For Week 15 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the topic is DNA. This could have been a really long post once I got started writing, but I figured I would keep it short and simple.
I wasn’t really sure whether I should talk about the DNA matches I have worked with, or the amount of sleep I lose pouring over the results of my father-in-law’s test, trying to figure out his Paternal grandparents origins.
I decided to just lay down the facts of my results. The following are my results from AncestryDNA.
I have 53, 225 total matches and 522 4th cousin or closer. Out of all these matches I have only had time to figure out 29 matches. Guess I need to spend some time working on my genealogy for a change instead of my husbands.
In comparison, my father-in-law has 50,141 matches and 1,525 4th cousins or closer. I have figured out 39 of his so far. His paternal family from South Carolina has been difficult to research.
My mother-in-law, who has French-Canadian ancestry, has 49,871 matches and 3264 4th cousins or closer. I have figured out 75 of her matches so far.
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The results above are from 2018 and show my ethnicities, which sound about right considering most of my family were from Ireland, England and Scotland.
![](http://thegenealogyaddict.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DNA-Ethnicity-2019.jpg)
Since Ancestry updated their reference samples you can see my numbers have changed slightly, although I’m mostly still English, Scottish and Irish.
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As technology improves, and the data is recalculated, I expect my results to change again.