{"id":9327,"date":"2019-10-11T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9327"},"modified":"2019-10-11T13:42:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:42:29","slug":"birth-place-search-of-dna-match-trees-not-working-at-ancestrydna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9327","title":{"rendered":"Birth Place Search of DNA Match Trees Not Working at AncestryDNA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Searching the trees of matches at AncestryDNA for specific places of birth is a great feature&#8211;if it works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of 10 October 2019, this feature appeared to have some functionality issues&#8211;translation: it&#8217;s not working. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I searched my own matches for Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois. Given my ancestral background, I should get results. It&#8217;s where three generations of my Trautvetter family lived and where my great-grandfather was born in 1869. But I got more results than I expected and some made no sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the matches had small trees (5 people or less) and I manually searched those trees for a birth place of Tioga for everyone. None of the individuals in the tree had that place of birth. My closest match (a first cousin once removed) has a tree that is private and very, very small. Based upon who that is, I highly doubt he has a relative born in Tioga. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t appear that the search functionality of places of birth in the attached trees of DNA matches at AncestryDNA is working. Makes it difficult to use this feature when analyzing things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dna-search-places-matches-1024x583.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dna-search-places-matches-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dna-search-places-matches-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dna-search-places-matches-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dna-search-places-matches.jpg 1299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching the trees of matches at AncestryDNA for specific places of birth is a great feature&#8211;if it works. As of 10 October 2019, this feature appeared to have some functionality issues&#8211;translation: it&#8217;s not working. I searched my own matches for Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois. Given my ancestral background, I should get results. It&#8217;s where three [&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-9327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327","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=9327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}