{"id":6105,"date":"2018-01-21T00:08:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T00:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6105"},"modified":"2018-01-21T00:08:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T00:08:05","slug":"another-reason-to-use-the-ancestrydna-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6105","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason to Use the AncestryDNA Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"If one navigates the circles at \u00a0AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em>, one can view the shared DNA matches one has not only with your own DNA matches, but also for those people who are in your DNA circle as well–but are not a DNA match to you. For reasons that elude me, I never noticed this until today. This functionality allows me to see DNA matches of people to whom I am related, but with whom I am not a DNA match. That’s good because not every genealogical cousin will share significant DNA with me. Seeing matches that I share with a known cousin who is not a DNA match themselves can help me to sort and sift my matches.<\/p>\n

James (we will just refer to him by his first name) is descendant of Augusta Newman (who died in 1864 in White County, Indiana) as am I. We have corresponded off and on for probably fifteen or twenty years.<\/p>\n

James has done a DNA test at \u00a0AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em>. We are not a DNA match. That’s not surprising as Augusta is fairly back for both of us–he’s my 4th great-grandfather.<\/p>\n

However, James and I are both in the \u00a0AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em> circle for Augusta Newman. We got in the circle for Augusta because:<\/p>\n