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	2455
2	Ruth Laverne Cattles	1209
3	Jay Fletcher	1119
4	Jill Schell	1114
5	Paul Rakow	1063
6	Samuel Boylan	806
7	Rodney Merrill	589
8	Tony Allegra	558
9	Douglas Husemann	553
10	James Smith	550
11	Erik Granstrom	467
12	Peggy Jude	452
13	K Williams	398
14	Tim Janzen	384
15	Andreas West	345
16	Tony Norris	325
17	Evelyn Vinson	246
18	Steven Coker	217
19	Joseph Lawrence	207
20	Kenneth Louis Jordan Jr	199
21	Marjorie Anderson	196
22	John Roberts	190
23	Max Gerald Heffler	188
24	James Arnold	153
25	Deborah Dixon Walker	144
26	William Harvey	140
27	Veronica Williams	130
28	Lynne Williamson	126
29	Robin Babou	120
	P Donley	120
31	Ricardo Roffiel	119
32	Pamela E Culy	105
33	Angela Townsend	103
34	Chase Clift	94
35	william Watson	91
36	Angel Tai	78
37	Stephanie Payne	57
38	Nicole Zigler	48
39	Angie Kennedy	46
40	Pam Pennington	41
41	Robert Warthen	40
42	Lisa L.	39
43	Carrie Loranger	37
44	Walter Wesley Johnston	36
45	David Cheney Conroyd	33
46	Michael Echter	29
47	Jarod Perry (Winters)	27
48	Barbara Mills	24
	Steve Gent	24
50	John Matthews	22
51	Joanna Douglas	21
52	Ann Mina (Atkinson) Sawusch	18
	Teneshia Baker-Lane	18
54	Shari Jamieson	17
55	David Drabold	15
56	Mike Alexander	12
	Irwin Goldberg	12
	Christy Jordan-Frank	12
59	Vernon Smith	11
	Patrick Callaghan	11
61	Elisabeth Oosterink	10
62	Sandra Wilson	9
63	Karen Mahoney	8
	D M	8
	Lynda Crackett	8
66	Zachary Kiyak	7
67	Anna Castle-Byrne	6
	Christine Diaz	6
69	Shawn Heyse	5
	Carmen Waldbuesser Dixon	5
71	Bryanna Hines	4
	Carrol Fish	4
	William Walton	4
	R Pompei	4
	Marion Boyd	4
	Loretta Reich Rippee	4
77	Alfred Anheier	3
	Claude Theisen	3
79	Kaitlyn Parker	2
	Gladys Jenner	2
	James MacDonald	2
	Melissa Merkl	2
	André Häring	2
	Luiz Henrique Santana Souza	2
	Laura Barnes	2
	Richard Blanco	2
	David Mee	2
88	R.A. Wri	1
	Karin Betts	1
	Paula Loughlin	1
	JOHN WILKES	1
	Susan Stoddard	1
	Miriam Engstrom	1
	Michelle Stella	1
	H Z	1
	Vanessa Ebert	1
	Lisa Marley	1
	Dave Lyons	1
	Alice Rockefeller	1
	Jo Anderson	1
	Franz Oster	1
	Sigurður Eysteinsson	1
	michelle Bordonaro	1
	Betty Graham	1
	Stacy Hajarian	1
	jaden turnley	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.