{"id":5591,"date":"2017-10-17T14:05:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2018-01-05T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:10:06","slug":"pooling-the-pages-of-my-dna-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5591","title":{"rendered":"Pooling the Pages of my DNA Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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penciling out possible relationships is always helpful<\/p><\/div>\n

I have 393 pages of DNA matches at\u00a0AncestryDNA.\u00a0<\/em>I will never get through all of them. I have no intention of getting through all of them. I have 475 matches at the 4th cousin level or closer. I’ll never get through all of those either–at least it doesn’t seem like it.<\/p>\n

I had 12 matches that were second or third cousin matches. I have those figured out. I have figured some of the fourth cousins, based upon their trees, our shared matches, or direct communication with them. I’ll never get through them all. There are always a few more popping up. Determining who they all exactly are has never been my goal–much like it has never been my goal to locate all the descendants of each of my fourth great-grandparents.\u00a0 Roughly sorting them is necessary, if only to help figure out the ones who may contain clues to problems I am actively working on.<\/p>\n

My own “sorting” for the fourth cousins matches is initially crude and based upon my own heritage, which generally can be broken up into the following chunks:<\/p>\n