Leeds Method Part 2

Do you manage multiple AncestryDNA tests? If so, have you tried using the Leeds Method to analyze your close matches and organize the results into a single spreadsheet? I hadn’t considered this approach until working through the Leeds Method module in Your DNA Guide’s DNA Study Group course.

Inspired by the course, I applied the Leeds Method to the DNA matches for both of my brothers. Once I had the results, I further arranged the data to group matches by ancestral lines.

This process helped me identify a few additional cousins in my CURREY (blue) and MENTER (pink) lines. Interestingly, one match appeared in both my MENTZER and BRILES lines—a first cousin twice removed who shares both lines.

While I already knew my relationship to most of these cousins, I found that the Leeds Method wasn’t as helpful in my case as using Shared Matches for deeper analysis.