{"id":24455,"date":"2025-03-02T10:27:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=24455"},"modified":"2025-03-02T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:27:35","slug":"letting-go-of-some-dna-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/letting-go-of-some-dna-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting Go of Some DNA Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There’s only so much time and one has to prioritize where they are likely to get the most bang out of their genealogy time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s where I tend to put DNA matches like this one. Not because of just one reason, but really because of three. We only share 9 centimorgans of DNA. This means, probabilistically speaking, that the match shares nothing closer than a set of third great-grandparents. That’s not bad and it’s not the real problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also have no shared matches. That gives me no way to put the match into a pull or cluster of other shared matches whose common ancestor is known or reasonably known. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no linked tree and the public tree the account has is lacking in details. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of making good use of my time, this is three strikes and they are out. There’s only so much time in the day. If the person reached out to me, I would certainly respond and ask if they had a more complete tree or information that could help in determining the relationship. But unless something changes, this match would have me spinning my wheels more than I care to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Particularly when I have hundreds of others for whom I have more details with which to work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s only so much time and one has to prioritize where they are likely to get the most bang out of their genealogy time. That’s where I tend to put DNA matches like this one. Not because of just one reason, but really because of three. We only share 9 centimorgans of DNA. This means, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24455","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}