How distant is 4th cousin, 6th and 7th cousin?

[Drenica]

I see on MyHeritage, except for Albanians,
I get majorly Western matches from Britain but also from USA. Says they are 4th to 7th cousins... how distant is that?

[Drenica]

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[Drenica]

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[Gangrel]

I was confused too but I found this webpage

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bridgett/cousins.htm

'Your third cousin is the great-grandchild of your great-great uncle or great-great aunt.'

So fourth is great-great-grandchild of your great-great-great uncle or aunt

[Drenica]

I was confused too but I found this webpage

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bridgett/cousins.htm

'Your third cousin is the great-grandchild of your great-great uncle or great-great aunt.'

So fourth is great-great-grandchild of your great-great-great uncle or aunt

So how is it possible I get these western matches that close like 4th cousin?


I didnt score any north west euro etc on any test but i will do 23andme and ancestrydna to see if i get something there

[Gangrel]

So how is it possible I get these western matches that close like 4th cousin?


I didnt score any north west euro etc on any test but i will do 23andme and ancestrydna to see if i get something there

Bro I get 0% European on MH and I'm related to Anglos and Italians in America. I don't have a clue

[Drenica]

Bro I get 0% European on MH and I'm related to Anglos and Italians in America. I don't have a clue

Thats weird. Do you get European on other tests though? . But its not just myheritage where i get these matches but also myorigins etc. Even people from Scandinavia.

[Gangrel]

Thats weird. Do you get European on other tests though? . But its not just myheritage where i get these matches but also myorigins etc. Even people from Scandinavia.

I've only done MH but I will probably do 23andMe or something in the future. Gedmatch conflicts with the results I get on MH though

[Freeroostah]

Bro I get 0% European on MH and I'm related to Anglos and Italians in America. I don't have a clue

Im 100% Euro and I get a match with a 100% Indian chick.
I think MH is broken....

[Drenica]

Im 100% Euro and I get a match with a 100% Indian chick.
I think MH is broken....

Matching people doesnt mean anything, it could even be bronze age... it depends on how close they are. Except for balkanites, majority of my matches are western on many of these tests or a large chunk of them.

[Smitty]

Genetically, a 4th cousin shares, on average, 1/512 or 0.2% of your DNA.

[Gangrel]

Genetically, a 4th cousin shares, on average, 1/512 or 0.2% of your DNA.

Would you consider them true relatives?

[Drawing-slim]

I get lots of western euros and north americans too, one of my top last name relatives i have is Smith.

[Smitty]

Would you consider them true relatives?

Eh, depends. They are relatives, of course, whether they share DNA or not. But they're distant enough that they may as well not be, especially in a time when most people don't know their relatives beyond their second cousins. I consider second cousins to be more or less the cutoff for relatives, in a meaningful sense.