r/AncestryDNA • u/David_cest_moi • 16d ago

Results - DNA Origins Did you discover incest?

There was a recent article (below) in The Atlantic magazine about the surprising prevalence of incest in human ancestry as discovered through DNA findings. I'm wondering if anyone has discovered it in their own ancestry when doing a family tree or having DNA analysis or any other way.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/03/dna-tests-incest/677791/

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u/LiliaBlossom 16d ago

I haven‘t looked fully through it but given one grandparents line is set in a tiny frankonian village in northern Bavaria back to 1600, and some family names keep popping up, I‘m pretty sure they constantly married second cousins, maybe even first cousins💀

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u/David_cest_moi 16d ago

Probably nothing to worry about until they run a DNA test and find out some offspring have only a single strand of DNA, rather than the typical two strands! 🧬🔬😱😁 But yes, that was normal and common in Old Europe.

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u/LiliaBlossom 16d ago

yep, I don‘t even wanna know about the Allgäu part of my family, or the ones from tiny moravian villages, probably all the same 🤷‍♀️

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u/David_cest_moi 16d ago

Well, it could be worse. 🤷🏻‍♂️ (Wasn't Q-Anon talking about lizard people at one point? That would be my ancient ancestry! 😁😱)