{"id":2158,"date":"2021-08-05T10:59:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2021-08-05T10:59:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:59:02","slug":"the-mystery-man-and-the-dna-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery Man and the DNA Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/080521_1758_TheMysteryM1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>Well, well, well. That famous genealogy serendipity has struck again.\n<\/p>\n<p>As I pondered taking an Ancestry DNA test seeking a match to the family of the Irish widower I suspect to be my great-grandfather, I received an e-mail from a sibling.\n<\/p>\n<p>Guess who just took a DNA test at Ancestry? Guess who has a close DNA match to the great-grandsons of the Irish widower?\n<\/p>\n<p>I think we have found the ancestor whose identity remained hidden for 125 years. An ancestor from whom my sibling and I each receive 12.5% of our DNA.\n<\/p>\n<p>I can finally begin to fill in that huge empty space on my family tree. I have a lot of research to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, well. That famous genealogy serendipity has struck again. As I pondered taking an Ancestry DNA test seeking a match to the family of the Irish widower I suspect to be my great-grandfather, I received an e-mail from a sibling. Guess who just took a DNA test at Ancestry? Guess who has a close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}