My favorite matches are those that make no plausible sense to my current knowledge of my pedigree, because I figure there has to be an interesting story there.
I guess some of them could just be straight up baloney--especially the small ones. I have a couple Russian/Ukrainian matches that I suspect are IBS, but theoretically could represent some ancient Czech or Sorb from my legitimate tree.
Recently noticed a marginalcM but decent SNP match (>2k) whose entire known background is in Brittany and environs. If it's real at all for me it's paternal on my side, which seemed like a real head scratcher.
Until I read that 20% of Berlin were French Huguenots through the mid-19th century, and that a family closely related to mine in Co. Mayo married the daughter of a well-known privateer family from St. Malo.
You just never know what interesting things you're gonna learn when you research your weirder matches. Don't ignore them, please.
I guess some of them could just be straight up baloney--especially the small ones. I have a couple Russian/Ukrainian matches that I suspect are IBS, but theoretically could represent some ancient Czech or Sorb from my legitimate tree.
Recently noticed a marginalcM but decent SNP match (>2k) whose entire known background is in Brittany and environs. If it's real at all for me it's paternal on my side, which seemed like a real head scratcher.
Until I read that 20% of Berlin were French Huguenots through the mid-19th century, and that a family closely related to mine in Co. Mayo married the daughter of a well-known privateer family from St. Malo.
You just never know what interesting things you're gonna learn when you research your weirder matches. Don't ignore them, please.
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