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csziggy

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13. Is your DNA linked to that active tree?
Mon Sep 10, 2018, 11:19 AM
Sep 2018

If so, you may get more connections over time.

We have a brick wall in our family tree. A few years ago my sister persuaded a cousin who is a direct male descendant to get his DNA tested through Family Tree DNA. So far that has given us no help. We've got plenty of cousins, mostly descendants of the brick wall ancestor. And some people whose ancestry show no linkage to the surname of that ancestor. As one put it, someone must be the result of an "undocumented paternity event."

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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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