I was adopted at birth and know very little identifying information about my birth parents.
I recently took a DNA test on Ancestry.com and found a match that was a possible 1st/2nd cousin match.
After much research, I was able to get in touch with this individual. After explaining the circumstances of my birth, he feels with all of his heart that he is my half-brother.
Currently, neither of us have any immediate relatives who've taken DNA tests.
According to Ancestry.com, we share 611 Centimorgans across 38 DNA segments. I don't think we're brothers because from all I can tell, there's just not enough shared DNA.
He's going to gedmatch today and upload his information. I would like to know. All the circumstances and timing makes sense that he would be my half-brother, but the DNA is saying different.
Anyone have any ideas?
I've read that have sibling can have some weird shared DNA.
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. Also please take into account that tables on ISOGG site are for regular situations. If there were such things like inbreeding or marriages between cousins, DNA test will show very pecular results. But they can be explained too!!!!