[hurryinhoosier62]

Originally Posted by Bill H

My DNA came back spot on. my brother and I have 2,579 people on our family tree from England/Ireland/Germany/Belgium/Netherlands and USA. We also have 4,603 baptism/birth/marriage and death records to support the information from the mid 1500' until today. Worked for me...

Bill, where do you go to find the DNA matches?

[Bill H]

Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62

Bill, where do you go to find the DNA matches?

Mine is on Ancestry, they list all probable/possible matches of people that have been tested at Ancestry up to about the 5th to 8th cousins. As you can see I have 336 4th cousins or closer, but there are thousands of 5th to 8th cousins on my list. Sometimes I will just pick a 8th cousin out of the list and contact them to see what their family story is. About 85 % of the connection is from one family that came to America from England in 1634, the Winchell family.

I have also found and talked to some of my relatives living in Belgium and the Netherlands. I have not checked with any of German relatives, that's my brother's job.

[graycav56]

I used Ancestry DNA to help two adopted friends find their birth parents. One was a piece of cake and took about 2 weeks.

The other took years....