re: #222 wheat-dogghazi

As for marrying off daughters, the parish records state clearly the woman’s baby was “okta” (illegitimate), so there was no family planning involved, as it were.

So, you’re saying the father (or his relative) who belonged to the parish recorded the female baby as his but “illegitimate” by an outside female?

I have not had my mtDNA or yDNA tested, though I am going to go for the 23andMe SNP test. 23andMe says they will only get me the mtDNA group to a high level, not enough detail for relative testing, and likewise to the y-haplagroup but only at the coarse detail. For now that is fine with me, as I have a good genealogy on the yDNA line back several generations, and I have good provenance on the mtDNA line back to a great great great great great grandmother. In fact it is only that quarter of my mother’s ancestry that we know really well.

For those of us with ancestors who were here since colonial times, it is highly likely that we are all relatives by now, if only by marriage.