Have you tested your DNA? If so, do you keep track of the quantity of matches you have? I have to admit that I don’t pay a lot of attention to how many matches I have, especially since I can’t even keep up with those matches who share a common ancestor.
However, my recent Feedly content is prompting me to review those numbers.
- Randy’s Autosomal DNA Test and Analysis Summary – 1 September 2021
- DNA Beginnings: How Many DNA Matches Do I Have?
I last looked at my number of DNA Matches in May of 2021.
Today, I’m going to follow Roberta Estes’ directions to see how many matches I have. Since I haven’t done autosomal testing with most of these companies, my results are based on my transferring my Ancestry DNA results to the various other companies.
FamilyTreeDNA
Since my brother agreed to do a yDNA test, his account is our primary account on FamilyTreeDNA. Besides his yDNA test, I uploaded his Ancestry results to his account.
My account on FamilyTreeDNA shows that I have 7506 matches while my other brother has 6672 autosomal matches.
MyHeritage
On MyHeritage, I have 16,218 DNA matches.
To see the number of matches for my brothers, I had to use the DNA menu to select ‘MANAGE DNA KITS’.
This opened the list of tests I manage on MyHeritage. To the right of each test is a series of 3 vertical dots. Clicking on those dots opens a menu allowing me to select ‘VIEW DNA MATCHES’ for that test.
Looking at my two brothers, brother 1 had 11,921 DNA matches while brother 2 has 11, 356 DNA matches
Ancestry
Of course, my Ancestry numbers don’t show! I’ve experienced this before and believe I have to clear the cache on my browser.
So, instead of clearing my cache, I tried a different browser. And my numbers show.
But they didn’t show for my brothers. So, I cleared my cache and cookies and then rechecked each time to get their numbers
Summary
| Me | Brother 1 | Brother 2 | Mom | |
| FamilyTree DNA | 7051 | 7506 | 6672 | |
| MyHeritage | 16218 | 11921 | 11356 | |
| Ancestry Total | 116199 | 131063 | 120485 | 78163 |
| Ancestry Close Matches | 3981 | 4996 | 4220 | 2952 |
| New close matches since 5/1/2021 | 120 | 156 | 137 | 99 |
| Ancestry 68 cm to 2000 cM | 47 | 58 | 50 | 61 |