I have a couple of questions. I'm trying to confirm who I think is my birth father. I've been doing this for a while now and can't even tell you how many times I've reclustered my DNA matches on Ancestry as I try to find better ways of doing so. I am wanting to try to confirm who my paternal great grandfather is supposed to be. I suspect it's not the correct one, but can't find any info to say otherwise. I am trying to take it back to my GG grandfather to see if that helps how far down should I go? Secondly, I was always under the belief that you should stay under 400 when adding to a group. So if I choose someone say 379 cM and go to shared matches wouldn't adding everyone on that list including the higher people above 400 just put a lot of colors on them the same as it would if you just added them from the start? When adding shared matches, how far down on the cM should I go? I hope this makes sense. Thank you in advance for any feedback.

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Just re-watched as trying to put it in to practice. I get when going down your full list of matches you are choosing people below 400 and above 90 cMs. But when you're adding all the shared matches to the group, are you then adding EVERYONE that's a shared match or leaving out those under 90cMs? I've left them out and also not done groups if a match and I don't have any shared matches. I've ended up with some people in 6 groups and feel I must've done something wrong. Any advice please?

Great video, thank you! Really clear, to the point, great pace, awareness of when your head was covering things and moving it, good sized graphics that I could actually read. I think I had just about grasped this before watching your video but had lost confidence for variety of reasons, but this has given me confidence again! I'm almost at the next stage so will check out your other videos before proceeding. Love the quote too! 💕

Excellent slides and a nice example! Wish we could still provide this analysis automatically :-).

I have watched clustering videos before and never understood them, now i do! thank you!

Excellent information, details, directions, and presentation. I would echo Franklin Smith's comments. Also, I would be interested in knowing groups you are in or associated with, e.g. AAHGS or other African American genealogy oriented group.

I found it easier to begin with 3 colors, pink, blue, and yellow. Pink and blue to denote mom and dad's sides, and yellow for the people with no shared matches. I labeled them MATERNAL, PATERNAL, and UNKNOWN. This also helps to quickly identify those people that are connected to both sides of your family. For example I have an 8C1R (8th cousin once removed) on my dad's side, while going through this process I was checking the shared matches with someone on my mom's side and in that list of shared matches that 8C1R showed up. As it turns out, I know these people on my mom's side so I was able to quickly find the crossover. An 8th cousin on my dad's side had a descendant who married my mom's second cousin. So, someone related to me on dad's side born in 1644 had a descendant who married my mom's 2nd cousin in present time. How cool is that? Great video, keep up the good work.

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Good evening fam...

What level of cM ( ex: 250 or 150 and less) would you start to group people when looking for your (3rd) G. G. G. grandparents. Looks like on the chart I would research 4th and 5th cousins trees. Am I on the right track??

I don't know how I haven't come across this video before. This is really helpful!

Great explanation, Thank you

The problem with Ancestry is that they only give you total cM without any context. How many of those total cM are small segments that mean nothing? You don't know your longest segments, their location, or their start and end positions. You can't know if you overlap anyone.

Noticed your “talking face bubble” covers Case Example #1 narrative. Intentional? What does it say? ThankU.

Great presentation, it is clear concise and easy to comprehend. Hope you're presenting to groups and societies, someone of your knowledge and skillset is always a valuable addition to the genetic genealogy community especially those of African American descent.

Excellent presentation! Thank you so much.

By far the clearest explanation of clustering on Ancestry. I was so confused after watching other videos. Thank you!!!!!

Thank you for your video, it was very clear and easy to understand :)

This was really well done. Thanks for putting this out there.

Great quote!

Thanks so much for this complete and concise video, it is so much clearer than any others I have found, much appreciated.

You have made a very good presentation.

Thank you for this presentation. I have seen a couple of other KZbin videos and nobody explained it in easy to understand terms. Again, Thank you.

Thank you so much for starting your channel and making these videos! Some people that have been making these type videos for a while are all over the place and don't explain things as well as you have. Thank you for taking the time to explain things so clearly for us! Please continue with your channel and make more of these videos!

Thanks for this! Very clearly and concisely explains both the process and the reason for it 👍🏻

Well explained.

I liked how you went about this task. I will try this and see what I may discover. Great information. I am referring to the color coded method for ancestry. Thank you for your instructions.