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Author: Diana_Gale_Matthiesen
Surnames: Carrico
Classification: queries
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Message Board Post:
It must be Linda's site because I stopped posting photos on my web site when this
happened:
http://dgmweb.net/DowlingScrapbook.html
As I mentioned in my other post, we are all so distant from Peter CARRICO, the 1674
immigrant, that none of us living, today, carry more than a fraction of 1% of his genes,
even if we have multiple connections to Peter. The other 99.99% of our genes were
inherited from other individuals (at ten generations, you have 1024 lines of ancestry).
As I also mentioned, physical appearance is based on the interactions of many genes. Even
if you inherited a few of these from Peter, the chance that they will significantly affect
your appearance is slight (they will be swamped by all the other genes you have) and the
chance that anyone else inherited the same ones is slight.
You may be able to find a "family resemblance" a few generations back (between
near cousins), but you are not going to be able to find one nine or ten generations back
(between distant cousins). In other words, your "famly resemblance" will be due
to shared grandparents or great-grandparents, not to a shared 8th great-grandfather, of
which you have 512.
So far, all CARRICOs in the U.S. prior to the turn of the 20th Century appear to belong to
the same family, based on DNA testing and the U.S. Census:
http://dgmweb.net/Census/Carrico/CarricoCensusSummary.html
Interestingly, most of the post-1900 CARRICO immigrants to the U.S. originated in Italy,
not Portugal (see above census summary).
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