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I'm asking for opinions on this from various sources, one of which is Ancestry itself. Polling the teeming masses here.

Here's the issue.

A person got her DNA results back. (No, it's not me).

Her aunt and uncle are listed as:

Aunt (Second cousin)

Uncle (Close relative)

Aunt and Uncle are siblings.

What explains this?

I'm not a member of Ancestry. I've been searching their support link for a similar or identical circumstance and cannot find it from the outside of Ancestry. I've got someone passing on the question to Ancestry itself on their behalf and am putting a call into Ancestry tomorrow. I've got a couple of other contacts who might be able to offer an explanation including a former course instructor. I want as many replies as I can get from my collective sources.

Any ideas as to an explanation oh teeming masses?

You do realize DNA testing is running counter to your plans for cremating bodies, right?

J/K.

Check this.
https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en- ... -relatives

honorentheos wrote:You do realize DNA testing is running counter to your plans for cremating bodies, right?

It might be part of my research!
;-)

Ah, I didn't sneak my link in fast enough.

A serious reply, check out this link:
https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en- ... -relatives

No it's okay, honor. I saw it.

I need something exclusively about autosomal DNA test results. I think 23 and Me uses more than one type of test.

I need to be as right and accurate as I can about this.

The first link included a follow-up link, which also contains a link to a site that compares different site's methods.
https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_statistics

https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_te ... ison_chart

I can't see an identical question on Ancestry and I don't understand the segments and centimorgans they are talking about on what I can see. I still haven't sent in my own results so I have no clue other than knowing what type of test does what and why one would use one over another and for what purpose--from the course I took.

honorentheos wrote:The first link included a follow-up link, which also contains a link to a site that compares different site's methods.
https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_statistics

https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_te ... ison_chart

Okay honor. I'm truly burned out at the moment having just gotten done with a good 2 hour conversation about this.

I think I can't think.

I do understand that we share different types and levels of DNA with relatives. That much I get.

Shouldn't the siblings at least be one step apart from each other? Why are they two steps apart?

Steps = relationship

Let me try to boil down the question. It would be something like this...

Why does my paternal aunt show up as my second cousin on my results?

ETA: Replaced maternal with paternal.