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Originally Posted by Record10ti
Very cool to read. My question is however, what did the DNA tell you that you could not have found by interviewing family members, friends and doing searches on birth records?
I think that the Internet has been far more key in finding our lineage than what we knew from across the room (your of Euro/Anglo-Saxion decent). Unless your family members also had their DNA recorded and indexed, there was no sample to compare to, such as with a paternity chromosomal test (that is where things get really scary with "Big Brother").
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Regrettably I have no living family members to interview. I wish I'd gotten interested in the subject earlier. As to DNA, you're right, in my case it added very little extra information. Just a few 3rd cousins I was formerly unaware of. Most of the rest of what I learned came from websites like ancestry.
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Bob C