A theory can be confirmed or rejected in two places: the Review DNA Match page, which includes a summarized view of the theory, or the full theory view, both of which are explained below.
Summarized view of a theory
Click “Review DNA Match” in the DNA Match card to view a summary of the match. If a theory was found, it will be displayed near the top of the page. You’ll be asked whether this theory is correct, and you’ll be able to confirm or reject it.
Once you confirm a theory, this will be indicated at the top of the page. If you change your mind, you can undo the confirmation to revert its status to pending. When confirmed, you will see a message advising you to visit your tree and add new information to it manually based on the theory. For example, if the theory constructs a relationship path between you and your DNA Match that you believe to be correct, you can go back to your tree and manually add any individuals appearing on this path to your family tree that are not already in it.
The theory can be confirmed or rejected from the top of the full theory view.
Confirming or rejecting a theory from the full theory view.
Theories that were confirmed or rejected
In the list of DNA Matches, once you’ve confirmed a theory, it will be displayed in the DNA Match card as follows:
Whereas a rejected theory will be displayed like this:
If you change your mind, you can click “View theory” and then undo your confirmation or rejection, returning the theory to pending status.
Multiple theories for one DNA Match
Sometimes, our system finds multiple theories for the same DNA Match, in cases where we identify more than one way you may be related to that match. In these situations, you can choose the one theory you believe is correct and reject the other ones. Alternatively, if your DNA Match is related to you in more than one way, you may confirm multiple theories.
For multiple theories, once you have confirmed at least one of them, you will see “confirmed” in the DNA Match card. If you have rejected one of the theories, the next one will move up the list and be displayed on the DNA Match page by default.