Mine too. The weird thing is he didn't show up there until my mid-fifties.
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Mine too. The weird thing is he didn't show up there until my mid-fifties.
Have a family member that put together the old family tree.
Back to the 1700's on my Father's side and the 1600's on my
Mother's side.
Found out this guy is a 5th cousin.....Mother's side.
Oliver Loving - Wikipedia
Back to the 1700's on my Father's side and the 1600's on my
Mother's side.
Found out this guy is a 5th cousin.....Mother's side.
Oliver Loving - Wikipedia
I live on the far South end of his original ranch boundry. He's buried in Weatherford Texas. A Mason.
Sounds like a convoluted way of saying that your a Mutt! Which basically describes virtually all Americans after their first generation of living in the United States! My ancestry at least coming from my father side came to the USA around 1810! My mother on the other hand is Austrian being a WW2 war bride! I don't have a clue of what if any mixed blooding exist on my father side before the 1890's, nor do I really care…
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One of my sons looks almost exactly like I do. His son looks almost exactly as he does.
One day, my son took my then 6-year old grandson up to me and said to him, "See Grandpa? That's what you're going to look like when you're old!"
And you know with absolute certainty that nowhere in your Texas ancestry that your anything else but a 100% true blue Texican! My understanding is that Galveston was founded by Cabeza de Vala in 1528, and wasn't a Texican…
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Ancestry.com sent me a picture of my nearest living relative:
Floss Master?
They do dental at our kid's animal hospital but he might eat the boarders.
Will send them a 460 or a Patriot Missile prior to that lad's appointment.
Cabeza de Vaca washed ashore from a shipwreck on
what is now Galveston Island.
The only thing he "found" was that he was lost.
My kin-folks did not show up until 300 years later.
Part of S. Austin's "Old Three Hundred".
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Neither is worse for those of us who don't care
I'm still suspicious of DNA testing to determine ancestry. When you get tested, the results are compared to a database, and the information in that database may be incomplete or poorly gathered, which in either case makes it much less accurate, and sometimes useless.
Case in point, my daughter found a rescued dog, got it from a pound in Miami. He's turned into the most beautiful and smart dog I think I've ever seen, has the look and behavior of a smooth-coat Border Collie, but obviously has something else in the mix, maybe terrier of some sort. She sent off for a DNA test to determine the breed mix, and it came back showing him to be 68% Chow. No thick red coat, no tail that curls over his back, no black tongue, and he weighs about 1/2 what a full-grown Chow would weigh and is a much lighter framed dog. Take a look at the pics below and tell me if you see any Chow in him. I look more like a Chow than this dog.
My 95-year-old mother has been a family genealogist for 70 years, and has traced several of our family lines back to the late 1600's, and one of them to the 1500's. She did it all through court records, land deeds, family Bibles, newspaper records, word-of-mouth histories and genealogical links from others who do the same type research. I don't trust the "23-and-me" approach, because I don't know how complete or accurate the database is that gets used.
Bur, nobody actually know for sure everyone was truthful in the past. More than one supposed papa wasn't and that didn't start yesterday. More than one mother was actual an aunt or grandma. Lost of stuff got hidden. Studies have shown that anywhere from 4-15% of fathers on the birth certificate were not the actual father. I trust 23 and me more than any genealogy study. Every single generation of your family may or may not have had a secret.
I was on a bus from the airport in Saigon to a holding facility in Bien Wa. We were all agog looking out the windows at our new surroundings, spooked a bit by the fact there had been a rocket attack the day previous. My eyes wandered around the bus, I looked at one of the rear view mirrors and ended up looking at myself, although it wasn't me...very similar, closer than my own brother. We exchanged pleasantries, I was 6'4" in those years the other guy was 5'6".
And if you can't afford to research your family tree, just run for public office.
unless you have a crazy illness - i fail to see the value of such a test. your dna may be used against you when you need/desire healthcare. if you don't think that info is shared...think again.
seems like a risky novelty to me.
each to their own.
good luck.
vfm
seems like a risky novelty to me.
each to their own.
good luck.
vfm
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It would interesting to see where we are with this in 100 years after we start modifying our genes.
There are 40K recognized varieties of beans in the world. Boil them all in water and the result is soup.
A century from now : "is it soup yet?"
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I don't want to take a DNA test.
I'm afraid I might fail it.........
I'm afraid I might fail it.........
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I'm still waiting for my 3rd cousin once removed,the Earl,to invite me for tea [emoji38]
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