Bigger really is better! And I must admit that when I see a nice, big one I get excited.....Anything less than 7 is insignificant and really not worth pursuing.
7 cM that is. I'm talking about centimorgans (cMs). What did you think I was talking about???
I realize that some genetic genealogists place value in smaller than 7 cM segments, and I *DO* understand that sometimes segment shares smaller than 7 cM are in fact IBD (Identical by Descent) and not IBS (Identical by State). But, with 14 kits with results and counting at 23andme, I have only so much time, and I prefer to focus on the bigger matches for now.
Most of the kits I manage at 23andme have hit the 1000 DNA relatives cap long ago, and no longer receive 7cM matches, but they do occasionally show up as they are sharing a larger segment with another kit.
I enter all matching segments, regardless of size, into my spreadsheets, but usually only focus on trying to find a common ancestor with larger matches. An exception to this is if the segment is shared by multiple people, or I already know the ancestor I got that segment from.
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