{"id":12840,"date":"2021-01-11T10:47:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=12840"},"modified":"2021-01-11T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:04:36","slug":"first-steps-to-analyzing-dna-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/11\/first-steps-to-analyzing-dna-results\/","title":{"rendered":"First Steps to Analyzing DNA Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DNA results can be overwhelming and some are anxious to solve those decades-long brick walls the minute they get the results back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s not how it works, especially if you have never analyzed DNA results before. To help in the results analysis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Have your tree as complete as you can.<\/li><li>Trace as many descendants of your ancestors through your 3rd great-grandparents as possible&#8211;at least down to people born in the 1920-1930 era. This helps in analyzing short trees.<\/li><li>Identify as many matches as you can (back through 3rd\/4th cousins at least)&#8211;even on the lines you are not interested in. This helps to sort out other matches and helps to build your skills. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA results can be overwhelming and some are anxious to solve those decades-long brick walls the minute they get the results back. That&#8217;s not how it works, especially if you have never analyzed DNA results before. To help in the results analysis: Have your tree as complete as you can. Trace as many descendants of [&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-12840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840","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=12840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}