{"id":12288,"date":"2020-10-09T07:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T12:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12288"},"modified":"2020-10-09T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T12:59:50","slug":"write-up-your-process-when-you-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/09\/write-up-your-process-when-you-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Up Your Process&#8211;When You Do it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several years ago I worked through a set of DNA matches and reached a conclusion about the paternal grandmother of the testee. I felt strongly that my reasoning and conclusion were correct. As more matches have come in for this test, they have all been consistent with that original conclusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s not the problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never wrote up my analysis and recently a correspondent, new to genealogy and from a different part of the family, asked me about the testee&#8217;s relationship to the paternal grandmother. The correspondent very nicely asked me &#8220;how I reached my conclusion.&#8221; She wasn&#8217;t doubting it, she just wanted to know how&#8211;partly so she could see if my conclusion was correct and also I think to help her with another part of her own family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took me half a day to go back through the results, re-create the analysis, and write it up. It did not hurt me to do it (and could have helped me catch an analytical mistake), but it wasted time that I could have been doing something else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whenever any conclusion requires time and analysis to reach: write it out then. You&#8217;ll be glad you did later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I worked through a set of DNA matches and reached a conclusion about the paternal grandmother of the testee. I felt strongly that my reasoning and conclusion were correct. As more matches have come in for this test, they have all been consistent with that original conclusion. That&#8217;s not the problem. I [&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-12288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288","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=12288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}