Even More Fun with DNA

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I took the AncestryDNA test about six months ago. Through a claimed 700,000 markers, it tries to match you with other Ancestry.com users who have taken the AncestryDNA test (your "4000 cousins", assuming they are all both ancestry.com users, and AncestryDNA participants), and also highlights what countries/regions typify some of the markers found in your DNA (more of an "ethnic origins" type of report.) But it's not intended to be a substitute for the more bloodline-specific tests such as a mitochondrial or Y-chromosome DNA test would show.