Family Matching

 

Screen capture from LivingDNA. 2 May 2025.

Earlier in the day I received a prompt from LivingDNA that the matches were ready for the tests I administer. I thought it was going to take until next week for LivingDNA to run the tests and generate matches, but it only took two days. On my Dad's results, there are 861 matches. On mine, there are 751. This is a huge difference from MyHeritage, which shows 20,629 for my Dad's results and 19,101 for mine, while AncestryDNA has 78,000 matches for my results and 50,746 for my Dad's.

Even on FamilyTreeDNA, for their autosomal report (Family Finder), I have 7,104 matches, while my Dad's has 7,067. That's quite a range in matches.

As with my other attempts in fishing in all the ponds of DNA data, on my Dad's side I'm specifically looking for matches who might connect into the mystery family of my 3rd-great-grandmother Bridget. There are a couple of matches who also seem to be on MyHeritage and show potential connections to the distant O'Brien line who later appeared in Pennsylvania. There's more to do, but it's a promising start.