An example of using the DNA tree image in my Ancestry family tree. This DNA cousin matched me & my father. There were also shared matches to cousins who I had confirmed on the Flynn line already so I knew this was on my father’s maternal line. Luckily this cousin answered my messages & explained their father was a Rice - brother of my father’s maternal granny. If I had not received a reply, I would’ve had to look at the shared matches, build a private research tree & eventually work it out using birth, marriage, census records. Unusual names help as well as if they have known cousin matches with good trees. The DNA Painter Shared cM Tool is useful to work out general relationships as AncestryDNA gives a broad estimate. Uploading your raw DNA to other sites like GEDmatch, MyHeritage & FtDNA is a must in looking for more matches. These sites have great tools to play with as well as GEDmatch & FtDNA having emails to contact your matches direct! This DNA cousin matched my father at 557cM which worked out to be a 1C1R.
