which profiles proven by autosomal DNA statements and status

Question

I am learning DNA statements and status.  Having shown maternal or paternal relationship through cousins can I then show uncles or aunts relationship through same statement and is it repeated on each profile?

Answer 1

You might want to review the Help for DNA Confirmation section How to Add Source Citations to learn which ones can be confirmed. Basically it is those in the relationship trail that links the matching testers as shown by the Relationship Finder.

If you use the DNA Confirmation Citation Maker, it will supply all of the relevant confirmation citations -- look for the  "Bonus" link.

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The question is;

Is the confirmation statement repeated on each profile or just the first profile.

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Hi, Linda. It would be repeated on each profile where the profile is a child whose parent is directly in the DNA inheritance chain being described. For example, if you have evidence on your patrilineal line going up to the 2g-grandparents you share with another person who is DNA tested, you would add a confirmation statement to your profile, your father's profile, your paternal grandfather's profile, his father's profile, and then ultimately to both of those 2g-grandparents.

This Help page has an illustration of the confirmation status correctly being placed on all individuals for a 3rd cousin relationship.

Note, however, that the WikiTree guidelines allow the Most Recent Common Ancestors to be marked "Confirmed with DNA" only up to the 3rd cousin relationship, so 2g-grandparents. For 3C1R and beyond, where WikiTree requires autosomal triangulation, the MRCA is not marked as confirmed.

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Linda,

"Is the confirmation statement repeated on each profile or just the first profile."

Yes and no. 

Each profile needs a DNA confirmation statement that matches the relationships being set as "confirmed with DNA", but that does not mean that it is exactly the same statement, since a maternal DNA confirmation statement is not the same as a paternal DNA confirmation statement, for example.

Again, try the DNA Confirmation Citation Maker, it tells you which parents are to be marked as "confirmed with DNA' and gives you a corresponding citation to copy and paste into that profile.