{"id":7287,"date":"2018-07-22T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2018-07-22T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T23:00:10","slug":"dna-circles-and-connections-are-separate-from-the-compiled-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7287","title":{"rendered":"DNA Circles and Connections are Separate from the Compiled Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The responses to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7273\">Those Ancestral Compilations in the AncestryDNA Circles<\/a>&#8221; has been overwhelming. Wow. It&#8217;s important to remember that the connections made via DNA are different from the information in the &#8220;ancestral compilation&#8221; that appears on the circle page.<\/p>\n<p>A few reminders (and these are generalizations):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>getting in circles requires a tree tied to your DNA results<\/li>\n<li>getting in a circle requires a DNA match that has a tree tied to the their results that has the same ancestral names as you<\/li>\n<li>membership in a circle\u00a0<em>does not prove a connection<\/em><\/li>\n<li>membership in a circle\u00a0<em>suggests\u00a0<\/em>that you and the DNA match share that connection<\/li>\n<li>it is possible that you and circle members are related through a different ancestor-not the one for whom the circle is named<\/li>\n<li>you and a circle member may have another shared ancestor&#8211;if you have double cousins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The circles at \u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-10508559\">AncestryDNA<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>are a way to potentially help genealogists determine the paper genealogical relationship with their DNA matches.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;biographical compilation&#8221; on the &#8220;circle page&#8221; for an ancestor is compiled via highly automated process. That compilation is separate from the DNA circle analysis.<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7273\">https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7273<\/a> That compilation as discussed in the post should be take with a huge shaker of salt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The responses to &#8220;Those Ancestral Compilations in the AncestryDNA Circles&#8221; has been overwhelming. Wow. It&#8217;s important to remember that the connections made via DNA are different from the information in the &#8220;ancestral compilation&#8221; that appears on the circle page. A few reminders (and these are generalizations): getting in circles requires a tree tied to your [&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-7287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287","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=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}