Integrating With Genealogy
ProTools is a powerful tool. But it has it’s limits. 1C and closer relationships are very accurate, in my experience. Beyond that, the range of possibilities grows quickly as the cMs fall below the 1C range. But think about what that means… A 1C relationship takes us back to our grandparent level. Think of a 20 year old genealogist with a 50 year old parent, and 80 year old grandparents. Those grandparents would be in the 1950 census. And the census is a pretty good tool back to 1850 – another few generations. You might argue that the census is not rock solid in every case. There may be adoptions, NPEs, etc. That is true, but those individuals will not show up as DNA Matches – for the most part.
Yes, there are still a few situations that may slip through. But on the plus side, the census and ProTools will sort out a high percentage of false relationships, and/or incorrect genealogy “research”.
Used together, the census and ProTools can pretty accurately cover the past 175 years.
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well in uk the 1951 census will not be released for another 27/28 years
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Bob, I cannot help that. Nevertheless, ProTools gives you a huge advantage in figuring out if there is a relationship or not between Matches. It takes away some of the “fog” we deal with. Jim
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Australia essentially has no censuses at all apart from for the few people who were here in 1828. That makes ProTools even more important in regard to Shared Matches. What we do have is really good vital statistics in centralised locations. And other head-of-family information like electoral rolls and directories.
Our universal postal directories ended around 1973.
Electoral rolls are easily available to about 1980 for most areas and a bit later at major libraries.
You use what is to hand.
And you use them hand-in-hand.
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