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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] 60 Minutes Genetic Genealogy Segment Up Next
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 20:26:49 -0600
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From: "robert mclaren" <>

The companies, African Ancestry, Relative Genetics, and Trace
> Genetics all gave her a tribe in Africa -- and each was different.
> However, they then said Family Tree DNA gave her a number of different
> areas.

I thought the overall program was fair enough. One company gave a tribe in
Sierra Leone, another gave a tribe in Senegal. While FTDNA gave their usual
computer printout of matches of different degrees which included Sierra
Leone a few times according to my hawk eyes. These areas of West Africa are
rather close, and we should be so lucky geographically with our European
mtDNA matches.
there graphical depictions of the many ancestral lines with pure paternal
and pure maternal on the ends went beyond what most shows do in order to be
explanatory --- but I like graphs.


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