{"id":6307,"date":"2018-02-21T00:19:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2018-02-21T00:21:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:21:46","slug":"picturing-some-of-my-dna-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6307","title":{"rendered":"Picturing Some of My DNA Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a cousin match on\u00a0<em>AncestryDNA<\/em> that I am trying to figure out. I think he&#8217;s probably connected to me through my great-great-grandparents, John Michael and Franciska (Bieger) Trautvetter. But I&#8217;m not certain.<\/p>\n<p>For illustration purposes, I&#8217;ve called this match Raymond. Raymond and I have three shared matches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brad<\/li>\n<li>Peggy<\/li>\n<li>Ryan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can&#8217;t figure these people out, but when I look at the shared matches I have with Brad and Peggy, they both share matches with me with individuals who are known descendants of my great-grandparents (George and Ida T.) or my great-great-grandparents (J. M. and Franciska T.).<\/p>\n<p>After a while I felt like I was going in circles, so I made a chart show the connections that I had. Lines between two individuals (for example, Brad and Peggy) indicate that Peggy was a shared match I had with Brad.<\/p>\n<p>Names in brackets indicate the common ancestors I have with that person.<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;all&#8221; indicates that I have put all of that individual&#8217;s shared matches with me on the chart.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6308\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20180220_180356-1024x948.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20180220_180356-1024x948.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20180220_180356-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20180220_180356-768x711.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=4975\">Check out my DNA webinars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a cousin match on\u00a0AncestryDNA that I am trying to figure out. I think he&#8217;s probably connected to me through my great-great-grandparents, John Michael and Franciska (Bieger) Trautvetter. But I&#8217;m not certain. For illustration purposes, I&#8217;ve called this match Raymond. Raymond and I have three shared matches: Brad Peggy Ryan I can&#8217;t figure these people [&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":[352],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-shared-dna-matches-chart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","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=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}