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WePurrsevere

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4. Do you have a tree? What does it show? Ethnicity from DNA....
Sun Sep 9, 2018, 01:21 PM
Sep 2018

is far from perfect...
https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2014/05/18/admixture-not-soup-yet/

FWIW, if interested you can download your Ancestry raw data and upload it to places like MyHeritage, Family Tree DNA and GEDmatch for free (only the tools for helping with DNA matches costs $19 on FTDNA). There are other sites but those are the main ones for ethnicity (and finding genetic family).


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ancestry.com DNA results [View all] CountAllVotes Sep 2018 OP
Same thing happened to us - we had been told half Danish and half British FreeState Sep 2018 #1
Hope you realize they're selling your DNA info.... donkeypoofed Sep 2018 #2
I don't care CountAllVotes Sep 2018 #3
I'm an adoptee and found both sides of my original family... WePurrsevere Sep 2018 #6
No Mother died in 2002 CountAllVotes Sep 2018 #7
Ahh.. Ok... You're welcome. nt WePurrsevere Sep 2018 #9
yeah living people CountAllVotes Sep 2018 #10
You may find out more as time goes by csziggy Sep 2018 #11
oh I have a tree CountAllVotes Sep 2018 #12
Is your DNA linked to that active tree? csziggy Sep 2018 #13
Yes it is CountAllVotes Sep 2018 #14
That is wonderful csziggy Sep 2018 #15
He is a very kind man CountAllVotes Sep 2018 #16
Do you have a tree? What does it show? Ethnicity from DNA.... WePurrsevere Sep 2018 #4
My tree? CountAllVotes Sep 2018 #5
I agree The Genealogist Sep 2018 #8
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