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DNA Results

I have just been trawling through the DouglasDNA project results for a particular ancestral line.

Looking at all the results I noticed some interesting apparent 'brick walls' and wondered if DNA has helped those lines get further with their research.

To pick one of the lines, I noticed that Scotti and Douglas Scotti appear in different sections, and do not appear to link back to a common ancestor.  There are others that I would have said should show a common ancestor, but appear not to.

I do not pretend to understand DNA, but are we learning from this research, and if so what?

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/douglas/about

https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Douglas?iframe=yresults 

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Making conections

The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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