{"id":5070,"date":"2017-07-11T04:40:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2017-07-11T04:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T04:40:26","slug":"a-few-ramblings-based-upon-my-dna-test-at-ancestry-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5070","title":{"rendered":"A Few Ramblings Based Upon My DNA Test at Ancestry.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few ramblings based on my\u00a0\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>test:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helped one correspondent narrow down where her grandfather probably fit into the descendants of a third great-grandfather of mine. I won&#8217;t share the details of her story here because it involves her grandfather not being the man she thought he was. Literally.<\/li>\n<li>Confirmed that my Mary (Dingman) Sargent (born in the 1810s in Ontario and died in the early 1850s in Illinois or Iowa) fits into the Dingman family of Darlington, Ontario&#8211;which is what I thought. Exactly where she fits can&#8217;t be pinpointed, but the projected relationship suggests that I&#8217;m on the right path in looking into the Darlington families.<\/li>\n<li>Realized that not everyone submits a tree. That&#8217;s the result of how\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> markets\u00a0\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>While it is frustrating, marketing increases the number of samples in their database.<\/li>\n<li>Made a connection with another descendant of my Neill great-great-grandparents. Looking at our shared matches has not yet produced any really new information. But there is always the possibility.<\/li>\n<li>Realized that not everyone responds. For a variety of reasons, not every submitter will respond. Some were only interested in their ethnic roots. Some may no longer access the email address to where message notifications within\u00a0\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>are sent. Some may have had &#8220;real life&#8221; issues to deal with. That&#8217;s simply the way it is and something I will have to deal with.<\/li>\n<li>Some relationships are difficult to determine based on the DNA. Some may be impossible. My maternal families intermarried several times and I&#8217;m related to some individuals in more than one way. Never assume that because you have found one paper connection that&#8217;s consistent with the DNA results that there cannot be more.<\/li>\n<li>You may realize more of your &#8220;closer cousins&#8221; tested than you realized. I was unaware that descendants of three of my four sets of great-grandparents have tested. If descendants of other set did test&#8211;we didn&#8217;t match. And based on other matches in my results, I do descend from those great-grandparents based on my DNA as well&#8211;just in case anyone was wondering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few ramblings based on my\u00a0\u00a0AncestryDNA\u00a0test: Helped one correspondent narrow down where her grandfather probably fit into the descendants of a third great-grandfather of mine. I won&#8217;t share the details of her story here because it involves her grandfather not being the man she thought he was. Literally. Confirmed that my Mary (Dingman) Sargent (born [&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-5070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070","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=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}