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Donya and Brian's family research broke Ancestry! The reason why has everything to do with endogamy. When your great-grandparents are second cousins, their parents were first cousins, and when your 3x great-grandparents are also second cousins... Ancestry just can't handle it. It's not just a hot mess, it is a red hot mess!Endogamy not only affects your paper trail research, it also heavily affects your DNA research.LINKS (articles cited in the video):1. Endogamy: Or how an entire county can be related via https://genealogyadventures.wordpress.com/2017/12/07/endogamy-or-how-an-entire-county-can-be-related/2. Endogamy on the plantation via https://genealogyadventures.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/endogamy-on-the-plantation/

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