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	1804
2	Jay Fletcher	1136
3	Paul Rakow	1067
4	Jill Schell	1030
5	Ruth Laverne Cattles	989
6	Samuel Boylan	800
7	Rodney Merrill	565
8	Douglas Husemann	561
9	Tony Allegra	552
10	James Smith	497
11	Erik Granstrom	464
12	Peggy Jude	437
13	Tim Janzen	379
14	K Williams	376
15	Andreas West	357
16	Tony Norris	310
17	Evelyn Vinson	225
18	Max Gerald Heffler	210
19	Steven Coker	205
20	Joseph Lawrence	203
21	Marjorie Anderson	196
22	John Roberts	187
23	Kenneth Louis Jordan Jr	186
24	James Arnold	148
25	William Harvey	146
26	Ricardo Roffiel	136
27	Veronica Williams	134
28	Deborah Dixon Walker	129
29	Robin Babou	121
30	Lynne Williamson	112
31	Angela Townsend	103
	Pamela E Culy	103
33	Chase Clift	96
34	william Watson	95
35	P Donley	83
36	Angel Tai	78
37	Stephanie Payne	57
38	Nicole Zigler	49
39	Angie Kennedy	43
40	Walter Wesley Johnston	36
	Carrie Loranger	36
	Lisa L.	36
43	David Cheney Conroyd	32
44	Robert Warthen	31
45	Pam Pennington	30
46	Michael Echter	29
47	Steve Gent	24
	Jarod Perry (Winters)	24
49	John Matthews	22
50	Teneshia Baker-Lane	18
	Barbara Mills	18
52	Ann Mina (Atkinson) Sawusch	17
	Shari Jamieson	17
54	David Drabold	15
55	Patrick Callaghan	12
	Christy Jordan-Frank	12
57	Vernon Smith	11
	Irwin Goldberg	11
59	Elisabeth Oosterink	10
60	Karen Mahoney	9
	Sandra Wilson	9
62	D M	8
	Joanna Douglas	8
	Mike Alexander	8
	Lynda Crackett	8
66	Anna Castle-Byrne	6
67	Shawn Heyse	5
	Carmen Waldbuesser Dixon	5
69	Loretta Reich Rippee	4
	Carrol Fish	4
	Laura Barnes	4
	Bryanna Hines	4
	Marion Boyd	4
74	Claude Theisen	3
	Alfred Anheier	3
	William Walton	3
	Christine Diaz	3
78	Walter Wesley Johnston	2
	Susan Stoddard	2
	Robert Ralston	2
	James MacDonald	2
	Luiz Henrique Santana Souza	2
	Barbara Mills	2
	Zachary Kiyak	2
	R Pompei	2
	William Walton	2
	André Häring	2
	Melissa Merkl	2
	David Mee	2
	Gladys Jenner	2
	Richard Blanco	2
	Kaitlyn Parker	2
93	R.A. Wri	1
	michelle Bordonaro	1
	Karin Betts	1
	André Häring	1
	Paula Loughlin	1
	JOHN WILKES	1
	Michelle Stella	1
	H Z	1
	Vanessa Ebert	1
	Sigurður Eysteinsson	1
	jaden turnley	1
	Lisa Marley	1
	Dave Lyons	1
	Alice Rockefeller	1
	Jo Anderson	1
	Betty Graham	1
	Franz Oster	1
	Miriam Engstrom	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.