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    The lunch hour genealogist

    Nov 13, 2020 4 minutes

    Know-how in under 100 words!

    MRCA

    This common abbreviation means ‘most recent common ancestor’ and is a really good way of connecting with someone who’s contacted you about an online tree or DNA match. If the two of you are related, you just need to work backwards along both of your branches to work out who your most recent shared ancestor is. For example if your first shared ancestor is your great-great grandparent then you are third cousins. Use our handy relationship calculator http://familytr.ee/shared to help you.

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