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If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.

I haven't actually checked my family tree, but Rutherford is a very old Scottish name, so I've probably got Scottish genes a few generations back.

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.

People like to trace their ancestry.