Clean Coder

31 October 2019

My wife and I both got genetic analyses from 23andMe recently. I discovered that my ancestry comes from Britain and Northern Europe. My wife is Mexican, and she found that her ancestry is very diverse.

One of the services of 23andMe is that they offer to connect you to relatives who have also used 23andMe. Using this service my wife found a second cousin whom she had never met, but whose extended family had overlapped with hers. By email they were able to compare the names of aunts and uncles, and the towns where they lived. The more they talked, the more they realized that the overlap with the extended families was large.

Some years back I went through the effort of scanning all the old photo albums that we had created or inherited over the years. From that trove of digitized pictures my wive was able

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