Quote:
Originally Posted by Olde Crone
Kite
That's certainly the case in my tree. My GGM from Gawsworth in Cheshire came from a family which had been in the village since before church records began and had intermarried with the other families in the village for nearly 400 years. She accounts for one-eighth of my genes and DNA of course, but at every generation backwards someone married a cousin or at least a blood relative of some sort.
Half my genes and DNA come from Scotland and I doubt has much to do with R3. They too intermarried.
In fact it is only in the last two or three generations that anyone in my tree appears to marry a completely random stranger. Even when they moved away from close family, they moved to be with more distant kin and married there.
The idea that everyone's genes are spread out evenly across the generations is a nice one but totally false as far as I can see.
OC
|
I think the eight fingers per hand and the third arm were a bit of a clue though OC without you going through the pain and angst of researching it all 
__________________
Joseph Goulson 1707-1780
My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid
My coal is spent, my iron's gone
My nails are drove, my work is done
Lord receive my soul
|