MODULE 3: Building research trees at Ancestry
These notes are for participants in the Society of Australian Genealogists' program, Analysing your AncestryDNA results . Others are welcome to use these notes for their personal research. Please contact me at chrisw9953[at]gmail[dot]com for other uses. I'll strive to update the notes as there are further developments or my understanding of the area grows. In the following table, you'll see when I use private, unsearchable (Quick & Dirty) trees at Ancestry and when I do the research as a "floating branch" in the tree attached to my AncestryDNA test. You can hear Blaine Bettinger speak about developing "Quick and Dirty trees" HERE. The key to researching your DNA matches is finding the common ancestors that you share with the match or group of matches. The closest ancestors that you share with the match are called "most recent common ancestors" (MRCA). Here are some reason that you can’t find a MRCA with your match or a group of mat...