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|    MB to Ian Goddard    |
|    Re: Ant & Dec DNA    |
|    15 Nov 19 00:25:48    |
      From: martin@mbriscoe.me.uk              On 14/11/2019 14:39, Ian Goddard wrote:       >On 11/11/19 18:16, MB wrote:       >> Second half tonight and at the same the crisp salesman is telling the       >> story of some of his ancestors.       >       >Oh dear. Just getting to the end of part 2 and they've gone into deep       >DNA nonsense. There's this daft assumption that if you can trace DNA       >back to some prominent person - or just towards them - in the past then       >everyone with that marker was descended from them.              I have worked up any enthusiasm to watch second programme after reading the        hype in the newspapers.              I am sure they spun it in the first programme to suggest they found the        village with all "cousins" using DNA when I think it was done using good        old fashioned genealogical searching then confirmed using DNA - if only we        could all afford to get a whole village tested!                     MB              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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