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	2428
2	Jay Fletcher	1199
3	Paul Rakow	1020
4	Jill Schell	905
5	Samuel Boylan	769
6	Douglas Husemann	528
7	Tony Allegra	496
8	Ruth Laverne Cattles	491
9	Peggy Jude	408
10	Erik Granstrom	407
11	Tim Janzen	378
12	Andreas West	328
13	Max Gerald Heffler	300
14	Tony Norris	289
15	Rodney Merrill	270
16	James Smith	237
17	K Williams	213
18	John Roberts	192
19	Joseph Lawrence	191
20	Marjorie Anderson	166
	Evelyn Vinson	166
22	Kenneth Louis Jordan Jr	133
23	Pamela E Culy	129
24	Steven Coker	122
25	James Arnold	119
26	Veronica Williams	108
27	Chase Clift	91
28	Robin Babou	86
29	Angela Townsend	74
30	P Donley	69
31	Ricardo Roffiel	55
32	Lynne Williamson	53
33	Lisa L.	36
34	Angie Kennedy	32
35	William Harvey	28
36	Pam Pennington	27
37	David Cheney Conroyd	25
	Stephanie Payne	25
39	Carrie Loranger	23
40	Robert Warthen	22
41	william Watson	21
42	Deborah Dixon Walker	17
43	Shari Jamieson	16
44	Angel Tai	13
45	Elisabeth Oosterink	10
46	Patrick Callaghan	9
47	Lynda Crackett	7
	Mike Alexander	7
49	Joanna Douglas	6
50	Anna Castle-Byrne	5
51	Loretta Reich Rippee	4
52	Shawn Heyse	3
53	Susan Stoddard	2
	Zachary Kiyak	2
	Alfred Anheier	2
	Kaitlyn Parker	2
	Robert Ralston	2
	Laura Barnes	2
	Carrol Fish	2
60	Franz Oster	1
	Lisa Marley	1
	Teneshia Baker-Lane	1
	Bryanna Hines	1
	Luiz Henrique Santana Souza	1
	John Matthews	1
	michelle Bordonaro	1
	Miriam Engstrom	1
	Jo Anderson	1
	Alice Rockefeller	1
	Dave Lyons	1
	Vanessa Ebert	1
	H Z	1
	Michelle Stella	1
74	David Wagner	0
75	Betty Graham	-2
76	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.