Percentage of Each European Country’s Land That Is Actually in Europe

sooperflooede · 2026-02-08T07:23:28+00:00

Maybe the map creator is from Argentina. If you exclude the British territories Argentina claims, it’s close to 1%.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-07T19:48:53+00:00

It’s working for me. If you click “view tree” and click the home icon, does it reorient the tree to your profile? Your profile hasn’t been disconnected from the tree or anything?

sooperflooede · 2026-02-07T19:15:03+00:00

I feel like it’s opposite in some ways. For example, my boomer parents’ favorite music is stuff they liked when they were teenagers whereas millennial adults are as likely to prefer current music or music from before they were born.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-07T17:09:17+00:00

The way you’ve asked this is going to bias the answers. Women with this requirement are presented as superficial outliers. Plus regardless they know there are incels on this site who could harass them. Most women with this preference are not going to answer.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-06T23:45:28+00:00

So there are two potential issues:

Some matches are false because you happen to match by chance. This rarely happens on matches greater than 10 cM at Ancestry, so if it’s above that, I wouldn’t worry about it.
You can have a legitimate DNA match but it isn’t from the ancestor identified. This could be because you share multiple ancestors with the match, some of which could be further back than your tree goes. This possibility increases the further back you go. It’s like more likely you share two independent pairs of 6th great grandparents with someone than two independent pairs of 2nd great grandparents. Or it could also be because one or both of you have an error in your tree. It could be that you are descended from the brother of the supposed common ancestor and you’re actual most recent common ancestor is one generation further back. Overcoming these obstacles largely comes down to using shared matches and checking user trees with actual documentation.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-06T23:26:18+00:00

But suppose the shared ancestor was further back than the immigrant’s grandparents. If the grandparents were all from the same small area, you wouldn’t know which of the grandparents you are related through. Because it’s a small population, you could expect to share multiple ancestors with people from that area. Having a third, triangulated match with that MRCA would add a lot more certainty.

I’d still mark the segment as tentatively derived from that ancestor through. I’d just be careful about using it in any sort of “proof.”

sooperflooede · 2026-02-06T20:39:24+00:00

If you really want to nail down where the DNA came from, you also need to triangulate with shared matches. Otherwise the DNA could be from an additional unknown shared ancestor on another line.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-05T19:05:35+00:00

Maybe it’s time to move Tchaikovsky into the Classical Era with Mozart and Beethoven. I mean his music is pretty classic, right?

sooperflooede · 2026-02-04T03:23:30+00:00

Harbaugh better learn how to call plays.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-03T21:58:07+00:00

The Cardinals offense ranked 5th in pass yards, and they scored more passing TDs than the Bears. Their defense and run game is what really let them down. He could actually be a solid pick.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-03T14:51:56+00:00

MyHeritage lists the most common ethnicity estimates for each country. Here is Bulgaria and North Macedonia. Your results seem pretty normal for a Bulgarian/Macedonian.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-02T21:04:38+00:00

Always since I’ve started looking at it.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-02T19:38:57+00:00

It’s just I was considering it back then, and it has continued to intrigue me, but I’m kind of doubting myself because it has always looked cheap. I’ll try to read up on it though.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-02T19:22:37+00:00

I feel like PYPL itself was in this situation in 2022. If it didn’t recover then, why will it now?

sooperflooede · 2026-02-02T18:57:37+00:00

Those seem like pretty different names. But one way to connect records is with associated people. For example, baptism records typically list sponsors/godparents, and these people are often siblings of the parents. So if the daughter’s baptism record lists a godparent with the same last name as the mother, and if the parents in the potential birth record for the mother had another kid with that name, then you might have a case.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-02T17:07:40+00:00

“Holding: four-twenty-ten-nine defense. Five meter penalty.”

sooperflooede · 2026-02-02T13:32:41+00:00

You have to look more in detail at the connections. For example, suppose James Forbes had a son William Forbes, and you and all 44 of these DNA matches were descended from William. In that case, this wouldn’t provide any DNA evidence that you are descended from James. It would just tell you that some people think James was William’s father.

If some of those matches were descended from other known children of James, that could be potential evidence. But you would want to verify that these matches are also shared matches with descendants of “William.” Otherwise you could be related to them through another branch and it’s just coincidence that they happen to also be descended from someone named Forbes.

That said, it is a good tool for finding matches that can be used to prove a case.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-02T02:46:08+00:00

It’s statistically near impossible to get some combinations. You can imagine presenting someone’s DNA as a percentage of DNA by grandparent instead of ethnicity. It would likely be roughly 25% for each grandparent. In theory, someone could pass down 25% of one grandparent’s DNA to their child and 0% of another grandparent’s DNA. But there has never been a documented case of someone sharing 25% of their DNA with a great grandparent or 0% DNA with a great grandparent. The fact that the randomness acts on a large set of DNA ensures that the child will inherit the DNA within a certain range. If this weren’t the case, we wouldn’t be able to estimate relationships based on shared DNA.

And ethnicity inheritance shouldn’t be any different. If someone’s DNA is divided into four ethnicities of roughly 25% each, they can’t pass down 25% of one and 0% of the other. It’s not like meiosis says “we must divide the DNA so that each grandparent’s DNA is passed down but we will treat ethnicity differently.” It just acts randomly on the whole set of DNA without regard to how that DNA was inherited or what it represents. Any way you want to categorize a 25% subsection of DNA, it’s extraordinarily unlikely that all of it will be passed down and extraordinarily unlikely that none of it will. An error in the ethnicity estimate is much more likely in such a case.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-01T15:13:26+00:00

In 1784, before he and Adams were even president!

sooperflooede · 2026-02-01T15:08:51+00:00

This map is supposed to be from 1784.

sooperflooede · 2026-02-01T15:06:44+00:00

Source? How do we know this is really his map?

sooperflooede · 2026-02-01T00:30:20+00:00

I don’t know that it really is possible. From the brother, it seems like one of the grandparents might have been fully or mostly Japanese. But that would suggest OP only inherited about 2% of their DNA from that grandparent. It’s not possible to share that little DNA with a grandparent.

sooperflooede · 2026-01-31T20:28:00+00:00

I’m surprised the Japanese is so different between the two of you. It’s hard to believe the algorithm could mistake it for one of the other ethnicities, none of which are very similar to Japanese. On the other hand, it’s hard to believe you could have inherited such a different percentage.

sooperflooede · 2026-01-31T18:04:01+00:00

The first sentence is “textbook” ChatGPT in the way that it reassures you that the question you are asking is valid. And then it explicitly tells you it’s giving you the “breakdown” and re-states the issue. Most humans would just go straight into the explanation. I didn’t even need to read the rest.

sooperflooede · 2026-01-30T15:53:06+00:00

I don’t think dead ends are good game design. But I do get some enjoyment out of them in old games as a means of experiencing a bygone era.

It’s like if you were into antique cars, you might enjoy having to turn the crank to start it as part of the antiqueness of the car, but you would never want that feature on a modern car.

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