Earlier in the week there was an item in the newspapers about people being shocked with their DNA results.

Things like their father not being their biological father and other things like brothers and sisters not being full siblings.

If you do get a DNA test there is a good chance that there will be a wobbly for you but what does it matter.

It all depends on who and when. Problems with family connections were in some cases with the various Wars as men killed etc. and their wives or girlfriends pregnant.

Back in the 1800’s if a woman lost her husband she would in a lot of cases get another husband to provide for her existing children.

I suspect that in say 20 years time people will look back to today’s generation and say what was going on?

I had an update yesterday on my DNA test through Ancestry.

I thought I knew where I came from mainly Scotland, Wales and Durham, Northumberland with bits from Germany area.

As I have research as far back as I can through documented records to around 1745 the updates shows that I have links to areas that puzzle me. For instance the West of Ireland.🇮🇪

These must be people that lived say in the early 1800’s or before that live there, Catholics or from Scots Churches.

Those could have ended up in Northern Ireland in the 1800’s my Great Great Grandfather b. 1830 in Antrim.

I have yet to study what it all means other than I’m a bit of a wider mixture than I had thought.

There is no point in having a DNA test unless you are prepared to research your family history. Of course you just accepted the results as is and leave it at that.

With my Ancestry membership I get a load of notifications about distant relations, not really interested as they can be so remote from me. You have to draw the line somewhere!