A tree of just three…
Having tested on Ancestry, Family Tree DNA, and 23andMe, I found that I was inundated with results and matches that I did not understand and did not know what to do with. I joined Michelle Leonard’s class (The DNA Bootcamp, Autumn 2021) as I wanted to try and make sense of what the various sites were telling me.
Amongst my matches on Ancestry was Marilyn, with whom I shared 94 cM – a decent amount, and worthy of investigation. Michelle has stressed that the ‘shared matches’ function is a particularly powerful way of making progress. However, the only shared match I had with Marilyn was with my sister. Furthermore, the ‘tree’ that Marilyn had posted contained only three people – a named couple and an apparent offspring, marked ‘Private’. Marilyn’s given surname did not feature in my research, nor did those of the two other people in her tree. Michelle had said a few times that
