{"id":6026,"date":"2017-12-31T19:43:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T19:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6026"},"modified":"2017-12-31T19:43:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T19:43:50","slug":"is-looks-like-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6026","title":{"rendered":"Is “Looks Like” Evidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is one of those thoughts I’m just throwing out for people to think about:<\/p>\n

does “looking like” someone constitute evidence of a relationship?<\/p>\n

does it confirm a relationship?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A picture of the mother of the 1st or 2nd “DNA cousin match” to a DNA submitter looks very similar to the mother of the submitter?<\/p>\n

What’s that evidence of (if anything)?<\/p>\n

Just something to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is one of those thoughts I’m just throwing out for people to think about: does “looking like” someone constitute evidence of a relationship? does it confirm a relationship? A picture of the mother of the 1st or 2nd “DNA cousin match” to a DNA submitter looks very similar to the mother of the submitter? […]<\/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-6026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026","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=6026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}