{"id":13784,"date":"2021-07-16T07:53:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13784"},"modified":"2021-07-17T08:02:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:02:59","slug":"the-paper-genealogy-tree-versus-the-genetic-family-tree-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/16\/the-paper-genealogy-tree-versus-the-genetic-family-tree-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paper Genealogy Tree Versus the Genetic Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While DNA passes from parent to child, each child only gets half of each of their individual parent\u2019s DNA. Consequently, as a lineage is worked back in time, there will be ancestors in your genealogical tree with whom you might not share any DNA. It doesn\u2019t mean that the ancestor is not your ancestor. It simply means that their DNA did not makes it\u2019s way all the way down to you. While DNA is microscopically small, there\u2019s only so much your body needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some suggest (for example, Blaine Bettinger in his&nbsp;&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1440345325\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1440345325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=gentipoftheda-20&amp;linkId=58db441af5d154d1ba57d014c3195e2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy<\/a><\/em>) that once a lineage is traced back to the 4th great-grandparents that there are paper genealogy tree ancestors with whom you do not share DNA. &nbsp;That\u2019s why you may share no DNA with another descendant of one of your 5th great-grandparents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course there have to be ancestors in your tree with whom you do share DNA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While DNA passes from parent to child, each child only gets half of each of their individual parent\u2019s DNA. Consequently, as a lineage is worked back in time, there will be ancestors in your genealogical tree with whom you might not share any DNA. It doesn\u2019t mean that the ancestor is not your ancestor. It [&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-13784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784","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=13784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}