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Kitty Cooper's Blog title: Kitty Cooper's Blog | Musings on Genealogy, Genetics, and Gardening

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My Fastest Father Find Ever

Randi contacted me for help finding her unknown biological father. I advised her to test at Ancestry and get back in touch when her results were ready.

When they came in, it took...


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My Newly Found Half Second Cousin Once Removed

A few months ago, my family had a good DNA match (about 151 cm for my aunt) at 23andme to our Bavarian side. This was Mary, who had been adopted as a baby back in 1950 from a Munich orphanage. She knew her birth mother’s name but not her father’s. She had no other sig...


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Ancestry’s Updated Ancestral Origins

Ancestry.com has just completed a major update to its DNA bio-ancestry predictions that has broken down European countries into many smaller areas. They have added 68 locales, mainly in Europe. French Canadians are no longer listed as France, now they are either Quebec or Acadia. They have also made four jewish groups from one: ...


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23andMe Update

23andMe is now owned by​ Anne Wojcicki’s new non-profit The 23andMe Research Institute. An email has gone out to all of us users (see next page) explaining this, which also makes it clear that the focus will be on ...


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Half Sister or Aunt?

There are many stories about families where the baby of an unwed teen was passed off as her own mother’s child. A recent query in a FaceBook group asked whether DNA testing could tell whether her aunt, her mother’s much younger presumed sister, was one of those cases, so actually the asker’s half sister. The problem is that the amount of cM shared by those tw...


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