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   J. P. Gilliver (John) to All   
   Is familytreedna really as hopeless as i   
   30 Nov 20 13:02:20   
   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   I have an email from them "Your myOrigins Results are Updated for kit   
   xxxxxxx"; obviously I must have sent them my DNA results at some point.   
      
   I'm ignoring the geographical origins part, as I do with all the others   
   (this lot give me 3% Magyar and 3% Baltic, which none of the others do).   
   But it also has a "Compare Origins" bit, which when clicked, shows me   
   198 "Matches", which it lists - saying what they are: they're all either   
   "2nd Cousin - 4th Cousin" or "3rd Cousin - 5th Cousin". (I think about a   
   third the former.)   
      
   The thing is, of the 198, I only know one - and don't recognise the   
   surnames of any others - and yet I've been doing genealogy for some   
   decades, and know all 32 of my G3GP (and all but about 9 of my 64 G4GP).   
   So I'd expect to already know at least some if they really are 4C or   
   less - or at least recognise some surnames.   
      
   Has anyone any thoughts? Has anyone contacted a   
   previously-unknown-to-them cousin via this company?   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
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