{"id":8784,"date":"2018-08-13T18:58:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T23:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8784"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:58:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T23:58:35","slug":"some-thoughts-on-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/13\/some-thoughts-on-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts on DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-13419715\"><em>AncestryDNA<\/em>&#8216;s sale<\/a> (through 20 August 2018) is a good time to remind about some things to be aware of when doing any DNA test:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>this is a autosomal test&#8211;to work all lines, not just the paternal or the maternal.\u00a0<em>Know what type of test you are taking.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t just wait for the results to arrive thinking that they&#8217;ll solve all your genealogy problems&#8211;they won&#8217;t.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6713\">Read our suggestions for what to do while waiting for your results to arrive.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>other submitters will have no trees tied to their DNA results<\/li>\n<li>some submitters will have no idea about their ancestry<\/li>\n<li>some submitters will never respond to your request for information<\/li>\n<li>some matches will be difficult or impossible to figure out<\/li>\n<li>DNA won&#8217;t solve all your problems<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5202\">DNA may alter your genealogical reality<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Once you get back to your 5th great-grandparents, there is a possible chance (4.95%) you have none of their DNA. That chance increases as your extend your pedigree further back (<a href=\"https:\/\/isogg.org\/wiki\/Cousin_statistics\">see chart here<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-13419715\"><em>AncestryDNA<\/em>, just like any DNA test is a tool. One tool will never solve all your problems.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AncestryDNA&#8216;s sale (through 20 August 2018) is a good time to remind about some things to be aware of when doing any DNA test: this is a autosomal test&#8211;to work all lines, not just the paternal or the maternal.\u00a0Know what type of test you are taking. don&#8217;t just wait for the results to arrive thinking [&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-8784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784","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=8784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}