{"id":9782,"date":"2019-03-17T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T13:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9782"},"modified":"2019-03-17T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T13:36:43","slug":"you-cant-share-significant-dna-with-every-distant-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/17\/you-cant-share-significant-dna-with-every-distant-cousin\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Share Significant DNA with Every Distant Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of DNA you have is not infinite. You cannot share significant genealogical amounts of DNA with every far-flung distant cousin you have. Humans have a lot of DNA, but the amount stays the same with every generation. You don&#8217;t get every &#8220;drop of DNA&#8221; every one of your ancestors had. <a href=\"https:\/\/isogg.org\/wiki\/Cousin_statistics\">There is a 69.8% chance that you and a 5th cousin have no detectable DNA relationship<\/a>. That\u00a0<em>does <strong>not<\/strong><\/em> mean you and that 5th cousin do not have the same ancestor.<\/p>\n<p>You just don&#8217;t have a big enough DNA chunk to prove it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of DNA you have is not infinite. You cannot share significant genealogical amounts of DNA with every far-flung distant cousin you have. Humans have a lot of DNA, but the amount stays the same with every generation. You don&#8217;t get every &#8220;drop of DNA&#8221; every one of your ancestors had. There is a [&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-9782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782","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=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}