I did the 23 and me DNA test

[duncang]

9. Sometimes almost to easy.

It gives you hints that may not be true. Other trees that were wrong was the biggest problem. Name suggestions that weren’t quite correct next problem. Trying to read old hand written records next.

For my adventure I had to write a list of common Swedish words that are common on church records. Sweden has some decent church records. But with name changes each generation it can get complicated. Example Hansson for the son of Han’s. While Hansdotter for his daughter. Then there seemed to be a lot of arranged marriages between different provinces. Doing it was fun though. Ended up with about 2,500 ancestors and their families. I didn’t go into the branches back down the tree except for cousins.

A few instances of people reaching out. My great grand uncle’s grandson reached out. My grand uncle was the ninth kid so they named him nine in Swedish.