{"id":9956,"date":"2019-04-25T22:55:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T03:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9956"},"modified":"2019-04-25T22:55:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T03:55:19","slug":"two-issues-with-dna-analysis-on-rural-generational-non-movers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/25\/two-issues-with-dna-analysis-on-rural-generational-non-movers\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Issues with DNA Analysis on Rural Generational Non-Movers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNA analysis can be complicated when one doesn&#8217;t know too much about their tree. Those of us who have ancestors who for generations lived in a rural area or a small tight-knit community have at least two additional issues that can compound the analysis of our matches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the number of people to we are related in more than one way&#8211;with relationships close enough that it can impact autosomal DNA results;<\/li>\n<li>the number of people where I and Bob are both related to A&#8211;but in different ways. Bob, A, and I don&#8217;t share any common ancestors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When there are gaps in your tree, these issues can make people appear to be related in ways they are not when analyzing DNA matches.<\/p>\n<p>For a little more read my longer post on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=8707\">Another Confusing Set of Shared DNA Matches.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA analysis can be complicated when one doesn&#8217;t know too much about their tree. Those of us who have ancestors who for generations lived in a rural area or a small tight-knit community have at least two additional issues that can compound the analysis of our matches: the number of people to we are related [&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-9956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956","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=9956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}