Mike's Rule #8 - You need to build and fix everyone's trees
Family trees are the core of genealogy and they let you journey back in time. I like Ancestry because it has the largest number of DNA users and the largest number of family trees. I dislike Ancestry because most of the family trees are crap.
That said, the family tree interface at Ancestry is still better than every other DNA testing site. So, I use Ancestry to fix and build family trees for everyone else. Ancestry allows me to create as many family trees as I want and I do. If I find a DNA match with a partial tree, I add any good connections from that tree to one of my scratch-pad trees. Then I build a full tree for my match.
The only way I’m going to figure out how my match is related to me is by extending their tree until it intersects with my own. If you are having trouble building your tree, ask for help. There are a ton of people and resources out there that will help you on your journey for free.
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