{"id":29389,"date":"2013-10-29T15:41:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T21:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29389"},"modified":"2013-10-29T15:42:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T21:42:22","slug":"beginners-guide-to-genetic-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29389","title":{"rendered":"Beginners Guide To Genetic Genealogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/wheatonsurname\/beginners-guide-to-genetic-genealogy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DNA-500p.jpg\" alt=\"DNA-500p\" width=\"500\" height=\"231\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DNA-500p.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DNA-500p-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>14 easy lessons on DNA, and how a genealogists can use it to find relatives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>What is Genetic Genealogy?<\/b> Genealogy is simply the study of one&#8217;s family tree or ancestry. Genetic genealogy uses DNA testing to determine the genetic relationship between individuals.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><b>Why would someone want to use DNA for genealogy? <\/b>  There are many reasons but here are a few of the most common:<\/P><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To learn more about one&#8217;s ancestry <\/li>\n<li>To prove that one&#8217;s family tree reflects one&#8217;s actual ancestry <\/li>\n<li>To prove or disprove the relationship between two people<\/li>\n<li>To prove or disprove a theory of where people came from<\/li>\n<li>To break down a brick wall in one&#8217;s genealogy research<\/li>\n<li>To find relatives for those that were adopted, gave up a child for adoption or otherwise do not know their ancestry<\/li>\n<li>To learn from which ancestor(s) certain traits were inherited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/wheatonsurname\/beginners-guide-to-genetic-genealogy\">Check out the website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 easy lessons on DNA, and how a genealogists can use it to find relatives. What is Genetic Genealogy? Genealogy is simply the study of one&#8217;s family tree or ancestry. Genetic genealogy uses DNA testing to determine the genetic relationship <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=29389\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Beginners Guide To Genetic Genealogy<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,12,329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna-research","category-genealogy-how-to","category-genealogy-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29389"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29399,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29389\/revisions\/29399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}