Have you ever seen somebody that is the spitting image of somebody you know? Someone who looks like a friend, an acquaintance, a family member etc?
I came into contact with 2 different people through my best friend, they were a boy named Torin and a girl named Daisy - both of whom looked spookily like me. In fact, Torin's Dad and my Dad look like twins! I tried to get Torin tested but have not been lucky in this. Daisy, however, was happy to take part!
Her grandfather was from Scotland, no known link to Jura, but I suppose my link to Jura could be beyond living memory. He even lived 2 roads away from a house that grandma also lived in - but the timing wasn't quite right it seemed. His last name Campbell appeared in many of my dna matches, both maternal and paternal so I knew this could just mean it's a really common name.
To my surprise, Daisy was not remotely related to me, though we had similar ethnicity results, so perhaps this explains our similar features.
Just because two people look alike, doesn't mean they are related!
Here's a twist - the friend who got me into contact with Daisy etc also did a dna test. I don't dna match to her, but I distantly match to her grandad and great uncle - proving that we share a common ancestor! What a small world!
It also goes to show you can share ancestry - I.e. be related, but not share DNA!
Note: After writing this, I compared the DNA of Daisy and I more comprehensively than Ancestry, MyHeritage and 23andMe etc. with a site called 'Gedmatch' - it turns out Daisy and I do have quite a lot of DNA in common it just does not quite reach the threshold to qualify as a match on those aforementioned sites.
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