# Has anybody here done "genetic genealogy"?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 16, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-done-genetic-genealogy/456629 "2008-07-16T01:12:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-here-done-genetic-genealogy/456629/21 "2008-07-16T20:48:57Z")

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[Ancestry.com](http://Ancestry.com) has a 2 week free trial (though you have to remember to cancel or you’ll be billed). You can probably get a piecemeal family tree in that time by connecting into those done by distant cousins. A major caveat, though, is that some people are very eager to make a connection where there isn’t one (at least not proven) and you’ll find weird things like (and these are actual examples) a person listed as the son of a woman born 3 years after _he_ was, or the daughter of a man born 120 years before she was, etc…  
Documentation’s too complicated a subject for a post, but always at least make sure the dates and names make sense.

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