Why Family Trees Are Wrong
Oct 25, 2024
In an era of modern families and “reality” not all children relate to both parents. More children are likely not the child of both parents in a modern family. One issue with the Australian police investigating Charles Webb is an ‘assumption’ of lineage. Using mtDNA and autosomal DNA to try to link a child to both parents may be trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
AI agrees that the family web approach is a better way to define a family structure:
and for genetic genealogy it makes it easier:
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