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To: Slyfox

You have to take some of the Ancestry reports with a grain of salt. They are based on statistics and probable match with people living in that country now.

I did the Ancestry thing and it has been interesting to find matches who have the same ancestors in their trees as mine going back hundreds of years.

There was an article on the internet about identical triplets who did the Ancestry test and their results were all different. Fairly close but different. They interviewed some ‘expert’ who said the tests were good for entertainment value - whatever that means.


40 posted on 10/08/2017 2:03:17 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane
The spit test is easy and gives a good approximation.

The blood test is the one you want if you want certainty.

52 posted on 10/08/2017 2:17:41 PM PDT by Slyfox (Are you tired of winning yet?)
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To: ladyjane

“You have to take some of the Ancestry reports with a grain of salt.”

Really. Easy revenue gerating scams. Isn’t one of these “labs” an arm of LDS? I believe their genealogy info is heavy on quantity and skimpy on quality and accuracy. Grain of salt, definitely.


70 posted on 10/08/2017 2:48:19 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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