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My Double 3rd cousin versus my brother and my Aunts as shown with my segment...
The results came in for my other maternal Aunt so now there are four of us to compare to my double third cousin and still no match on the X! In order to show the comparisons I used my new nifty...
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Results for a second cousin on the Skjold line
The results for our second cousin John who shares Skjold and Wold ancestry are just in today at 23andme so of course the first thing I did was compare him to me, my brother, my dad, and a few other...
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Found a 3rd cousin in Norway via DNA!
A Norwegian, who turned out to be a descendant of my gg-grandparents Jørgen Wold and Anna Knutsdatter of the Drammen area, tested his DNA on 23andme and came up a close match (3rd-5th cousin) to my Dad...
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Our Holland (Håland or Haaland) cousins are found via DNA!
Back in the late 1800s our Norwegian ancestors and relatives came here in droves; about 80,000 Norwegians came before the Civil War and even more afterwards. Partially it was economic conditions in...
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Mapping an Ancestral Couple: a Backwards Use of my Segment Mapper
Sometimes I wonder if the interest in genetic genealogy runs in our DNA. I have found many more new cousins with autosomal testing that are descended from my WOLD line than in any other family. Yes...
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DNA testing finds some more Skjold cousins
Hans Martin Gunderson The randomness of DNA inheritance always amazes me. My Norwegian-American father seems to have inherited more DNA from his Skjold grandad, “Dada,” than his Wold grandma, “Mormor.”...
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Another Triangulation Success, Another Etne Cousin
So what is the opposite of the saying when it rains it pours? How about the sun is not only shining but there are rainbows! When you keep extensive spreadsheets that include the common ancestor for...
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How many cousins share my 5th grandparents?
Matching DNA has put me in touch with an extremely large number of Norwegian cousins who share my fifth grandparents from Fatland farm on Halsnøy Island in Hordaland, Norway. What’s more, perhaps due...
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Ancestry Composition Comparisons: a Case Study
Discovering where your ancestors came from is one of the more popular reasons to do a DNA test but the current ancestry composition algorithms have a long way to go. Sometimes East Asian ancestry is...
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My Perfect Cousin
This is the first time I have had a cousin’s DNA test come out showing an ancestry composition that was 100% a single ethnicity. My cousin J.M. was not in the least bit surprised as she expected to be...
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New Ancestry kit in from my Wold cousin
You know you have an obsessive personality when a cousin’s DNA results come in and you put off as many plans as you can for the next 3 days in order to explore them. At least I have some observations...
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An elusive 2nd cousin match at Ancestry DNA
When you are a genealogist with an extensive family tree and you get a 2nd cousin match at Ancestry DNA, you expect to be able to find the relationship fairly easily. Never mind that this is my 2nd...
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My German Second Cousin’s DNA Results are In!
Second cousin DNA tests are my favorites. You share enough DNA with a second cousin to be really useful for genetic genealogy. When someone matches your second cousin, you know which of your four pairs...
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