{"id":14490,"date":"2021-12-18T09:46:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2021-12-18T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T15:46:07","slug":"the-tree-you-created-for-that-dna-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/18\/the-tree-you-created-for-that-dna-match\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree You Created for that DNA Match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’ve got a DNA match that will not communicate with you and has a tree that names only their parents. You’ve been able to, using obituaries and other online sources get the tree back a few generations where you start using census and other online images of records. But in the more recent generations, you don’t have a large number of birth records, marriage records, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ve got a handful of obituaries and newspaper items to “prove” the lineage in the 20th century part of the tree you have compiled for this match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s the chance those items don’t distinguish between step-children and children? Is it possible, if you’ve only got a few references on each relationship that what you think are the biological relatives are actually step-relatives? While those people may have been parents\/grandparents in a variety of extremely important ways and may have raised the person and been their parent, the DNA matches reflect who reproduced with whom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that why the analysis of some matches is confusing? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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