<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:large">Need to unsubscribe?</span><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy_genealogytipoftheday.com" target="_blank" style="font-size:large"> Manage here</a><span style="font-size:large">. </span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="georgia, serif">Genealogy Update 22 April 2026</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="georgia, serif">** Recent Genealogy Tips of the Day</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="georgia, serif">** When the Story Becomes the Truth</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="georgia, serif">** Clues in the DNA Account Username</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="georgia, serif">** Keep Getting the Update</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="georgia, serif">** Webinars</font></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="" size="4">------------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Recent Genealogy Tips of the Day</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">----------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div><ul><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/04/21/simple-ways-to-break-through-2/" style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">Simple Ways to Break Through</font></a></li><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/04/19/a-cheat-sheet-2/" style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">A Cheat Sheet</font></a></li><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/04/18/vetting-your-feathered-wildcard-approach/" style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">Vetting Your Feathered Wildcard Approach</font></a></li><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/04/17/registers-versus-certificates/" style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">Registers versus Certificates</font></a></li><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/04/16/ancestrydna-webinar/" style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">AncestryDNA Webinar</font></a></li><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/04/16/opening-up-after-a-death/" style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">Opening Up After a Death</font></a></li><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/04/15/migration-streams-2/" style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">Migration Streams</font></a></li><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/04/14/occupation-specific/" style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">Occupation Specific</font></a></li><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/04/13/prioritizing-acquaintances/" style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">Prioritizing Acquaintances</font></a></li><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/04/12/brick-wall-busters-2026/" style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">Brick Wall Busters 2026</font></a></li><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.com/index.php/2026/04/12/at-a-long-ago-event/" style="font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-decoration:none;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="4">At a Long-Ago Event</font></a></li><li><a href="https://genealogytipoftheday.c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it\u2019s important to review any materials before quoting them, discussing them, or analyzing them.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font size="4">----------------------------------</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font size="4">Clues in the DNA account username?</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font size="4">----------------------------------</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font size="4">DNA matches that have no trees or whose submitters fail to respond can be a challenge to those working through their genealogy DNA matches. Sometimes there\u2019s a clue in that username that may help you to determine who that match likely is.</font></p><font size="4"><img width="891" height="563" src="https://rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/username-dna-test-results.jpg" alt="" class="gmail-wp-image-10359" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: bottom; display: block; text-align: initial; font-family: inherit; transition-property: background, padding, margin, border, transform, box-shadow, opacity, color, fill, font, border-radius, max-height, max-width, filter, -webkit-transform, -webkit-box-shadow, -webkit-filter; transition-duration: 0.5s;"></font><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font size="4">These approaches are best done after you\u2019ve worked on matches that you can determine. That work usually allows a researcher to have an idea of what general part of your tree a match is from. Two treeless matches with submitters who did not respond were likely determined using their username. Unfortunately those usernames did not appear to be the actual name of the submitter.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font size="4">In both cases, the shared matches that I had with the match in question allowed me to know which portion of DNA testee\u2019s tree the match was related through. That helped.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;font-family:inherit;max-width:100%"><font size="4">The MySpacer</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font size="4">This match was known to connect to the test kit submitter through the submitter\u2019s maternal grandmother. The connection to the kit submitter was in the second-third cousin range and not someone who could easily be identified as closer matches were. This match had no tree and did not respond to a couple of contact attempts. A Google search was conducted for their username that was used for their DNA results. It turned out an old MySpace account had the same user name. Looking at the public information on that page (including their actual name) provided enough identifying information that the match\u2019s identity and relationship to the DNA kit I managed could be determined.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;outline:0px;text-align:initial;font-family:inherit;max-width:100%"><font size="4">Named for my parents</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font size="4">This match was known to connect to my DNA results through one of my paternal great-grandfathers George Trautvetter. The username, which I have changed, was of the form \u201cbobandesmerelda.\u201d There was no attached tree and no response to communication. In reviewing all the descendants of George Trautvetter\u2019s grandfather (also a George Trautvetter), I located a deceased great-granddaughter named Esmerelda who I had not researched any further. Information on her indicated her husband was named Robert. While I\u2019m not certain exactly who the match is, it seems possible that the submitter named the account for their parents\u2013Bob and Esmerelda. The genealogical cousinship I have with Esmerelda is consistent with the predicted relationship range based upon the shared DNA. Not 100% proof, but suggestive enough for me to classify the match as determined.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(23,37,42)"></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;outline:0px;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;;line-height:1.6;color:rgb(37,41,42);text-align:initial;max-width:100%"><font size="4">In both cases, my analysis is in my DNA match notes so that I remember later exactly how these matches were determined and can re-evaluate later if necessary.</font></p></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-size:20px"><span style="font-size:24px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif">Want to keep getting the <span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">blog</span></span> <span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">update</span></span>?</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-size:20px"><span style="font-size:24px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-size:20px"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font face="georgia, serif">With distribution costs of the updates, we&#39;ve finally had to stop sending this out for free after this issue. We hope you&#39;ve enjoyed receiving the updates, but we simply have to pay the bills to keep things afloat.</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-size:20px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-size:20px"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font face="georgia, serif">There are items in the <span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">update</span></span> that are not published in our blogs. </font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-size:20px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-size:20px"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font face="georgia, serif">We&#39;re only asking $5 a year to get the weekly <span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">update</span></span>. </font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-size:20px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-size:20px"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font face="georgia, serif">If you don&#39;t want to receive the weekly <span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">update</span></span> after that---do nothing. If you&#39;d like to keep getting the weekly <span class="gmail-il"><span class="gmail-il">update</span></span>, use one of our two options:</font></span></p><ul style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;color:rgb(64,63,66);font-size:20px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://erpzbosab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hmhFJl5DJbrEp8AqspsovmO2xlsP4l2wi9y0CLOHNLLSMgrM26bCgFhW0fT6JkRYFLsS4KFB0tZmVf2RuZ9WLm3w2YZIau8ZaPrJHTgUzhOill7G0sIgabVFo1l0AHBQXFjMnOc2b6MnhqZVMj3yXz6cVIOiMPMKMjbsur8qCfYBaTxG4rZC8XpKvY83izCVWMsuZKK7ZRlatWiA8RlBNInb-IospbOZPm18tqN-dcyH07zOmwsKAg==&amp;c=V2Z9JSRAPdp8Yh6St3I14Vo4-3flizguUGdRJFlpvIDpRN2hqqIJnQ==&amp;ch=WlNW1ibfqSQ6lcv8vC2pEP49wYJX8RfsT6oAJKjczQzgkChSA-DA-A==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-size:13px">auto renewal</a><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,255)">--your payment option will be charged automatically in a year. You can always stop the payment beforehand.</span></font></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://erpzbosab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001hmhFJl5DJbrEp8AqspsovmO2xlsP4l2wi9y0CLOHNLLSMgrM26bCgFhW0fT6JkRYcP016londRtrGOcOhq2orersUBMikTgvb9k1O8sob1-bybAYyBuKNluPK5NdX9hAVGJS__LaE7puVeqQoGW34ux6vR5_phY-xFznIRk1uPLP-fysqq12PyL4Z4DcV1AcXJ0bavJLSW6TQ9v26HyfUfV12818EDVrl1ilrDWbVvCm5cS63KpzaQ==&amp;c=V2Z9JSRAPdp8Yh6St3I14Vo4-3flizguUGdRJFlpvIDpRN2hqqIJnQ==&amp;ch=WlNW1ibfqSQ6lcv8vC2pEP49wYJX8RfsT6oAJKjczQzgkChSA-DA-A==" re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