{"id":10087,"date":"2020-09-13T03:47:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T03:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2020-09-13T03:47:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T03:47:28","slug":"descendants-besides-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10087","title":{"rendered":"Descendants Besides You?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Readers know that I hate genealogy &#8220;games.&#8221; I think most of them are time wasters and I cannot see any real purpose in completing them just to say that I completed a challenge in some made contest. However as something of a more practical challenge, I decided to see how many other descendants of my great and great-great-grandparents show up in my DNA results at AncestryDNA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Neill great-grandparents&#8211;no matches other than me.<\/li><li>Trautvetter great-grandparents&#8211;two other descendants<\/li><li>Ufkes great-grandparents&#8211;two other descendants<\/li><li>Habben great-grandparents&#8211;three other descendants<\/li><li>Neill great-great-grandparents&#8211;ten other descendants<\/li><li>Rampley great-great-grandparents&#8211;eight other descendants<\/li><li>Trautvetter great-great-grandparents&#8211;three other descendants<\/li><li>Sargent great-great-grandparents&#8211;none<\/li><li>Ufkes great-great-grandparents&#8211;four other descendants<\/li><li>Janssen great-great-grandparents&#8211;none<\/li><li>Habben great-great-grandparents&#8211;two other descendants<\/li><li>Goldenstein great-great-grandparents&#8211;seven other descendants<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that the matches with descendants of my great-great-grandparents descend from a different one of their children than I do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of my DNA matches are also descendants of my Neill great-grandparents. That family was relatively small compared to my other great-grandparents&#8217; families and, to the best of my knowledge, none of them have tested (at least I hope not). I do have matches who are descendants of my Neill great-grandparents&#8217; parents (and their grandparents and their great-grandparents&#8211;just not shown in this chart) and who share amounts of DNA consistent with our genealogical cousin relationship. The concern would have been if I had discovered <em>no <\/em>matches of both sets of their parents or earlier generations. That&#8217;s not the case as there are numerous descendants from earlier branches of that family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do have shared matches who are descendants of my other three sets of great-grandparents. In most cases I was aware of their interest in their family history and their appearance was not a surprise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of my eight sets of great-great-grandparents there are only two sets who do not have descendants showing up as DNA matches (other than my closer cousins who descend through the same set of great-grandparents as I do). There are no shared matches in my set of results who are also descendants of my Janssen and Sargent great-great-grandparents. Both of these sets of great-great-grandparents had three children&#8211;including the one who is my ancestor&#8211;and none of those other children had large families. The other six sets of great-great-grandparents all had significantly larger families  thus increasing the pool of possible descendants who could test. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next on my list: looking at my 3rd great-grandparents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers know that I hate genealogy &#8220;games.&#8221; I think most of them are time wasters and I cannot see any real purpose in completing them just to say that I completed a challenge in some made contest. However as something of a more practical challenge, I decided to see how many other descendants of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}