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#Genealogy question: I've been trying to group my DNA matches on Ancestry, but some of my mom's paternal first cousins share three of her four grandparents, as they are/were my maternal grandmother's half-siblings. How do you suggest I group them/their shared matches?

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AncestryDNA assigns matches to the maternal or paternal side of the family. Except when you're related to the match on both sides of your tree--like with these two. They both descend from siblings of my g-grandma Neill and two different sets of maternal ggg-grandparents. #genealogy

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