A Segment-ology TIDBIT
My previous post noted that ThruLines quickly adapted when I changed my Tree.
Setup: I have looked at every one of my ThruLines Matches. If you are not sure, just open your DNA Matches list and select the Filters: Unviewed AND Common Ancestors. If you’ve looked at them all (and hopefully added appropriate information in the Notes box for each one), after a minute or two you’ll get a message: No matches match the selected filter. You’re now ready to take advantage of this status.
I have a pesky female Ancestor. I’m not really positive where she fits in a larger part of my Tree (or to any of several floating branches). So I called up her profile; clicked on Edit (top right); clicked on Edit relationships; and clicked on the parent “X”s (to separate, not delete, them). I now went to the Father box and clicked on Add father; and typed in a name I wanted to test as a parent. I then closed the Edit relationships page and went back to my DNA Matches List and filtered on Unviewed AND Common Ancestors…. and ThruLines immediately populated appropriate new Matches who would be cousins through that parent. In the one to two minutes it takes ThruLines to search my 93,000 Matches, it found and listed Matches with ThruLines. Since I had already opened all previously known ThruLines, this new listing was only Matches who were related through the change I had just made. I quickly took notes and reset the original pesky Ancestor. Ready for the next trial. In and out very quickly.
There is more to this story for a later blogpost. The point for this blogpost is twofold:
1. AncestryDNA must already have most of these relationships already worked out, just waiting for me to ask the right question (do you have cousins for “this” relationship?)
2. There is no waiting days for a “refresh” – ThruLines reports as fast as it can scan my Match list (down to 6cM). Just WOW!
Both of these are pretty amazing, IMO.
[22CH] Segment-ology: Thru-Lines is Quick – Really Quick!! TIDBIT by Jim Bartlett 20240228
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Thanks. This sounds interesting but I think I’m missing the point of what you were trying to achieve! Can you provide a little more context? For instance, what prompted you to try a different father? Thanks!
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pw, I can give 3 examples:
1. I have found a huge Cluster with a Common Ancestor ADAMS. There are 3 different brick walls where this line could tie in.
2. I had a brick wall with the unknown 1st wife of my 3xG grandfather, Thomas NEWLON (my Ancestor was his dau born before his well documented 2nd marriage). A large Triangulated Group revealed almost all with CUMMINGS ancestors beyond NEWLON’s generation. Several potential male CUMMINGS…
3. My 3xG grandmother, Keziah BROWN, said her father was dec’d Wilson BROWN, with many possibilities for his father. Moving her father around has found several lines with “cousins” and many without. This has focused the genealogy research on a few lines and away from many.
In each of these cases Shared Match Clusters and/or Triangulated Groups have provided even more evidence of how these lines tie in.
This is a process to use *after* regular genealogical research has petered out.
Jim
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Thanks Jim. Always read your posts and appreciate them. Have you ever posted a copy of the spreadsheet you have created to keep track of your matches? I am struggling with a line that includes both endogamy and several NPEs and am wondering what columns you included as you try to figure out how matches are related. Thanks, Nancy
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Nancy, Thanks for the feedback. Check out my blogpost from 2021 about the Common Ancestor Spreadsheet – it includes all of the data columns, but I want to say that you should tailor this spreadsheet to suit your personal goals. And remember – every column needs a way to enter data – some can come from downloads; many require typing. It takes me several minutes to enter each Match and their line of descent (trying to check each generation). Here is a link: https://segmentology.org/2021/12/19/segmentology-common-ancestor-spreadsheet/
Jim
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Ahh, that’s what I was hoping to find! Thanks! Nancy.
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An added comment – I’m regulalry getting new ThruLines for Match’s with only one or two or few people in their Tree – and those living people are private.
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