Re Unconnected entries

Question

I have Rachel Smith unconnected (Smith-164692) yet she has husband and son there.

Her son is a DNA link to me but not these parents.  Does this indicate that they are not the correct parents?  Son is Rayner-1172

On line trees have these parents but one site has another couple?

Answer 1

The profile you linked in your question is connected to the main tree as it is showing the degrees of relationship to key individuals at the bottom of the profile.

A profile will show as unconnected if the family group is not connected to the main stem of Wikitree. When you run the unconnected profiles report you can see how many other family members are linked to the group, but that little group is still floating free and needs to be grafted onto a branch of the main tree to be considered as connected.

Answer 2

Hi Marian

Welcome to WikiTree!  Thanks for all your work!

It looks like Rachel is connected to the world tree now - i'm basing that on the fact that when i click on Global Connections, she has them.  

Regarding your other question, about the DNA: The  WikiTree DNA links only go for 8 or so degrees of separation.  They won't tell you anything about correct ancestry - they just populate out to all the individual profiles that are in range.  Edward Rayner, being your 6th g grandfather (8 degrees apart) is at the maximum point of the range from you, so he is on your DNA list but his parents won't be on your DNA list.  You still got your DNA from them, it just is quite swirled around by now with all the recombining each generation.  If you could test their DNA or any other blood relative that is that much distantly related, you might not show a DNA connection even though you are definitely related - or you might, since it is random.  Are you familiar with Blaine Bettinger's chart on the likely amounts of DNA shared at different relationship levels?

Cheers

Shirlea

Comments

Another point about being connected to the tree - that feature runs once a day, so it can take 24 to 48 hours for everything to update and thus get 'connected'.

Answer 3

There is an Unconnected: FAQ page to help answer questions like this.