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DNA Test

I'm using my heritage no surprises so far they use European data which is why I picked them. One thing I have learned as a quality engineer data quality matters including sample size and what you sample basically like in polling your sample is determined by people letting themselves get sampled, So far in my case only two first cousins have taken the test, none of my wife's cousins have, probably none have a reason too What I am noticing is no reason no test. One of my first cousins was given up for adoption by my aunt 65 years ago. My mother had told me about him before she passed away. I joined to sort out a few mysteries. discovered even bigger mysteries.
 
Other issues are sampling and Asia is most likely poor, so sampling in USA for African or Asian is a bad sample.
not representative of the populations, nor is using only part or the DNA rather than the whole genome. The more I look the more holes I see.
 
I personally never have. My biological dad is of Italian/Hungarian descent (my great grandpa was from Budapest and my paternal grandmother was born in Sicily). My Mom is of Irish descent.
 
there's some incredible stories of people finding out they are adopted in addition to finding long lost family connections. the whole 6 degrees of separation also certainly plays out. We did a DNA profile for our daughter and found we had long lost distant 2nd and 3rd cousins scattered all over the world. the platform did give us the option of reaching out and making connections with these people. tempting as it is, I don't have the motivation to say hello to these folks.
 
My great grand mothers surname is Glas, which means glass in Dutch, finding some of my relatives is the USA with names like Glass and Gass told me they tried spelling mistakes are why they have so few relatives on their tree. So I actually contacted a few to let them know.
 
I just read an article about a woman who had her ancestry mapped, revealing that she is closely related to a much younger man from another state whom no one in her family had ever heard of. Long story short, she had received an anonymous stranger's umbilical cord blood during her childhood to treat her non-Hodkins lymphoma. She recovered from the cancer. The donated cord-blood DNA is now part of her DNA. The donor's mother had donated her son's cord-blood to a cord-blood bank when he was born, and the woman received that blood.

Does that make the woman and the donor man "relatives" or "family"?
 
Put on blood thinners after the stroke. I see blood as a mechanical mixture like paint, not a solution. AB blood is unique the merging of east and west only recently entered Europe, less than 2000 years ago.
 
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