{"id":9578,"date":"2019-02-03T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9578"},"modified":"2019-02-03T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T16:53:47","slug":"start-slow-with-initial-dna-match-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/03\/start-slow-with-initial-dna-match-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Slow with Initial DNA Match Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing a new DNA match appear in your results list can be exciting. That excitement is only magnified when the match is a relatively close one on a family on which you are stuck. Start slow and don&#8217;t overwhelm the individual with details. They may be new to genealogy research completely. They may have taken the test because they got it as a gift. They may have taken the test to find out information about their biological parents. They may have discovered in their test results things about their parents or grandparents they didn&#8217;t know (like that a grandparent wasn&#8217;t a grandparent or that the testee had more siblings than they thought) and may be overwhelmed by emotion and not just confusing results.<\/p>\n<p>Start slow. Here&#8217;s one idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello. I am the administrator for my wife&#8217;s uncle&#8217;s test results that shows you as a close match&#8211;1st to 2nd cousin. Based on the shared matches, I&#8217;m guessing that there is a connection to his mother, who was Lizzie BioparentswerefromaUFO, who was born in the Pullman area of Chicago in 1913. I&#8217;d be happy to discuss the relationship further if you are interested.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing a new DNA match appear in your results list can be exciting. That excitement is only magnified when the match is a relatively close one on a family on which you are stuck. Start slow and don&#8217;t overwhelm the individual with details. They may be new to genealogy research completely. They may have taken [&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-9578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578","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=9578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}