{"id":13816,"date":"2021-07-22T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=13816"},"modified":"2021-07-23T11:47:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:47:41","slug":"care-with-dna-matches-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/care-with-dna-matches-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Care With DNA Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ancestry-matches-first-four.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ancestry-matches-first-four.jpg 637w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ancestry-matches-first-four-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ancestry-matches-first-four-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ancestry-matches-first-four-624x620.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When viewing your DNA \u201cmatches\u201d take some care before you assume what the connection is or that there is only one connection. It is possible that: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>one person has a \u201cerror\u201d in their tree;<\/li><li>there was an adoption early in the lineage that was completely undocumented;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\"><\/a>It\u2019s usually easier to figure out the relationship when the matches are closer.<\/li><li>the father (or mother) shown in an online tree really is not the father (or mother);<\/li><li>one of the \u201cparents\u201d was married more than once and the \u201cparent\u201d is actually the step-parent;<\/li><li>you may be related to the person in more than one distant way.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t jump to a conclusion about \u201cwhere in the tree\u201d the match has to be. A recent match for me indicated a distant relationship to an individual. It turned out that we were distantly related on two families\u2013one in Indiana in the 1820s and another in Ontario about the same time period. There was absolutely no connection between the Indiana and Ontario families at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It just happened that a hundred years later an Indiana descendant &nbsp;and an Ontario descendant married in Illinois in the 1930s and that another Indiana descendant and an Ontario descendant married in Michigan around the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When viewing your DNA \u201cmatches\u201d take some care before you assume what the connection is or that there is only one connection. It is possible that: one person has a \u201cerror\u201d in their tree; there was an adoption early in the lineage that was completely undocumented;It\u2019s usually easier to figure out the relationship when the [&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-13816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13816","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=13816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}