I’ve been a genealogist since my teens and I’ve heard the same thing from the professionals, that’s it’s inevitable for one to have duplicate ancestors. Which is true in my family, too. On my mom’s side they lived in the same county or neighboring county since 1818 and, most with large families, many of the family married 3rd or 4th double cousins. On my dad’s side, one 1700s ancestor’s daughter-in-law was her cousin’s daughter.
And, tracing back to Adam and Eve, it narrows down the ancestry to duplicates even further.
I’ve been a genealogist since my teens and I’ve heard the same thing from the professionals, that’s it’s inevitable for one to have duplicate ancestors. Which is true in my family, too. On my mom’s side they lived in the same county or neighboring county since 1818 and, most with large families, many of the family married 3rd or 4th double cousins. On my dad’s side, one 1700s ancestor’s daughter-in-law was her cousin’s daughter.
And, tracing back to Adam and Eve, it narrows down the ancestry to duplicates even further.