.If Female put yourself in number one slot, If male put your mother in number one slot.

your father goes in number 2 blue, and your mother in number 3 pink. Then fill in the slots accordingly, matching up child to parent at each row.

row 1, you

row 2, your parents

row 3, your grandparents

row 4 your great grandparents

row 5 your great great grandparents

row 6 your great great great grandparents

row 7 your 4x great grandparents

row 8 your 5x great grandparents or 8 generations counting yourself.

row 9 your 6x great grandparents  and so forth as far back as you can document your ancestors.

Keep going as far back as you have documented ancestors to fill in the positions.

Question I asked at [email protected]

from CeCe Moore:

me - "QUESTION So because the X chromosome has nothing to do with the MTDNA the match can/could come from a person with a different MTDNA Haplogroup.... Is that stating it correctly?"
CeCe - Yes, but remember that one conclusion can be reached from the lack of matching mtDNA = the common ancestor will not lie on both of their direct maternal lines. Look at it the opposite way...if they had an X match AND a mtDNA match, their common ancestor would likely be on both of their direct maternal lines. Since they don't, it won't. The status of the mtDNA haplogroups is not entirely meaningless.

Nelda - "My thought was - since the X chromosome does not necessarily follow the mtdna line, that all persons who fall in to the appropriate places in the chart should be looked at for a common relationship? YES/NO??"
Yes
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Question I asked at [email protected]
Subject was:  X Chromosome question on cM sizes and relatedness

Question:

Example In ATdna if you have a large or several segments with the cM being very high... say over cM20 or accumulatively over 20cMs, I understand that can indicate that the common ancestor is closer to the present... Right?

Well does the same concept work for the X chromosome's results?

ANSWER:

Not necessarily. If the X chromosome passes through a lot of men on its way to you from a distant ancestor, segments may remain longer (in cM) for more generations. A long segment could mean your common ancestor is twice as far back in time as you think it should be based on autosomal estimates simply because the X chromosome experienced a zigzag of male to female to male to female etc. transmission.
Estimating generation times is extremely unreliable for the X based on size alone. If the segment has passed through women only, then the estimates are closer to the autosomal estimates but I don't really think the X has been studied very well in real life among enough people with great paper trails.

Kathy

TEST YOUR SELF:

Here is a related but trick question for the Newbies. You may have to look at Blaine Bettinger's pedigree charts to get the correct answer.
http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2009/01/12/more-x-chromosome-charts/

Suppose you have a mitochondrial and an X chromosome match with someone who shares the same mitochondrial gt-gt-grandmother ancestor, number 31 in each case. That means you have a match with a 3rd cousin. This cousin is related to one daughter of number 31 and you are related to another daughter. These two were full sisters. That makes ancestor number 31 a common ancestor for both of you. It also makes number 30, her husband a common ancestor. If the X chromosome segment match came from one of these individuals, which parent(s) of 30 or 31 is/are the most likely to have passed on the matching segment based on "probability" alone?

a. Ahnentafel number 60
b. Ahnentafel number 61
c. Ahnentafel number 62
d. Anhentafel number 63
e. None of the above because all 4 of these parents should have the same probability of passing on the matching segment
f. Ahnentafel numbers 61, 62 and 63 have an equal chance of passing on the matching segment.
g. Ahnentafel numbers 62 and 63 have an equal chance of passing on the matching segment but 60 and 61 have zero chance.

The winning answer is_______. Please explain why this is true.

After you have worked out the answer go back to the the Home page to see the answer, scroll down answer in white on Dark gray.  link

You can also use this chart to help you understand the parents of each of your ancestors. see number two's father's slot? Number four, none of his ancestors donate any X chromosome segments, but they do donate autosomal chromosomes, as every number on this chart does.

You can also identify the Y descent on this chart. See number 2, his father number 4, his father number 8, his father number 16 then his father number 32, and his father number 64 and then 128 and it would continue as far back as you have documented  ancestors. See the pattern? the Y line's number doubles every generation backwards.

Also your MTDNA, lineage can be found here. See #1, #3, # 7, #15, #31, #63, #127, #255

for me, Nelda #1, mom Nellie Bonstein #3, Grandmother Nellie Gillock #7, great grandmother Sarah Watson #15, 2x great grandmother Priscella Craft #31, 3x Great Grandmother Jane Stevenson #63  (all H3's) That's as far back as I have on her lineage.