#Why are all my dna matches 4th cousin upgrade#

My goal is to really find the parents of our oldest known ancestor, my husband's GGGG GF, Major John Boston. We also have in the family a bible that is from the son of the GGG GF and proves our line down several more generations. He thought the Boston family line had ended. His Grandmother's maiden name was Boston but of course her married name wasn't. I was able to track down the person who donated them to the Archives.

The papers had been donated by another 4th cousin whose grandmother had them. I found them on the North Carolina Digital Archives. Their GGG GF, James Boston left some family papers to family members with names, dates of birth of his children and by whom they were baptized as well as the names of some of his grandchildren. Yes, we do have an accurate paper trail that supports my husband and his 4th cousin being cousins. That wouldn't help with the gap from our oldest known ancestor born in 1737 or the generation before that, which is what I really want to find out.Д«TW, the Y DNA test has not given us any other people with the same surname as my husband or his cousin. I have also just ordered an SNP test since it appears he may be of a certain SNP group that would help us get back perhaps to the 1600's.

#Why are all my dna matches 4th cousin upgrade#

Since my husband has done the Y111, would it be helpful for me to help the cousin upgrade to the Y111 or have the other brother test? I have already spent more than I liked to do my husband's and do not want to misuse any more. The cousin has a brother and I have questioned whether he would consider doing the Y 37 test, also. My husband and the cousin are of the oldest generation with the surname. Why wouldn't they have more shared matches? My husband has gone on to further testing but the cousin has not and I can't make a good arguement for him to do more with the results he got from the Y 37. They did have a couple matches that they shared. My husband had more than a dozen pages and his cousin only had one that was not full. Anyway, my husband had many more matches than his cousin at the Y 37 level. They match with a genetic distance of 2 and I have been told the two they did not match on were ones that mutate more frequently (not sure if I stated that correctly). I found a 4th cousin of my husband and they both did a Y 37 test.