Angela
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She lost my attention when she said that she knows all the ancestors down the line. I think suggesting at least 64 of them till 6 generation. It could have been quite a feat and it only explains english and irish side. Further down the line and ancestors go into thousands, especially in populous and mobile country like USA. It is not secluded village somewhere in mountains of Europe. Technically she is not able to track all of them to make sure 23andMe is right or wrong. And of course she thought the English/Irish part, and any other listed ancestry, had to be born and come directly from England and their other indicated lands. She missed a fact that DNA can travel unchanged for generations and thousands of miles in some populations.
The problem is that genetic understanding and ancestry is not an easy subject for average person. These are new ideas and new concepts needing quite a bit of education and good imagination. So many, if not most, easily get confused. It reminds me of my recent explaining how it works to user Orca1.
http://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/28682-Geno-2-0-results/page2?p=499687#post499687
I expect this problem getting worse with genetic testing getting more popular.
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