Scientists Compared the DNA of Everyone With the Same Last Name What Yours Reveals Will Surprise You

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  @angloorigins · 2 months ago · pinned

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  @becky8571 · 2 months ago

  We should all use our mother’s surname…because you can always prove who your mother is.

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• BU

  @buzzzzzz69 · 2 months ago (edited)

  I can trace my own ( maternally passed) surname back to a single person in Estonia in the mid to late 1600s.<br>The name itself is actually a shortened version of a &quot;Christian&quot; name....<br>which coincidentally happened to be KRISTOFFER.(meaning bringer of Christ)😅<br>However in Estonian it&apos;s KRISTOHVE.<br>So there&apos;s several ways to spell the same name in many languages.<br>I&apos;m almost certain that out of the 120 of us in the world with this surname at least 70% of us are somehow blood relatives to some degree.

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• AR

  @ArnaudDufresne-v7m · 2 months ago

  That is a good point you made. Obviously everybody tends to exagerate by far the number of illegimate sons and daughters across centuries.

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• EM

  @Emy53 · 2 months ago

  Many people changed their surname for various reasons, but that &quot;Y&quot; marker still kept them connected.

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• PA

  @patriciajrs46 · 2 months ago (edited)

  I am very proud of forensic genetics. One of my favorite shows is Forensic Files.<br>Listening from Manchester TN USA.

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• WR

  @wrrsean_alt · 2 months ago

  Surely men with the same surname might have some idea they are possibly related?

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• GR

  @greengorillah · 2 months ago

  I believe it was my 6th time great grandmother who fell pregnant by an unknown man. Her son got her family name but his Y-DNA was from that unknown father.

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• NU

  @NunyaOBrien-r5f · 2 months ago

  The hitch in this science is that many Celtic surnames are taken from the clan people were associated with, not the lineage those people were from. O&apos;_<i>_</i> can mean the person&apos;s ancestors are of the house of the rest of the surname NOT related to the person who had that name!

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• JA

  @jakeave · 1 month ago

  I have a really hard time with these LLM scripts &quot;like passing a baton&quot;, &quot;side by side, step by step&quot;, &quot;with a title as plain as the method&quot;, &quot;here&apos;s the part that made it airtight&quot;

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  @GrößeBälle · 2 months ago (edited)

  My father was adopted by his mother&apos;s second husband so although we have a rare surname,I share dna with only a handful of people of that name. I do know however who my biological grandfather&apos;s family is and do share a relatively rare haplo group for Western Europe.

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  @DaveScreen-n1i · 2 months ago (edited)

  @4.30....<br>I was not surprised when the photo of Eric Sykes was shown.😊😊😊<br><br>I&apos;d be fascinated to know where/how my own surname would fit into this analysis.