{"id":9984,"date":"2020-06-28T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9984"},"modified":"2024-05-14T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:30:23","slug":"thrulines-is-not-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9984","title":{"rendered":"ThruLines is not &#8220;Proof&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/thru-lines-trautvetter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/thru-lines-trautvetter.jpg 617w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/thru-lines-trautvetter-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><figcaption><em>ThruLines<\/em> left out a generation on my relative&#8217;s relationship to me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>DNA does not lie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other records are open to debate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see postings online where individuals refer to <em>ThruLines <\/em>as &#8220;proof.&#8221; No. That is not what <em>ThruLines <\/em>is<em>. <\/em>It is a way to help those who use <em>AncestryDNA <\/em>to analyze their results faster since it shows the probable connection to a DNA match using user-submitted trees that have been algorithimically stitched together. The genealogical connection suggested is merely that: a suggestion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One more time: the genealogical connection is a suggestion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve privatized this screenshot, but the DNA connection referred to as &#8220;DT&#8221; is someone who I was aware of before I saw him on my list of DNA matches. George H. Trautvetter (died in 1944&#8211;a date that is well-established) is his grandfather.  DT was born in the 1950s.  He&#8217;s not my second twice removed. He&#8217;s my third cousin once removed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The amount of shared autosomal DNA (which is what AncestryDNA measures) is consistent with that relationship&#8211;actually it&#8217;s consistent with both relationships. But the amount of shared autosomal DNA between two individuals at this distant of a relationship cannot be used to predict that relationship exactly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DNA shows there is a relationship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The genealogical research will need to confirm what that is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>ThruLines <\/em>gives the researcher a clue as to the genealogical relationship. It does &#8220;prove&#8221; the specific relationship. That proof comes from actual genealogical research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not from an automatic tree generated from a tree compiled from user-submitted family trees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s not how research works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA does not lie. Other records are open to debate. I see postings online where individuals refer to ThruLines as &#8220;proof.&#8221; No. That is not what ThruLines is. It is a way to help those who use AncestryDNA to analyze their results faster since it shows the probable connection to a DNA match using user-submitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984","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=9984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11073,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions\/11073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}