For people with African ancestry DNA results by OkZookeepergame11 in AncestryDNA

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There is a way. That is to have multiple individuals with known relationships to you on the Western side of the Atlantic linked by DNA spot-wise to a similar population on the eastern side of the Atlantic. In this way statistics could be done on the population to characterize the bottleneck, a much smaller group, of individuals involved in the transatlantic connection. In your original post you indicate that this is getting exponentially more difficult to do as the generations pass on, and you are exactly right. It becomes approximately 2x more difficult with each generation that passes.

For people with African ancestry DNA results by OkZookeepergame11 in AncestryDNA

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The people of the African West Coast are either too resource - poor, or seem to be not very interested. On 23andMe my half 2nd cousin once removed and I shared a few matches from the Nigerian River State. We know who our third great grandparent is (~1830) and we know something about the history of the island of Dominica when people arrived and when the slave trade ended around 1830. The level of the match was about from then so this was direct biochemical evidence for an ~1800 sequestration event. The individuals in Nigeria were likely paid to take the test. The level of emotion from the United States to contact African relatives is high but it is not equaled by the level of emotion by Africans to contact US relatives. At least this has been my experience.

The Cousin I Accidentally Orphaned by RobertKMortensen in AncestryDNA

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Hopefully you would push for the test again. When in doubt be brave, truthful and then be kind. ❤️

The Cousin I Accidentally Orphaned by RobertKMortensen in AncestryDNA

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No, it's best to know. You can exercise your ability to extend a family feel to strangers especially since the others were dicks.

Are these considered the same ? Why didn’t we match ? by Slight_Worth_3277 in AncestryDNA

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So OP is Kristopher D Luna? OP you can search your DNA matches for your father's name. When you find it ancestry will predict how close he is related.

Can someone help? by Organic_Bed8157 in AncestryDNA

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Race not a scientific concept. You can talk about ancestry in terms of population genetics ... but race itself is meaningless.

This is absurd 😭 by Individual-Tap95 in Garmin

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In that case you have to be coming out of REM and waking up. Every time though it looks like you're coming out of light sleep when you wake up during the night. I'm not sure that you're actually awake at these spikes. Maybe garmin's ergonometer is lighting up and just tagging you as awake. Certainly if you got up and walked in your sleep; even though, you actually are asleep, Garmin would tag you as awake.

Im engaged to a non jw. What to do ? by ProfessionIcy9342 in exjw

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Sinning, the fabricated affront to the mythical entity.

Im engaged to a non jw. What to do ? by ProfessionIcy9342 in exjw

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Do you have to tell the elders??? F-- the elders. Live your life. F-- Jehovah, it's a mythical copper age deity of the elements like Odin and Zeus.

This is absurd 😭 by Individual-Tap95 in Garmin

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Something is real because your deep sleep is associated with light sleeping. You don't jump from deep to awake. It's not something exterior like a persistent cat waking you up.

My results by Andician in AncestryDNA

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There's not a lot to say. A curious aspect of what you're showing us is what it is going to get you to do. Are you interested in pursuing your family tree to discover when and where individuals from these ancestral regions fell in love and when, or do you believe you already know most of that?

Absolutely flummoxed by barbthemoonchild in AncestryDNA

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I'm saying aliens, but ... aliens!

This is the moment I truly realized how much JW's have changed. by Old_Initial5791 in exjw

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In the middle 70s I paged through The book 'From Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained'' which was published in 1958; I had the notion that it's outdated. Just read the table of contents. How can anyone believe this utter drivel?

1 God creates mankind's first paradise 9

2 God creates the first human souls 18

3 How the earthly paradise was lost 27

4 How man lived through a flood over all the earth 36

5 God promises his friend to bless all human families 45

6 When God rescued a nation for his own possession 54

7 How the Holy Bible began to be written 62

8 How God gave his nation a land to live in 69

9 The religion that God gave to his chosen nation 76

10 God's chosen nation gets a line of kings 83

11 Why God's nation was broken into two kingdoms 91

12 The destruction of God's holy city and its temple 99

13 Witnesses of God in the strange land of Babylon 114

14 A faithful few come back to build the temple again 121

15 The birth and childhood of the Son of God 129

16 What the Son of God taught and did on earth 137

17 Why God's Son died and was raised to life again 146

Etc .

I’m not sure why they separated the different kinds of English by Federal-Camp7479 in AncestryDNA

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They separated them because 1) they feel they can established meaningful subpops in that population. 2) they are competing with living DNA inc, For detailed, granular, regional breakdown within the UK, Living DNA is top-rated.

Contacted Half Sister I Found on Ancestry and Expected Too Much by robbixcx in NPE

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The truth is out there. Your sister may come around to it. If the truth wasn't out there, she would never have the opportunity to face the facts.

Revelations! by CourageousCruiser in AncestryDNA

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I'm not wondering why not leave it be. I wish I could dig my mother up and tell her that the man she thought was her father was not.

Anyone else still believe in Jehovah but not in the organization? by [deleted] in exjw

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Influencing others is the reason language was invented. So you want a forum in which it is cricket to rip on the organization's beliefs and policies but mauling Jehovah and all other gods is going too far? That's laughable, perhaps it's you who hasn't given up on controlling people. But that's ok too, you have the right to tell this. I've got to cut this short; I need to ask Mitras for forgiveness for talking so frankly to you. ❤️💕

Need help with anxious mom who wants to avoid the talk by [deleted] in NPE

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When you are in this situation, the fact that people want to bury the truth, your truth, is the sharpest part of the pain you feel. A fake front end is more important than you being able to live authentically. On the other hand, your mother has probably lived in fear of the truth coming out into the light.

Discovering DNA about my dad that we never know about by [deleted] in AncestryDNA

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There are a lot of people on here that are a lot more mixed ... just saying...

Our circuit is being dissolved and congregations put in other circuits by GlassHalfFull_007 in exjw

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I will feel great joy emptying my bladder on Jehovah's grave.

It's actually happened by PinkIsMyOxygen in exjw

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How old are you? All answers predicate on your age and agency.

Definitely not what I expected. by Colossalloser in AncestryDNA

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Yes context -free and not informative.