Using DNA for Clues with Colonial Ancestors: Quality vs Quantity
Have you noticed that some of your family lines have many DNA matches and others very little? My dad is seven-eighths 19th-century German, one-sixteenth Pennsylvania German (18th century) and one-sixteenth colonial American/British. I’ve noticed that my dad has many matches on his Pennsylvania German side. However, there are only a few matches on my dad’s 19th-century German ancestor lines. As much as we want our match list to tell us about our ancestors, we have to remember that our match list also reflects who takes DNA tests. Some populations and some families are well represented and some are not. If...
