100 DNA Cousins

[Biggles50]

It has taken a while but in both my Wife’s Family Tree and my own we have just finished adding the 100th DNA Cousin to each of our respective trees.

Quite pleased that we have reached this milestone and yet daunted that there are still so many unknowns and Brickwalls including 2 NPE’s in the trees that until we tested our DNA we had no idea that our or rather my tree had these NPE’s.

DNA is a double edged sword, yes it can add to confirming the validity of a line/branch in a tree and yet a high cM match can indicate that all is not what it shows itself to be via the documented lines.

In my Wife’s tree one pair of her predecessors have 10 DNA Cousins sharing this pair as the MRCA between them and my Wife, helping to substantiate the validity of that line in our research.

It is also very pleasurable to pass on information about the family to the newbie DNA Cousins who respond to the Message.

 

[coombs]

Yes be prepared for the occasional NPE or even informal adoption. My 3xgreat gran was likely an NPE and an NME as her said parents was likely her grandparents, as I think she was born out of wedlock, as her recorded mother was 51 at the time of birth. Also the baby had a much older sister's forename as a middle name, and that sister went on to have more baseborn children after civil reg began and lied on the certs.