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I Love Genealogy

What A Shock...... I have always been interested in my geneology, maybe because I was a history major and what better way than to research your own family history. Anyway, I have been told that I am related to Pete Rose and Stonewall Jackson. I am proud of both-opposite ends of the spectrum but we don't choose our family.

I was told that I was from Wales, Ireland, France and my great grandfather was full blooded Cherokee, hence the heritage I chose on EP.

Groupon was offering a special with ConnectmyDNA so I did it. For 29.00, I believe, they sent me two cotton swabs to swish in my cheeks.

Imagine my disbelief when it came back that my DNA was almost 100% in Austrailia, then Sweden, Poland, Croatia, , 5th was Ireland, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Italy, Belgium and Belarus.. 10 countries in all!

But the shock of all times is when they said that my mother and father shared 3 loci that were identical...now what does that mean? I am not sure...but my children were born with a very rare genetic disease..my sisters and brothers never had children so I can't say.

More research is needed I think!
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milkynips
Holy hell. Are your parents still alive? Is it possible they were more closely related than you realized? I have done some ancestry research and looked at others' family trees, where there were many cousins marrying. The genetic disease your children have seems to point to the possibility this happened with your folks or perhaps their ancestors.
akindheart · 61-69, F
no my parents passed very young. 46 and 47!. and yes, I was told that my name was found in my exhusbands tree..scary huh?