I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve been seeing a nice surge of new 3rd and 4th cousin DNA matches on Ancestry over the past few weeks. I’ve been averaging about one new match every 3 days or so at at least the 4th Cousin level. This morning I just found two new 4th cousin estimated matches. I’m guessing this surge may be due to some of the holiday kits (half a million sold?!!) that are getting processed. Unfortunately, so far I haven’t seen that surge roll over to GEDMatch.com where there are so many tools available. I haven’t had a high-level “green” (new) match for weeks. Oh, I sure wish Ancestry would bring on a chromosome mapping utility (and, of course these matches would come with a public tree). That would keep me busy for months!
