{"id":4927,"date":"2017-06-19T04:36:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T04:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2017-06-19T04:36:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T04:36:03","slug":"a-filtering-wish-on-ancestrydna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4927","title":{"rendered":"A Filtering Wish on AncestryDNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still playing with my results on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>so I&#8217;m still learning.<\/p>\n<p>However there is one thing I wish I could do there: filter my results by submitter.<\/p>\n<p>Manually searching trees and searching trees by specific surnames seems highly inefficient to me. And there&#8217;s no guarantee that a surname that matches is even the line on which we connect.<\/p>\n<p>One reason I submitted to\u00a0on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>was to locate relatives of my two Irish-born great-great-grandparents, Samuel and Anne (Murphy) Neill. He was born in the general area of NewtownLimavady in the 1830s and she was born in Ireland (location unknown) in the early 1840s.<\/p>\n<p>My maternal side is fairly well-documented with a paper trail\u00a0and I have more than adequate leads on my other paternal families. What I would like to do all my matches\u00a0on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>throw out those who match the two descendants of my Ufkes great-grandparents who have tested<\/li>\n<li>throw out those who match the descendant of my Habben great-grandparents who have tested<\/li>\n<li>throw out the descendants of my Trautvetter great-grandparents who have tested<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That would leave the descendants of my Neill great-grandparents, Charles and Fannie (Rampley) Neill. Charles was the son of my Irish immigrants. Descendants of Fannie&#8217;s parents have tested&#8211;they could be thrown out too.<\/p>\n<p>That would leave the descendants of my Irish great-great-grandparents as my matches.<\/p>\n<p>Then I could focus on those matches.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d really like that instead of my ethnic ancestry&#8211;although I understand that it what motivates many people to test.<\/p>\n<p>And if there&#8217;s a way to do that\u00a0on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\"><\/a>\u00a0I would like to know it, because I overlooked it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still playing with my results on AncestryDNA,\u00a0so I&#8217;m still learning. However there is one thing I wish I could do there: filter my results by submitter. Manually searching trees and searching trees by specific surnames seems highly inefficient to me. And there&#8217;s no guarantee that a surname that matches is even the line on [&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-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","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=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}