{"id":7859,"date":"2018-01-20T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2018-01-20T09:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T15:30:55","slug":"two-first-cousins-of-my-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/20\/two-first-cousins-of-my-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Two First Cousins of My Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7290\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7290\" class=\"wp-image-7290 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/connie_ufkes_neill_and_dorothy_habben_ufkes_about_1950-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/connie_ufkes_neill_and_dorothy_habben_ufkes_about_1950-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/connie_ufkes_neill_and_dorothy_habben_ufkes_about_1950-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/connie_ufkes_neill_and_dorothy_habben_ufkes_about_1950.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Mom and Grandma taken 1950s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two first cousins of my mother had autosomal DNA tests done. One was the child of a full sibling of her mother. The other was the child of a full sibling of her father.\u00a0While I can use them to help sort out my maternal matches, I cannot assume that all of my maternal DNA matches will match one or the other of them. It&#8217;s very possible that I have DNA from one of my maternal ancestors that the two first cousins of my mother do not.<\/p>\n<p>And someone else could match me on that DNA.<\/p>\n<p>The two first cousins of my mother should help me filter out a significant number of my maternal matches, but they will not help me sort out all of them.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=4975\">Michael&#8217;s DNA webinars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two first cousins of my mother had autosomal DNA tests done. One was the child of a full sibling of her mother. The other was the child of a full sibling of her father.\u00a0While I can use them to help sort out my maternal matches, I cannot assume that all of my maternal DNA matches [&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-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859","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=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}