{"id":10565,"date":"2019-09-13T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T20:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10565"},"modified":"2021-03-16T08:24:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T13:24:12","slug":"is-there-someone-closer-for-a-dna-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/13\/is-there-someone-closer-for-a-dna-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There Someone Closer for a DNA Test?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a limit to how far back Autosomal DNA testing can be used to determine genealogical relationships simply because a person gets half their DNA from each parent and the further back you go the smaller the potential share you get from each ancestor. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s advised that people have parents and grandparents or other relatives of that generation tested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But are there some cousins who are not quite as distant from your ancestors as you are? My great-grandmother Ufkes has several descendants. Two of them are in their late twenties. One of those twenty-somethings is also her great-granddaughter. The other twenty-something is her great-great-granddaughter. Which would be preferable for testing if you could only afford one test? The great-granddaughter would be preferred as she&#8217;s &#8220;closer&#8221; generationally speaking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have any living relatives who are one generation &#8220;earlier&#8221; than you? In other words, are you a great-great-great-grandchild while they are a great-great-grandchild of the common ancestor? They would be an ideal person to test as there&#8217;s one less generation to split the DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a limit to how far back Autosomal DNA testing can be used to determine genealogical relationships simply because a person gets half their DNA from each parent and the further back you go the smaller the potential share you get from each ancestor. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s advised that people have parents and grandparents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}