5 Videos to Help You Understand Ancestry ThruLines

With Ancestry ThruLines, you can combine your DNA results with member trees to generate possible paths of relationships between you and your DNA matches. The following videos help explain this innovative yet confusing tool for your genealogy toolbox.

Discover how to access your ThruLines from your DNA Discovery Pages and your pedigree chart. Also, discover what you need to do before your Ancestry ThruLines begin to appear.

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In this video, you’ll learn what the Ancestry ThruLines are based on and then learn how to determine the accuracy of the suggestions.

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Given the ‘negative’ light the previous video shined on the potential inaccuracies in the Ancestry ThruLines, this video discusses the benefits of the tool to help you determine how your DNA matches relate to each other and yourself.

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As hinted at in the previous videos, ThruLines have problems differentiating between biological and non-biological relationships. For families that have adoptions and illegitimate relationships, you’ll want to watch this video to learn how to recognize the red flags in your ThruLine suggestions.

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Some AncestryDNA users have not found any ThruLines. Could this be you? If so, discover what causes little to no ThruLines to appear in your family tree and how you might be able to resolve the problem.

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Ancestry.com has so many terrific tools to help you climb your family tree. Be sure to explore them with caution and always fall back on sound research principles for the most success.