{"id":11387,"date":"2020-03-05T23:20:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T05:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=11387"},"modified":"2020-03-05T23:21:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T05:21:01","slug":"one-thing-the-dna-matches-do-not-tell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/05\/one-thing-the-dna-matches-do-not-tell-me\/","title":{"rendered":"One Thing the DNA Matches Do Not Tell Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a DNA match (called &#8220;A&#8221;) with whom I share enough DNA that our relationship is probably between 4th and 6th cousins. A and I have several shared matches. The one with whom I share the most DNA (called &#8220;B&#8221;) is someone I know to be my 1st cousin once removed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This tells me nothing about how much DNA A and B share or what their relationship probably is. What I know is that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A and I are probably between 4th and 6th cousins.<\/li><li>B and I are first cousins, once removed. <\/li><li>A and B are DNA matches to each other as well. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not know what A and B&#8217;s relationship is to each other or how potentially precise that relationship is. They could be related more distantly to each other than they are to me. There is a chance that all three of us do not share the same ancestor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those having difficulty with the shared relationships, here&#8217;s a similar situation. A and I used to work together. B and I used to work together. A and B used to work together.  Those three statements could be true even A, B, and I never worked together at the same place at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a DNA match (called &#8220;A&#8221;) with whom I share enough DNA that our relationship is probably between 4th and 6th cousins. A and I have several shared matches. The one with whom I share the most DNA (called &#8220;B&#8221;) is someone I know to be my 1st cousin once removed. This tells me [&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-11387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387","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=11387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}