Genetic Genealogy Helps ID Victim of Green River Killer

[RobinA]

7. Well, I'm An Actual Person

and we know our ancestral lines going back past the boats, with the exception of my maternal grandfather's family which has a black hole three generations back. They all came here well before the Revolution except my paternal great Grandmother, who sailed here in 1898 from Cornwall. Both Ancestry and 23 and Me were right on the nose with what we know to be true about where my DNA came from. Some areas they highlight I don't have proof of, but those areas are fairly close to the areas that I do, so they make sense.

Of course, until my generation (younger Boomer) we are various UK and German Palatinate descendants, so figuring us out doesn't involve any great stretches, as those are some of their largest databases. If anyone went off the reservation in my family's past, they met up with similar breeds. This is just my family, so YMMV.