Ancestry DNA contacts

[Phoenix]

Hmm, so although I may be able to work out a common ancestor by logic, Ancestry demands a tree. And none of the 22k plus and counting people who share scraps of DNA with my mate have put up adequate trees yet. Oh joy.

[kiterunner]

I don't think that's it, Maggie, but apparently "DNA Circles" is still in beta (really, I feel that the whole of ancestry's website should be classed as beta testing at the moment, though.)

I think there may be a flaw in the logic of this DNA Circles idea though, since surely you could just end up with a group of people who are all related and have all copied their tree from someone who was wrong?

[kiterunner]

Wow, I've just found someone in my list of matches where the shared ancestors are my 9xg-grandparents and his 7xg's. Making us 8th cousins twice removed! I'm impressed by that. Though of course there could be another connection somewhere else that I haven't spotted yet.