Top 100 Common Ancestor Points Scoreboard

See which genealogists have identified the most ancestors through DNA triangulation. How are points calculated?

#	Name	Points
1	Michele Cragg	2476
2	Ruth Laverne Cattles	1364
3	Jill Schell	1230
4	Jay Fletcher	1166
5	Paul Rakow	1106
6	Samuel Boylan	1063
7	James Smith	616
8	Rodney Merrill	600
9	william Watson	599
10	Tony Allegra	596
11	Douglas Husemann	514
12	Erik Granstrom	487
13	K Williams	473
14	Peggy Jude	466
15	Andreas West	387
16	Tim Janzen	380
17	Tony Norris	353
18	Steven Coker	256
19	Evelyn Vinson	253
20	Pamela E Culy	245
21	Marjorie Anderson	243
22	John Roberts	241
23	Joseph Lawrence	222
24	Kenneth Louis Jordan Jr	205
25	Max Gerald Heffler	189
26	Deborah Dixon Walker	180
27	William Harvey	168
28	Lynne Williamson	167
29	James Arnold	149
30	Robin Babou	139
31	Veronica Williams	130
32	Angela Townsend	124
	Ricardo Roffiel	124
34	P Donley	98
35	Chase Clift	96
36	Angel Tai	88
37	Nicole Zigler	78
38	Angie Kennedy	70
39	Stephanie Payne	65
40	David Cheney Conroyd	47
	Walter Wesley Johnston	47
42	Pam Pennington	42
43	Carrie Loranger	41
44	Robert Warthen	40
45	Lisa L.	39
46	Jarod Perry (Winters)	35
47	Michael Echter	33
48	Steve Gent	32
	John Matthews	32
50	Barbara Mills	27
51	Ann Mina (Atkinson) Sawusch	24
52	Joanna Douglas	22
53	Christy Jordan-Frank	21
54	D M	20
55	David Drabold	18
56	Karen Mahoney	17
	Vernon Smith	17
58	Shari Jamieson	16
59	Sandra Wilson	13
60	Irwin Goldberg	12
61	Mike Alexander	11
	Patrick Callaghan	11
	Elisabeth Oosterink	11
64	Shawn Heyse	10
65	Lynda Crackett	8
66	michelle Bordonaro	7
	Zachary Kiyak	7
	Bryanna Hines	7
69	Christine Diaz	6
	Anna Castle-Byrne	6
	R Pompei	6
	William Walton	6
73	Carmen Waldbuesser Dixon	5
	James MacDonald	5
	Loretta Reich Rippee	5
76	Claude Theisen	4
	Debbe Hagner	4
	Carrol Fish	4
79	Marion Boyd	3
	Richard Blanco	3
	Alfred Anheier	3
82	Ken Waters	2
	Luiz Henrique Santana Souza	2
	David Mee	2
	Kaitlyn Parker	2
	Laura Barnes	2
	Melissa Merkl	2
	Gladys Jenner	2
89	Paula Loughlin	1
	JOHN WILKES	1
	Karin Betts	1
	André Häring	1
	jaden turnley	1
	Michelle Stella	1
	R.A. Wri	1
	H Z	1
	Sigurður Eysteinsson	1
	Jo Anderson	1
	Vanessa Ebert	1
	Susan Stoddard	1
	Lisa Marley	1
	Betty Graham	1
	Dave Lyons	1
	Alice Rockefeller	1
	Franz Oster	1

How Common Ancestor Points Work

Identify each Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) between two of your DNA matches, or between a DNA match and yourself. The MRCA is the person or couple through whom you are related.

Examples:

In a parent/child relationship, the parent is the MRCA: the simplest case to identify.

For full siblings, the MRCAs are the parents. For half-siblings, it's the shared parent.

For 1st cousins, the MRCA is the grandparent couple. For 2nd cousins, it's the great-grandparent couple, and so on.

How points are calculated

For each DNA kit under your profile, we count all Triangulated Groups that have a confirmed MRCA. Each confirmed MRCA earns one point.

Example:

You have 2 DNA kits with 17 Triangulated Groups and 28 confirmed ancestors across them. Your score is 28 points. (If both kits are in the same group, it's only counted once.)

Research all DNA matches in each Triangulated Group: every member has inherited the same ancestral DNA. By confirming more ancestors, you strengthen the evidence and climb the scoreboard.