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  • I’m Irish and Need Help Tracing Ancestors in Bermuda

    I live in Ireland and I had a DNA test done by 23andMe to find out more about my great-granny on my dad’s side. She was born in Bermuda around 1882-1884, and may have been named Clarissa Bascome Darrell. I know my great-granddad was Joseph Luzero Ward, but he was married twice and my great-grandmother…

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  • How Much DNA Do Distant Cousins Actually Share?

    For this week’s column I decided to address a topic that comes up frequently in your questions: finding genetic relatives through one of the DNA-testing services that match people who share ancestry. In fact, in last week’s column a reader reached out to “a fourth-generation relative” that she met through such a service, and that…

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