Top 100 MRCA Scoreboard

How It works
# Name Points
1 Michele Cragg 714
2 Jill Schell 438
3 Paul Rakow 398
4 Ruth Laverne Cattles 286
5 Terry Fitzgerald 204
6 Samuel Boylan 200
7 Andreas West 174
8 Erik Granstrom 171
9 James Smith 168
10 K Williams 166
11 Max Gerald Heffler 154
12 Douglas Husemann 135
13 Peggy Jude 132
14 Tony Allegra 116
15 Marjorie Anderson 114
16 Joseph Lawrence 101
17 Rodney Merrill 88
18 Pamela E Culy 78
19 Evelyn Vinson 70
20 Kenneth Louis Jordan Jr 69
21 John Roberts 60
22 Tony Norris 56
23 Robin Babou 55
24 Angela Townsend 53
25 Christy Jordan-Frank 48
26 James Arnold 47
27 Veronica Williams 46
28 Pam Pennington 38
29 Ricardo Roffiel 36
Steven Coker 36
31 Lynne Williamson 29
32 P Donley 26
33 Carrie Loranger 23
34 Tim Janzen 22
35 Chase Clift 21
36 David Cheney Conroyd 20
37 Robert Warthen 17
38 Mike Alexander 16
39 Shari Jamieson 13
William Harvey 13
41 Elisabeth Oosterink 10
42 Stephanie Payne 9
Patrick Callaghan 9
44 Lynda Crackett 7
45 Lisa L. 6
46 Anna Castle-Byrne 5
Jay Fletcher 5
48 Loretta Reich Rippee 4
william Watson 4
50 Alfred Anheier 3
51 David Wagner 2
Susan Stoddard 2
53 Angel Tai 1
Deborah Dixon Walker 1
Lisa Marley 1
Michelle Stella 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.