How to find out where someone fits into a tree.
This has been something I have worked on for a couple of years. I have a cousin who shares 328 centimorgans with me. That's a pretty close cousin. I believe she is my first cousin once removed.
This method of colorizing a spreadsheet is called the Leeds method. It was invented by Dana Leeds. I followed her directions which are on the internet to figure out this part. The column that is pink is everyone I am matched with on my DNA. The grey column represents my Crochet cousins. This is the group of people who match me (and others) with DNA. The green line is the list of those who match with me who are my Landry side. The dark blue column is my Aucoin side. The light blue is my Coupel cousins.
There you can see my great grandparents. And above him, are his parents, my great great grands.
These are my great grandmother's parents, my great great grands.
If you look at the color coded sheet, you can see Jeannine Heil matches me across all four of these great great grandparents. That would be the horizontal yellow line.
I had originally thought Jeannine matched with me on the other side of my family, the Bonin side. This proves that that is just impossible. Jeannine is only related to the four who are mentioned. Crochet, Landry, Aucoin and Coupel. So she fits in that side which is my grandmother's side since she was a Landry. She is related to my both of my grandmother's parents. Isn't that interesting?
Now to figure out where she actually fits in in just that one segment of that family. DNA doesn't lie. We are definitely cousins.
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