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[wombat]

Distance 3 matches can be VERY far back, sometimes even distance 0 are almost 1,000 years back (although they could also be as recent as just a single generation back as well for distance 0 or 1)....

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1. It's very hard to tell UK from certain parts of Germany so it might really be German.
2. Some tens of thousands of Scottish people went to Poland and the Baltics between around 1600 and 1900.

probably one or the other or both of those at once...

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I was surprised to get zero above STR37 level with an R1b haplogroup! I suppose it does't help that they say very few Germans and barely any French have DNA tested....

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My dad gets only 4 at STR25 level and only 2 STR37 matches and 0 for STR67 and STR111 level. Also R1b-M269 (R1b-L20 to be more precise and much farther downstream). He has many pages of STR12 level. Also there is only one other person listed with R1b-L20 for his entire country of origin, Latvia!...

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exactly, lack of match means nothing and you can't restrict lines of investigation

while a match does let you restrict lines (although you could be tricked still if you matched the person along two different pathways)...

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the fact it says they are not related doesn't mean anything solid

1. you can still end up having parents share matches even if they are not related in any way at all

2. also, due to random inheritance, they can be tree related in a reasonably close time span and yet not share...

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A male can't get falsely large X matches though as there is no opposite strand to provide a fill in.
It probably means that you are related to the person on both sides of your family, possibly much farther back on your mom's side.
I just got a big 21cM match in common with my dad that is...

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me:
53% Hunter-Gatherer
31% Farmer
16% Metal Age Invader

my mom:
56% Hunter-Gatherer
29% Farmer
15% Metal Age Invader

my dad:
55% Hunter-Gatherer
32% Farmer
13% Metal Age Invader

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you really shouldn't try to use those Oracles tools to claim you have ancestry from such and so country

at best, it's fairly likely that you actually have some ancestry from what it puts as #1 for single population mode and then, providing your ancestry is not a mish-mash from all over,...

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I never said the act of questioning bothers me.

IMO, all the locking away of trees, makes things a lot more difficult. It makes it harder to know which of a thousand different matches to take the time to contact. And potentially very helpful clues for people may be locked away. EVen a...

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Most of the time I don't think it has anything to do with that. I see so many private trees and I don't think they can all be from well known people (and with my ancestry it would be something of a shock if even a single match was)....

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And it seems a bit odd for someone to mock people who make giant trees and question the trees when they are free and open and share them when they themselves are hide everything away.

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In some places it helps to go nuts adding thousands into your tree since due to partially incomplete records, no surnames until 1826 or 1835 and other factors, often you have to map out tons and tons in all directions to find ways to figure out some part of some key line and it also gives the only remotest...

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exactly
it's always helpful
plus when you see people with no trees you figure maybe they know nothing and with so many potential matches to deal with you end up ignoring all of those matches...

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wow crazy to see the old prices! we got it for $120...