We are all a complete mixture; yet at the same time, we are all related. Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor. This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us. Our genes did not just appear when we were born. They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.
Bryan Sykes
By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.
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There are several interesting questions such as was there one original 'father' Christmas or were there several different ones?
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If it's a single family with one original founder, then most of them will have the same Y chromosome fingerprint. If there's more than one, we'll identify that
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But generally this is the kind of name that, from experience, has one or very few founders.
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We will select volunteers from those two branches
If you didn't have that genealogical information, you wouldn't have the first idea about those two branches or where they come from.
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.. Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.
DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection, handed down from generation to generation, carried, literally, in the bodies of my ancestors.
Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.
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Myths have a very long memory.
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