If I were a cousin or two, it would be nice! ” ... It was just out of curiosity that Bernard transmitted, at the beginning of February, to the online genealogy site Geneanet the results of the DNA test that he had carried out at the end of 2018 in the United States. And then, “a week later, I had an alert , says this Perigordian retiree of almost 74 years. I was told a distant relative with 0.35% shared DNA. I don't know what exactly it means, but I was very happy to discover this young cousin who was not in my family tree . ” Bernard and Osanne, a thirty-something Briton who now lives in the United States, are the first match operated by Geneanet since the site launched its new offer, Geneanet ADN, in mid-February. It is free at first.
While so-called “recreational” DNA tests, carried out using saliva collection kits, remain illegal in France, the genealogical portal performs a clever trick: it offers those
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