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Ancestry/Genealogy

OnDoutside

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7. That's cool ! Yes, it's funny that family history only grabs a small subset of an extended family,

Reply to luvMIdog (Reply #6)

Mon May 29, 2017, 04:42 PM

May 2017

those I call gatekeepers, because if you can find one previously unknown to you, they can sometimes unlock many new lines of the extended family. Because my great great grandmother was from a Protestant Anglo Norman Irish family, it unlocked thousands (going back to Kings of England, Ireland, France etc), whereas my wife's line only has records back to the 1830s.

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Representing DNA data on websites [View all] OnDoutside May 2017 OP

23andMe is what some in my family used for that luvMIdog May 2017 #1

Sorry, I actually have done the test on OnDoutside May 2017 #3

oh okay then I can't help you with that . I misunderstood luvMIdog May 2017 #4

No problem, I know it's a bit of a longshot. There's an OnDoutside May 2017 #5

yes even if one isn't interested someone in their family is . I found out from my sister that I am luvMIdog May 2017 #6

That's cool ! Yes, it's funny that family history only grabs a small subset of an extended family, OnDoutside May 2017 #7

ours went waaay waaay back I am one percent Yakut from Northern Siberia.... luvMIdog May 2017 #8

I'll have to look that one up too ;) OnDoutside May 2017 #9

Our family used 23andme, too. nt CozyMystery May 2017 #2

What, specifically, do you mean by "DNA data"? Thor_MN May 2017 #10

I'm not sure myself but I know that the ftdna project use OnDoutside May 2017 #11

I think you are chasing something that doesn't exist. Thor_MN May 2017 #12