{"id":4343,"date":"2017-03-22T04:38:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T04:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2017-03-22T04:38:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T04:38:43","slug":"the-family-tree-guide-to-dna-testing-and-genetic-genealogy-the-ethnic-mix-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4343","title":{"rendered":"The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy &#038; the &#8220;Ethnic Mix&#8221; Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To get me up to speed, I&#8217;ve purchased <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1440345325\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1440345325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=gentipoftheda-20&amp;linkId=58db441af5d154d1ba57d014c3195e2f\" target=\"_blank\">The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy<\/a><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gentipoftheda-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1440345325\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> by Blaine Bettinger. It&#8217;s another book to add to my reading list, but I do want to make good use of the results of the<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4325\"> DNA test I&#8217;m having done<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a some emails that I have received behind the scenes, I do know that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DNA won&#8217;t solve every question I have<\/li>\n<li>DNA may ask more questions than it answers<\/li>\n<li>Every &#8220;submitter&#8221; to the Ancestry.com database does not answer inquiries<\/li>\n<li>Paper records still matter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My real reason for taking the test (as mentioned in the earlier post) is to make some connection to my elusive Irish forebears. My great-great-grandparents, the Irish immigrants, have been researched extensively in the area where the settled and while the father could be traced to a specific location in Ireland the mother could not. Any other information or conclusions that reached will just be an additional benefit.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;ethnic mix&#8221; part of the test is not something in which I have a particular interest. I realize that others are interested in these results. I am not. The results go\u00a0back to a time where I will not be able to trace specific individuals. I like to have a name of a person that somehow connects to me. While I sometimes am not able to locate very much information, I have enough specific people I can find information on, learn about, study, etc. I don&#8217;t need to occupy myself with a time where everyone is nameless.\u00a0Others are and that is fine. Others are interested in the ethnic mix results and that&#8217;s fine as well.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s perfectly fine to not be interested in those results as well.<\/p>\n<p>So the mention here of the ethnic mix results of my test will be minimal as I only write here about what interests me.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, your opinion and your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get me up to speed, I&#8217;ve purchased The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy by Blaine Bettinger. It&#8217;s another book to add to my reading list, but I do want to make good use of the results of the DNA test I&#8217;m having done. In response to a some emails that [&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-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","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=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}