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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA shared matches verses paper trail.
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DNA releases the skeletons.
People moved in the distant past for many reasons and as such finding the Why can be difficult if not impossible but DNA proves that it did happen. There can be no documentary evidence, just DNA to substantiate any hypothesis.
All of us who have been using DNA for years will each have our takes to tell.
As an example.
My highest unknown DNA match is a lady who shares 364cM with me. My Parentage is known and proved via DNA, with my Paternal Grandmother being Italian. My Paternal Grandfather is another matter, as there are no records or evidence at all about him with only his Birth record showing “parents”.
His parentage cannot be correct, he has to have been “adopted” it is the only scenario that works with the 364cM match and all the other Shared Matches that are in my tree.
It looks like my Biological Great Grandfather had a relationship with a member of my 364cM’s family and their child, with my Grandfather being adopted. I can substantiate this by the fact that my Great Grandfather’s Wife has nobody in her line with whom neither I or my Half Sister shares any DNA.
In my tree is a person who deserted his Wife and children, by going to Australia using his Mother’s maiden name, once in Australia he resumed using his birth name.
In my Wife’s tree a GG Uncle deserted his Wife and two children by emigrating to the USA. His Wife remarried shortly after his departure and he remarried in the USA. It was only via a few DNA Matches that we can prove that this occurred.
People moved in the distant past for many reasons and as such finding the Why can be difficult if not impossible but DNA proves that it did happen. There can be no documentary evidence, just DNA to substantiate any hypothesis.
All of us who have been using DNA for years will each have our takes to tell.
As an example.
My highest unknown DNA match is a lady who shares 364cM with me. My Parentage is known and proved via DNA, with my Paternal Grandmother being Italian. My Paternal Grandfather is another matter, as there are no records or evidence at all about him with only his Birth record showing “parents”.
His parentage cannot be correct, he has to have been “adopted” it is the only scenario that works with the 364cM match and all the other Shared Matches that are in my tree.
It looks like my Biological Great Grandfather had a relationship with a member of my 364cM’s family and their child, with my Grandfather being adopted. I can substantiate this by the fact that my Great Grandfather’s Wife has nobody in her line with whom neither I or my Half Sister shares any DNA.
In my tree is a person who deserted his Wife and children, by going to Australia using his Mother’s maiden name, once in Australia he resumed using his birth name.
In my Wife’s tree a GG Uncle deserted his Wife and two children by emigrating to the USA. His Wife remarried shortly after his departure and he remarried in the USA. It was only via a few DNA Matches that we can prove that this occurred.