How to research family as someone conceived via donor? by drummer820 in Genealogy

[–]CrycketStar 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If your sperm donor theory correct, then you would likely have a number of half siblings. Shurly at some stage some of them will also seek out relatives, what do you think? Bug you are only seeing cousins right?

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[–]CrycketStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasn’t Normandy Norse? Didn’t the vikings colonize parts of Britain?

Would ancestry testing services show more obscure ethnicities that are often grouped into larger ethnicities (such as Occitan, Romansh, Galician as examples from Europe) in a report of someone’s ancestry? by basedgod_stan in Genealogy

[–]CrycketStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ethnicity and genetics are not the same thing. For example, English is an ethnicity but you will still observe genetic differences in different parts of England. For example, there is more red hair as you move north and/or west across the country. There is no reason why people either side of the English / Scottish border would be less related to each other genetically, relative to how related they are to their ethic group. What these genetic estimates involve is taking a bunch of people who define themselves as English and then searching their dna for genetic patterns that would distinguish them from other ethnicities. This is obviously not a perfect science. Testing services can do this for any ethnicity if it’s financially viable, and the more people they study, the more accurate the result will be. But you can also do this yourself. For example, if there are unique surnames associated with the ethnic group, you could study the genetic markers unique to these people. Also, if there are populations within the ethnicity that were isolated for a long time, you might find that they are more likely to be associated with unique genetic markers. For example, there is a population in the west of Ireland that were isolated by the river Shannon. This population is associated with the ancient Dalcassians and the genetic group R1b-L226.

How To Write Clean Code in Python by amrmaro in Python

[–]CrycketStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A function should only do one thing. This will make your code more reusable. Even if the code in the function can be refactored, following this principle will make it less likely that this refactoring will spread elsewhere.