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The Value of a DNA Segment

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 Hi folks, if you saw my post last week,  Wikitree, and the Value of Half-Relatives  then you know that I was excited to know that the one DNA segment that my mystery match and I shared was from one shared ancestor, my second great-grandfather Elias Henry Baysinger.  Elias Henry Baysinger 1832-1900 Elias married three times and had 15 children, one of whom died at birth or within days of birth and is buried in the same grave as my second great-grandmother Sarah who was the second wife and mother of ten.  My match descends from the third wife, Lydia, so the shared segment comes only from Elias, and from neither wife.  What can I do with this segment data beyond "painting" it? Gedmatch Free Tools The first tool I used was at Gedmatch , called People who match both kits, or 1 of 2 kits , a free tool. I often use this kit to find out who a mystery match is, because as the ungainly title of the tool says, it creates a list of those kits who match both kits. If some recognizable na