3rd to 4th cousin – Eugene Yurtsev – Closest possible unknown relative identified to date.
Eugene Yurtsev is the closest possible unknown relative identified to date. Eugene and I have made contact on 23andMe.
Third cousin means that we might share great-great-grandparents, in other words, Frank’s grandparents.
He will be exploring his family tree with his family in the coming days. What I have learned is that a few years ago he migrated to the United States from Israel where he and his family had migrated from Belarus (600 km x 600 km; landlocked; surrounded by Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Latvia and Lithuania).
The lab matching determined that we share 0.41% of our genes and 4 chromosome segments: two on chr 1, and one each on 6 and 12.
However, we don’t share common Y haplotype or Mitochondrial haplotype. Since his Y chromosome is not our E, then his intervening line of descent, at some stage was through the maternal line.
My brother Brian shares two on chr 1 and 1 on chr 6. Curiously, my son David shares the most segments, 5, whereas son Jon shares none at all.
David shares: chr 1 x2; chr 6 x 2; chr 12 x 1.
Stay tuned.
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