I recently had a match on my dad's Family Finder. The match was predicted as a 4th to remote cousin. In actuality They are third cousins. I guess the amount of DNA that matched was not enough because one or the other did not inherit enough DNA to predict a 3rd cousin match.
Rick Richard Francis Pimentel Spring, TX From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cheri Mello Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:20 PM To: Azores Genealogy Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder matches Doug, Contact me offlist. My guess is that something's screwy with their dates. I do have someone in the the project that joined 01/01/0001. Which is impossible. Cheri On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:28 AM, <p...@dholmes.com> wrote: Hi Cheri, Well, that's a surprise about matches for me and not my parents, but sure makes sense. About the "new" matches, here is what I noticed and you can explain it any way you want. Starting from about last summer, I always made it a point to check in once or more each month and every match to me was then assigned a "distant cousin" connection or closer if I could figure it out. Then this week I log in and found maybe 5 or so new connections and most were dated at least a year ago. They just never appeared as my connections until now. I know it sounds strange, but am willing to bet some others are getting this, too. They might not be paying attention to it, but it happened probably to many. Same thing happened for my father's connections. Doug da Rocha Holmes Sacramento, California Pico & Terceira Genealogist 916-550-1618 www.dholmes.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder matches From: Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, March 26, 2014 10:36 pm To: Azores Genealogy <azores@googlegroups.com> Doug, That change was made quite a while ago (last summer maybe?) Anyways, at the time they changed the algorithm, I made a post. Nothing else has changed. Yes, you can match someone your parent doesn't match. If your dad had 2 small slivers below the threshold but they both get passed onto you and land adjacent to each other, it now looks like a larger block and it will be reported in your DNA results. They do have an FAQ on that. Cheri Mello -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
