Leeds Method

I have made some improvements to the Leeds Method that make it faster and easier to use. If you are

The Leeds Method uses a spreadsheet to sort your DNA matches into groups based on how the matches are related

A reader just asked me if, as an adoptee, she shouldn’t also be using those closer matches. And, yes, she

If you’ve been wanting to see me explain the Leeds Method in a video – step by step – now

Our DNA Color Cluster charts can be more powerful when they are organized. Here are seven organization tips. If you

What Is Overlap? Overlap is when a DNA relative is sorted into more than one Color Cluster. In the example

When I first developed DNA Color Clustering, I thought Ancestry.com’s “4th cousin” matches would not share enough DNA to be

After creating DNA Color Clusters using the Leeds Method, the next step is to identify the surnames associated with these

Unsure of how other people were sorting their Shared Matches from AncestryDNA, I developed my own method: the Leeds Method

For another look at how Color Clustering works with 4th cousins, I created a Color Cluster chart then added the