The tools I used to piece it all together
Cousin chart
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If one person's →
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Great-grandparent
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Great-great-grandparent
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Great-great-great-grandparent
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Great-great-great-great-grandparent
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Is the other person's
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Then they are ↘
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Grandparent
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1st cousins
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1st cousins once removed
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1st cousins twice removed
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1st cousins thrice removed
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1st cousins four times removed
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Great-grandparent
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1st cousins once removed
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2nd cousins
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2nd cousins once removed
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2nd cousins twice removed
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2nd cousins thrice removed
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Great-great-grandparent
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1st cousins twice removed
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2nd cousins once removed
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3rd cousins
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3rd cousins once removed
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3rd cousins twice removed
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Great-great-great-grandparent
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1st cousins thrice removed
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2nd cousins twice removed
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3rd cousins once removed
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4th cousins
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4th cousins once removed
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Great-great-great-great-grandparent
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1st cousins four times removed
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2nd cousins thrice removed
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3rd cousins twice removed
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4th cousins once removed
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5th cousins
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SCREEN SHOT OF MY 3 CLOSEST RESULTS ON ANCESTRY.COM – THERE
GOES CYNTHIA!
SCREENSHOT WITH DON JOHNSON –
I DON’T KNOW WHY HE HAS 2 PROFILES BUT HE DOES
SCREEN SHOT OF THE DIRECT ANCESTORS OF CYNTHIA PRUITT
WITH THAT
INFORMATION DON JOHNSON TOLD ME IS THAT HIS GRANDMA LOU ALLEN (NORTHCUTT) AND
CYNTHIA’S GRANDPA QUITMAN WARREN WERE FIRST COUSINS SO WE KNEW FROM THERE GOING
UP A FEW GENERATIONS WE WOULD FIND OUR COMMON ANCESTOR. OUR COMMON ANCESTOR IS
ONE OF THE PARENTS (ALLEN) FOR DON JOHNSON AND THAT’S WHY WE COME UP AS THIRD
TO DISTANT COUSINS. 23ANDME ALLOWED ME TO SEE IF HE MATCHES MY MOTHER OR NOT
AND IT SHOWS THAT HE IS CLEARLY ON MY FATHERS SIDE. YOU HAVE TO USE THE KNOWLEDGE
FROM RELATIONSHIP TABLES TO FIGURE OUT IF THE RELATIONSHIP IS ACTUALLY 2ND
COUSIN OR 1ST COUSIN TWICE REMOVED BASED ON THE GENERATION. RIGHT
AWAY I KNEW THAT CYNTHIA AND I HAD TO BE 2 GENERATIONS APART AND COULD NOT
SHARE THE SAME GRANDPARENT. HER GRANDPARENT HAD TO BE MY GREAT GREAT
GRANDPARENT.
SO THAT MADE ME LEAN MORE TOWARDS QUITMAN
WARREN BECAUSE THAT PUTS MY RELATIONSHIP CLOSER TO CYNTHIA RATHER THAN DON JOHNSON
AS IT SAYS ITS SUPPOSED TO BE BUT I KNOW THAT THE ANCESTORS LISTED ARE
DEFINITELY THE ONES THAT I GET MY DNA FROM TO MATCH THE BOTH OF THEM. I KNEW
THAT I HAD TO BE A DECESDENT OF 1 OF THE 7 SIBLINGS – BELZORIA, INEZ, QUITMAN,
MARY (PEARLINA), HANNAH JO, HENRY ARTHUR AND LAURINE. BELZORIA WOULD BE TOO
CLOSE – HENRY, MARY AND QUITMAN NOT MOVE THEIR FAMILIES TO PORTLAND – THAT LEFT
LAURINE, INEZ AND HANNAH JO. HANNAH DESCENDENTS WEREN’T BORN IN THE 60’S I
DON’T THINK, I HAVEN’T LOOKED INTO INEZ YET BUT THEN I RECOGNIZED THE NAME
LOWERY. ASKED ABOUT LAURINE AND HEARD THAT SHE WOULD HAVE HAD THE MOST MALE
DESCENDENTS TO LOOK FOR. THEN I FOUND OUT THERE WAS RONNIE – A MAN THAT WAS
ALREADY ON MY MOMS LIST THE WHOLE TIME BUT WAS OVERLOOKED BECAUSE OF THE TIMING
IN HER HEAD OF THEIR TIMES TOGETHER. I NEVER WANTED TO BOTHER HIM WHEN I WAS 15
YEARS OLD LOOKING AROUND BECAUSE I WANTED TIMING TO SEEM CLOSE ENOUGH TO EVEN
ASK FOR A PATERNITY TEST. I AT THE TIME HADN'T CONSIDERED THAT ENCOUNTERS COULD HAVE BEEN LATER DOWN THE ROAD WITH THE SAME INDIVIDUALS.
Simple mathematical average of sharing
The following figures show the average percentage of autosomal DNA
shared with relatives assuming that every child gets 50% from his mother and
50% from his father and the average number of shared centiMorgans:
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Percentage
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centiMorgans
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Relationship
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Notes
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50%
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3400.00
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Mother, father, siblings
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The actual half-identical value is 3384.31 cMs but has been
rounded up here for convenience
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25%
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1700.00
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Grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, half-siblings, double
first cousins
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12.5%
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850.00
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Great-grandparents, first cousins, great-uncles, great-aunts,
half-aunts/uncles, half-nephews/nieces
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6.25%
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425.00
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First cousins once removed, half first cousins
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3.125%
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212.50
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Second cousins, first cousins twice removed
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1.563%
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106.25
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Second cousins once removed, half second cousins
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0.781%
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53.13
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Third cousins, second cousins twice removed
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0.391%
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26.56
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Third cousins once removed
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0.195%
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13.28
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Fourth cousins
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0.0977%
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6.64
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Fourth cousins once removed
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0.0488%
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3.32
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Fifth cousins
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0.0244
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1.66
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Fifth cousins once removed
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0.0122%
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0.83
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Sixth cousins
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0.0061%
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0.42
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Sixth cousins once removed
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0.00305%
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0.21
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Seventh cousins
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0.001525%
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0.10
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Seventh cousins once removed
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0.000763%
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0.05
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Eighth cousins
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ca 23,000 base pairs
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Relationship
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Average % DNA Shared
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Range
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1st Cousin
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12.5%
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7.31% - 13.8%
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1st Cousin once removed
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6.25%
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3.3% - 8.51%
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2nd Cousin
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3.13%
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2.85% - 5.04%
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2nd Cousin once removed
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1.5%
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0.57% - 2.54%
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3rd Cousin
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0.78%
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0.3%- 2.0%
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4th Cousin
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0.20%
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0.07% - 0.5%
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5th Cousin
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0.05%
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variable
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6th Cousin
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0.01%
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variable
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BLUE MEANS
EUROPEAN – BURGUNDY MEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN – ORANGE MEANS EAST ASIAN/NATIVE
AMERICAN – ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE EAST ASIAN IN THEM WHEN THEY WERE
TRAVELING BEFORE THE SLAVERY DAYS
THIS SCREEN
SHOT SHOWS HOW DON MATCHES ME BUT NOT MY MOM, IF HE MATCHED MY MOM SHE WOULD
HAVE PASSED DOWN THE SAME SEGMENT OF DNA
HERE IS HOW
THE DNA IS CHOPPED UP AND THE SAME FOR ME AND MY HALF SISTER THROUGH MY MOM,
AND FOR MY GRANDMOTHER AND I – MY SISTER IS IN THE BLUE AND MY GRANDMA IS IN
THE GREEN