TIP OF THE WEEK – 
ANCESTRY’S DNA THRU LINES
(BETA VERSION) 
Have you explored Ancestry’s new tool called ThruLines?  It’s intended to replace the old tool, DNA Circles. It displays your and your DNA matches common ancestor(s) and family lines in a more comprehensive format.

It finds connections to your DNA matches by matching persons in each other’s trees. Even if there are private trees involved, you will get these ThruLines as long as the trees are set to searchable.

One small quirk I noticed, it will falsely assume you are, for example,  a ½ 3nd cousin, if both your 2xgreat grandparents names do not match identically to those on the other person’s tree.  But all in all, it’s a fun new tool. This is the beta version and it will improve.