A few beginner questions...
I took a dna test through ancestry.com and didn't find anywhere near a close match on there so I joined ysearch.org.I manually input my results and noticed that I have a few matches with "genetic distances" of 1 and 2 and 3.How close are these?Someone I know had a genetic distance of 1 between him and his father.Does that mean that if I find someone with a genetic distance of 1 with me that we're related somehow?I'm a J1 and evidently a rare type, or so I've been told, due to one of my markers.I've found someone else with my same surname who had a genetic distance of 6 from me.Are these matches?I have no idea what these genetic distances are.Any help clarifying would be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance.
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