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What I'm guessing they did is found a match within this dudes DNA and that of Mongolians whose ancestry can be linked to Genghis (either genetically or through written records). Usually this is done by finding the DNA that codes for a certain protein, which is usually 99.9999% the same for all humans, but that 0.00001% difference is what distinguishes my ancestry from, say, yours. A vast majority of our DNA is junk, and doesn't code for anything, but it can be used to see differences in parentage.

This article doesn't surprise me though because its very well known that Genghis Khan was probably the most fertile male our species has ever seen. I believe like 10 percent of all East Asians living today share some genetic link to the man. He supposedly fathered thousands of children with thousands of women during his conquering years. And when you consider the area that he conquered, those women could have been spread all over Asia. In other words, he had ho's in different area codes.
 
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yeah, it's all speculation. basically this guy found out that millions of people in Central Asia share the same genetic code and it's most likely comes from Genghis Khan. But of course there's no proof.
Khan's grave is somewhat unknown (see below).

Research published in the American Journal of Human Genetics in 2003 suggested that 16 to 17 million men, most in Central Asia, shared a form of the Y chromosome that indicates a common ancestor.

Sykes said the obvious candidate is Genghis Khan, who stormed the world with his armies, conquering territory and siring many children. Lacking any tissue samples from the Mongol ruler — whose tomb has never been found — the tests are based on an assessment of probabilities.

"This is circumstantial evidence but it is very good evidence," said Sykes. "I think it does mean that people who carry this chromosome are direct patrilineal descendants of Genghis Khan.


Genghis Khan asked to be buried without markings. After he died, his body was returned to Mongolia and presumably to his birthplace in Hentiy aymag, where many assume he is buried somewhere close to the Onon River. According to legend, the funeral escort killed anyone and anything across their path, to conceal where he was finally buried. The Genghis Khan Mausoleum is his memorial, but not his burial site. On October 6, 2004, "Genghis Khan's palace" was allegedly discovered, and that may make it possible to find his burial site. Folklore says that a river was diverted over his grave to make it impossible to find (The same manner of burial of Sumerian King Gilgamesh of Uruk.) Other tales state that his grave was stampeded over by many horses, over which trees were then planted and the permafrost also did its bit in the hiding the burial site. The burial site remains undiscovered.
 
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No cool ancestors that I know of. Of course, until a few years ago I had no idea my maternal grandmother was not a French Canadian Catholic but actually a Russian Jew. No one in my family has done much digging of the old family tree.
 
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until a few years ago I had no idea my maternal grandmother was not a French Canadian Catholic but actually a Russian Jew
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Interesting - I have a similar story. For years I thought my grandmother was Polish Catholic, but it turns out that she was a German Jew. Her parents had oodles of $ in Germany (owned hotels), but they had to leave it all behind w the coming of the Third Reich.
 
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I tried to buy some football tickets from a guy one time. Turns out he was a direct descendant of this guy. Who would have guessed.

Oh, by the way. Don't ever buy tickets from anyone with the name Rubble.......bastard.
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Supposedly, according to my dad and paternal grandmother, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and one of the founders of the KKK. Yeah, I kinda keep that on the Down Low here in the ATL. It's amusing, for a little while, to hear my dad try to explain that the Klan wasn't intended to be what actually happened, blah, blah, blah. :biggrin:
 
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I've been doing a little bit of geneology research on my mother's side recently, and found that I'm related to some Revolutionary War spies who were spying on the British. I don't believe I'm directly descended from them, but from their other siblings.
 
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Damn right! My aunt is a geneologist so she sends out newletters and shit about our family history.. Only ones i remember are the fact that my family did indeed own slaves, and I am the great great great great great great great great great great grandson of William Wallace!
 
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Supposedly, according to my dad and paternal grandmother, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and one of the founders of the KKK. Yeah, I kinda keep that on the Down Low here in the ATL. It's amusing, for a little while, to hear my dad try to explain that the Klan wasn't intended to be what actually happened, blah, blah, blah. :biggrin:
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I found a picture of Rugby!!

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Myles Standish, John Alden, Priscilla Mullins

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They were all part of a Mayflower love triangle detailed in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Courtship of Miles Standish", and a couple generations later their families were connected by marriage. Miles Standish was the military captain of the Pilgrims at Plymouth and just a general badass by most accounts.
 
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