{"id":9951,"date":"2019-04-24T12:28:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9951"},"modified":"2022-01-06T17:07:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T23:07:49","slug":"while-waiting-for-the-dna-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/while-waiting-for-the-dna-results\/","title":{"rendered":"While Waiting for the DNA Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some things to remember about DNA tests:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have your tree as complete as you can&#8211;evaluate connections that were mere guesses or hunches;<\/li>\n<li>work on finding descendants of aunts\/uncles as far down as you can while waiting for results&#8211;this helps with sorting out matches&#8211;it&#8217;s ok if you can&#8217;t figure them all out to the current generation;<\/li>\n<li>not every match will respond&#8211;people take DNA tests for different reasons and some may be surprised enough about their results that they don&#8217;t respond to inquiries.;<\/li>\n<li>remember that DNA won&#8217;t solve every genealogical problem;<\/li>\n<li>use any automatic sorting or predicted ancestor names by AncestryDNA as a potential clue&#8211;these predicted ancestors are based partially on trees submitted by other users which are not necessarily correct;<\/li>\n<li>you may find close relatives you did not know you had.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Help support\u00a0<em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em>\u00a0by visiting any of the following sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Try a\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\">Genealogy Search<\/a>\u00a0to see what you find.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-100334863-13671424\">Newspapers.com<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/K98DNOx\">AncestryDNA\u00a0<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/l\/K98DNOx\">offers.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/books-on-my-shelf\/\">Books on Michael\u2019s Genealogy Shelf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/webinars2021\/\">My webinars<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things to remember about DNA tests: have your tree as complete as you can&#8211;evaluate connections that were mere guesses or hunches; work on finding descendants of aunts\/uncles as far down as you can while waiting for results&#8211;this helps with sorting out matches&#8211;it&#8217;s ok if you can&#8217;t figure them all out to the current generation; [&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-9951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","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=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}