Showing posts with label clusters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clusters. Show all posts

Friday, September 20, 2019

DNA Clusters: Mountains and Valleys

Dana Leeds' recent blog post about "Who Is in a Cluster" demonstrates that although all people in a cluster share DNA with one person in the cluster, they don't necessarily share DNA with another member of the cluster.

Curious as to what this would look like with my Crawford branch of my tree, I looked at the DNA matches I share with a first cousin once removed. At first, I was trying to map out all of my known matches. However, this became cumbersome since I have a lot of 2nd cousin matches. As I was creating my matches diagram, I realized that I needed to be looking for matches that were for the different surnames.