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RLP 175: RLPDNA Study Group 4 - Locality Research and Ethnicity

The Research Like a Pro Genealogy Podcast

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Do You Have a Network Graft to Find Relevant Matches?

You can do clustering yourself by doing a leads method and just going through and using the shared matching to try to find people that all share with one another. But it's really important, i think, for people to realize you have to find people who are connected along that line of interest. The other caution i would give is finding a cluster of people, like a surname, and then making assumptions about that cluster. Sometimes we see cases where people see this cluster, and they're really only sharing 30 to forty centa morgans, but people assume that this is their unknown great grandfather or an unknown parent. And so ou o wont really make sure that you check your assumptions and check

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