{"id":6152,"date":"2018-01-27T17:16:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T17:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6152"},"modified":"2018-01-27T21:46:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T21:46:54","slug":"a-new-dna-match-predictions-are-predictions-and-it-will-help-me-sort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6152","title":{"rendered":"A New DNA Match-Predictions are Predictions and It Will Help Me Sort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6153 \" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ensminger-match-trautvetter-dna-cousins-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ensminger-match-trautvetter-dna-cousins-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ensminger-match-trautvetter-dna-cousins.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My matches at \u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em> continue to go up as the result of their DNA sales in late 2017.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good as it helps me to sift out the matches I already had.<\/p>\n<p>One new match was a predicted fourth cousin with a cousinship range of between fourth and sixth cousins. That&#8217;s starting to get fairly far back in my matches and I&#8217;m probably never going to figure out all my matches in that range&#8211;particularly those who really are fifth and sixth cousins. It&#8217;s worth recalling that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>first cousins have parents who were siblings<\/li>\n<li>second cousins have grandparents who were siblings<\/li>\n<li>third cousins have great-grandparents who were siblings<\/li>\n<li>fourth cousins have great-great-grandparents who were siblings<\/li>\n<li>etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s not taking into account individuals who were half-siblings, double relationships, etc.<\/p>\n<p>This match shared 68 centimorgans of DNA across 5 segments. I can&#8217;t see on the AncestryDNA results screen how big each of those segments actually is and those shared centimograns is what is being used to predict our relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The submitter had a small tree going back to their grandparents. Fortunately I recognized one of those surnames as the married name of my great-grandfather George Trautvetter (1869-1934)&#8221;s sister&#8211;Helena (Trautvetter) Ensminger. It did not take long to connect Helena to the submitter&#8217;s tree. The submitter was a great-grandchild of Helena&#8211;making us third cousins.<\/p>\n<p>Determining who this new match is will help me to sort my other matches. While there are limits to how much it will help, it will help me quite a bit. There are now four descendants of my gg-grandparents,\u00a0 John Michael and Franciska (Bieger) Trautvetter who have have been identified in my \u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a><\/em> results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>me&#8211;a great-grandson of their son George&#8211;through his daughter Ida<\/li>\n<li>match1&#8211;a grandson of the their son George&#8211;through Ida&#8217;s brother<\/li>\n<li>match2&#8211;a great-granddaughter of their son George&#8211;through Ida&#8217;s sister<\/li>\n<li>match3-this match&#8211;through George&#8217;s sister<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This new match helps me quite a bit in sorting my matches&#8211;because this match does not also descend through son George and his wife. George&#8217;s wife, my great-grandmother, has significant New England ancestry, probably forty first cousins (many of whom I cannot trace), and an unknown grandmother. This means that many of the matches of matcth1,\u00a0 match2, and I are people I cannot figure out quite yet&#8211;but who are probably related through George&#8217;s wife because me.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s people match1, match2, and I share that are actually related through George&#8217;s mother, Franciska.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the new match3 comes in. Match3 does not descend from George&#8217;s wife because match3 descends from George&#8217;s sister. Match3 will help me sort out my matches because match 3 is connected one generation earlier to me.<\/p>\n<p>Which for me is really great as tracking some of the family of Franciska was one of my DNA testing goals.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, shared matches with match3 are not just probable relatives of\u00a0 Franciska, they are probable relatives of her husband John Michael as well. I need to keep that in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, three descendants of John Michael&#8217;s first cousins have been identified in my AncestryDNA results already.<\/p>\n<p>This method is not full proof. I could have DNA matches to descendants to Franciska that are not shared matches with match3. But it is a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My matches at \u00a0AncestryDNA continue to go up as the result of their DNA sales in late 2017. That&#8217;s good as it helps me to sift out the matches I already had. One new match was a predicted fourth cousin with a cousinship range of between fourth and sixth cousins. That&#8217;s starting to get fairly [&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-6152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152","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=6152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}