{"id":8658,"date":"2018-07-14T10:49:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T15:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2018-07-14T10:49:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T15:49:33","slug":"work-from-what-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/14\/work-from-what-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Work From What You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=4975\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8114\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/trautvetter-descendants-dna-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a>It can be tempting when viewing your autosomal DNA matches to immediately start on the one family you &#8220;really&#8221; want to know about or that match that really confuses you and ignore the families you aren&#8217;t immediately interested in.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Work out the other ones that may be a little easier to figure out&#8211;especially when getting started. There&#8217;s three main reasons for doing that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it will improve your DNA analytical skills<\/li>\n<li>later you may need to use what you&#8217;ve figured out to see where you still have gaps<\/li>\n<li>you may make discoveries on families you &#8220;thought you had figured out&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And you may build your confidence by having some luck with the easier ones first.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not going to figure them all out in one day and your best DNA discoveries are not made immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Be patient with your results&#8211;and with yourself.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=4975\">Michael&#8217;s list of DNA analysis webinars<\/a>&#8211;download immediate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be tempting when viewing your autosomal DNA matches to immediately start on the one family you &#8220;really&#8221; want to know about or that match that really confuses you and ignore the families you aren&#8217;t immediately interested in. Don&#8217;t. Work out the other ones that may be a little easier to figure out&#8211;especially when [&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-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","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=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}