{"id":7013,"date":"2017-07-28T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7013"},"modified":"2017-07-28T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:18:18","slug":"the-paper-genealogy-tree-versus-the-genetic-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/the-paper-genealogy-tree-versus-the-genetic-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paper Genealogy Tree Versus the Genetic Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While DNA passes from parent to child, each child only gets half of each of their individual parent&#8217;s 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&#8217;t mean that the ancestor is not your ancestor. It simply means that their DNA did not makes it&#8217;s way all the way down to you. While DNA is microscopically small, there&#8217;s only so much your body needs.<\/p>\n<p>Some suggest (for example, Blaine Bettinger in his\u00a0\u00a0<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=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy<\/a><\/em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gentipoftheda-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1440345325\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>) 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. \u00a0That&#8217;s why you may share no DNA with another descendant of one of your 5th great-grandparents.<\/p>\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&#8217;s 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&#8217;t 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-7013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013","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=7013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}