Using the GWorks tool for Unknown Parentage Searches via DNA testing
KITTY COOPER
blog.kittycooper.com
Build private, unsearchable family trees down from each common couple to find where they intersect and/or someone in the right place at the right time.

Sometimes you get lucky right away



What relationship is 1,614 cM?
What relationship is 1,614 cM?

Use this calculator: https://dnapainter.com/tools/sharedcmv4
What relationship is 1,614 cM?

Half Sibling or Uncle/Aunt/Niece/Nephew (Nibling)?
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Ages of the two people, what's possible?
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How Many Segments > 100 cM?
(paternal half siblings will have 1-3+, niblings usually 0-1)
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Number of Segments from DNAadoption chart
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Can the X chromosome help?
(Sisters with same dad = full X)
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Can the haplogroup help?
Same mother shares mtDNA as does any maternal sibling
Same Y DNA haplogroup for a brother or paternal uncle
people used to try the mirror tree approach and it sometimes is helpful




http://blog.kittycooper.com/2016/10/text-to-gedcom-using-ahnen2ged/

Look through the family trees of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th cousin DNA matches for a common ancestral couple or two.





Blaine Bettinger Relationship Chart
If you have a second cousin match with a tree, try the mirror tree approach





If you did not yet do this, use GWorks to gather Your Ancestry Data

Enter your ancestry username and password
Select Quick and 4th Cousin
Once you are logged in the profile name(s) show up
Gather Ancestry Data

Click Gather Matches, when it finishes click Gather Trees, when done click Gather ICW

http://blog.kittycooper.com/2016/10/text-to-gedcom-using-ahnen2ged/





Clean up the Match type column

Change every Exact no Death to Exact
Then delete duplicate lines
Remove duplicate trees

Trees with the same name on them = different members same family



Tree Building



DNAgedcom and UnknownParentage searches
By Kitty Cooper
DNAgedcom and UnknownParentage searches
Slides for my workshop on using various DNA tools for adoption searches
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