{"id":5418,"date":"2017-09-22T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2017-09-22T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:41:58","slug":"im-out-of-another-ancestrydna-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5418","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Out of Another AncestryDNA Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2995\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/noentjelena-grass-ufkes-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/noentjelena-grass-ufkes-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/noentjelena-grass-ufkes.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/>I&#8217;m starting to think that Ancestry DNA&#8217;s &#8220;circles&#8221; are going in circles.<\/p>\n<p>On 30 August I was in ten circles on\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em>. Circles are &#8220;descendant groups&#8221; based on the DNA submissions and submitted trees of AncestryDNA users. \u00a0The circles are in &#8220;beta.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5359\">On 9 September I was in eight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m now in seven circles (I&#8217;ve been kicked out of the Noentje Lena (Grass) Ufkes circle):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christianna (DeMoss) Rampley<\/strong>\u00a0(born in the early 1770s probably in Harford County, Maryland.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hinrich Janssen Ufkes<\/strong>\u00a0(born 1797 Ostfriesland, Germany) and the circle for his wife\u00a0<strong>Trientje Eilts (Post) Ufkes<\/strong>(born 1803 Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany)<\/li>\n<li><del><strong>Riley Rampley<\/strong>\u00a0(born 1835 Coshocton County, Ohio) and the circle for his wife\u00a0<strong>Nancy Jane (Newman) Rampley<\/strong>(born 1846 Rush County, Indiana)<\/del>\u00a0[<em>I\u2019ve been removed from this circle twice and put in it twice<\/em>].<\/li>\n<li><strong>Johann Friederichs Hinrichs Ufkes<\/strong>\u00a0(born 1838 Wiesens, Ostfriesland, Germany)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Johann Luken Jurgens Ehmen Goldenstein<\/strong>\u00a0(born 1814 Wrisse, Ostfriesland, Germany and his wife\u00a0<strong>Tjade Anna Focken (Tammen) Goldenstein<\/strong>\u00a0(born 1824 Buhren, Ostfriesland, Germany)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Augusta Newman\u00a0<\/strong>(died 1861 White County, Indiana)<\/li>\n<li><del><strong>Noentje Lena (Grass) Ufkes\u00a0<\/strong>(born 1848 Backemoor, Ostfriesland, Germany).<\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I understand why it takes a while to get into a circle. What I don&#8217;t understand is why I&#8217;m getting kicked out once I&#8217;m in. My DNA has not changed (obviously) and my online tree has only had names added to it&#8211;none were removed. I don&#8217;t have any less faith in the accuracy of my tree than I did before.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the &#8220;circles&#8221; I&#8217;m starting to wonder about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting to think that Ancestry DNA&#8217;s &#8220;circles&#8221; are going in circles. On 30 August I was in ten circles on\u00a0AncestryDNA. Circles are &#8220;descendant groups&#8221; based on the DNA submissions and submitted trees of AncestryDNA users. \u00a0The circles are in &#8220;beta.&#8221; On 9 September I was in eight. I\u2019m now in seven circles (I&#8217;ve been [&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-5418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418","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=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}