{"id":6197,"date":"2018-02-06T00:10:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2018-02-06T00:10:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:10:43","slug":"as-many-descendants-as-i-can-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6197","title":{"rendered":"As Many Descendants as I Can Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6198\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6198\" class=\" wp-image-6198\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/get-all-descendants-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/get-all-descendants-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/get-all-descendants.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Get All Those Descendants You Can&#8211;preferably not on paper and with some dates and places!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Years ago when I started my research, I tried to track down as many descendants of various second and third great grandparents. There was no goal of writing a book or any such thing. I was fortunate enough to find reasonably complete genealogies of the descendants of three different sets of third great-grandparents and I entered that in a database. This was ages ago before I understood the importance of citation and sound genealogy methodology. I was still in high school in the days before the internet and, except for the guidance of a local librarian and copies of Donald Line Jacobus&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogical.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;ref=1783&amp;item_number=2975&amp;affiliate_banner_id=1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;\"><em>Genealogy as Pasttime and Profession<\/em> <\/a>and Val Greenwood&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogical.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;ref=1783&amp;item_number=2364&amp;affiliate_banner_id=1%22%20target=%22_blank%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>Researcher\u2019s Guide to American Genealogy,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0I was pretty much on my own.<\/p>\n<p>And while there are probably errors in some of the information I have on those descendants of many of my second and third great-grandparents, I&#8217;m glad that I have it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It has been invaluable in sorting through my DNA matches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like many users of\u00a0\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and other autosomal DNA testing sites, I&#8217;ve been frustrated and challenged by the number of submitters who have no trees,very short trees, or private trees that remain unlocked. I understand the reasons behind this and have accepted it. Working through some of the short trees (with perhaps only parents and a grandparent or two) has been greatly facilitated by my database of descendants of many of my second and third great-grandparents combined with the knowledge I have of some families that is in my head and not in my database.<\/p>\n<p>Documenting those descendants (as best you can) is a great idea for while you are waiting for your DNA test results to come back&#8211;or even if you are stymied with your test results and work with your matches. There is no guarantee it will solve every match, but such a database (even an incomplete one) can greatly facilitate your work with your matches.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6189\">Get more ideas on what to do before your test results come back in my recent webinar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago when I started my research, I tried to track down as many descendants of various second and third great grandparents. There was no goal of writing a book or any such thing. I was fortunate enough to find reasonably complete genealogies of the descendants of three different sets of third great-grandparents and I [&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-6197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197","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=6197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}