(slightly edited on 7 pm eastern time 25 April 2019). There are reports that ThruLines at AncestryDNA changes data from your tree before it displays it in your ThruLines. It does. It doesn’t change what’s in your tree. Information in the white boxes in the ThruLines report is “supposed” to be pulled from the tree […]

ThruLines at AncestryDNA is a clue and can be helpful in sorting matches that have trees associated with them. Researchers should validate the connections that ThruLines shows in the trees it creates. This is true with any record. Just because ThruLines is partially associated with a DNA test does not mean that it is any […]

It seems like there have been some changes to ThruLines since I first experimented with it. ThruLines (through it’s automated processes) indicates as of 14 April 2019 that Charles Chaney had two sons named Thomas. My immediate family appears in the family of the left Thomas (shown in the first image). ThruLines (based upon my […]

Experimenting with ThruLines(tm) again, I realized a few additional things that are frustrating and was reminded of a few things that are worth mentioning again: My 4th great aunt is shown here as “private.” I understand that she may be private in some trees, but is she private in every tree? I tend to doubt it. […]

One would think that ThruLines would at least be consistent in presenting a lineage. That thought would be wrong. As an experiment, the family tree attached to a set of test results only included the name of the mother of the testee (Grace [Mortier] Johnson, born in 1913 in Rock Island County, Illinois). ThruLines(tm) constructed a […]

After some experimentation, I’ll keep using “ThruLines”(tm) while keeping the following things in mind: DNA may not lie, but online trees do. “ThruLines”(tm) is great for an initial sort of matches that have attached trees with shared ancestors. You still need to work on documenting the connection because some trees have errors, some trees are […]

  Your tree has not been changed with ThruLines(TM). What’s white is from your tree. What’s gray is from other trees in the set of trees at Ancestry.com. ThruLines(TM) indicates the submitter of the tree from which the “is box” information has been obtained. Those gray boxes are showing you the suggested connection between the DNA […]

To begin with, remember that the only DNA matches that appear in “ThruLines(tm)” at AncestryDNA are those who have trees attached to their results. Their tree may be hidden but they will still show and, in some cases, the names in their genealogical connection may be displayed on your “ThruLines(tm)” results page. One current advantage of using “ThruLines(tm)” […]