AutoCluster Analysis

This document explains the visual chart that contains your AutoCluster analysis.

AutoClusters is a new technology on MyHeritage that organizes your DNA Matches

into shared match clusters, that likely descended from common ancestors. Each of
the colored cells in the chart represents an intersection between two of your matches,
meaning that both individuals match each other (in addition to matching you). These
cells are grouped together physically and by color to create a powerful visual chart of
your shared match clusters.

Each color represents one shared match cluster. Members of a cluster match you
and most or all of the other cluster members. Everyone in a cluster will likely be on
the same ancestral line, although the most recent common ancestor between any of
the matches and between you and any match may vary. The generational level of the
clusters may vary as well. One may be your paternal grandmother’s branch, and
another may be your paternal great-grandfather’s branch.

You may see several gray cells that do not belong to any color-grouped cluster. They
usually represent a shared match where one of the two cousins is too closely related
to you to belong to just one cluster. Each of these cousins belongs to a color-grouped
cluster, and the gray cell indicates that one of them belongs in both clusters. A group
of adjacent gray cells can be an indication that two clusters are related to each other.

You can explore each cluster by viewing the family trees of its members and try to
identify it. This can lead to new revelations about some of your own ancestors that
you are currently unfamiliar with.

Settings used for this AutoCluster analysis

Your AutoCluster analysis was generated using thresholds of 20 cM (minimum) and

350 cM (maximum). In addition, DNA Matches were required to share at least 10 cM
with one another in order to be indicated with a colored or gray cell. A total number of
84 DNA Matches ended up in 24 clusters in the final analysis.

These thresholds were automatically selected and adjusted by our algorithms for your
analysis, in order to yield the best clusters for your specific DNA kit.
The following 40 matches have been excluded from the AutoCluster analysis
because they did not have any shared matches:
Joakim Klaus Mosebach, rebecca leffler, Mustafa Besic, Ramona Richenberg,
Thomas Meurer, Jenny Felsner, Janie, William Renken, Anna Kriwitsch, Sharon
Russell (born Morgan), Monika Obrochta, Wojciech Arciszewski, Sándor Farkas,
Gabriele Ludwig, Erhan Osman, Damir Brdar, THOMAS SELKE, Jörg Schlader,
Johanna Szabo, Gusztáv Jakab, Gisela Schmidt, Lorraine Tyler, AG B, Georgina
Baker, Ursula Gross-Förster, Sue Lenore Whitney, Ann Maher, diane kerman,
Katharine Gilbert, Rosemarie Platt, Ruth Strübing, Elmar Börger, Bill McKenzie, van
den Laurentia Anna Maria van den Ende, Frankie James Evans, Алексей Токарев,
Carina Klingryd, Jeremy Bublitz, Anette Rutkowsky, Dorothy Cunningham.

The following 88 matches met the inclusion criteria but ended up in singleton clusters
without other members and are therefore excluded from the analysis as well:
Anton Sjöberg, Jeff Harber, Aurore plubeau, William Szymanski, B_Mus, Karolina
Koukola, Patricia Walker, Judy Montgomery, Margaret Carol, MICHELE ACROUTE,
Ken Trnka, Lis Rosendahl Larsen (født Hansen), Harry Niese, William McKenney,
Lirika Kabo (Malushi), Nathalie Struijk, Linda Delorme, Brian Bennett, JILL
ORLANDO, Shirley Evers, Diane Berg, Alina Lallo, GERALDINE TOROLSKI, Ericka
Hudnall, Terra Moore, Zbigniew Leszczynski, Tanja Seier, Richard Sommer, Wendell
Craft, Terri Lundquist, Jamie Kelly, magdalena walczak, Christoffer Lund, Jolanda
Spithorst, Andrea Schick, Annette Kristensson, linda björnman, Angelika Heine,
Steffen Pfändt, Nick Tartaglia, Janet Fogarty, Greg Moroney, PATRICK BRANDNER,
Daniel Morlan, Anthony Pence, Christine Ramirez, Peter Brennand, John Harkness,
Hansuwe Kock, Hindrik Smit, Zsófi Berkes, Robyn Early, Neville Shack, Dyanne
Carpenter, Hans-Peter Prigge, David Bauer, edward winn, Barbara Kavanaugh, Jan
Hornuf, Jeff Kalata, Judy Hurwitz, ann Shadwick (born murphy), John Schaefer, Mina
Oedske Janke "Zusje" van der Vegt (geboren Leegstra), Reed Dunn, Dimitry
Mendelevich Nasledov, Traute Amort, Нина Барышева (Голованова), Kiersten
McCauslin, Barbara Anastasia Langham, James Alex Szydlowski, Nicole Rydz,
Kamila Aleksandra Davies, Carina Sallingboe Jacobsen, Josephine Winkler, Natalie
Hartley, Maggie Boyle, Gail fox (born Hamlin) Slanczka, Jennifer Dugan, James
Richard Hulse, Nicole Angela Dreier, Howard Abraham, Claudine Brandner, Elisabeth
Karlsson, Dixie Hillebrand, Natalia Bardina (born Gordienko), RB, Laurence Brésard.

In the zip file sent to you, there are three files: an HTML file that contains your
AutoCluster analysis visualized in a chart; a CSV file that contains a spreadsheet
version of your AutoCluster analysis; and this ReadMe PDF file. Some files may be
displayed incorrectly when opened directly from this email. To avoid this, first save
the zip file to your hard drive, extract the contents of the zip file, and then open the
files.
The AutoClusters feature on MyHeritage was developed in collaboration with Evert-
Jan Blom.