Most people seem to be focussed on using My Origins to establish ethnicity (and some are disappointed to find that it's not perfect). I haven't seen much discussion about the possibility of finding distant cousins living in various countries. My family has been in the U.S.A enough generations that nobody really knew where we came from. I found some Dutch, German and British ancestry through traditional genealogy, but I still haven't been able to trace most lines back to their country of origin.
But Family Finder has been a big help. While I haven't been able to track down any Dutch or German cousins, I have found Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Russian cousins... Some match me and my mother with a longest block of 10 or 11 cm (and none of them correspond to any known pile-up areas). My mother also has one possible French cousin with a matching longest block of 8 cm, but we'll need more matches to confirm French Ancestry.
Has anyone else found cousins from other countries? If so, which countries?
But Family Finder has been a big help. While I haven't been able to track down any Dutch or German cousins, I have found Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Russian cousins... Some match me and my mother with a longest block of 10 or 11 cm (and none of them correspond to any known pile-up areas). My mother also has one possible French cousin with a matching longest block of 8 cm, but we'll need more matches to confirm French Ancestry.
Has anyone else found cousins from other countries? If so, which countries?
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