Re: Ancestral Surnames and BigY results
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If your match is still showing up on your match screen at 111 STRs then it isn't too remote for the game we are playing right now. I'm working with genetic distances of 8 - 10 on my match screen at 111 STRs. I would love it if I could find anything closer. I don't think you will find anyone matching into the period of the 1800s with that much of a difference but on the other hand your A8050 is around the 1000s so if you can make more branches on your part of the tree then go for it. If however you only care about finding successively closer and closer matches then you are correct that the bigger GD is probably not going to get you there. But as you match people into that A8050 area you are probably finding closer matches for others that share that subclade and maybe helping them out too. As they say, this is a team sport :)
Chris
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:08 PM, prosperity200220815@... [R1b-S6881] <R1b-S6881@...> wrote:
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Hi Chris,
Thank you for all this. Very helpful.
When I was listing the 1/3 step match I was referring to 1/ being the GD for cousin Roy, and /3 being the GD for my brother. Sorry for the confusion. So, let's work with the GD of my brother.?
Your point of the additional STRs that increasing Y67 to Y111 provides became helpful with one match we had. My brother has a GD of 3 with ?Andrew Leatham at Y67 but when I advanced to Y111 results he had a GD of 8. My first inclination was to conclude he could not be related to us and discount him. However, am I correct in thinking that there is something to learn from this match or a reasonable GD STR match? Is there a point where the GD is just too remote ?
I am so glad to have a place to ask these questions. Again, thank you so much. Must?read the book that Peter is reading!!
Cynthia
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