Top 100 MRCA Scoreboard

How It works
# Name Points
1 Michele Cragg 1193
2 Paul Rakow 546
3 Samuel Boylan 427
4 Jill Schell 367
5 Terry Fitzgerald 356
6 Ruth Laverne Cattles 337
7 Douglas Husemann 243
8 Andreas West 206
9 Peggy Jude 198
10 James Smith 186
11 K Williams 173
12 Tony Allegra 167
13 Erik Granstrom 164
14 Max Gerald Heffler 154
15 Rodney Merrill 132
16 Marjorie Anderson 119
17 Tony Norris 105
18 Joseph Lawrence 101
19 Pamela E Culy 78
20 John Roberts 76
21 Evelyn Vinson 70
22 Kenneth Louis Jordan Jr 69
23 James Arnold 67
24 Veronica Williams 57
25 Robin Babou 55
26 Angela Townsend 53
27 Christy Jordan-Frank 47
28 Ricardo Roffiel 41
29 Steven Coker 40
30 Tim Janzen 35
31 Pam Pennington 34
32 P Donley 32
33 Lynne Williamson 30
34 Jay Fletcher 26
35 Carrie Loranger 23
36 Chase Clift 21
37 William Harvey 20
David Cheney Conroyd 20
39 Robert Warthen 17
40 Mike Alexander 16
41 william Watson 13
Shari Jamieson 13
43 Elisabeth Oosterink 10
44 Lisa L. 9
Stephanie Payne 9
Patrick Callaghan 9
47 Lynda Crackett 7
Zachary Kiyak 7
Deborah Dixon Walker 7
50 Anna Castle-Byrne 5
51 Loretta Reich Rippee 4
52 Alfred Anheier 3
53 David Wagner 2
Susan Stoddard 2
55 Lisa Marley 1
Michelle Stella 1
H Z 1
Vanessa Ebert 1
Franz Oster 1
Angel Tai 1

Here's 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 two DNA matches (or you and a DNA match) are related.

Examples:

- In a parent/child relationship, the parent is the MRCA as the DNA to the child came through the parent. This is the easiest MRCA to identify.

- For full siblings, the MRCAs are the parents. For half-siblings, the MRCA is the parent from whom all half-siblings are descending.

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

When we identify MRCAs for DNA matches in a triangulated group (TG), we know that the DNA has been inherited through the MRCA (single person), or for MRCA couples, we know that the DNA has come through one of them. As we add more MRCAs, we're collecting more evidence that the DNA was indeed inherited along this path and not any other possible path (especially important in endogamous relationships).

The "Common Ancestor Points" are calculated as follows:

For each DNA kit under your user profile, we identify all TGs with an assigned MRCA and give one point for each.

Example:

You have 2 DNA kits under your user profile, and they have 17 TGs with 28 MRCAs assigned to them. The CAP will be 28 in this case.

Remember, if both DNA kits are in a TG together, we won't double count this TG. Also, there are more MRCAs than TGs as we haven't identified how all MRCAs in the TGs are related to each other.

Lastly, it's crucial to research the ancestors of ALL DNA matches in a TG! Every DNA match in a TG has inherited the same ancestral piece of DNA from an unknown common ancestor. By identifying MRCAs, we're collecting evidence as to who this common ancestor might have been.