{"id":29300,"date":"2025-09-04T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=29300"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:29:09","slug":"verify-thrulines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/verify-thrulines\/","title":{"rendered":"Verify ThruLines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thrulines.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"789\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thrulines.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thrulines.jpg 789w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thrulines-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thrulines-768x401.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I occasionally use Ancestry&#8217;s ThruLines to get a quick suggestion about a DNA match. I always thought that what was in the white boxes of the display of a ThruLines relationship and any relationship connections between boxes all came from me tree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The white boxes in this illustration are all for people who are in the tree tied to my DNA results at AncestryDNA. But I do not show Trientje U. Behrens and Trientje H. Behrens as half-sisters in my tree. Trientje H. is a double first cousin of Trientje U. Behrens in my tree because that&#8217;s the relationship between those two individuals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve always confirmed from other sources what was in the gray boxes of a ThruLines match. Now it appears that I&#8217;ll now have to confirm at least the relationshsips between the white boxes as shows on ThruLines to make certain what ThruLines is showing is actually what&#8217;s in my tree.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I occasionally use Ancestry&#8217;s ThruLines to get a quick suggestion about a DNA match. I always thought that what was in the white boxes of the display of a ThruLines relationship and any relationship connections between boxes all came from me tree. Apparently not. The white boxes in this illustration are all for people who [&hellip;]<\/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":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29300","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=29300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}