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This is cool! You're going deep into answering the question I've always had about Ancestry.com DNA ancestry tests: They don't tell you your deep time ancestry. They mostly use recent labels as benchmarks, but I'm not interested in recent times. I'm interested in how related I am to the people who lived in Europe in the stone age, just like you are. The ancestry tests take modern people who can say that all four of their grandparents were of one ethnicity like "Irish" and using them and their parents and grandparents as benchmarks against which others' DNA are compared to see how "Irish" the DNA of others are. I'm not interested in that. I am interested in how related I am to the DNA of a body dug up from a Irish bog that was dated to like 5,000 BC.

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Taminad Crittenden
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