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	2285
2	Jay Fletcher	1136
3	Paul Rakow	986
4	Jill Schell	960
5	Samuel Boylan	752
6	Ruth Laverne Cattles	608
7	Douglas Husemann	541
8	Tony Allegra	524
9	Erik Granstrom	410
10	Peggy Jude	407
11	Tim Janzen	389
12	James Smith	363
13	Rodney Merrill	321
14	Andreas West	318
15	K Williams	310
16	Tony Norris	287
17	Joseph Lawrence	193
18	Max Gerald Heffler	191
19	John Roberts	179
20	Evelyn Vinson	174
21	Kenneth Louis Jordan Jr	166
22	Marjorie Anderson	157
23	Steven Coker	137
24	Pamela E Culy	133
25	James Arnold	119
26	Veronica Williams	115
27	Ricardo Roffiel	102
28	Chase Clift	89
29	Robin Babou	83
30	Angela Townsend	77
31	Lynne Williamson	71
32	P Donley	69
33	Stephanie Payne	42
34	Lisa L.	35
35	Angie Kennedy	31
36	Pam Pennington	29
37	William Harvey	28
	Robert Warthen	28
39	David Cheney Conroyd	25
40	Carrie Loranger	23
41	william Watson	20
42	Angel Tai	19
43	Teneshia Baker-Lane	18
44	Deborah Dixon Walker	17
	Shari Jamieson	17
46	Elisabeth Oosterink	10
47	Patrick Callaghan	9
48	Mike Alexander	7
	Lynda Crackett	7
50	Irwin Goldberg	6
	Joanna Douglas	6
	Anna Castle-Byrne	6
53	Loretta Reich Rippee	4
	Laura Barnes	4
	Carrol Fish	4
56	Bryanna Hines	3
	Shawn Heyse	3
	Alfred Anheier	3
59	Susan Stoddard	2
	Christine Diaz	2
	Zachary Kiyak	2
	Kaitlyn Parker	2
	Robert Ralston	2
64	Lisa Marley	1
	Luiz Henrique Santana Souza	1
	John Matthews	1
	michelle Bordonaro	1
	Miriam Engstrom	1
	Franz Oster	1
	Jo Anderson	1
	Alice Rockefeller	1
	Dave Lyons	1
	Michelle Stella	1
	Vanessa Ebert	1
	H Z	1
76	David Wagner	0
	Stacy Hajarian	0
78	Betty Graham	-2
79	Christy Jordan-Frank	-39

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.