{"id":5819,"date":"2017-11-27T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T13:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2017-11-27T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T13:27:25","slug":"one-more-dna-test-a-question-it-wont-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5819","title":{"rendered":"One More DNA Test &#038; a Question It Won&#8217;t Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0AncestryDNA\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-865524-13143892\">is running their $59 DNA testing kit sale (through &#8220;Cyber Monday&#8221; 27 November),<\/a>\u00a0I decided to purchase one more test for a relative by marriage whose family has not been tested before. I&#8217;m hoping it will help me on one great-great-grandfather whose paternal grandparents are reasonably known&#8211;it&#8217;s just which son is the direct line that&#8217;s the problem. The test won&#8217;t tell me which son, but it could confirm the grandparent relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The other question a DNA test is not going to answer.<\/p>\n<p>A great-grandmother of the testee was born to a man who had a relationship with his wife&#8217;s sister while he was married. He had children with the wife and with the sister during the same time frame (at least four with each). There&#8217;s plenty of paper evidence that the sister is the mother of great-grandmother. But DNA testing is not going to confirm which sister is the mother of which children.<\/p>\n<p>Always good to know which questions a test could answer and which ones it probably will not.<\/p>\n<p>And there is always the probability that the results locate additional relatives of which I was unaware. The testee has five ancestors who were 19th century immigrants from Europe. While their origins are known, it&#8217;s hoped that the test will locate additional relatives overseas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0AncestryDNA\u00a0is running their $59 DNA testing kit sale (through &#8220;Cyber Monday&#8221; 27 November),\u00a0I decided to purchase one more test for a relative by marriage whose family has not been tested before. I&#8217;m hoping it will help me on one great-great-grandfather whose paternal grandparents are reasonably known&#8211;it&#8217;s just which son is the direct line that&#8217;s the [&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-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","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=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}