I traced my ancestors back to before the American Revolution on all lines except my maternal grandmother whose parents came from the AustroHungarian empire which is now Romania. So yes, I do believe my DNA testing thru Ancestry is somewhat accurate as the first 10 matches are second and third cousins that I know or know of, and I could figure out the next 10 or so and which line they came thru. Thousands of others with lesser matches are undoubtedly further up the tree.
My cousin is more into this than I, and asked me to upload my DNA to GEDmatch, which is the system that law enforcement is using to identify cold cases.(He is looking for Flynn cousins) So I did, and one time I was called by a woman from Jacksonville claiming to be the niece of a man related to the Ryan family and our genes matched and she wanted access to my family tree. (I haven't found any Ryans in my family). I agreed ( I got nothing to hide) and I never heard again. So I suspect she was someone from law enforcement looking for some hopefully distant cousin who has committed a crime. Or maybe they were a dead body!
Maybe I am naive but I look at it as interesting, and I found out my cousin's son lives in Apopka. Hopefully he's not in jail.
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