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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #20 on: September 03, 2016, 10:23:24 AM »
Hmm....i found I am distantly related to a peanut farmer...

But also distantly related to a Confederate General...
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #21 on: September 03, 2016, 11:28:11 AM »
I'd be thrilled to find out that I'm NOT actually related to my sister.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #22 on: September 03, 2016, 12:18:08 PM »
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #23 on: September 03, 2016, 03:41:55 PM »
I'd be thrilled to find out that I'm NOT actually related to my sister.

There are times I don't think I am related to mine, either.  Most of the time, actually.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #24 on: September 04, 2016, 06:27:08 AM »
I'd be thrilled to find out that I'm NOT actually related to my sister.

I'm with you there! I'm pretty sure that my sister was switched at birth and my real sister is out there somewhere...
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #25 on: September 04, 2016, 06:41:12 AM »
Yeah, I suppose.  But that is more about exact people.  I was thinking more about what you are getting with the DNA thing- which is just what geographical areas your ancestors were from.... I don't see how that would matter.

Yeesh... I suppose it could be worse- could be the Clintons.

No, you aren't allowed to piggy back the same Clinton joke onto my Trump joke. No sir you'll have to get your own.    ;)

The DNA trace is about what geographical areas your ancestors were from but it's not just about that. It matches your family's lineage via the DNA hits but also by the family tree info that has been entered by others in the family. For instance, if you had a sister that you didn't know about (or your sister was switched at birth) and she sent her DNA in to be tested, it would be possible to find this sister by the DNA match. I've found several 2nd cousins that I knew nothing about. They have to come from my biological father's side. Once you have a DNA match with these other people you get hints as to where you might fit into their family tree and they into yours.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #26 on: September 05, 2016, 06:28:52 PM »
I'd be thrilled to find out that I'm NOT actually related to my sister.

You're going to keep the kid then?

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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #27 on: September 05, 2016, 08:35:29 PM »
You're going to keep the kid then?

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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #28 on: September 05, 2016, 09:28:09 PM »
You people are WRONG. On SO many levels.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #29 on: September 05, 2016, 09:47:26 PM »
You're going to keep the kid then?

Nah, didn't keep the last two, either.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #30 on: September 06, 2016, 01:01:48 AM »
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #31 on: September 06, 2016, 06:10:06 AM »
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #32 on: September 13, 2016, 05:18:40 AM »
My wife has found my biological father and his (my) family. I already knew his name but I didn't have proof positive that it was him, till this morning. She found a late 1950's white page phonebook listing for him that puts him in the place of my birth around the time of my birth.

There you are asshole, but alas, he died back in 1982...

I do have some direct DNA hits for 2nd cousins in that family though. 
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #33 on: September 13, 2016, 01:24:37 PM »
...... a 1958 white page phonebook listing ......... at the time of my birth.

You young whippersnapper you, always finding a way to flaunt your youth in our faces!  :P

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« Reply #34 on: September 13, 2016, 01:39:39 PM »
I do have some direct DNA hits for 2nd cousins in that family though.

Do they have money?  Maybe they will adopt you.
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« Reply #35 on: September 13, 2016, 03:17:48 PM »
All these ancestry things are nice, but how can they say that you are % such and such and % such and such when the only people they are comparing you to are only the people that have sent in their DNA, its not really a true test as not everyone in the whole world has been tested. You are only a percentage of just the people who have been tested by that agency. Just a thought that's all. I'm not a scientist.
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« Reply #36 on: September 13, 2016, 09:19:44 PM »
There are different genetic markers for different parts of the world. From there, it's just math
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #37 on: September 14, 2016, 04:37:50 AM »
All these ancestry things are nice, but how can they say that you are % such and such and % such and such when the only people they are comparing you to are only the people that have sent in their DNA, its not really a true test as not everyone in the whole world has been tested. You are only a percentage of just the people who have been tested by that agency. Just a thought that's all. I'm not a scientist.

There are different genetic markers for different parts of the world. From there, it's just math

What Deziner said and I'm fully aware of the limitations but it's the only game in town and the price of admission isn't that much.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #38 on: September 14, 2016, 04:39:36 AM »
Shouldn't be that hard to trace since people have only been on earth for 5000 years.

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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #39 on: September 14, 2016, 11:03:23 AM »
Right... ;)
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