of the sisters had been her mother- to my way of thinking, probably the one who'd told her on her deathbed.
That left me looking for her father.
My DNA matches are loaded with links to a family not known to me - right place & time- appropriate cMs. (Includes descendants of remote ancestors & relatives)
For the moment I'm leaving it as "unknown son of...."
The grandfather hadn't stayed to help raise her- there are no matches whatsoever to his not uncommon name.
However-again-I've lots of matches with 2 other families (including great great aunts etc) . (I looked for who kept showing up- where might they connect ?)
CMs lower counts of course - but jump at me from trees where a) both prospective candidates are ancestors and b) when grandchildren marry.
Is it possible (probable? ) that im on the right track ?
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Great orientation on analyzing & putting our DNA results to work! Can the "Common Ancestors" chart, shown at about 7min in to the webinar, be made available on Pinterest or ….? I would like to keep it available as a quick reference cheat sheet. Thank you.
I love the sir name list. It would be cool to have one on your dashboard for people to see
I had my daughter tested because her Dad is adopted. He is not involved in this endeavor. I entered her dad's adoptive family as far back as I could. I'm glad I did because she is related to her dad's adoptive mother's mother's side. I'd suspicioned a familial adoption and this has confirmed it. An great uncle of hers has said he knows nothing about such a thing. We hope to have him tested, if he will of course. She has lots of matches but other than the few that confirmed the relationship, the rest are a mystery (excluding the ones she shares with me).
I took the DNA test to try to learn about my Dad's Biological Family. I am curious how you found that your daughter's adoptive family is related to her biological family. Please share.
Ironically, the two surnames I am basing my search on are Patterson & Curtis; which are the surnames I believe were my Dad's biological parents' last names.
I made a tree for her dad's adopted family and attached her results to it.
Join up with the Yahoo group DNAAdoption if you haven't done so. Where did you test? Have you heard of GEDMatch.com?
I used AncetryDNA. I don't have info on my Dad's bio-fam. Oh! I see!! No, I haven't heard of GEDMatch; I'll look into it. Thank you!!! :)
If I can help give me a shout.
Hi Crista.. I seen you had Goodyear in your list of ancestors. I found a connection to the founder of Goodyear tires with one of my ancestors in the NE Massachusetts I believe.
Hey! I came across you on my ancestry as being the manager of some of my matches trees and tests. They have surname Cowan also so I'm guessing you're family? Man I CRACKED up. Are we related? Haha!
Well, that's fun! Which of the tests that I manage do you match?
@@CristaCowan
Names are (I can only see the initials)
- C.C
- A.C
- A.C (so two A.C)
- D.M
- Evelyn Cowan
- S.C
It says you manage all of them except for Evelyn :)
@@mo0nstonegirl I'm not sure who Evelyn is. But, the rest are all my family. CC and AC are my brothers. The other AC is my sister. SC is my dad. And DM is my paternal grandmother.
So, that suggests that you match us all through her branch of the family tree. Her results are attached to my tree and she is deceased. So, you should be able to see all of her information. How much DNA do you share with her?
@@CristaCowan the match with your siblings is a mere 15cm, you reckon we could still find something? I have a pretty extensive DNA confirmed tree (well, it's not amazing but it's better than I thought I'd ever get lol). And I KNOW yours is chocka full, hah. I did message you on Ancestry too in case you want to see my tree too, my name is Melanie Dawson-Smith :)
Ancestry helped me find out that i am adopted, i lived in canada my whole life until i did this test. I was always taught i had italian heritage, but when i did the test i found out that i was more russian than italian, after more searching i found out that my family were not related to me at all and my biological family live in russia
My biological family has my mom, dad and my one older brother. Ever since then i moved to russia to be with my biological family
Thank you Ancestry!!!!!!
@@dinosaurus5346 that is amazing
I'm adopted and took two DNA tests last fall (Ancestry and 23 and Me) and found out more than I bargained for! And I was NOT searching for bio fam…but…
Which one did u have better luck with?
If you have taken the ethnicity test with AncestryDNA, is the family tree maker and the family match funtions available as apart of that anitial fee, or is it extra?
Very helpful video.
I need that common ancestors to keep on file!!
Thank you for your helpful☺
I’m 34 and I just sent in my test! I was adopted at birth and I’m pretty nervous but I know it’ll be interesting!
Thank you this really help me out
Very helpful!
First cousins share a set (2) of grandparents, not one as Crista states here. Second cousins share a set (2) of great grandparents and so on. Half first cousins are cousins who share only one grandparent, etc. This is important to understand when figuring out DNA connections of half siblings, or why cousin DNA cM numbers are lower than expected.
Love your knowledge here!
At age 52 I found out I was adopted when I took an Ancestry DNA test for ethnicity and then noticed I had no cousin matches that had familiar family names. A few weeks later a "close family" match popped up and after emailing we think we are half sisters. Her dad is now being tested so we can verify him as my biological dad. No luck on my maternal side yet but there are 3rd & 4th cousin matches that I am trying to figure out for clues. The father has very little memory of who he thinks my mother may be and she had never told him about me.
TheBioExplorer wow any updates I’d love to know more if you don’t mind x
Omg updates pleaseeee!!!
Thanks so much I aready join your group yesterday. Soon enough I should find my father..
That's very exciting, Mildred! We're thrilled that you are about to begin this exciting journey with us. We've linked an article from our support center below which discusses finding biological family and want to wish you the very best of luck!
support.ancestry.com/s/article/Finding-Biological-Family?language=en_US
Has there been a past presentation on what the DNA test will actually tell and how recent would the connection be. My brother consented to taking a test to enable us to get info on my Dad's side but all the test could tell us is where we originated from thousands of years ago whereas, I was looking for more recent information. This was not done through Ancestry as we live in Canada.
Wow, that is really generous I wish someone would do that for me.
suggestion for the matched grandparent for the adoptee. 1. look up on find a Grave. get inn touch with the data provider or the cemetery itself and look for other family related graves. leave a note in both places.
Hi I have just joined this group and was wondering, can I download a copy of the Common Ancestors list, it would really help.
Regards Fran
A family story comes true (at least mostly). We were supposed to have a relative that rode with poncho Ville and died in Mexico. I had no name for him so no idea who to look for. Then Ancestry added Mexican data and up pops my missing distant cousin! He did die in Mexico (death information gave his parents name and location which I did know - McNeely in St Louis MO. No confirmation if he did ride with Villa. Then someone got ahold of me as when she did her DNA a lot of Irish showed up and a match with me! Her family story was that one of her great(s) grandmother was stolen off by someone - had a child. As far as her family knew they had all lived and died in Mexico until emigrating to New Mexico. So a lovely DNA surprise. Thomas McNeely must have had a child in Mexico!
I should really make that spreadsheet of cousin names it would be helpful though on my dad’s side I have 1st cousins 1x removed that are also 3rd cousins 1 removed depending which side of my dad’s tree you go up (one of his mother’s sisters married the son of his paternal grandmother’s 1st cousins), one of the cousins shows as a 2nd cousin DNA match while his brother shows as my 3rd cousin DNA match. Would it make more sense to drop their last name in the 2nd cousin column since the closer relationship is 2nd than 3rd?
The information you give is very good, but sometimes I wish that you could include something from the uk as this is where my help is needed. Thanks
Genealogical standards and methodology can be applied no matter where your ancestry is from. However, I will add a few more UK specific presentations to my list. Thanks for the feedback. (Crista)
I appreciate that not everyone has linked their Trees to their account, but if they have not and they have a common last name, I find it virtually impossible to find their Tree. It would help to have a better way of zeroing in on a person's Tree.
In Texas ala 1948 my records were sealed and it is almost impossible to have the unsealed without a gob on cash. AT 70 years of life I have tried various things to find any information about my 'blood' family... to no avail. The DNA test is on the verge of completion. After a lifetime of disappointment it is hard not to be cynical, but we shall see what happens. I have no idea what my biological parents names are so I will put father & mother biological as you say and hope.
When your results come in, come back and let us know how much DNA you share with your top matches. We would love to help you figure it out.
There are plenty of Facebook groups for helping to find family through DNA. There are also groups that have search Angel's that donate their time and expertise. I wish you well in your search.
Jill Ashley can you share info? I’d love to find some help 😊
@@MountainsnVallies goto Facebook and look for
DNA detectives , DNA newbie, search squad, DNA NPE Gateway.
They are all great resources.
By watching this video you're in a good spot. She's very good. Another good yt channel is Blaine bettinger. I have some videos on mine but all the technical videos are old and poorly executed. The science of finding family is evolving quickly and lots of new methods and technology helping the process go faster and faster.
I had a DNA test done a couple of years ago. How do I find it to attach to my tree. I'm limited to what I can do because I don't have a membership with ancestry.
Hello. Lately I had my dna test done with ancestry. I am adopted and after 6 years of hard work and research, I had found my mothers identity. Even though she was adopted too, I managed to find her parenst identity as well. That allowed me to build my family tree on my mothers side. I had also found who my alleged biological father was and tested with is children. The test was negative. So by taking the test with Ancestry, and having built my mother s side of the tree, I hoped that a clue would pop up with the dna match and that s just what happened. A secound cousin matched appeared and looking at her tree, her grand-mother s name was the same name as cousins of my mother...It was most probably on my unknown father s side.I went further in my research and quickly found out that my mothers cousins were indeed linked to this Ancestry second cousin of mine. By making the countdown starting with a common great great father with this Ancestry second cousin, I had to come to the conclusion that one of five bothers, cousins of my mother, is my biological father. I called 4 out of 5 and all of them were relunctant to help or confirm, saying that this was all to far in time...I m thinking about contacting their children, eventually in fall...any recommendation?
Hello I found my brothers biological son that he did not know he had with a girlfriend he had when he was 17. He now has two daughters They all welcomed the new addition and the two girls were delighted to have a brother. Ok so now one of the daughters has been contacted by someone that connects to her and the son but not to me. So I said the girl has to be connected thru the sons mothers line. Do you think that is right? Every time I say that my niece says ‘I’m not related to his mother’ any idea how I can explain it to her? If you think I could be right?
I wondered if the "Common Ancestors" list in this video is available on line with Ancestry? If so where can I find it?
Hi Linda, You can find that chart here: blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/16/family-history-all-done-whats-your-number/
I’m 80 years old. 40 years ago I spent a couple of years researching my ancestry on paper and about 4 years ago my daughter and I worked together to put it on ancestry.com. This Christmas she gave me a DNA kit just for fun! It turned out not so much fun! After about a month a close family match and I decided we were half sisters. I had my older sister and my younger sister ( we were 5 girls) tested. They are both half sisters to me also! The family tree is right for them and my new found half sister’s tree is right for her. But now how do I make a tree. It is hard for me to delete the father who loved and raised me. I have nieces from my one sister who died. And my youngest sister died in an auto accident in 1965 without a family. I’m hoping the niece will take the test to see if I have a full sister.
You can keep your father on your family tree AND add your biological father, as well. On your profile, go into EDIT | Edit Relationship and click Add Father. If your DNA results are attached to your tree, you will want to make your biological father the "preferred" so that is what shows up to your DNA matches. But, that way you keep all the information about the father you knew and loved and the family history your have worked to put together.
I took the ancestry DNA test. I'm having some issue reading it. It starts out with first cousin . Wouldn't it start out with my brothers?
I want to learn from what you are offering but I am so frustrated because my Ancestry screen is different from yours! Do you know why that is? I cannot find the same icons you click on My whole page set up looks different. Thankyou Sherrie
The page likely changed over the years since the video aired. There wasn't a ThruLines feature back then.
Sometimes I think I'm the only adoptee who never searched or really cared about bio fam. But DNA tests don't care about your preferences. So much has happened in the last couple of months. It's crazy.
I can relate , I recently received mine but have yet to take it .I am excited in a small way but am not expecting too much .Iam glad it turned out well for you 😊
It is best to have that kind of attitude to lower expectations. If bio family wanted to contact you, I wouldn't shut them out. They are related by blood...maybe you'll need them for bone marrow in the future! :D In all seriousness, it doesn't hurt to meet someone who reached out and if they're good people you'll probably have a bond that will improve your life and friendships. Befriending people who are biological relatives is great for friendship as long as you aren't looking to date them!
I’ve only recently discovered my biological father was not who I thought. The closest matches are in the 2nd cousin range but may actually be strong 3rds. Ironically the strongest one appears to be Polish-Italian, neither of which shows up in my dna.
That John O'brien may be listed on Family Search
Thanks, this is so helpful. I am new to this so have a lot to learn. My mother (no longer living) was adopted. I have a tree with me and my dna attached to me. Should I list my mom as “adoptee” and her parents as “biological mother/father”? How much info should I put on my mothers profile? I know her birthdate/death date.. Also, I have original birth certificate and actual adoption paperwork but through exhaustive search have not been able to verify / confirm any of its information. For several reasons we believe that the names on the paperwork are not real.
Should any of that be included with the hope of finding a link, or leave it off the tree?
Liz, all great questions! We have a video specific to adoptio and genealogy research which can be found here: ruclips.net/video/bemP0LQ4lik/видео.html
I’m looking for my 2nd great grandfather who would not accept his son, how do I find him looking at my matches who have no common surnames ?
That's the only reason I want to take a dna test. I have 150 person tree but there's a few walls that I would like to get through. Some I could care less. Hoping I'd find cousins that will help
I have helped several close cousins find their family. I hope someday I can help my mother find her real father. It would be the best gift to give her. 🤞🥰🤞
We're so thrilled to hear you're sharing the joys of genealogy with your family Rebecca, and sincerely hope you'll be able to find the answers you're searching for. ❤️🔍
Very helpful thank you! I have been trying to figure out how to communicate with my dad's dad's family matches we don't know who great grandfather was or his name I think theyvare 2nd cousins and up on paternal side. Many barriers back in my grandfather's day but today they should not be a barrier but because of those old barriers we don't know anything about his biological father only his father who raised him. He wasn't adopted kept by his mom and her legal husband doubt he knew anything she remained married too till death.
Thanks so much for watching! We do hope Crista's tips in this video can assist you break through this barrier in your research moving forward. We wish you all the best in your search!
How can Y matches come back with different haplogroups?
I have another amazing discovery for ya I recently received a match that says Parent/Child 3,390 centimorgans shared across 120 DNA segments. I never knew I had another child out there, she's 16 years old, and me and her mother don't remember having relations . Although we both were in the same area 16 years ago and have mutual friends , is there any possibility she could be one of my siblings that i don't know about child? I still have yet to find out who my real father is so could she be an unknown siblings child or is it a dead bang case of her being mine with that amount of DNA shared?
Unless you have an identical twin, she is your daughter. Congratulations!
Fulani muhammad dats crazy bro
How do I add a NOTE to my dna match? that would be very useful to keeping track of things.
There should be a little note pad inside the match that when clicked on let your type in what you'd like
Excellent
Is there a way you can distinguish which side families belong on? I have a list for my mother in law who was adopted. There are no matches closer then a 3rd cousin who has no tree. I don’t know what side is what. Been working on it for over a year and I have no clue.
For adoptees, unless you have some non-identifying information that was provided with the adoption paperwork, you often do not know whether the matches you are working are from the maternal side or paternal side until you get the family trees built down to the generation of the potential birth parents.
So, for example, you have a 3rd cousin match and using the Shared Matches you are able to figure out which set of that match's great-great-grandparents are also your mother-in-law's great-great-grandparents. The next step is to do genealogy research to identify all of their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. One of those great-grandchildren is the likely birth parent.
Thanks!
Do have a brand new app for us and celebrities app family tree? An upgrade? Because I have questions about my whole entire family?
When you are telling them to add Father Biological and Mother Biological, make sure they are entered as deceased or their names will not be shown
So I received my results! I am looking for my biological father, my mom gave me a name only., upon opening my results I have a match that says close family-1st cousin ., looking at the CM DNA we share 2068 I’m guessing a half sister! I’m waiting for her to log in 😂 but she also she is looking for her father according to her tree that says unknown father ...I only have 4-6 cousin matches so far and the ones that have responded don’t know the name I gave them 😞
Try your 1/2 sister on Facebook, people seem to log in there more often. I don't have an close matches unfortunately, but I'm super happy you have one. Good luck!!
Interesting I thought but although there are a couple of tree where I am definitely related to the tree owner when I tried search button using the common name the result said I didn't have any connections so the search button isn't much use and can be misleading
The search button on DNA only searches the ancestors (direct lineage, not collateral) of the person who took the DNA test in the tree to which the DNA is attached. So, if the tree isn't attached to the DNA or the surname is not in their direct lineage, results will not be returned.
Can you please walk us through the steps of doing a "mirror tree"? Thanks!
Mirror trees are not the most effective way to discover connections between you and your DNA matches. They take A LOT of work, often lead to incorrect conclusions, and wreak havoc with our systems. I solve adoption and other NPE cases every single day and have yet to build a mirror tree or connect and disconnect the DNA from the tree to another tree.
I walk through the process that I use in this video: ruclips.net/video/MOHhxZN_GHA/видео.html (Crista)
A new cousin has contacted me, stating that her bio dad (that she has never met) was adopted. She knows his adopted name but not who his bio family is.
By our common matches, i figured she belongs to my dads maternal line, and added her to my Facebook family group where she can ask questions.
In her search, she uncovered a half sister. All was going well until she requested to see a picture.
Any hints as where she can start?
Crista Cowan I also have Woodruff's in my close family tree. My grandmother was a Woodruff. by the way this is Joy Davis not Michael , the computer says it is going to send it under my husbands name.
Can you only search for family who did this? Because I have lost family I wanna to meet
I found my biological father, sister, another unconnected sister that was not known, aunt, and niece on my paternal side.
That's awesome, Tina! It's great to hear that you have found so many family members. Have you had a chance to reach out to any of them?
@@AncestryUS , yes all but my father who had passed
Hi Tina, we are sorry to hear that your father has passed.
Hoping for tips on contacting matches on my biological father’s side. I know this can be a sensitive subject.
I’m adopted and all my 2nd 3rd cousin matches go to 2x/3x Great Grand parents and of course they all had 8 -10 kids each or 6 to 8 Bro/Sis! How do I narrow it down?
Cluster your shared matches together. Start with the top match and look at Shared Matches with that person. That is one cluster. Find the next person on the list that wasn't part of that cluster and do the same. And so on. Now, find out where those clusters intersect. If you have identified a common set of ancestors for cluster #1, for example, did any of their children marry a child of the common set of ancestors from cluster #2?
I posted my DNA late December, I’m in the UK 🇬🇧 and I’m not sure 🤔 how many people in the UK have taken the test, it seems like it is becoming more popular here but I don’t think it is as popular yet, as it is in the USA and Canada, here’s hoping lots of folk got kits for Christmas. I was fostered in Staffordshire, England in 1960 to my biological Uncle and his wife, ( his sister was my bio mother, white, English) who couldn’t have any children together..... but as far as I’m concerned, they were my Mum and Dad. They have both passed now. I’m looking for siblings and although I know my bio Fathers first and last name and his Fathers first and last name, he lives in The Punjab, in India 🇮🇳 so I’m expecting my search to be a bit more difficult. Will I need the Worldwide package to try to find him, I know he was deported from England shortly after I was born in 1960 and I know he has children with his wife in India and I know 1 of his sons ( my half brother) died in the uprising at the Sikh temple in Amritsar.
I also got the DNA kit for my partner, our son (19) and my partners Grandmother, who is Jewish, I’m expecting our sons DNA 🧬 to be really interesting. Thanks for posting these vids, because Iv only just started on my family tree journey, I’m finding it a tad difficult to understand but I’m sure with your help in these vids I’ll work it out fingers crossed 🤞 thanks again👍🏽🙋🏽
So how can multiple generations be 4th cousins to a match? My great uncle in 90’s, ( is a
41 cm to match)me 52 yrs old (40cm) and a 3rd cousin to me (20.6 )(in 20’s).
Am waiting on my results in the UK..mine is Adoption+Where I orginate from☺No tree yet..I have met my real family but they are not interested in helping me with a family tree+my birth mother has not been honest who my father is.
I’m doing this rn. Looking for biological family..waiting for kit to arrive
I'm going to be looking for my grandmother from my biological dads side, we haven't got a dna test done before and we didnt really know how to make sure I am related to him and her, so both my grandmother from my bio dads side and I are gonna submit a dna test. I hope we come back a match.
My Maternal grandmother never knew for certain who her father was. I think I know who he was. but this same person is a 3rd cousin on my Paternal side.. Can this test help me with this? Oh and also a Cherokee lineage...with this line
Well now watching your surnames in your Excel table. I have Kerr, Bailey, Gardner but could be total coincidence.
Would you have Kerrs in western Pennsylvania? I have a friend who is related to Valentine Kerr.
64,000 people in your tree! Wow!
Isn´t that impressive? Do you have a tree? If so, how many people do you have in it?
I'm from Kerala, India. How can I do this test? Is this available in India too?
I'm looking for my Family, but I cant order the DNA test from Switzerland how can I get it?
shai dune you can get it off amazon
At the start of the year, I had 3 names in my biological tree. Me, my mum (who I know and was brought up by but was herself adopted), and a name for my father. I was able to get more info off my mum about my dad and took an Ancestry DNA test. Took his side back many generations (to 1600s!) on many lines and connected them to cousin matches. Process of elimination gave me my mums mum as we knew her name but no more, and using one of the matches in 'Common Ancestors' locked in my maternal grandmothers family and again took it back to 1600s on many lines connecting with cousin matches. However, my mums mum is still unknown, and the only unknown within about 5 or 6 generations on either side. Should I approach it like you did in this video? And should I get my mum DNA tested too? Thanks!
Hi Luke. If your mom is available and willing to test, absolutely get her tested. You only have half of her DNA. Which means there is half of her DNA that you do not have.
@@AncestryUS very true! Thank you, I will most certainly get her tested!
There are discussions going on at other sites about Ancestory-com closing sites that are attached to DNA tests. Supposedly the DNA information is going to be completely wiped. Kind of gives Ancestory a bad name when it comes to DNA testing. All that valued information wiped clean? I decided to wait because of these rumors. Do you know what's going on by any chance? One of the sites being closed is My Canvas.