You know when you go on ancestry.com,
And you look up and it’s nine hours later?
No,
Because I wouldn’t do that,
I have a sense of moderation,
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Thoughts, experiences and learnings in a turbulent time
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It’s like a full say of work so a great work ethic
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It was!! Thanks, I should get paid for it!
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Been there, done that! LOL
Well, not quite as long a time as you but I was weary from looking for my Scottish ancestors!
Too many MacLeods and MacGillivrays!
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Haha! Yes I was lucky that there was a lot of strong evidence for the path which I was following. I got incredibly far backβ to an ancestor who was born in 1740. And on that branch there were a lot of common first and last names being used.
I eventually stopped when I reached a branch where the evidence was less strong, and started having to do broader searches!
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Good work, Robin. π
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Haha, thanks!
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Well according to ancestry.com Iβm white, brown, black, a little alien but mostly 100 trillion bacterial cells! Who have thunk it!0
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Lol. I think once you get back 8-10 generations, or maybe just 6, to talk of ancestors means very little as they can be so distinct from you by then. Unless you had some distinct mixing in of an exotic ethnicity that you can trace back to many generations ago or so. That’d be quite interesting. Although I found names which stretched all that way back, which is interesting. A long line of sons!
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My DNA consists of 10 ethnic groups from 5 to 42%.
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Wow! That’s interesting, significant proportions. So you had a DNA test, did you try to trace your ancestry, too?
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Had a DNA TEST ……
On my Kishpaugh/Gaus Baum English/Western European/Jewish side. The Sicilian side start with the Great Sicilian Earthquake of 1908.
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It’s really interesting finding how many other families have great-grandparents, great-great, great-great-greats, in common! More and more as you go back, gives you a good sense for how the population starts to unite through common ancestors. So that pretty soon you just come to the conclusion yes that we’re 100 trillion bacterial cells, lol.
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Lol. I got back to the 1600s. ItββS addictive π
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Wow! That’s amazing.
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It really is! I want to fill out a lot of branches.
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It is truly great fun
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