{"id":10337,"date":"2021-09-19T17:58:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10337"},"modified":"2021-09-19T17:58:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T17:58:10","slug":"responsible-use-of-dna-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10337","title":{"rendered":"Responsible Use of DNA Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Don&#8217;t concern yourself with the ethnicity results unless a significant portion of your ethnic heritage is direct conflict with your ancestral tree. Even if there is direct conflict, it means that you should:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Review and critique your paper trail for errors.<\/li><li>Look at your shared matches. Are there individuals you cannot figure out? Are there close relatives you have no idea who they are?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Determine the exact genealogical relationship with as many of your first and second cousin matches as possible.  Continue this work on third cousin matches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reach out to known cousins (whether they are &#8220;into&#8221; genealogy or not) to see if they have done a DNA test at the same location you have. Is it possible that they&#8217;ve tested you and that you are not DNA match with them? That&#8217;s a bigger genealogical problem than the 2% Russian you have in your tree. Don&#8217;t assume that if you cousins tested that they would be on your list of matches. They won&#8217;t be if for some reason they are not actually biologically related to you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally speaking, work on making your tree as complete as you can and on determining the relationship to as many DNA matches as you can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s better time spent than trying to &#8220;reverse engineer&#8221; your ethnicity at AncestryDNA to figure out &#8220;where they got it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t concern yourself with the ethnicity results unless a significant portion of your ethnic heritage is direct conflict with your ancestral tree. Even if there is direct conflict, it means that you should: Review and critique your paper trail for errors. Look at your shared matches. Are there individuals you cannot figure out? Are there [&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-10337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337","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=10337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}