Another little success
So I just wanted to share my latest little success with Wiki Tree and Ancestry DNA. I had been looking at some Ancestry matches again, to see if I could figure out how we were related. I tried a new trick where I opened an unknown match and then clicked on the "SHARED MATCHES". Now for Ancestry, I am pretty sure that shared matches to them means people that not only are common between the two, but actually share the same portion of DNA... meaning you have inherited a specific chain of DNA that should be able to be traced back to an individual or marriage. (This gets rid of false matches --you might share a match with someone but are not related. For example, my first paternal cousin and my first maternal cousin both share me as a match, but are not related to one another.) Now I took those matches and opened each in a new browser window and then arranged all of these windows on my desktop so I could easily compare all of their listed SURNAMES. I found one SURNAME...