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Originally Posted by sammyg2

My dad did the DNA thing before he died, and mine's identical on the paternal side whatever that's called.
I was contacted by a guy named from England who had 50 out of 58 markers identical.
We haven't completed tracing ancestry back to determine links but that's another rabbit hole that can eat up huge blocks of time. I got burned out on it for awhile but will get back to is eventually.
And like Steve said, you gotta weed through the BS to find the truth.
Some folks believe whatever they want to be true, instead of what really is.

That's pretty cool.

Originally Posted by David

I did the DNA test and found I'm a European mutt. Mostly Great Britain countries.

I did get contacted by a cousin I didn't know. One of my first cousins put a child up for adaption many years ago. My cousin said she'd been looking for her daughter but like everything with that cousin, her method of looking for the daughter was probably to just think about and talk about looking for the daughter but not actually doing anything. The mother and daughter were happy to be reunited but the better result was my cousin's two daughters gained a sister.

Very cool.
I'm interested in the DNA thing, more info about the past, etc..., but it's also a little concerning that your DNA is then floating around out there available for the gov't or whoever can get access.