RANDOM THOUGHT - at least one of your ancestors was unfaithful

My cousin has been working on the family tree for a couple months.  She expects to spend decades on it (for accuracy I'm sure).  Her DNA search results yielded over 1000 relatives, and that's only in one database!  Her weekend was devoted to reaching out to these "cousins" to fill in the gaps in the family lineage record.  Why she even cares is beyond my comprehension, but I guess every family should have an historian, which means only one person in any given family is going to be the oddball and care enough to do it.

While a few respondents were excited to exchange information because they acknowledged they know little about their lineage, there have been a few who dispute a blood connection because they don't recognize the family surnames, or maybe they don't like my cousin's photo.  Hard to say.

I have some news for them.  Nobody has a 100% faithful family.  What ancestors wrote on paper for the birthing doctor's record or in the family bible may or may not be true.  Surely someone has seen Montel Williams do a paternity test on television, only to really humiliate somebody.  Just sayin'.  It's the DNA that passes through and sticks, not necessarily the name.

My cousin doesn't mean to shock anybody; she really just wants to find family.

I've heard a man say "Mama's baby.  Daddy's maybe". smh and lol!